The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-12

Col. Polk is pushing preparations
for the State Fair.
-Raleighshas a negro Photographed,
next door TO Tim Lees Southern Del
monico."
Hon. Montford McGehee has moved
the office Of the Agricultural Depart
ruent to the National Hotel, first floor.
That Hon. Jesse j. Yeates has
gone to Washington, and Is about TO
settle there for the practice of law,
saith the M~urfreesboro Enquirer.
We regret to chronicle the ~tereave-
ment which has betallen MIR. j. IL. My
rover. editor of the Carthage Gazette,
in the loss of his estimable wife, at Fay
elteyille May 2.
-Ple?.ed TO note that our true heart
ed Young friend. DIR. George K. Mat
,hc..s has been elected mayor OF Ring
wood. Halifax Go. by a large majori
ty.
Mr.. James X. Polk Neathery, of
Charlotte. gave US a call Yesterday en-
to the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge
at Goldsboro. He was a good Conted-
crate, We have heard.
DR.. Chas j. O'Hagan, Of Green
vile, Pitt county,-a man % true 40
the steel he handles so deftly-Dr. y.
j. Pittman, DR.. L. j. Moore and hall =
DOZEN others attended the Richmond
Medical Convection. DR.. Grissom was
elected 3D. Vice President of the Nat
iOnal Association.
What a pity the colleges do not ar
range their commandments 10 tall IS
early as May 18th. when the weather
aud roads are SO delightful! For five
years we have thought Of visiting the
State University, Wake Forest, etc;
but the sun and dust in June are very
suggestive of a crowded hall, and -
much rhetoric.
-Adiutant General Jones was IN the
city yesterday, regret that We We're ont
when he called to accompany Gov.
Jarvis, Capt. Alex b. Andrews, Col.
John y. Staples, Col. Paul B. Means,
ct al, to the South Carolina celebration,
at Cow Pens. Our readers may not be
aware that this battlefield like Kings
Mountain, is almost exactly on the
North Carolina line. We had, and
have. somewhere a number Of relics
picked up from the field. Cowpens
Iron Furnace was twenty years ago a
famous scene of activity, it is said.
Our thanks to Mr.. John Srelman
for Il copy of his pamphlet, on Short
hand Writing" a system of Abbreviated
Long hand, by Wallace Richie, of Eng
land. now in its 3rd London edition
Mr.. Srelman, who is an excellent re-
porter, uses this system instead of stem
ography. lie and others claim that it
is highly superior to the latter for every
day reporting. The book ought to be
useful to young men, including lawyers
and preachers, who wish to be able to
report speeches.
Capt. FL. G. Olive, of Apex, gave
us a pleasant call yesterday. His state
ments in respect to Chufas deserve wide
spread publication. Briefly they are:
that for f%attening hogs and stock the
chufas is equal, buShel to bushel, with
corn, the only difference being that
from ten to tCeqty more bushels of chufas
than corn can be raised on an acre. at
half the expense, ana one third the
trouble. Unlike corn, chufas don need
to be gathered, husked, and cribbed
they are left in the ground and after
the hogs have fattened, a light turn
over" of earth leaves the seed crop
ready for next year. Several of Mr..
Olives neighbors made 1000 pounds
of good pork, without buying corn, or
using up their bread corn: at the same
time making a good crop of cotton. The
report that the chutas bacon is two fat
and oily, he thinks unfounded. 1t is
sweet as any meat he knows of.