The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-17

III L nlladeIpnla last Wech-
-Messrs. Best and Caddagan. Ho,
Clement Dow1, J. Harvey Wilson, 81.
of Charlotte, and other prominent Per
ssna.es were in the city yesterday
some attending the Supreme Court
and some not.
Ere another week, no doubt, tn
Cape Fear & Yadkin X. R.. will hav
passed into the land. of capitalists VIII
will make a .'North Carolina system.
with more vitality than the dream c
our grand-dads.
The fellow named Jim Sinclair
protesting to hail from Durham. VIII
stole a horse and buggy in Laurinburg
and sold it in South Carolina, was caugh
at Marion $. c., and is in jail, awaitin
a redulsltlon.
Few persons are aware that til
Catholic church is now the strongest 0
all denominations in the United States
The last census shows g. A. 02 Catho
lies; 2,l33.044 Baptists 1850, %
| Northern Methodists s2S, 6l3 Souherl
| Methodist 6S4. SO Lutherans, 573,37
Presbyterians; 67,44S Christians, O
disciples Of Christ" 3S3,385 Congre-
g"ational 323. $40 Episcopallans: 80.
437 United Brethren, I56, 742 Reformed
church. l19. go Southern Presbyterians
lis, 10 Protestant Methodist, Hiss;
Cumberland Presbyterians, llO,37'
Mormons.
Many Terrific fires occurred in vari
Gus parts of the land last week. 81,
hotels were burned at Orchard Beach
Maine. \ large orphanage was burned
near Reading, Pa. The town of Wood
stock, New Brunswick Ia place as large
as Raleigh was nearly destroyed: #
dwellings, 4 churches, and many bust
ness houses being burned. La Richmond.
WE. Tanner foundry, which employed
800 hands, was destroyed. There were
100 engines on the stocks. 1t cannoI
be rebuilt for a year. But Fl. NJ.
Smith Il Co., and Tappy 4 Steele, the
noted Carolina firm at Petersburg cal
supply all demands). A large tenement
house in New York fell and killed nine
persons.
With much regret we learn OF the
accident to Mr.. James Sprunt. one oil
the worthiest young men of Whining
ton. While out driving with his sister,
returning from the Sound, he was
thrown from a runaway buggy, and
broke his ankle, ;cessitating amputa
ton near the knee. He was much
shocked, and is scarcely yet considered
out of danger. Miss Sprunt sprang cut
before the overturn, but was quite Sc
verely shocked and bruised.
Mr.. j. ID. Morris, of Jonesboro, was
also thrown from a horse last week,
near that place, and was totally para
lyzed; in which condition he remains.
At Tarboro, a young fellow named
Dawson, pr~acticing for the tournament,
had his nose knocked off, and teeth
knocked out, by being thrown against
a post, says the G~reenville Ecpress.
The time has come for the South
ern people to drop the use of the word
Yankee, Except in speaking of the
Yankees of the past twenty years. Til
den's election five years ago, and every
election since, demonstrates that fully
half (f no more) of the Northern peo-
pie are not Yankees, If that term
means, as of old, -haters of the South.
The elections last week showed that out
of a million Of votes the majority for
the Republicans was less than fifty
thousand At least pine Democrats
and friends OF tie South faced every
ten Republicans. And when we reflect
that the Republicans have controlled
the offices, the majority Of newspapers,
the election machinery, the police, the
National Banks, ETC., etc., for twenty
years, the fact that the two parties are
SO evenly balanced shows that if the
Democrats once got control of the coun-
try they would hold it; for. as we all
know, there are thousands of voters In
every State who go with the top side
not from principle, but because-lt Is
the strong side.
Let US think Of these things, and
make a distinction between our friends
and our enemies. Massachusetts, is
considered a blackly Radical and "Ian
kee" State, get there are more Demo
Gratis IN Massachusetts than IN North
Curoh,na and South CaroI,ua PIT to-
gether!
Few persons appreciate the useful
ness of a newspaper to a town. The
Farmer and Mechanic does a great deal
more for Raleigh, than Raleigh does for
the Farmer and Mechnmic. Our ex-
penses exceed $4,000 a year, and not
$500 of that amount comes from Raj
eigh. Nine tenths of the money comes
distant parts, some of it from Califor-
nia; 5000 of it from New England /,
800 of it from Texas; aud SO on!
Whereas Raleigh gets the advantage
of every dollar we receive. Our prin-
ters, being poor mer, like ourself spend
all their wages for food and raiment.
Property owners get $50 a month from
us for rent. Wood, servant hire, taxes.
postage, etc., all go to help Raleigh.
We gre buck to the business Of the
toacn more than sic dollars for erery one
ICE rece,Ue!
Moreover we give the town a thous-
and dollars a year in free advertising |!
Will our business men reflect on these
things, and act with the Justice and
Eberality which should be the part of
honorable men and good citizens?
We hope sol We do not 20 around
to the stores to drum for advertising,
nor have VT ever asked any man to sub
scribe; but we should be glad to have
more of both
Well, it may sound un-Dcmocratic,
but we haven't a particle of regret that
young Seth Low famed out the Demo
cratic Ring in Brooklyn, and is elected
Mayor; though the city gives 5000
majority to the State Democratic ticket.
Ring. ought to be beaten in y. c., or
n. Y; or y v-where, Low is thirty-fve
years old, and the son Of A. A.
Low, the richest man in BROOKLYN.
He is a stalwart Republican, land