The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-22

card. Try a caro- LOT D moutnn. 4. "ouiu
pay you handsomely, If it brought
but one customer, q client, one pupil,
one patient, one policy, one bidder.
Gen. Hancock has been hunting
ducks in Currituck county, n. c., for
the past week.
Gen. Collett Leventhorpe is spend
ing some months in New York city,
says Top:c.
Quite a number of Raleigh people,
young and old, sweet and sour, are attend
ing Fayetteville Fair.
The most bald headed instance of
"Sour-Grape" philosophy is Mr..
Blaine's announcement that he doesn't
want to be President.
Col. Polk says the Weldon Fair
was in number of exhibits, and of at
tendance, 200 per cent above any pre-
vious year. So much for advertising.
But it was an high old time with the
gay GamboEer."
The model house ofthe painter, Bier
stadt, on the Hudson was burned the
other day. 1t had rooms 30 feet high,
with windows six feet broad, and 20 high.
The loss, including 2,4OO paintings, was
300, 0Oe. Several paintings by Rev. j.
A. Oertell, of n. c., were saved.
Mr.. L. P. Duncan accidentally split
one finger half in two, lengthwise, by the
rip-saw of Ellington l. Registers shop.
Mr.. w. w. Ferrall fell from a tree and
broke his arm.
The chance you were looking for
See adv. Of nice home at Cary for sale,
by a gentleman whose business keeps
him at another point. We have a good
opinion of Cary. Its location ought to
make it a tiourishing place.
A young lady of good family, and
several years experience in teaching, great
ly desires a position, either as teacher,
assistant-teacher, or to take care of young
children, look after household affairs, and
lend assistance with needle when needed.
Any of our readers aware of such a situa-
ton will much oblige by writing to Post
Office Box, No. :, Warrenton, n. C.
Figuring upon Judge Benefits ma
jority still proceeds; Tut the returns as
received by the Secretary of State give
him above 400 majority. and the Repub-
licans concede this number. There are,
OF course, floating rumor of contest but
they amount to nothing. If the late cleo
ton was not a fair one, there never was
a fair one any where. No only were
there Republican judges and tally-men
at every precinct, but also Federal SUI
pervisors and a good many ex-Demo-
Gratis on guard. If there was fraud the
Republican managers winked at it.
The young man, DsJarnette, who
killed his sister at Danville, was released
from the Asylum, under writ of habeas
corpus, granted after examination by a
Board of Physicians. He assured the
reporter ofthe Daily Neus~ Obseruer that
he was deranged several months before
and after the murder; the shame of his
sister having SO wrought upon his mind
that he could neither work, sleep, nor
eat.
Beauty, as the Jennie Cramer case
shows, is u fatal dover to a young girl, in
her teens, who has no watchful m other
to keep her from fast ways on the street"
and doubtful aseemblages. She will get
herself talked about all over town, even
II innocent as is now the case in three
or four different instances.
1t doesn't look right, but perhaps it
II. The Secretary of State of Mississ-
lppi has given the certificate of election
to Congress, not to Gen. J. r. Chal-
mers, the Fort Pillow" man, but to
Col. Van II. Manning, the present
member. 1t seems that by the wooden
headed folly of one of the county Boards
OF Canvassers, the returns showed 1472
votes for y. r. Chambless" instead Of
j. X. Chalmers. The Secretary claim
ed that his duty was simply to count
the returns as sent /; therefore he found
that Manning had S749 votes, j. r.
Chalmers 1851, and j. R. Chambles.
1412. So Manning was declared elect
ed.
1t doesn't look right; and We for ole
would never stoop to take an office for
which the majority of legal voters pre-
ferred another man. All the same, the
laws were made to be obeyed. and if
election officers will not obey them,
they should be taught a lesson.
DR.. John w. Chaplin has withdrawn
from the Chatham Argus, to 60 to Beau
fort county, and open a drug store at
Aurora. He takes the F. s. NJ. along.
OF course. to keep him posted about
matters and things at the capital. Au-
rora was, we believe, the Daughter of
the Morning, and if it be true that the
nrst thing n the morning at Aurora is
to take a spoonful of quinine Ito get "a
ieetle the start" of the DAYS .schill0 |
Bro. Esculaplus ought to receive a warm |
welcome, and fill his till so fast that
the paucre profits of paperdom will seem
something quite too utterly inconsid-
able.