The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08
Roscoe Conkling declines the

Senatorship.
Thirty thousand people have been
rendered homeless by the Mississippi
floods, it is said.
Gen. W. r. Cox is chosen the
North Carolina member Of the Nation
al Democratic Congressional campaign
committee and wisely chosen.
We surrender the customary edito-
rial space to correspondence and clip
pings this week; no doubt entirely to
the satisfaction of our readers.
Five Republicans, (Hoar, Hawley,
Dawes, Sherman, and -, opposed
Conklings confirmation and eight
Democrats voted ditto, while as many
or more did not vote.
-''Esmeralda," the play founded on
North Carolina plantation life, which
had more than one hundred nights run
in New York, i. to be performed at
Bonitz's Opera House this spring.
"A telegram from Tarboro to the
Daily Observer the finding
of Joseph Feldenheimsr's body in Tar
River two miles below town. He is
the merchant who suicided.
The Charlotte Observer says Arthur
Butt has settled down to paint another
Panorama. His guess at the scenery
on the other side of Jordan appears to
have scooped in much lucre. here be
low.
During the wal the South was hem
med in as if surrounded by an high wall.
We doubt if one In a thousand of our
readers ever heard of the dreadful cat
astrophe by which 1000 lives were lost
in a South American theatre in 1868.
Gen. Sherman, with Gen. Hancock,
and a large party of officers and ladies,
is making a tour of the army posts on
the frontier, beginning in Texas. The
trip will occupy ten weeks, and cost the
government S., 900. u. Bile con,
Guided to wait and gee if Grant is not
trying to trick him out of the generals
ship.
Pleased to have a call from Bro.
". 4. Davis, ofOxford, last week. One
doesn't need to ask if the Iorchlight be
prospecting. The last number was
crowded with advertisements "from
turret to foundation stone," and had a
''lean-to" in the shape of a good size
s%uppliment.
We have just noted that Mr..
Josephus Daniels is Business manager
of the Wilson Adr ,nce, as we'll as It's
wide awake Local Editor. A big Rail-
road meeting In that town voted to
take $50, 600 in the WILLIAMSON r. r
if it would come to Raleigh, via Wilson.
That's enterprise, We have high faith
in Wilson. Within ten years it should
have four roads.
More than half a million dollars
were lost in Railroad stocks and bonds,
by Richmond men, during the past
fortnight. Most of the investments
were III Richmond & Danville stock
which had been 'Bulled' up like a
rocket, and then ''Beared' till it fell
like a stick. Within a dozen days the
stock fell from 2lS to l3O,-or eighty
eight points,
~rWe see it stated authoritatively
that the "OZONE," at one time adver~
tised by this paper, in common with
nearly all other papers, is a Fraud
Notwithstanding its endorsement by
prominent bankers, and public officials
Of Cincinnati. Also that the ''Rutledqe
Monthly praze offer" is a fraud. or in
the nature of one. The Chatham
Record says a gentleman tested it by
sending the right guess, but was told
that so many persons had preceded him
In guessing it, that all the cash was
gone. These sort of swindlers are find
the SOuth a rich fold
-Washington's Birth day saw a sin
gular spectacle at the celebrated
''HOughton Model Farm" in Orange
county-(alas! not n. C.-but) n. Y.
Invitations had been sent out by Mr..
Valentine, the proprietor, and more
than 500 farmer Boys" were assembled
to see the sights and have a good din
A committee of the Farm Pupils.
headed by our young frienI, Robert w.
Roott, of M~ebanesville, met the visitors
q escorted them over the farm. DIR.
Miles then showed the boys his magic
lantern views of horses, cattle, butter,
etc.. showing the good kind and the
bad kind 80 plainly that all might learn.
Then Maj. Alvord, the Manager, made
. speech; concluding with the offer or
dered by the Orange county Agricultural
society, namely a premium of $25, 800.
$15, $40, IS for FIVE best quarters of
an acre of corn, raised by boys under
Is years of age.
After dinner, came a round ofspseches.
q of which was by Mr.. Scott. He told
the Orange boys that we have many
wide-awake young farmers down in Car
DINA, and that some of them mean to
be more wide-awake hereafter, if study,
and experiment., and reading of agricul-
tural journals can bring it about.
We make a note of the foregoing in
the hope that it may stimulate similar
gath erlngs in North Carolina. Our
States Agricultural interests could not
rece' We a greater blessing than the or
ganization of Farmer Boys Expert
ment Clubs" in every county. 1t would
mPart more zeal to the farming industry.
and shake the pillow out of the rut into
which it has been for generations. The
most successful farmers in the State
to-day are men like Capt. sgd Alexan-
der, James Norwood, the Kerrs, the
SCOTS, the Moores, Henry Pearce. Capt.
Thlgpen, Col. Holt. and fifty others we
could name if necessary, who have left
the beaten path. and are farming upon
their " methods, using improved
stock, improved machinery, improved
systems, etc.