The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-05
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You can say all that Is necessary In q rev woroe
The appeal in the case of w. ]
Best against the Western n. c. r. r
will be heard in the Supreme court thi
afternoon.
Mr.. Spier Whitaker who held tn
Senatorial seat from Halifax county il
last Legislature is coming to Raleigh t.
live, the Observer says.
With regret we note the death o
Mr.. Peter Bum, of Rocky Mount, WIZ
was recently shot in the knee while try
ing to prevent a serious ARRAY.
-Talmage is to lecture in Raleigh
April y. and her go to Wilmington,
and elsewhere. Secretary of State
Saunders did not sign the Round
Robin invite.
The brakeman, published on the
lst and 18th of each month, at Chatta'
nooga, Tenn, is for sale everywhere in
the South by newsdealers. ~Illustra.
tions of Mechanical Novelties are a
feature in this progressive journal.
Hon. j. j. Davis has accepted the
invitation to deliver the annual Ad-
Dress before the Franklin Literary So
ciety, Horner School, May %, 1882.
The occasion will be an interesting one
in several respects.
Thanks to Col. Olds, of the Rink
Club, for an April ticket of Admission.
Unfortunately an insuficiency of edu-
cation at that end presludes, the pro-
priety of our %venturing to don the
slippery little Roll-from>under and
sit-down-quick ables.
"A drunken woman got stuck in the
mud of a creek on Long Island, which
had only an inch of water at the time
but when the rolling tide came in she
drown-ded.
Near New Haven an old mar aged
"a, attempted to drown a dog. He
lost his balance, fell over and was
dround himself.
Senator Vance, Gov. Jarvis, and
Treasurer Worth, will 90 to AshevilIe
tomorrow to inspect the completed
portions of the Western n. G. r. r.
The trains now run daily t o Paint
Rock and Pidgeon River. Gov. Vance
should be warmly thanked by the
Western people for ''hurrying up the
cakes" Notwithstanding that these
years after they we're so vehemen tly
pledged the public to be done IN one.
The Newton Normal School,
among other teachers, elected Mrs. John
A. Mcdonald. of Raleigh, to take
charge of the Kinder garten school;
Prof. D. Matt Thompson, the Mathe-
matte; and Prof. w. T. R. Bell, of
Kings Mountain, the Grammar and
Elocution classes. All fi~rst-ciass in.
%structors.
Geo. w. Childs, the millionaire
editor and Vulgrian, gave a dinner to
Hi. Grant (who calls himself Ulysses).
that cost SEC. 200, or $40 a head for
each of the 500 guests. Is it surprising
that the people distrust the public men
who give" and they who accept"
such dinners2
The Asheville Neus says
Judge Gillian is giving univer-
sal satisfaction" Also: 1.-The entire
front of the hotel at Warm Springs has
been changed, SO as to face the depot.
A mansard roof has been put on the
main building, and every ROOM, as well
as the outside of the hotel has been re
The cars are now running
200 yards of the hotel.
DIR. Thos. D. Hogg announces him
self a candidate for Alderman in the lst
Ward, not that he objects to present
members, but as there will probably be
measures for the city improvement
before the new Board. ana =
be be- e~- 01ls uDJec some study, he
to have a voice in the Council.
His card is frank one, and, if in that
ward, We should be pleased to give him
! vote.
DR.. Henry j. Menninger, at one
lime Secretary of State of North Caro-
ina, Tor of those who ruled her By pow
r of Yankee %bayonetsl is a member of
Brooklyn City council, and chair
man of the Board of Trustees of the
New York College of Pharmacy. The
Brooklyn Eagle says:-Dr. Menninger
one of the few intellectual weights
'een In the Common Council In recent,
Years, and "old stagers" say hat his
equal as a DICTATOR has seldom been vis-
bile in that body.
by accident, a lot of toy balloons,
10000 to 10000 in number, having the
or a new play, as an advertise
nent,, got loose in the street, while they
we're being hauled to the centre of New
ork, to be sent adrift all over the city.
instantly there wa a wild rush of
of men. women, and children.
% capture the little, colored globes.
which few up in the trees, entered
ioors and windows, frightened the car
mage horses, caught on telegraph wires.
md Heated in clouds of red, white, blue.
green, pink and yellow over all the
The house-tops.
W. 8. Primrose, Esq, is much
,omplimented on the success. Of his
'enturesome experiment in that peril
2us held,--the pay lecture series. He
thanks of the public if for no
more than establishing the fact hat a
course OF lectures can be successfully
conducted In Raleigh, provided tie !
proper advertising and other provision
De made. We did not admire Prof
manner, or delivery; but the
'eDyect matter was valuable, and the
vivid illustrations impaired an ;ntara., Z
Of their own. The result was that IN
stead of barely covering expenses &c !
been apprehended, Mr.. Primrosa {
after paying SIS to the Lectur.r Go ! !
or use of Tucker Hall, and other ont, :
aay, was enabled to hand the PresbvIe- .
ian church $1O5 in cash. :