The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-16

or any way to teach 'em Geography, etc.
Glorious summer for poor folks!
Can wear out all of last winters clothes.
See reorganization of Thomasvllle
Female College. A fine school.
A big Sunday school picnic at Hep
zibah church neal Eagle Rock tomorrow.
Judge Ashe is at Asheville. Mr..
Dortch and daughter are at Warm
Springs.
Col. VIM. VI Cooke, Chairman OF the
Liberal Party, and Gen. Johnstone Jones,
Adiutant-G General and chief of Gov.
Jarvis staff, have formed a Law-Partner-
ship st Asheville.
Maj. w. B. Gulick having accepted
a position in Henderson's National Bank
at Oxford, Mr.. P. Nj. Hale will likely
succeed to the Secretaryship of the State
Fair. He and Capt. r. I, Fulghum and
Mr.. j. j. Whitehead are applicants.
Election tomorrow night.
Capt W. T. R. Bells academy at
Kings Mountain, n. c., is more of a
school than we supposed. 1t has hve
teachers and LIS pupils, of whom so are
gills. The regulations seem TO be ex-
csllent. Send for catalogue.
Julian S. Carr, Esq, and family
will spend several weeks at Saratoga
and Newport.-Miss Octa Durham has
returned to Durham.-Eugene More
head and family are summering at More.
head. Col. Green was much com.
plimented at Greensboro.
Prof. Geo. w. Jones was reelected
Supt. of Public Instruction in Durham
county, and the Plant. says ''gives upiver-
sal satisfaction."-Mr w. w. Fuller
has been chosen chairman of Durham
county D. Committee; IN excellent Sc
lection. Keep a COMM" William!
The roll of the big drum of the Tisi-
tor press is rarely silent, night or day.
Upon it is printed the Daily Eren,ng
Visitor, the Weekly Farmer and Mechdn-
&c, Mr.. Spelman's State Journal, Messrs.
Nichols, German, and Purnell's Times,
and one or two other publications-ag-
gregating ten thousand copies per week.
Maior-General Norfeet Jeffreys runs the
machine, and when he pays attention to
it, can turn out as neat a sheet as any
body.
in speaking of Congressman last week
we wrote Honor themselves, - not hon.
or them" And there were some bad
errors in several articles. In our haste to
save the Eastern and Western" Mails
upon which upwards 1900 copies of the
Farmer and Mechanic leave the city
every Wednesday aftsrnoon,-we some
until the whole edition is printed. But
our subscribers by these two routes,-
stretching from Beaufort and Whining
ton to Greensboro, Salisbury, Charlotte,
Asheville, and the whole West, get their
copies before the lux is fairly dry there
on; and perhaps the fresh news will ex-
cuse the faulty grammar, or type.
Mr.. Eugene Littlejohn, clerk in the
drug store at Warrenton, having been
discharged after the lamentable death of
Mrs. L. A. v .liams, occasioned last
week by mistake of morphine of q~uinine,
--1y:.lzl oarI - tho unaan Jrnnl
showing that he was not in the least at
fault az the bottle was labelled guinid
when it came from Powers s. Weightman,
of Phila; and was bought for quinine.
He broke the seal, and sold s grains to
Mr.. Williams. After the lady's death it
was found that the bottle had an inner
label--morphiai Mr.. Littlejohn alse af-
firms that another lady was nearly killed
in the same way, in the same town, by
the issuing of morphine from one OF
Powers s. Weightman's bottles, labeled
qutnine.
Charlotte Observer gives a very
amusing account of the wedding at Pop
lar Tent Fair. The bride was 46; the
groom four years younger. They sat for
several hours on a raised platform, arm
in arm. receiving the fluctuations OF the
multitude with al undertone of 'snick-
err from the bad small boys, until noon,
when Col. VIM. Johnston, in a most
courtly manner, gave away the bride, ="
after which Capt. Chas. Mcdonald pre-
sented the groom a new ten dollar bill.
The happy couple at once ''cut stick
for the bushes, or at any rate a more re-
tired scene.
We regret to add that all this fun had
q disgraceful finale, as some miscreant'
went among the horses and cattle at
night. and barbarously barber-ized then
of names, and tails. Great indignation
was aroused, and a circus would OF
started if they could be caught.
A Confederate survisors Association
WAS organized and Gen. Ransom s ad-
dres. Vas praised on all sides.