The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-23

nave made an appointment to speak at
Franklinton, Saturday Aug. %.
-Coup's circus was on two trains 10
Illinois yesterday. But one smashed
into the other, killing three drivers, and
wounding 80.
What the deuce is in peoplei Sen
ator Tucker and Representative McNlel
of Iredell, w. w. Fleming Of Meeklen-
burg, and John w. Fries of Forsythe,
and VIM. Woodland of Wilson all decline
to serve as member of the L~egislature!
The best compliment to North Cor
DINA this year is a complaint. The COM
plant that the girls at the watering
places are dreadfully lacking in beaux;-
the young men being nearly all at work.
Mr.. Alex Wadsworth and Miss kittie
Skinner were married at Elizabeth City.
-Ex~Secretary of War Delknap, who
had to retire in disgrace, is visiting Mr..
Robt. Bradley, at Wrightsville Sound.
THE Wilmington papers say Post
trader John London at Fort Laramie,
made 500, 900 by selling a copper mine.
The Charlotte Observer says Mr.. W.
I'll. Bailey sold a Davidson county silver
mine to advantage, while at Washington.
Prof. John II. Small, of Beaufort
county, opened a successful Teachers
Institute" for that county yesterday
Miss Lily Farmer, near Wilson, Sittangs
saws, ran out to drive a cow from the
Railroad track. She fell, aud one little
foot was hit 10y the engine, giving her a
sudden waltz like spin, but no serious
damage.
agAn HINT to Business men: E.ramlne
the +. 4. ", receipt column from week to
ueekL. Why? Because, as intelligent
men, you are aware that your patronage
comes almost altogether from one class.
namely, the substantial, well-to do people
who have money TO buy, business to offer,
children to educate, etc. Consequently
when you print a card, inviting business,
YOU would prefer that it be seer by | 200
families of this class of citizens than
double the number who have neither the
intelligence, tie money, nor the situation
in life to afford you any custom. Well
then, By inspecting the Farmer and lie
chanlc Receipt Column, from week to
week, YOU will note the names OF leading
! citizens in every county and railroad town
in the State men of character aud stand
ing who know how to appreciate a news
paper, and pay for t,-and whose Gus
tom therefore, is worth seeking. Selahl
P. S.-For the small sum of s. we will
print a four inch card three months.
Senator Benjamin II. Hill, of Geor-
gia, died on Wednesday morning last, of
exhaustion, resulting from cancer, which
began at the tip of his tongue wounded
by his pipe-stem) and gradually ate away
| all the ife-channels. He died as easily
as a child falls asleep. Il have lived
only IS years'-he said, a few days ago,
but they have been very happy years
and | am content" He might well be!
His life was a continual success. He
earned very close to half a million dollars
during a dozen years of law practice;
then entered politics, and arose to the
top. He wa one OF the most prominent
of the Rebel Senators but did not sink
out of sight like Tombs, and others, who
were too consistent to shift with the turn
ing tide. Insight with VIM. L. Yancey,
whom he tossed over one of the benches
in the Confederate Senate, injuring his
back so that he never ~recovered) would
have ruined any ordinary man, but Yancy
went to his grave, forgotten, and Hill
strobe forward to higher honors. He
fable docet,--Bet all your money on your
self, and let nothing stand in the Way of
your success.
Col. John R. Winston prints in
Roanoke Patron a lester claiming that
the s. 500 annually paid the University,
in lieu of the Land Script" given the
State by the Federal government. is "a
misappropriation and that the State is
''liable at any time TO be called on for
1.-The amount to be returned. The Green
back party in the State, raises the issue
that this money must be appropriated,
Ito an Agricultural and Mechanical Col
''lege.
In connection with said college,
SHOULD be an experiment farm, and a
'slarge Hall, for meetings OF the State
''Grange which should meet in july, when
there would be so much less expense, and
then the experiment. on the farm would
''be in progress for the study Of farmers,
from all parts of the State. The young
men could receive, according t o the
proposed plan, an education, by wor-
king a few hours each day and without
further expense, aud all without addi-
''tional expense to The State. If the
University car be utilized. SO we'll and
good; if not, We must have such a
college elsewhere"
1t is interesting to note the fe2ibility
OF our Green-Back friends. They adapt
themselves to circumstances" in
every State, and are HALL good fellow,
we'll met."-witi all classes and condi-
tions of Incorporated the aforesaid
men will vote with them. In Maine and
owa the Green Backers lie down with
Democrats to elect Congressman, and in