The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-06
-Four or five communications came

Thanks to Gen. W. II. Cox for the
4th volume Of the Rebellion Re- ords ; .
book of much value to every Southern
gentleman's library.
The growing demand for timber,
etc. for house building as our new
towns spring up, gives a special interest
10 the card of Mr.. Fleming, Of Roles
vile, offering his mill, &c.
The young Duke of New Castle is
s'doing" Ameriky, to see life a nong
the s'fast folks He is coming to
Greensboro on a bird-hunting trip, the
Patriot says.
Mrs. Goodwater, of Little Sauk,
Minnesota, is a bird. Tho only IL
year. of age, she has two children, and
has Just killed her husband. True he
was chasing her with a knife at the
time.
1t is stated that the house at Wa
terbury, Conn.,, with which Mr.. Gloves.
who married Mir. Blacknall, is con-
nected, was burned recently.
The Methodist Conference holds
its sessions in Metropolitan Hall. Be-
tween the clergy, and the members OF
che Masonic Grand Lodge, Raleighs
streets to-day show more good-looking
men, in their Sunday-gO-to-meetn'
clothes, than almost ever before.
To the notable list of ~well-known
citizens, Lilly, London, Long. Fuller,
and others, who have dropped from
among the living, during the past fort
night, must now be added Mr.. A. G..
Hubbard, of Newbern, the "old-Bache-
lor lawyer" who practiced through two
generations. He read law in Raleigh
under Gov. Manly. in l841. the Journal
says.
Sad sea stories are now frequent.
One tells of a floating raft with five
dead bodies dashed upon it. Another
tells of the abandonment of a wounded
sailor, upon an island of ice, by a brutal
whale-fshing captain. No information
of the larger steamer which was sunk in
the English channel by a collision, has
yet turned up.
The most wonderful thing about the
Bible Is its comprehensiveness. There
is IN old saying that it must be "an i'll
wind that blows into nobodys barn
door" 1t must be a curious doctrine,
or dogma, or transaction that cannot
ind a text Of scripture to suit.
You will notice a change in the
card OF Messrs. Burgwyn & Co., Ban
kers, at Henderson. When Col. Bur-
gwyn spoke Of returning to the old
North State, we urged him to do so.
and named certain points which we
felt assured would grow and expand.
Henderson was one of these, and not
the least among them. The colonel
has begun wisely, i. e. by giving evil
dencs of his looming to stay" He
has new building, with heavy fire.
proof brick vault, . burglar-proof ac-
count safe weighing $500, and cash
safe weighing S,OOO.-with other anti
earpetbaggic tokens of ''settled" citizen
ship. 1t is needless to say his business
and professional abilities are above par.
Capt. r. l.. Daingerfield, another sub
seriber of the +. 4 NJ. is cashier of rhe
bank.
1t is argued. as one circumstance in
favor Of a Railroad Commission" for
North Carolina. that Col. BufOrd and
Col. Bridgers are not opposed to it.
We reckon not. "Great is Mahomet,''
and T. J. is his prophet! 1t was once
remarked by n of the big Railway
Bosses of Yankeedom.-"Oh YES. give
US a commission by all means. 1t is
easier to hobble three men than an
whole Legislature ; and then the COM
mission will always stand between u.
and the public to shoulder the abuse
and answer complaint" 1t was on the
same principle that a well known re-
cipient of the 'Steal Rings of 1880
40, once remarked-"Why should l
start a paper? A twenty dollar adver-
tsement, and a yearly free pass. will
buy editors, a dozen to the bunch.''
We think he wa mistaken, "a TO the
rule, and We Arosr he is mistaken as to
many; but candor forces the admission
that a little Official favor goes a l,ng
ways IN many printing Offices and we
have often smiled at the widest ~tlattery
OF eminent Statesmen who woull not
recognise, or at any rate remember. the
existence of the puffist, save during the
couple OF months preceding election.
"A song that was common .sope
twenty years ago, dear Tom" ran
thus :-"Come along! come along
Feel not the least alarm! For Uncle
Sam IS rich enough to buy US all q
FARM" If it were true, then. how
U more 80 now! Uncle Sam.
treasurer has just issued his statemen,
FOR the fiscal year, 1882, which ended
June 5Oth,-before the rich crops came
In. From this it appears that the in.
crease, OF receipts is go, PSI, O54.OO owe,
the year 1881, and that the expendi.
lures have decreased s2, 73l,4f7. 90
The total net income of the government
Is s4o3 ,525,2 5O.OO, or nearly ire hun.
d'ed msA'ons of dollars, The excess o
revenue over expenditures wa. CHS.
a43'slO, and the amount applied to tn,
reduction of the delt 4I66, 2Sl. sos
The excess of cash assets of the gov
eminent over its net demand liabilitie,
on IN frst day ofNovember t1SS2) wa,
>l35, Isl, GSs.