The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-29
parsonaI and Political
PARAGRAPHS.

0WA0 ~
John a.. Smythe, Of North Caro-
lima" (who ever thai ~ mas osen NOM
mated - minister to "Li6ella-
Arthur dominates s. p. Rounds, of
Illinois for Public Printer, vice Defrees
who has had the place for years. 1t is
q nest of ''fat' ness.
Mr.. Kemp P. Battle, Jr., and Mr.
Jas. Manning graduated from Bellevue
| Medical College last week.
GRAY Latham and Ed. Richard,
colored, who shot the negro th'ef At
! Weldon, were tried at Halifax court, and
ofcourse acquitted.
The Nashville Cornet Band has
warranted" the members of the Nash
county Democratic Committee for . bill
for services n music making at the
| various speaking places in the last cam
paign. So says the Toisnot Home.
Monroe Enquirer: We notice Maj.
| Dowd has introG uced a bill in Congress
to improve the Pee Dee river. Go it
Major! Eight it out on that line, if it
takes all summer, aud get IS big q slice
As possible
| At \ club meeting of the N. Y.
| City Sporting Club last week, Mr.. Geo.
I. Leach urged that the next meeting
should be near High Point, N. c., where
fine grounds could be secured and 1000
trapped quail per day bought at 10 cents
u head. But it was decided to hold the
Field Trials on Long Island. The
Derby Stakes" are $3.50, $3.50, and
500.
Quite Unexpectedly. to the general
public, President Arthur sent in tho
name of VIM. Smith O'Brien Robinson
Of Goldsboro, as U. s. Attorney for the
Eastern District of North Carolina, vice
Judge Albertson.
How about Tom Purnelrs speech?
How about Dan Russell's Green
backism?
The Statewide Landmark jocosely
alludes to the fact that the keg oflquor,
sent as q present to Senator Vance, by
would be collector, Tom Cooper, was
not strong enough to influence" the
Senator'S vote. So it would seem. For
On Friday last the confirmation" of
Cooper came before the Senatorial Ex-
e~cutive Committee and was fercely
'fou't" by both the N. G. Bomans, with
the result of defeating it by "a to d.
the negatives including Senator David
Davis; and Don Cameron and John A.
Logan, the TWO latter voting against
Cooper by not voting for him.
The S~tatesvilie Landmark says:
If our North Carolina congressman
could have read all the North Carolina
papers. editorial and correspondence,
within the past three weeks, or if they
could have been at home and heard the
people talk abou: Senator Ransoms
vote on the Grant retirement bill, it
would not be necessary to say to them
When that bill comes up in the House,
and you are asked to vote for it for pur-
poses Of ''conciliatlon," don't do it, and
you will not have so much ''conciliating"
to do when you get back to your consti-
tuents..
The same paper has the following
items There seems to be much diver
xity of opinion in relation to the action
| of the council Of State in refusing to
call the Legislature in extra session. =
Raleigh Visitor"
The Raleigh boarding house keepers
are no doubt unanimous in denunciation
of it.
The Republicans and b~rindle-tails
who have for weeks been declaiming
against an extra session of the Legisla-
ture, will propably forget now 20 give
any credit to the council of Estate for not
doing what they have been abusing it
for intending to do"
The Warsaw B''ef 4Hent,On y
THE decision, We learn, was reached
through the conclusion chat We had bet
ter do without u extra member than
to expend $40. 600 for an extra session.
1t may be, too. that the disinterested ~
council, extra official, at Washington
City, We're afraid the State would be re
districted and their occupation would
be gone if the Governor and his council
we're to convene the Legislature. Ii
selfish place seeking had been discarded
by those in authority and the good OF
the country sought through the good of
the party instead Of plans for retaining
the present places or better ones, the
Legislature would have been called to-
gether. Duty demanded it, as Attor-
ney- General kenan's advice shows. 1t
is a crying shane that our Congressman
were eve consulted about this matter
at all, and the people, instead of pro-
moting, will relegate to private life their
selfish would be-masters, who ought to
be unsel6sh servants"
The Ne,c6es MAN, referring to the
rumored move to replace Senator Ran
som by Jarvis, say -
Concerning Senator Ransom's vote
for the enrichment of Grant, we have
but little to say. W. look upon Grant
as the most selfish and shameless
American who ever attained to political
influence. No one but a brass foundry,
Ike Logan, would ever have made the
motion, and no honorable citizen, with
q spark of decency In him, would have
accepted the offer. We are sincerely
sorry that Ransom ever cast the vote.
But surely Eastern North Carolina can
not c~riticise and complain of the act, for
Ransom's Senatorial influence has done
more to get us appropriations for our
harbors and rivers than the influence of
any other Representative in Congress.
+ \ But even if Ransom were
removed from the Senate, is there any
one silly and credulous enough to be-
lieve that Jarvis could be elected to his
place? Where would he get his votes !?
Would the legislators from the East
vote for him, that East which he has
bamboozled till they hardly know wheth-
er he is responsible for his acts or not ?
Would the Middle and Western parts OF
the State support him, When they know
that almost every interest of North
Carolina has been trifed with by him ?
If Jarvis can be elected to the United