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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-01

Eugene Boyardus. son of the famous
wing shot. Captain Bogardus, III I with
a serious accident at Selma. Ala, re-
Gently. Young Boyardus and his broth
er have been giving shooting exhibitions
with Coles circus. Just as the tram
was leaving the station the lad fell of
the rear car, aud it was found that both
Jaw bones were broken. every tooth was
out, nose broken, and right eye bruised.
Charlotte OLsereer We are panied to
learl, of the sad death. by suicide, of Mrs.
Lawson G.. Hcllig OF Mt. Pleasant, Ia
barrus county. On Thursday morning,
Mrs Hellig. in a spell Of temporary IN
sanity, wandered away from her house
and threw herself into her husband fish
pond MIR. Robert Burns, a worthy
and well TODD citizen of this county, lost
his gin house, barn and a quantity of for
age, the other day, by fire. A negro
man was seen to run from the GIN house
just as the fire was discovered.
The farmers in the United States are
worth $40 1876 645: the fences, SIS, 765,
723; i've stock $500 S32 49,, farm iInplc-
ments and machinery, sos, 81, G992,
manures and special fertilizers cost S2o
DCiNCpo ~ tOtdi 6'H iNtSIth ~
agriculture is rated DIT $i2,2lO 253. 3l6.
Its yearly produce 70 tup 81. SOC. OO0, 900
and the revenue yearly collected from its
products for the support ofthe national,
State and local governments and for edu-
cation amounts to nearly 100000, 600
Raleigh News-O Observer: Hon. TfSs.
c. Manning has accepted the invitation
lrom Phi. Society, to deliver the address
at next commencement at Chapel Hill.
Some malicious person placed a
torpedo. containing several pounds Of
gunpowder. under the doorstep of Mr..
X. w. Harris. in oxford, last week. 1t
was evidently intended to kill him, but
failed to explode. His window has been
fired int several times recently. Mr..
H.. is a prominent and ~peaceable citizen
OF Granville, and supposed to have nc
enemies.R. K. Galloway, Of Mt.
Airy, had his pocket picked Of 5000 at
the state fair, AMI a tan yard burned up
he same day.
U~ashingtpn mt. 27.-Noluntary con-
tribution Hubbell has got very little out
OF thus campaign except toll and trouble.
lie has become odious TO all men. so
that his nameis SYNONYMOUS with all that
IL bad in politics. He has lost his seat
IN the House Of Representatives he is
falling behind every day in his race for
the senate with the astute Ferry, who
i richer and smarter and more popular,
and he has earned for himself III the
Course OF the summer more kicks than
halt pence, and, on the whole, little else
than dlshonor and disgrace. Hubbell is
a short. stout, thick-sct, well-dressed,
gray-bearded, fat-faced copper miner,
with gold eyeglasses and a general
"l'm-a-vcry-big-man' air about him.
He doesn't know much about politics.
He thinks he knows it all. He IS. in
fact. entirely out Of his element. He
ought have stuck to his copper mine.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-01

Mr.. ]. {. Turner, brought To our o.
hce nine leaves OF tobacco. all gown
from one plant, measuring IS inches in
length, by Is i'll width, raised fro II the
Big Orinoco plant. Hurrah for Walnut
Grove Who can beat it:-Hillsboro
Observer.
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time for work will he just two months
The six DAYS walk Z match 10 y l.
City gathered S2o,373 It wa ~ou b
| Fitzgerald who walked jI7 mile, Nsre-
mac made So; Hertz jii, liushe~ -.
The Champion Of the World, R1Net,
broke down in three days. So did Hazeai
Panehot, Vint and others. This proves
that men who once win a match or Two
requiring great boldly endurance and
menta! struggle, break down for life.
beware of ''Blue fire ~ The catas-
trophe al Chester, Penn, a few months
ago, has been duplicated at Philadelphia,
b. the same agency. During the fire
work last week. in the city park, a lot
of blue light" rockets exploded, and
burst the iron mortar INTO fragments,
which flew for two or three hundred feet,
cutting down the multitude III all dIrec-
tons. BY midnight the list OF dead ran
above ten, and the wounded were count
ei by the score.
There is an aristocratic dog down
ia south Carolina. He was never known
to bite a niger" hut when Hon. Geo.
ID. Tillman came walking along tie
road he ran out and secured Two large
bites from the Congrcssman's leg. lie
was about to get i'll a substantial SUP
Per, but Mr.. Tillman managed to get
out his knife, and interjcct Il veto. The
dog howled-"Let us have Peace, and
retired to ruminate over his successful
Back salary Grab"
Since our remarks on the Guiteau
case (ou the outside pages, which are
printed every Saturday, four day IN adj
vance of the interior pages the tele-
graph announces that the verdict OF the
Jury ut Chicago in the case OF Lawyer
Scoville against Guiteau's sister, Mrs.
>covilIe. declares that she has been III
sane more Il an six months. and that
the insanity is hereditary. So it seems
that while tie crazy brother was being
hanged. HIS CIsiLN SLSlcI Wis StdIt't III d
carriage outside the jail, chatting with
! strange men one of whom accompanied
her home. What a world. The wo-
man has hidden herself, and had not
been found 1T latest accounts.
The passenger who rides at a rapid
gait from Asheville to Warm Springs is
apt 10 find himself debating which he
would prefer, to have the car smashed
against the rocks on the left, or tumbled
into the river on tie right. Yet it fire.
qusntly happens that the place of seem
ing danger is the safest, because the
track is more carefully looked after. A
railroad engineer said The Western y.
C.. r. X. was safer from the mountains
westward than from Raleigh eastward,
for this very reason. Nevertheless ac-
c;dents do occur. Friday last was an
unlucky day for Engineer Charley Cor.
dor, one OF the oldest on the road
Thr, t miles below AleXanders, near the
end OF the Sandy Mush t~restle, the en-.
gu4e whirled down-ton fect-crushine
Gordon. - that lie died before night.
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a CHRISTINA, present.

ON Christmas Day the fag@"r mi
.NecAauic will give a Fiye-Dollar Cold
Piece, and one years subscription. I"
the person who has sent u. ~ that date
the LARGEST number Of new subscribers
either yearly. hali-yearly. or Trial IMP.
Send the name, a. fast a. you get them.
All viii be printed in our Receipt Col
umn. Preserve the papers and You VIII
know how YOU stand. As some OF our
friends have already sen clubs. we date
this offer October 2Oth. loo2,-so the
time for work viii he just two months
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TBF TIEp-AL WAVE ROLLING ON

THE TrED-AL WAVE ROLLING On (.
MIR. Thomas X. Eenable, OF Oxford.
and Miss Mamie c. Forbes. OF Wash
ington. y. G.. were married in Oxford
on the llth nst.-Mr W. {. Nc
Laughlin and Miss Maggie Ray were
married in Fayetteville. at the residence
of Capt. NELL Ray, and took a >onther"
tour. for a rarity.-Mr. y. IL. Smith,
of Winston, and Miss Sallle Steadman
were alsC married in Fayetteville, Oct.
25.-In Newbern. Mr.. Basil Manly
and Miss Anita, daughter OF DR.. J. Is.
Hughes. Bridal trip North, and many
good wishes all along the line from
Salisbury to Beautort.Mr. W. ID,
Hvman. of Goldsboro, and Miss Annie
Steele. of Fayetteville ln Lincoln
Co. Mr.. Alfred Nixon and Miss lola j.
Robinson.-In Wadesboro, Mr.. K. W.
Knight. of the Stanly Cleaner, and Miss
f. NJ. Mcknight. OF Winston, IN
Asheville. on the 9th inst, Mr.. }. r..
Elliott, ofCumberland county, and Miss
Alice l.. Hall, daughter OF the late Avon
+. Hall, OF Fayetteville. In Monroe,
Mr.. W. j. IIough and Miss Sue K.
HOWE. daughter of Mr.. III. b. HOWE.
At the residence OF Mr.. +. \. White
in Il leigh, David NJ. King, engineer on
the Raleigh 4 CASTOR X. r., and Miss
Mary White. Capt. King and his fair
bride have numerous friends TO wish
them well.-At WILLIAMSON, Mr.. ID
c. Mathews and Miss Minnie Ransom.
Also Mr.. Jas. h. Carstarphen and
Miss Fannie Martin, daughter OF JOS. j.
Martin. Esq. The Times gives an whole
column to the affair Mr.. G..
W. Williams and Miss Lavinia Moblcy.
At Greensboro. MI. Chas. Sergeant
and Miss Maggie. daughter OF Mr.. ID.
Curtis. In Charlotte. viii. G. Bosh-
amer and Miss Maggie, daughter OF MIR.
Jas. y. Gray.-ln Pocomoke, Md.
j. u. Parker. of Monroe. y. C., and
Miss Fannie Johnson.-ln Wayne,
Alex Sasser and Miss Susan Jones.
Also, Jas. ). Herring and Miss Euzelia
Boon.-In Sardls church, Cumbcr-
land county, Mr.. Geo. ID. Elliott and
Miss Cornelia Mcneil. granddaughter
of the late GOV. Worth. There We're
IL couples of attendants. and much tes-
tivity.--In Wake, Mr.. y Y Denton
and Miss kittura Safer In Guiliord.
,Ir f b Wheeler and Miss Francis f
Hill.In Davie. Mr. J { LeGrand,
and Miss Lillian FoOte
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-01

No matter what your aiiment is,
brown Iron Bitters will surely benefit
you.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-01

-Sonc months ago we printed the
les OF the steamer Rogers, by burning,
VIE caught in the ice. during her trip
i'll .earch OF the lost Jeanette. One of
the painful incidents was the loss OF
ShiI Master Putnam. who went with a
party TO seek help, but was forced to re-
turn " the storm. and amid the dark
ness drove his team OF dogs out upon a
large piece of ice, having missed the
camp of his ship-mates by only one
hundred yards. During the night the
ice broke loose from the shore. and
went drifting down the coast. about a
mile out. He was seen for several DAYS,
but could not be rescued. Two weeks
later, one OF his dogs came on shore.
Will. a bullet wound in its neck. show
ing that he had attempted to Kill it for
food.
And now comes the telegram that
the natives have found his body. on the
ice. with his revolver ly his side. and
the skeleton of Il dog near by. 1t is
difficult for the mind to picture those re.
gions OF eternal snow and ice. We
have heard DIR. Kane and Elyard Tay.
Tor lecture on the Arltc seas, with IL
lustrations by photO-rollcctor and the
Genes of fearful darkness. torn. sleet
and mountainous masses of ice. without
sign of bird. beast, OF living creature
were so impressive rs 10 make one shud
der at the thought of even being buriee
in such a solitude. We have pictures O
Polar desolation that filled the soul witt
thankfulness for Sunlight!
Pretty women can afford TO be glaci
Gus. Aud when they can make 4 forum,
by it, you can bet they piU be, whethe
their smiles be upon the dear public,
or some old dear 'money-bag>H with
III an attached.
Mrs. Langtry was awakened at sunrise,
when the steamer reached New York
but scuffied into her garment and sweet
ly glided out upon the vessels deck, whar
amid the screaming Of steam whistles
and the pounding Of two brass bands
she was surrounded by $50 reporters
many of them half. tipsoy, and all Of then
rough-looking from a sleepless night
voyage down the Bay. They stared he
in the face, examined her dress, Stoore,
to peep at her shoes, etc; but she wa
cool, smiling, and gracious through it a
for were not these 80 pens about t
puff her beauty and stuff her poke
book So she fascinated the crowd. an
made SO great an impression that tn
tickets for her first night sold for - uot
And then, the first night" (fionda
night had TO be postponed unit. ueA
Monday night. For on Monday ey,i 10
the theatre (Abbey's Park Street
burned To ashes. Some gas got loose all
took fame. The employees tried to us
the extingui>hers but could not. Every
thing was burned, Including Mrs. Lang
try's wonderful costumes, and the cost
scenery. She witnessed the fire from IN
porch from the adjacent hotel, and wa
much shocked. The loss was $3.50. OG(
Abbey loses 500, 600, but will 70 al,ea
in the Grand Opera House.
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PARTIAL IaPAKTIAL--Mi>>
Cooue Hayden and Miss Matte Miller
received elegant premiums ON their
subscriptions 10 the Farmer and NJ
chanic. Shotwell not only publishes an
excellent journal, but is always partial
to the ladles.-Rutherford banner.
That last remark i gospel truth !;
though our partiality is impartial. 1t
don't sound very complimentary, but II
i a fact we'll recognized in natural His
tory that a man who never was blessed
with a sister is apt to have a brotherly
fondne>. for all nice girls. And il great
IL 10 his credit. In the distribution 81
Premiums. however. mere accident de-
cided, and We regret 70 say that gu Of
loo Premiums only four or five minor
articles. OF small value. were drawn by
our lady friends though We have more
thar one hundred lady subscribers. BY
the by. among our Premiums on Christ
mas week will be two handsome gold
rIl1s.
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p1TTROADS md CONGRESV

The extreme difficulty of securing wise leg
iSlation regarding railroad matters was strong
Nv illustrated III the recent proceedings before
the House Committee at Washington. Mr..
Reagan if not 10y any means the ableSt man
in the world, certainly should possess at
least the average amount of intelligence and
information. For many years he has held
somewhat conspicuous positions in public life.
Yet he showed himself absolutely incapable OF
comprehending the very clear and forcible ar
gumcnt Of Commissioner Fink, and continued
hour after hour, and day after day, asking re-
peatedly questions which had been explained
to him again and again, with ali the patience
Of a irst-class teacher dealing with very
dull Dupi. TO do him justice, the matter Ill hand
was one which very few men do understand,
who have not the practical knowledge Of rail
road men; but very few men have ever
had 80 patient and persistent an effort to en-
tighten them made by an Instructor so CONF
pctent as Mr.. Fink. If Mr.. Reagan cannot be
made to understand, after Unprecedented ef-
fort and iii phenOmenally favorable cIrcum-
stances what ground is there to hope that the
average member OF Congress OF a State Logis-
lature will get the neediul understanding for
hlmsef2
The Reagan bill would require each road to
charge as much OH any kind Of freight for
longer as for "A shorter distance, and as much
to one shipper as to any other for the same
kind of freight and the same distance. Mr.
Fink undertook TO explain how that require
ment would stop the taking of freight at low
rates for export, or on the long through lines,
concentrate the through traffic on one of many
a.
pacity, and force the railroads generally to
charge higher rates for local freight in order
to get the money lost by the abandonment of
the through traffic. Water lines fix ut all the
principal centres of commerce. rats above
which the railroads cannot charge without
abandoning the through traffic. But if each
road is obliged to charge the same rate on
each kind of product " one shipper as to an
other, and as high "a rate for longer as for
ny shorter distance, the dilemma is this /:
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arc to vote upon nominees thus selected for
them, but scarcely by them. If the Governor
appoints the Commissioners, and they turn out
10 be inefficient or corrupt men, there Will he
no trouble to fix the responsibility for their
conduct. IL will he fastened upon the Gov
ernor. But suppose the Commissioners are
clcctcd-how about the responsibility then
There is good deal of forge in the old adagc
that what's cverybody's business is nobody's
business
The Office of Railroad Commissioner is one Of
grave and unusual importance. It's incumbents
should he men of unassailable integrity AZ well
as of assured capacity and experience. a Gov
ernor, realizing what the demand of the people
was, could be counted upon to comply with 1T
by naming a Commission responding to the
best expectation. But how about an elected
Commission? Might it not prove the Oppor-
tunity of the Republican or Democratic
machine for extending and increasing its
power7 1t remains to be seen how the Senate
will answer these questions.
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APPOINTMENT OR ELECTION

The amendment which the Assembly incor-
! poratcd into the RAILROAD Commission bill,
| providing that the Commissioners should be
| elected 10y the people instead of being ap-
I pointed 10y the Governor has served 10 reopen
| the question as to the best method OF filling the
Office. The majority OF the Democratic news
papers favor the amcndment-which owes its
passage in the Assembly to Democratic votes
! and not a few Oi.thcm, with the intention of
STRENGTHENING their position, speak OF the in.
/ alicnab!e right OF the people under our govern
meutal system to select their own rulcrs-aS if
/ TO give the Governor the power to name the
Railroad commissioners would do violence TO
that right. Without stopping to argue the
point, We desire 10 commend TO these Demo-
cratic newspapers the views Of one OF the ablest
of The Democratic leaders of this State who has
had ample experience in public affairs. We
refer to John 7. Holman. In 1877, when ne
was Governor, Mr.. Hoffman addressed mes
sage to the Legislature in the course of which
he took ground in favor of materially reducing
the number OF elective Offices. Starting with
the proposition that the Governor ought to be
held responsible for every branch Of the actual
administration Of the States Affairs. he adyO-
Gated an amendment to the Constitution taking
from the people the selection of Secretary Of
State Controller, Atorncy-General and Treas
urcr. All these officials, except the last
named, he proposed 20 have appointed by the
Governor; the Treasurer he proposed to have
elected by the joint ballot Of the two Houses Of
the Legislature. The Governor was induced to
suggest these radical changes in the organic
law of the state il order as he wrote to insure
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more complete and direct responsibility
The Railroad Commission bill is now in the
hands of the Senate and we take it they will
not pass it in its present shape unless after ex-
haustiye discussion, 1t seem TO the majority that
the peoples interests Will he best conserved 10y
agreeing with the Assembly that the Commits
sioners shall be elected at the general election
next fall instead of being appointed by the
Governor. Certainly ii is pure nonsense 10
speak of the inalienable right of the people to
select their own rulers as if the phrase were a
conclusive Argument in favor Of the Assembly
amendment The people have IN equally in
alcnablc right to vote directly for the Superin-
tcndents OF Insurance, Banks and Public Works.
But Us we have already remarked, thev don't
choose to exercise it. For reasons which aypeal
to them as entirely satisfactory they allow
the Governor to name those and sundry
other officials. And If the GOyernor-whom
they do vote for directly-fails in the
discharge of his duty he can be i'm
peached and removed. They hold him re.
sponsible for the men whom he appoints,
while they themselves are responsible for him.
Shall the powers and duties of the Governor
be enlarged by allowing him to appoint these
Commissioners If not, then they are to be
named by regulation political conventions
born Of the regulation caucuses. aud the people
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majority. They always do that sort Of thing at

majority. They always do that sort Qt thing at
| this time of year.
| Nor do we permit ourselves to he seriously
alarmed when, after harvesting the next Con-
! gress in their minds they proceed to gather III
| the Presidency two years hence, ana c0ddle
themselves over their restoration to public con
| fidencc and full accession of power. We have
seen too much Of that also TO have 1t occasion
us serious uneasness. Since 1850 we have
seen five Democratic Presidents discounted two
years before their defeat by a sanguine Demo
cratic press no one of whom has ever been
elected at the polls. Far be it from us to be-
grudge our unfortunate friends of the Dcmoc-
racy the fading and transitory joy with which
they build their castles in Spain and dream
themselves into power. If Sisyphus halfway
up the hill finds comfort in the thought that
notwithstanding all his failures he Will this
time reach the top, let him enjoy his brcf de
fusion It would be cruel to remind him that
the stone is sure to roll back on him. We have
| ceased to read the complicated calculations
which prefigure Democratic victories months
and years beforehand with any other feeling
than amusement They serve only to illustrate
to us the great truth cnunciated by the poet,
Hope springs eternal in the human breast"
But we observe in one of our late Dem ocratic
exchanges disposition to take a step beyond
discOunting victories six months in advance
Ii goes so far even as to assign causes for the
coming Republican defeat and to philOsOphizc
upon them. 1t will not be any local OF tenn
pOrary disaficctiOn-is the tenor of its reilcc-
ton upon the coming event-that has caused
the Republican defeat in Ohio and the loss Of
the next Congress, but widespread general
and permanent dissatisfaction with the Repub-
lican party. Having gathered in the prospec-
tive Democratic success, this Democratic an
thority proceeds to screw down the lid on the Re-
publican coffin by the announcement that it is
to be no temporary affair but a permanent
change that the Republican party will be dead
beyond resurrection or recovery, and that it
may as well be given up by its friends. Well,
now this may all be true as preaching; the
prophecy may be heavy with the weight Of
thus saith the Lord =; but really-we make the
suggestion mcckly-wouldn't it be well to wait
until the Democrats have actually carried Ohio
before dwelling at very great length upon the
causes or the lessons or the permancnce Of the
victory Isn't this just trle too rapid
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GENERAL MOTIFS.

Domestic servants and drivers of public We
hicCs In COnsantinCple hereafter to be- under the
direct super, lsiOn Of patorna government The Office
for the compulsory registration OF servants already twice
opened and twice closed Is about to be and
those who servants must seek them th,fc or go
without them. Public cOachmen VIII he required To
furnish proof Of good character aud skill III driving
The engmatical keely is not the only man
who refuses to dyuge expectan stockholders secret
which - to revOlntiOnize tho world and calmly ao
cepts meantime living at their hands. Curously
enough there is another person In Pennsylvania who
persss in keeping his mouth shut under similar circum
stances He lives Cory and perpetual motion Is the
one idea In his head which no refuses 10 impar 10 those
whose cash supports hin
The one-hundredth anniversary of the mas
sacre Of nnetysI Christian Indians by band OF white
setters Will be celebrated May "a at Guadenhuten,
Ohio This oauseess and disgracefu slaughter
compshed Oh March :. but later date chosen for
the enpatory celebration In expectation OF propi
tus weather The President aud his Cabinet have
saked 10 attend and preparations making for exer-
1es of an interesting character historically and other
wise
An Englshman, who was staying in Paris,
desired attend the theatre evening, and aware
that his knowledge Of the French language was imper
feet sent his servant to purchase book Of the play
Tho man made mistake aud bought copy OF play