The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-30
.Tourgee has bought Potter's Monthly

terest, NeWOcTn JOurHut says.
Prof. Joshua Gore, OF Va, succeeds
Grandy at the University.
Notes of Correspondence, Receipts
&c, must stand over until next week.
The Egyptians made a moonlight
attack on the British, but were repulsed.
The latter lost 100 men.
The little pocket Manual by W.
III. Thompson is a marvel of usefulness
for reference.
We understand that Ii. D.. Law,
ESQ. has been elected Honorary mem
Der of Raleigh Light Infantry. The var
riors are o. X, so long as they have the
Law and the ladies on their side.
The trouble with a man known to be
habitually reckless of the truth, and cafe
less what tale he tells to serve the passing
moments that people come to have
no confidence in anything he says, and
will often think him false when he is not.
We missed it in speaking of Adju-
tant A. S. Webb, as "Rev." 1t was his
brother who was chaplain, and Is so
well Known in the church. But friend
A. 5. Webb is a good man all the same.
pearl Rivers" the poetess, and
wife OF Editor Nicholson of New Orleans
Ptcayune, has been sUmmering at Asne
VILE, and has raised a considerable buzz
by her letters to that paper. cr'tlcizing
rapid ways" of some of the young peo-
pie, specifying the dress Of a young gen
tleman, son Of a Bishop; and expressing
horror at the prevalence Of snuff-dipping
and young girls riding on top of omnj-
buses. Pearl has Written some very
popular verses, and is a lady of talent,
but she does not appear to De afflicted
with an excess of discretion.
Mr.. Lee S. Overman, the Democrat
ic nominee for the HOuSe in Rowan, writes
us,-"Capt. VIM Howard, enc of your
Rowan county subscriber. sowed 4 ounces
of a new heat which he calls Golden
Grain of Palestine, and reaped over 2
bushels, or an average OF 240 bushels to
one sowed. 1t weighs seventy pounds
to the bashel. Who can beat it?' We
''passr'
j. W. Watson, Esq, the we'll known
photographer, is about to open a first
class gallery" in Raleigh, under five
years lease. Eighteen months ago he
subscribed for the Farmer and NechaRic
and after reading from week to week the
signs Of growth and progress at his old
home, decided to return. As we have
often remarked, if wealthy citizens OF
Raleigh would pay us s., SO, or $50 a
year to scatter specimen copies of the
L. & Nj. through the North and West,
the amount would be returned ten fold.
"A pleasant call from Mai Jas. W.
Wilson and Capt. JOS. &. Mills, of Burke,
as genial gentlemen as you will care to
meet. They were 10 the city several days
during the hearing Of the Railroad case be-
fore Judge McKoy, in which the F. & D.
r. R.asked an injunction against Col. Fain
of the North Georgia r. r., prohibiting
him from s~eizipg Marble CAPT Cher
rokee county. The Judge decided that
the w. n. e. r. r. had acquired a prior
right to pass through the gap, but the
other road could do so also. Mai. Wilson
land Col. Andrews at once took a special
train for the West. He says the Duck.
ton ro,,fo "In o1r+o,j- H. l-,l+. III
doubts being solved.
"A note from n. p, at Sulphur
Springs, near Asheville, mentions that
the murderer, Carline, has been ares
ted in Tennessee, and will be brought
ba~ck.Capt. Pierce has gotten bis
steamer up to Fanning's Bridge, and will
make regular trips or the upper waters
of French Broad. The hull of the boat
was foated up the river from Asheville.
and the engines hauled in Wagons
A party of English aud German capital
lists will shortly visit the Pink Beds
to the lands known as the Can
dler or University tract of 10000 acres.
The force Of imagination is stroug
When the trained dogs were performing
at the circus a pretty girl was seen t
grow uneasy, and after considerable turn
ing and twisting, suddenly clap her hand
on the starboard side of her knee, sayins
II do believe those wretched littl,
pups have put a flea on met (Th,
dogs were fifty feet distant.) Her escor
who is hard of hearing, and not quick
witted, remarked-''Y-a-s, mine too
The COMPOUNDED bench Is rough as a ba!
o nails; teller just can't sit still!' DIR
Dentallo, overhearing the conversation
made a gesture signifying his desire t,
lift the youth by a fo~rcep-grip on his ear
TO hand, a very handsome c~atalogu
of Townsville Female College. 1t is on
of the pleasantest school premises in tn
State the wood-cut in the advertisement
giving little idea of the buildings an
grounds. Among the seniors we motto
the names of Miss Maggie Askew an
Rena Beckwith of Wake; and quite
number of others from this county, i
past three years. The institution wa
established in lS49 by Mrs. Charles Mock
but soon passed under the control Q
Rev. Chas. f. Deems who secured
charter in 1855. The buildings 4-story
40 feet long, cost $12, 600; and stand o
a knoll, in a beautiful grove, f%rontin,