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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-20
Rich Shoddy-cratS.

Look al some figures. One 81 the
pew Tanderbuilt houses y contracted
II S,j0.OO FOR The house alone. I'll
teen houses ike Nau1eroills uufur-
nIsbed. Will be worth more than all the
house. aud lots in Atlanta. and when
be has moved into il and has IL adorned
wiki all il, pictures and appointments,
| have 10 doubt that five or SIX houses
Ike Il would cost more than the entire
CITY OF Atlanta. And yet | wou-i
rather live IN = cottage IN Atlanta than
to own Mr.. Vanderbilt's house and
make it my home.
The other night Mr.. Keene's New
port villa burned down. The house
war insured at So, 900, the brio s-brac
at $50. 900 more. AM the pictures ct
s55, 600. There Is one room in tie
house of Mr.. 5. J.. NJ Barlow, .
modest citizen. the decoration 81
which cost s56, 00D. Jay GoulIs con
servatory. just burned, was valued at
5000 600 Mr. Robert Bonner has
$3.50. 900 worth of horses with which
to do a hundred days driving 4 year.
n q HeruM last week there were five
advertisements Offering houses for sale,
the prise Of the lowest of which was
32l5, 900 and the highest 1885,, 600.
And soft goes. The daysof gigantic
fortunes in America has freely set in,
and it is Datural that there should be
luxury and display.
The Charlotte OJsercsr says: There
i. really a prospec. of an immigration
TO North Carolina, and il
10 noticed because 1t 10 about the first
thing of the kind the State has known
The immigrants are to come from
and establish a colony Of con
siderable proportions. The locality Sc
for their settlement is a large
tract of land lying in Beaufort county,
near the Pamlico river.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-20

Hollingsworth lot. known as shot
Tower and the TImes' office remain
over the large brick store Off. K. HaT
ris
Mr. II II. Thomas has moved Dis
iewelry establ .sbmcnt 70 the house &C
cupied l.,t year By John Williamson
IsEsm Green occupies the place vacA
ted bv Mr. Thomas. RObt. Marlboro
will occupg Isbams old stand JOHN
ME Sullivan has moved opposite the Ter
rel Stables.
+. J.. Stokes l. gov with J. II. Up
permau. WIN MedlIu. :. /. llder
Henry Duke. j clerkiug for J.. Z A!
cock. -LgussLUrq Times.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-20

KIND CoMHHBT.-A numler of
friends have written, and called In per-
son. to thank US for a recent article
summarizing the Resources of the
State. Below we give extracts from
several papers. All this is very kind.
Unfortunately it is off setted by an
equal number of persons who write TO
complain, or stop their paper on the
ground ot-''No interest In such mat
ters. Know enough about the State
Already ETC., etc. In fact, We are
growing disheartened Of any further ef-
fort in behalf the State. 1t i. like
working for a political party. One may
20 great lengths, and sacrifice a great
deal, SO long as spurred by boylsh emit
thusis.m. But when age and expert
ence open the eyes the nina of an honest
man grows sick Of the whole business.
We quote the Louisbur. TtfnAs:-
In the last ISSUE Of the Farmer and
Mechanic, one Of eur most valued ex-
changes, We read an article informing
those coming from "a distance who may
wish to make this State their home, Of
the many advantages afforded in the
State. 1t will, we think, DO a great
deal towards increasing immigration,
and if those papers at the North, 10
whom the article is directed, will notice
the matter, great results will be attain
ed.
The Oxford Torchhght remarks:
The Fdrner and Mechanic, a simon
pure North Carolina enterprise, begins
the new year with much promise. Mr..
Shotwell is a practical editor Of judy
ment and ability. We are glad to
chronicle his success and really think
that every farmer in our State should
take his valuable paper. 1t is a first
clas. paper, aud is devoted to North
Carolina and her interests"
The Hickory Car0tinidn saws: The
Fprnter and Mechunic Of the 9th list.
contain. quite q lengthy editorial let
ter addIessed to the independent
Press of the North ia the general inter
est Of North Carolina. Mr.. Shotwell
shows q thorough knowledge of the
State, her advantages. institutions and
wants, and deserves the lasting graft
tude of her people for his laborou. ef
forts 20 bring them to the attention OF
home ssekers.'
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Marion, Dec. 18th, 1880.

DEMoREsTs. = This Magazine for
January is a beauty. Steel engravingA
NO d cuts, fashions, answer to inqDi-
rles, By ladies, etc. ETC., fully worth
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they can have the Monthly, and the
Weekly, and a Premium worth 500,
for only 81.
Five ladies in different parts of the
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manner, and we trust are we'll pleased
Herewith.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-20

At a party which wa. had At the ho-
tel at Jefferson, Ashe county, on the
night of Tuesday, Dec. 2Sth, says the
Statesville landmark. Douglas Dix,n n,
a young shoemaker, walked between
some ladies who were sitting around the
hearth and the fire, whereupon young
James Gentry, son OF w. NJ. Gentry,
Esq, clerk of the Superior Court Of
Ashe, demonstrated with him and sharp
words passed. One invited the other
into the yard to settle the affair, and
the two went out alone. A fierce tight
followed and Dixon plunged a knife into
his antagonist, infictiny a wound from
which Gentry died in fifteen minutes.
No ope witnessed the affair and only
Dixon's version of it is known. This
we torbear to give. The slayer made
no attempt to escape and was subse-
quently arrested and is now in jail.
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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. l3.-A dispatch
to the Democrat from Little Rock
Ark, says the daughter of G. H..
Brooks, OF Mariana, Lee county, was
brutally outraged by a colorcd man
yesterday. The negro was arrested
and put IN Jail, when an infatuated
mot surrounded the prison, forced the
door, took the prisoner a short distance
from town and literally riddled his
body with bullets.
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The London Kransiner. in its notice
Of the death OF George Eliot, tells OF
the insanity Of her husband, of which
no previous public mention has been
made. 1t says: 1T seems but little
more than a year since we lost George
Henry Lewes, her first and most trusted
councillor and companion, and hardly
= twelve months since the world learn
ed, with perhaps some degree of sur
prise, that she had married a gentle
nan of the Stock Exchange named
Cross. While they were on their wed
ding trip-it is no use to conceal the
sad fact-be ost control over himself
At Venice, and threw himself from the
balcony Of their residence Happily.
the sea and not the ground received
him, and he survived, but only 10 be
placed in a ntdroa de sonte. Brdyelv
Mrs. Cross set herself to face her now
dsubly lonely life but the struggle,
surpassed in intensity by that Of
other hsroines, did not last long,
and she ha. now gone, at the age of 81.
to the rest that must have come to her
a. a relief"
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23
providence Journal.l
The Summer SOlStica.

The summer solstice is now in full force,
while the sun, just grazing the tropic of Can
Ger, seems to pause in his course before he
turns his steps from our northern cline. For
eight days, from the 18th to the 25th, the
days remain of the same length, fifteen hours
and sixteen minutes. On the 25th change
comes, and decrease of one minute marks
the southwark course of the sun. In few
days the change will be apparent to every OBJ
server. The sunrise and sunset points will
swerve to the south, and the sun will not
mount quite so high at MONDAY towards the
zenith. These apparent movements of the sun
to the south and his lessening altitude at noon
day will continue until the 21st of December
when the winter solstice occurs, and the days
have reached their minimum length. OBJ
servers can see for themselves the changes
in the suns place in the heavens that
mark the change in the seasons, and
will readily note that the farther south
the sun rises and sets the shorter will
be the days, and the lower the altitude of
the nocnday sun, the less will be the intensity
of the heat 1t would seem as if our hottest
days ought to occur about the Dist of June,
longest but such is not the case. AS mdsum-
mer approaches, the quantity of heat received,
from the sun during the day is greater than
the quantity of heat lost during the night, and,
therefore, there is each day an increase sof
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23
New York Tribune.l
Summer BOarderS.

There is not, probably, farmer within a
reasonable distance of any city who has not
made up his mind to take boarders this sum-
mer. Why should he not? Has not his neigh
Dor reaped for years bigger harvest in one
month from his "town folk" than from the
whole of his wheat and potato fields? The
women folks can manage it, and in nine cases
out of ten the women folks do manage it by
turning the homely, unpicturesque snug farm
house into shabby imitation Of town tawdri-
ness which they never saw. The desserts of
baked apples and yellow cream give place to
watery jelly or blue ice cream, an impudent
mulatto stands behind your chair instead of
the farmers plump daughter. The everlast-
ing strumming of hired piano fills the air in
the dusky evening instead of the drum Of the
tree frogs or the cooling of the wood pigeons;
tho farmers daughter talks Ruskin and his
son gables of Darwin and is a Liberal Athe-
ist. II town and country both would take
holiday this summer from all pretence and
sham, and be content to be known Just for
what they are! But, unfortunately, country
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heat. This daily increase reaches its maximum
at the summer solstice. There is, however, af-
ter this epoch an accession of heat each day
until the heat lost during tho night is Just
equal to.that received during the day, winch
happens sometimes in July or August. Our
hottest days, for this reason, occur some ;ime
after the summer solstice, just as the hottest
part Of the day is some time after midday, and
the coolest part of the night is towards morn
ing.
The summer solstice is perhaps the most
interesting and suggestive Of all the great
time-marks. 1T is the fruition of development,
the eliminating point of vegetable perfection.
The sun this day pOurs his most intense rays
upon the earth his course sweeps over the
broad concave of the heavens with the highest
meridian altitude, and his departing light lin
gers longest above the horizon
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

When Barnum's show passed through q
city in the interior of the State, Chang, the
Chinese giant, who was sitting alongside the
driver of Pharaoh's chariot, unthinkingly arose
in his seat to peer over the top CT a four story
building, when a telegraph wire caught him
just below the belt and nearly cut him in half.
This is reliable, ii true.--Norristown Herald
"Aunty," said her niece, half opening the
old lady's bedroom door about 1 o'clock in the
morning, there's smell of burning spirits in
the house, and came to tell you" "Oh,
don't disturb yourself, my dear. It's only
your uncle. He returned from his club lust
after midnight and is resting himself in the
hallway. ay."-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

THE Bishop of Amiens, France, has for :
hidden the clergy and the faithful in his dio-
cese to take any part in ''the ridiculous as
semblages and illuminations at Ganz'' in
honor Of the pretended apparitiop of the
Virgin. He warns the people of his diocese
of "the serious danger which may result to
religion from those insane revelries for
which impiety would wish to render it re-
sponsible." The Lourdes and Knock per-
formances, however, are still kept up.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

PHILADELPHIA Press: The capital error
of the Rebellion seems to have been
that jeff Davis did not take personal COM
mand at the first Bull Run, march into
Washington, shin up the dome of the Capt.
tol and wiring the neck of the brazen God
dess of Liberty. If he had done that all
might have been well with the Cause. Strange
he didn't think of it in time.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

THE Philadelphia Press says that so far
from Pennsylvania being lost to the Republi-
cans next Fall, the probability is that it will
give one of its greatest majorities. 1t says
that "the real Republicanism of lPennsylva-
MIA has been quickened, instead of being
dulled, by the events which have happened
at Harrisburg since the 1st of January, and
at Washington since the 4th of March,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

A TOLEDO dispatch says that "the hull of
Commodore Perry's flagship. the Law
renee, is still sailing the lakes under the
name of the Harriet Ross, schooner of
179 tons burthen Her upper works have
been rebuilt several times, but her hull is as
sound as when she went into the battle of
Lake Erie, September 10, 1918. She is in
tbiq mort -
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

SPEAKING of forging Turkish bonds, the
London Truth says: Between issuing a
Turkish loan and forging the bonds of one
there is very little difference. Both are i'm
pudent swindles."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

THE work of tunneling the English Chan
mel is proceeding briskly. The English en-
gineers have excavated a gallery 800 or 900
yards long and seven feet in diameter, while
the French have made equal progress on their
side. 1t is believed that a seven foot ex-
perimental tunnel may be completed in five
years. The distance is about ten miles,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

COMMISSIONER RAUM is making his annu-
al examination of all the collection officers
under the Internal Revenue Bureau. He
expects to show that during his administra-
ton 600,000,000 of revenue were collected
without the loss of dollar by defalcation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

A PRIVATE despatch from Dallas, Texas
reports Colonel l.. Fl. Fitzhugh, formerly
Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives,
at the point of death. He will be remem-
bered by his "Biger man than old Grant"
letter
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23


THE revision of the Old Testament is
making good headway. The company, hay
ing completed the first revision of the books
of the Old Testament, and a second revision
of the historical books and the Psalms, is
now engaged upon the second revision of
the prophetical books, and the remaining
portion of the poetical books. This has
proceeded as far as the 18th verse of the third
chapter of Isaiah, which was reached at the
Goth session in the Chapter library, West
minister, in the last week in May. The
work will not be completed, however, until
four or five years hence. There is every
probability, it is said, that the differences of
the English and American revisers of the
Old Testament will be far more numerous
and greater than those of the New Testa-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with a Cara certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
Of every person claiming to represent our Journal
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THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 90.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

SECRETARY HUNT will, some time in July
make a tour of inspection of the navy yards
and stations on the Atlantic coast.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23

SOME of the larger cotton planters at the
South are agitating the proprety of restrict
ing the production.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23
HONEST MEDICINE.
"FAVORITE KEMEDY''
Recommended by CleTgymen, Statesmen
and Others
SALT RHEuM.

Hon. j. H. Snyder, of Saugerties, N. Y, CRATE
fully testifes to the ability of sFavorite Remedy
as exhibited inthe case of his little daughter who
was covered with Salt Rheum from head to foot.
'Favorite Remedy" says this thankful father ire
neved my girl altogether from this fearful aiiction
Salt Rheum. This occurred two years ago, and not
sign of the disease has since appeared What it
did for this child it will do for all who use it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23
Alessandro Gavazzi.

Alessandro Gavazzi, one of the founders
Of the Free italian Church, and perhaps the
most eloquent orator in the pulpit since the
days of Massillon, speaks to Portland peo-
pie this evening. A preacher so celebrated,
a teacher who has earned the title of the
Apostle of the Italians, ought to need no in
PRODUCTION to the intelligent people of Amer
lea. He comes to evangelical Christians in
this country to solicit aid for the Christian
denomination he represents. The creed of
his church is the creed of their churches,
his cause is their cause, and he will doubt
less receive the assistance, spiritual and
material, to which he is entitled.
Even those who do not sympathize with
him in his religious views will feel an inter-
est in one who is among the first of Italian
patriots as well as an eminent Italian theo-
logian. The independence of Italy, the uni
ty of Italy, the freedom of Rome, the evan
gelization of the Eternal City have been the
objects nearest his heart. Three of these
have been gained; and for the other, which
he believes within reach, he is now plead
ing. Already, under the wise liberation of
the Italian government, he has preached in
the city where the self-styled successor of
st. Peter dwells. He has established schools
and colleges under the shadow of the Vati-
can; and he believes that he can make Italy
Protestant.
The sympathy and active support of evan
gelical Christians will of course be with him.
He has already won the admiration of those
who, not holding to his theological views,
remember his services in the unifcation of
Italy. And by those who commend neither
his ambition nor his achievement he is a foe
held in respect for the sincerity of his mo-
tives and the energy of his attack.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23
LIVER DISEASE.

several years Captain of. the Troy police, says: Il
have been for long time great sufferer from de-
rangement of the liver and after using many of the
medicines recommended for that complaint DIR.
Kennedys sFavorite Remedy is the only one
which gave me any relief. firmly believe that the
Favorite Bemedy' is good, honest preparation,
one that may be depended upon"
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

fHlHE Falmouth Mining Company have shaft
feet A contract has just been made for sinking it
fifty feet, large amount of ore is now on the
dump with very favorable showing Such scen-
tlsts as Profs Carmichael Htchins and Richards of
Boston, have reported it to be rich showing. The
sen h Is now d feet wide The is the spphqret
anu copper carrying considerable nickel
amount OF Treasury stock to the public at bottom
prices information may be obtained at the Office
Oh the Company, % Exchange street. Portland.
Jul7 diff
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CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE.

Rev. j. G. Smith, of Hartford Ct, says: ssBeing
great sufferer from Chronic Liver Disease and In
digestion, at last tried your 'Favorite Remedy
and found immediate relief. I used two bottles
which worked wonders in my general system.
tun7 s STSTh&w1m
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IMPORTANT TODAY

HAVING decided to make some changes in our
Ii business, we find it necessary to reduce our
stock very much before July /.
In order to do this at once, we have gone through
our stock and made