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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

The Wake county Republican con-
"yention was a boisterous assemblage,-a
''~monkey-show wrangle" according to
one of the leading speakers. But there
was dead loads of eloquence and en-
thusiasm. Moses A. Bledsoe led the
specialization, and kept the negroes in a
continual roar of delight over his hot
shot at the Democrats. But he admitted
the latter had a strong ticket which CALI
ed for strong effort to carry the State and
county. Jim Harris followed IN similar
strain pitching into the penitentiary
authorities for farming out convicts,
which was rather hard on Maj. Bledsoe,
seeing that ne was among tire fist to
lease a couple of dozen of them. By the
by, We hear that one of the first things
undertaken by the Legislature this winter
if the Republicans have a majority, will
be a series of Investigations, iLquiring by
what authority the old National Hotel
was purchased for $50, 600 of the Agricul.
tural Department. money and by wha,
authority 1900 acres of land on Neuse
river We're leased for ten years, with con.
dltions requiring a large forfeit, and large
number of c%onvicts to be worked, etc.
and by what authority the Geological Sur.
vey was retained after an act of Legisla,
ture to abolish it and a long string Of
similar investigations" designed O
course to make party capital, and catch
Democratic officials in a close place i
possible. The Republican papers 9Th,
lines, american, State Jou.nal, ct al
contain continual references to the "twen
ty-thousand dollar Agricultural Hotel.
and "McGehee's Boarding-House -
referring to the fact that a number 0
prominent gentlemen have sleepin,
apartments in the Agricultural Building
But this en- passent. We have had t,
decline several communications on som,
OF these subjects.
The principal fght in the conventio,
was to select a successor to Sheriff Now
ell, deceased. Gen. james Doyle pro
posed his contrere of the =. O. Dept.
Gen. J. G. German, brother-in-law 0
Gen. John Nichols. Gen. Wilev D
Jones, w. Il. Perry, T. B. Bridges, VIM
Pace. and Others, were also proposed
Then there was holiness" The howl
made the bell jingle on top the hall
Finally German got it by a clear maiorit,
over the united opposition.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

ALL ABOUT THE COMET-The North
ern papers have long accounts of the Gel
estial stranger who popped into view on
18th inst, to the surprise and astonish-
ment of the scientific world. Many
columns Of technical jargon are being
printed which would be a waste OF type
to copy for general reading. But We will
give the chief points. Comets are irreg-
ular scallawags who go sailing around
among the stars until they snuff them
selves out or drop into the sun which Is
the centre of the Solar System and Is ex-
pected to suck-in, and burn up a great
many worlds; including our own 10 due
course.
The present comet is calculated by the
Washington Astronomers to be the ia
nous iutterer of lS43, which scared crea-
ton nearly to death, and produced a
shower of stars which made all the mil
l%erites'' come out in their night gowns,
and yell-'Didn't | tole you SOL"
The interesting point about the present
comet is that its orbit grows smaller and
smaller thus indicating that it is gradu-
ally drawing nearer and nearer to the
sun and is liable to pitch into the sun IN
a year or two. 1t was first seen III lo43,
and again in 1880, and now In loS2,-
each time nearer the sun. 1t is now SO
near that it can be seen only for a few
minutes Just before SUD rise. (Get up
you lazy-bones, and see it'd Now, as
the comet has a solid body, 400 miles
long, and. is travelling at the rate OF "a
900 miles a minute 400 miles a second)
you may look for kindling wood when 1t
crashes into the sun. And folks had bet
ter get down off the fence before it hap
pens.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27


Cecil Alton" whose pen is winning
public attention, send US a welt-wrltten
''plea for Oscar Wilde,' wrapping the
knuckles of certain editO.S who have
Knocked at and jibed the long-haired poet
from over the seas. Cecil thinks osca
(who spells his own name without capltals)
deserves respect from the world, for his
bold assertion Of his opinion and courte-
sy from Americans whose guest he IS
and defence from Southerners for whom
he has had kind words and Sympathles
The last clause would have much weight
with US, but not the others. 1t Is
possible our friend does not see all OF
oscars doings and sayings as reported IL
the Northern d%ailies. The poet i
really a man of fine sensibilitles would not
have hired himself for twelve months t
travel through the country, as a specu-
lation nor would he have permitted hi
manager to say latter the Washington
City papers pictured him as a baboon.
that newspapers abuse was as welcome
as praise, because it increased the "sensa
ton" and the profit. When osca begar
to ''stump the States for pay, he wa,
no more our guest than the Royal Bri-
fish Circus which goes about teaching
zoology" Moreover if oscar was q
guest then he is very Jude and ungen-
tlemanly for be does not hesitate 10 crit
ic,ze and find fault unsparingly. Scarcely
aly,hing, animate or inanimate, upon
which his languid gaze falls escapes hi
aesthetic horror and ''abhorrence.''
Our houses he found shocking in facade,
bat execrable inside. Such a lot of bad
carpets worse statues,' and out
ragious cast~iron stoves, covered with
gimcrack roses and crowned by a broken
urn,' etc., etc., -were too dreadful to
dean about! Even the dress of our
ladies' is not free from his disparaging
comments and he kindly admitted to
Faux Lawley hat there are a tc,O decent
iy dressed men and Uomen, but the latter
import their attire from Rue de ia Paix.
Paris, while the gentlemen habitually OBJ.
tain their garments from the West End Of
London"
Hear t. thet will yez!
The Chicago Inter- Ocean is habitualiy
a liar, but it quotes Mr. Wilde as saying
that the homes be has visited have been
positively repulsive to a man Of refine
ment and sensitive perceptions Of pro-
priety. The American woman, he says,
does not talk, but gables; that her cos
tune is outlandish that her manners are
execrable that her syntax is bad hat
her hospitality is affectation, aud hat her
home is veneered vulgarity.'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

&C." Daniel r. G., doubtless writes
from Washington to the Warrenton Ga
zette that he has found the old muster
rolls of North Carolina in the Revolution,
British Commander, burned Washington
in 1914. 1t seems that g, 7S9, 224 acres
of lands were granted the Continental
soldiers in various parts of N. c., and
(now)East Tennessee. Spectators bought
up these grants and located them.
NEARLY 200, 900 acres were thus located
by the Polk family, Thomas, his son
William, and his kinsman, Ezekiel, the
grandfather of President Polk, and sew
eral others whose names | cannot now
recall.
! The pre- emptOrs were mostly In East
Tennessee, and there are many familiar
names among them, also. A Mr.. Han
ersley has published a bulky volume
entitled. The Army Register for one
hundred years." and | have extracted
from it all that relates to North Carolina
that is to say, the names of the officers
of the first, second and third Regiments
o. the Continental Line with three indie
pendent companies. There was a Fourth
regiment, not in his book, but | have
most or all of the names in the old book
above referred to. The regiments were
those of the other States, called battal-
ions, aid the two terms in Revolutionary
times seem to have been confounded.
North Carolina was beset by internal
disorder, caused by the Regulators, who
ought to have been the best of Wings,
but who turned Tories out of spite be.
cause the men who afterwards became
Wing leaders, joined Tryon in putting
them down; and by the Highlanders.
who though good people, we're Tories by
nature. These people had been exiled by
the reigning House for rebellion in favor
of the Stewards, and were martyrs to Tory
principles. They could not be expected
to rebel again, and that in favor of ultra
Wing or Liberal principles. Between
them, therefore, the Regulators and High
landers, marred or crippled the efforts OF
the gallant Wings of North Carolina du
ring the Revolution. Most of her troops
had to be kept at home to defend her
firesides, and rank as militia or State
troops. The battaiions of continental
were never full. In the year of l777 and
IT'S the quota fixed by the continental
congress for the State were nine battal,
lions of $50 men, each, whereas, in the
first of these years there were only 1881
on the pay roll instead of 6l2O; and in
l77S, the pay roll showed about the same
figures. The militia for the first of these
years is put down by the Secretary OF
War Knox, at 5000 and doubtless this
was short of the reality. The quota
of the State was then reduced 1879 to six
battallions, and the next, and following
years, to four"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27
ABSORPTION oFTHE CHERAwANDC HEs

ABSORPTION OF II CHERAw CurS
TER AND CHESTER AND JFE0IR Ro.rs
BY Fl r. & d. Co.-Col. A. &. Haskell
President of the c. G.. s. A., railroad has
been in consultation fol the last week
with officers Of the Cheraw & Chester
and the Chester 4 Lenoir narrow guage
railways, with a view to an arrangement
by which these twO roads shall come
under the control of the Richmond and
Uanvllle Company. Little doubt is en-
tertalned that the arrangement will be
elected, through as yet the matter is
fsimply In negotiation. N BE is com.
| pleted. And runs for 80 years.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

DEATHS.-At N~orsa1,a,
de1c Ut her graz luDthsr az
tel OF Iawrence :. H.. A.
pany Shops. -Dlpther7
a little son Of Dame II
shops. AZ u;anam. Ia..
Geo Sammcy, e,,. y
Eorven, Ah>3u cunts -.
highly esteemed. t
DR.. Il liuDtly. aged s.. A.. H.
lis, aged 66 -in N
Theo. Pittmau. II
county, recently Mn Ru'Ea' h
estimsbie woman, In r..
). \ Dewey, an Did cit zep
org, at the CathOlic SeuIp4-
b. Northrop, brotl er OF B.
rop. "A sigh OF ~ynpAther.
up from many hearts at a..
nlent that gallant, many. r.-
Mcleod Turner i sell AZ
died on Sunday morning a.
ringing for church. at NJ.
residence OF his brother. C4.t
Turner. He was one 1t ta,..
mind recently In writing ta.- .
ships of the war Sc.
some men came out a. luc >....
Is benefited such men a. -
quit, Hampton, ktn~ou.
Others, who . fame, and f..
lnence, and material good
men. who we're equally bras.
and talented, came out Wr
tune. In health. aai IN ali
make lite eniutab {. .i.l.
vas one OF these. For h,u. i..
Ell ouiy a. 10 a. III. Sunday 4a...
| yenty years ago. ou a ,Jug
morning, on the green turie! b.
Gettysburg, this young uthe.r eH
already high fame tur ee.
daring, rushed forward az ~. had
men, 10 fall with eleven ba..e.
through his body Death a.a.s
stood his friend If lie hal a.g.
with the blood II his oou....
hencetUrth existence was To be.
d lily trcadmlll OF pam, uuliehf..a is.
o. personal happiness, soldier. 4...
~ other pursuits OF lite. llouor. l.l
and hosts at sympathetic iu,....
comtortabi" slbl.fcncs bIt ....
only partially satisfying t. an ..-.,-t
once lighted with nh hope aais
oadeavor. We. his ~relet-. HIS
aml ,.edcc 10 his ashe Z II were
Wi he'd ttat he bad died In RI.
whert all meu know ~ IA n....
bul due honors may Yet be 13ii
i vil be proper to have MS -. ..-
Z t,3A & bThIlNhf IN \IFLi 5
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

You've NES OUT OF WoK1-io YOU
want employment! Here is a chance to
make gOod Fay, and see the country N
this pleasant season Of the year. sir. II.
T Hendon, the General Manager OF the
Nhee5er Il Wilson Sewing Macnine
Agency, at Raleigh, wants five or six
active and wide awake men to travel Tor
fifty mites around the capital. They will
be fur isned a wagon, harness, ~u.achines,
&c
The Improved Wheeler & Wilson sells
rapidly. Very little effort to Introduce
ii has heretofore been made ia this re-
glon; bat the company iipw means % let
the public compare II wi5il al others
Write, or call on, ". =. fiExnoN.
Raleigh. \ =
SAFE. Rooms al Madame Dossou,. on
posite Express office. Ladies invited -
cali auG see it at work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

EDDINGs. At the residence If Mr.
John Nooter, 10 Greene county, ", ]
". Blzze'i aud Miss Laura Wooten.-
La Wake county, on Wednesday, Mr..
.has. hlng and Miss Lucy Butfa &c. -
Ia Orange, Mr.. Julius McDade and Miss
siariah IL Hayes. in Guiltord, llr.
=: =: Lovitt and Miss l.. Hammer, By
Squire Pritchett. - New Hill, Wake
Co, Elder Y l. ot.ingficId anu Mss Ellie
Beckwlth in Hamilton, Nr 4
Eimondson ana Miss G Marlin. Also
Mr. John Burns and Miss Lucy Freeman.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

The Newton Enterprise says that on
Tuesday OF last week a two-year old child
of Miles Deal, of Conover. Catawba coun-
ty, fell into a hole half full of water, and
was drowned. The hole was dug for a
fence post.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

Made from Harmless Materials, and
adapted to the needs of fading and fail
ing hair, Parker's Hair Balsam has ia
ken the first rank as a. elegant and reli
able hair restorative.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27
Extraordinary Growth Of Dixie.

The London TIMES, the most powerful
iournal in the world. in reviewing the
prosperity of America, notes with many
expressions Of surprise the wonderful
ia t that the destruction of $500. OOO, 600
slave property, and al equal amount OF
ma erial property, by the Northern on
slaught upon the South. aud the dozen
years of Reconstruction robbery,-Dot
only failed to crush, and cripple, and
ruin the Southeraers, but actually left
them stronger in numbers, in wealth, aud
in power than ever before The Times
says
AT the close Of the civil war few
would have predicted that in the present
political census, while Maine, New Hamp
shire and Vermont have to submit each
to a reduction of their representation IN
Congress, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia recetUe an an
c ease! 1t is not by any means So sur
prising that the Southwestern States
should make substantial gains, for these,
and especially Texas, were, to "a great ex
tent, unsettled at the date of the war.
and their vast natural resources We're Ger
tain to be stimulated on the restoration
of peace. The older States of the South,
however, were supposed to be altogether
dependent on the system of slavery for
their prosperity and political importance.
The disasters OF the Contederacy were be
lieved alike by Northerners, by Amerl>
cans, and by foreign observers, to hare
Oi,.en II fatal LfOU to tie social ceuter Of
the secession. Within the past ten years
this has been triumphanty d,sprorei, and
the fact is placed III evidence by the re
adjustment of the Federal representation.
Of the thirteen Southern States, not one
loses a representative In the new appor
tionment, and only four are stationary.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27
il 4 WDiiOnNER'>
CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL, AsD Com,
MERClAL Scn00l,

HENDEReoN VANCE to. \. g..
The rail session opens he I'm }loa..
i July. The Jcac! Is "a! tfi,d aal d..
pcrlenced; he terms are - ssuu.1.r. 81.
accommodate are first class: fh. I'D.
cpline IS good and The course # 5t4l
thorough. For circular giving i%ar'IO.
lars ad rea' the principals.
Henderson. =. g..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27
"BUCHUPAIBA."

Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidne,
Bladder and Urinary Diseases. 81. Druggists.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27
| am, yours truly,
RENI. T. RuTLER-

s w HENLEY, Esq, Wadesboro, n G.
The LnteU,gencer: "Mr. Dockery makes
a loud noise about the education of the
children of the State, but it seems TO us
that he has it in his power to do a hand
some thing in that direction, by the sim
pie payment of his just debts, as it is un-
derstood that Gen. Butler transferred Mr.
Dockery's note to Major Bingham for
collection, giving him the same for the
education of poor boys in North Carolina
at the Bingham School"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

That $15, 900 We mentioned last
week that Col. Oliver Dockery is report
ed to have borrowed $4,000 from
Beast" Butler just after the war, and
we wondered how anybody could get
ahead of the cock-eyed confscator of
spoons, who, by the by, was last week
nominated as the candidate Of the regular
Democracy of Massachusetts,, by the men
who have denounced him for every crime
in the decalogue. Capt. S. w. Henley,
editor of Wadesboro MteUtgencer wrote
to Ben to inquire as to the prevailing ru-
NOR about the big ~''loan." Here is the
reply
Is PEMBERroN SQUARE, Boston, MASS,
Sept 18th, 1882.
"Dcar Sir:-You can learn all about
the condition of the claim | have against
Mr. Dockery by calling On the principal Of
the Bingham School of Mebanesville, n.
c.. Major Robert Bingham.
1t is always easy for anybody to .'get
ahead Of me, who, maintaining an hon
orable position, chooses to misrepresent
to me the condition of affairs. | had no
bargaining or trading with MIR Dockery,
except to lend him money on his note,
with the endorsement, as | supposed, OF
| his father. The note, to the amount OF
fifteen thousand dollars, has never been
paid, and | was called upon for a SUBJ
scription to carry on the Bingham School
TO- poor boys in North Carolina. l told
the principal in regard to the matter, and
he will give you such information as he
thinks best for the interests of his school,
that you should have.
am vOurS truly.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-27

\ittrell, N. G.. July 4, lSs2
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-24
Ringbone and Bone SPAWN.

The question has often been asked:
'What is the cause, and what will cure
ringbone?' In my opinion ringbone is
caused by leak or rupture in the tube
or aqueduct that conveys nutriment to
the hoof; the matter that should pass on
and cause the hoof to enlarge leaks out
by the way, and causes the enlargement
called ringbone. During the first twelve
months the enlargement is not hard
substance, but fluid, a thick yellow oil.
During this stage any liberation of the
foot may chance to cause a cure by open.
ing way for the fluid to exude. In this
way blistering, firing, scoring will some
times cure. 1tinerant horse farriers 90
about the country curing ringbone by a
sort of hocus-pocus process. They will
write on slip of paper some hog latin
gibberish, then put lance through the
flesh of the foot, and insert this bit of
paper into the opening. Others will cut
into the foot and remove bladder that
is in every horses foot; by this cutting
they may chance to cure. Horses some
times cure themselves by calking them
selves; they may cure by getting their
foot fast between two rocks and tearing
the flesh open. Every one of these ways
have been known to cure, and every one
of these ways have been known to fail.
Ihave been raising and handling horses
for the last fifty years. The following
remedy l have never known to fail:, Oil
of vitriol, two ounces; bears grease,
four ounces; spirits of turpentine, eight
ounces; mix together; clip the hair, ap-
ply with swab; rub in with the hand;
heat in with shovel; to be applied six
mornings in succession. If applied dur
ING the first twelve months it will entire
" remove the bunch and the lameness;
if after. it will remove half the bunch and
all the lameness. The skill of man can
do no more Cor. Toronto Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-24
An Elephants Milk Teeth.

Empress, the female elephant at the
geological garden has just passed through
one Of the Interesting changes looked for
in her species at about her age, in the
shedding of her back, or, as they are
called, "milk'' teeth. Some days ago
Empress appeared little dull and seemed
to have lost her appetite. Secretary Kalb
had her watched closely, but could not
determine what was the matter until yes
terday, when there appeared the crowns
of several teeth. These crowns were
about three inches long, an inch and one
half wide, and an inch thick, and made
the cause of her indisposition clear. An
examination of her mouth corroborated
the same thing; the ''milkers" having
disappeared. Within an hour the Empress
began to regain her wonted good health,
and soon made known that she was long
ing for something to eat. This loss Of
her early molars is said to occur at the
age of ten years, and proves the number
of her days as given when she was
brought as correct. Empress was pur-
chased in Hamburg, Germany. last sum-
mer, arriving at the garden in Septem-
Der, costing, delivered, $S.000.-&
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-24
An Amateur Of Prison Life.

Well, sir, we'll send you to Jail for
thirty days." said Mayor Rowe in the
police court several weeks ago to an in
nocent-looking young man accused of
yagrancy, land when you get out 1 want
you to leave the city at oncer' The pris-
oner made no response, but very humbly
accompanied the officer to Jail. Yester-
day Squire Rain, of Leesport, ten miles
away, came to Reading to look after a
rich young farmer who had mysteriously
disappeared. He went to see Warden
Brossman at the prison, and in making
. tour of the cells found his man at work
winding carpet rags. The prisoner
laughed when he saw the Squire and
treated the whole matter as joke. The
Mayor was then informed that the man
he had committed for vagrancy was
Berks County farmer owning an estate
worth $35, 900, with not a penny of dsot
on it. A discharge was at once made
out, and Squire Rain took the man
home. 81 wanted to see how things 60
among Jail birds, that's ALL was the
only explanation he could get from the
young Misunderstanding (Pd.) Cor. N.
X Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-24

ID THIS boy hcroi Let rs see He lies
stretched across the masters knee and whim-
pers not. Every second the cruel rattan rises
and falls; every second there 10 dull sound
% II somebody were threshing mud. The
dust flies, but the victim utters NO sound
The Precipitation stands out on tho masters
brow, and he begins to wonder II that boys
basement 70 constructed of sheet-iron. Moth
Ing of the sort; 1t IL . wild, foolish coniect-
ure. The lads life has been passed In the full
blaze Of the nineteenth century civilization.
He is no fool. He knows that nobody knows
what day may bring forth. He doesn't ven
ture across the dark gulf between the now and
the may be unprovided against contingencies
The lantern that guides his footsteps 10 the
light of experience. There 10 great future
reserved for this boy. The rattan goes up and
the rattan comes down; who cares Tor the rat
tansa When he left home in the morning he
took his fathers last remaining liver pad with
him. It's the right liver in the wrong place.
Yes, the boy 10 q hero.-DenCcr Tri6sse.