The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-09

Philadelphia on Sunday. Men worked
in their shirt sleeves Ill Raleigh yester-
day.
Capt. Tom Mcintyre died very
uexpectedly while setting in a char.
So did MIR. Jas. E. Allen, Of Winston,
the same day.
The big canal at Weldon sold to
r. B. PEBBLES, and q stock company.
for $4,000. 1t is 9 miles long, and hiss
80 foot fall. A factory will start.
Married, Feb. LIST, at the residence
of Miss Charlotte Ray, in Orange, Mr..
Rufus B. Blalock, of Red Mountain,
and Miss Bette feathers.
Judges Merrimon, and Bynum,
Maj. John Graham, D. Schcnk, ana
other lawyers, are attending Federal
Courts, for Railroad purposes, we learn
from Greensboro Bugle.
Small pox reported at Youngsville
and Macon Depot, last week, but not
true in either case, We believe. There
is no longer any small pox at Winston.
Vaccination still RACES. Every
Physician is now a knight of the Keen
Lancet, and some Of them draw blood
fifty times a day. If this thing con-
tinue, the Doctors coat of ARM will be
a fellow in his shirt sleeves.
All the pestofice. and all the pub
lie buildings, G%ncluding the capitol,
and Asylum). in North Carolina are
not equal in value to the New York
City psstcfce. 1t cost eleven millions
Of dollars.
The County Magistrates on Monday
authorized an expenditure of $50, 600 to
give Wake county a decent Court House.
That was wide-a-Wake! We must
keep up with the times. There is no
debt that is profitable, except n which
incurred in improving public property.
kilograms to the Observer Wednes-
day, Feb. s, say that Col. Tom Cooper
got Motifs old shoes; and that Sullivan
whipped Ryan in the great prize fight,
knocking him senseless in the 9th
round. More than *4O. COO was bet on
the fight.
Wake had five young lawyers Ii
censea yesterday: Viz: Jesse Holding,
Do.nell Gillian. Ernest Maynard, Issac
G.. Hayes, and Joseph Cresch.
John n. Avery, Chas. A. NcNeill,
T. Rose Robertson, ana Frank Thonp-
son and L. P. Berry were also licsnsed
There is 40 greater folly than for
Southern man to take his dlsEhteli
to Saratoga, or any ether large water
ing place, unless he can afford to take
them back every year thereafter, and
add 500 per cent to the sos.linsss OF
their dress whether or ne.
Many a true hearted Southern girl ha,
been rendered restless and a~iscontentsd
if not utterly frivilous, by few month";
dissipation in the ball rooms Of Sara
to:a, or Newport or Long Branch.
Time says an old maxim, make,
all things evea." Revenge says an
ether sapient sayins-''is sure to CON
to him who waits" The truth Of these
"wise SAWS has been fulfilled in sever
al modern instances" Ante BeUun
Southern History is full Of vertical
tions. Here are three illu~strations:-
The North freed the negres, and il
order 10 spite and humiliate the South
put the ignorant blacks on = legal, civil
and electoral equality with their lat
masters; an equality which under tn
CllCuustAHCCS ALh0aute0 W N-Iludl gu
premacy. What we're the consequences
Why that within half = dozen year
the South recognized the situation, am
by means Of the added strength of tn
negro voters, regained her old numeri
cal ascendencv in Congress!
Take another instances The Ney
Eaglanders began the Abolition Cru
sade, and pushed it until they eve
threw the Old Agricultural South vhic.
for Al hundred years had been dig
1ing to get money to send North 70
New England manufacturers Of all sort,
What i. the result Why, that = New
Commercial, South has been created
and by the aid of superior natural ad
vanta:ss 10 taking away the scePtr
of the New England works In cotton
wool, wood, paper, etc. Soon tn
South will be free" in all respects
and poverty, chickens will go home t
resst.
Another instance The Yankee Pre-
t~ectioni.ts wroaged and robbed tn
Sesth for years by = protection tariff
But revenge is coming. The larg
profits Of cetton manufacturing hav
stimulated Southern enterprise to en-
ter the business; while the csntinus
discovery of iron mines has started hun
drsd Of forres. Very sson the Sout
will not snly raise, but nassfactur
hei cotton and New England will nee
to 60 back to wooden nutmeg raising