The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-17

DR.. Geo. s. Atmore. popular
young Newbernian, now residing in Pam
llco, last week took to wife Miss Katie
b. Lane, Of Stonewall. The f. & NJ. 5
best wishesl
MIR. Hale writes to the Fayetteville
Eran,iner that Col. John ii. Wheeler's
Library of some 5000 volumes sold in
New orE at very low prices--many use
tul books going as low as five cents,
Hereis seen anothsysAas,ratlon of the
strange faulty of not Advertising. There
are hundreds, if not thousands, of per
sons in North Carolina who would have
been glad to pay good price for some
one or other Of Col. Wheeler's rare old
collection. But few if any knew of the
purposed sale until this paper printed a
brief extract from the New York World.
Richmond & Danville stock last
week varied between SO, 101, 1O5, l02,
etc. This must be very distressing for
I those who could have sold at 200 or go.
But we suppose the stock will again
reach a fair premium, unless a general
financial crash should occur.
President Buford, with car load of
capitalists, were passing over the entire
track of the System in Va, N. c..
s. g., and Ga, last week They visited
Asheville, and it is said there was an ac-
cident on the Blue Ridge section but
this is denied by the Western papers.
Beauty foolin' wild Brooml St.
Louis is having big Fair and Festival at
the Armory. A circular encampment of
large tents holds, in each, company of
Ladies DIRE .sed to represent various coun-
tries, ages, epochs, etc. A Broom drill
Brigade consisting of four of the prcttiest
girls of ten principal cities at the North,
was formed; and the Railroads, by way
OF advertisement, offered the fair ones
free fare IN all directions. Col. Pat
Donan figures as Grand Pilot Of the
Pleasure Trip. Mrs. Ex-Governor Neili
Brown, of Tennessee, and Mrs. Colonel
George Haywood are "chaperones, so
called; though it is needless to say these
public hibition lasses don't need any
duennas. Col. Bill Bull is "drill-mas-
ter" They were escorted to the train by
the entire military force, and visiting
companies, of the city, parade miles in
length. They visit the Minnesota lakes,
the Delles of the Wisconsin, falls Of Min
-, ~ IL - Il
handled broom, patent leather knap~
sack, and jaunty costume. We live in
hopes of some day seeing the "Society
Bells all over the land acting circus, y
turning summer-upsets, and playing
leap frog, at 25 cents admission, in the
interest of morality and public edi6cation.
When Tourgee penned his elaborate
argument in favor of appropriating large
sums from the National Treasury for the
ostensible object of assisting Public Edu
cation in the South but with the ulterior
object of killing the State Sovereignty
sentiment, by accustoming the Southern
ers to suck at the National teat, and i'm
bibe the spirit of ''Moral-idead' Stal.
wartism through the medium of North
ern teachers and Northern school books.
wherein the ''Rebel." would be painted
so black that their own sons would learn
to execrate their memory when the
author of 'Toinette," and the false Fools
'Errand," planned this method of Yam
keeizng the South, he had no idea how
quickly the scheme would be taken up;
not by the North, but by our own people.
North Carolina to~day is flooded with
circulars, (sent out by the State Board of
Education, Gov. Jarvis, Supt. of Public
Schools Scarborough, ct al, we arc in
forned) to be signed and sent to Congress
praying for Treasury pap for Educational
purposes. Gen Robert b. Vance has
presented to Congress- Petition of 4. I.
Barton and $50 persons In Haywood &.
B. Justice and 900 in Rutherford and
numerous other petitions, praying public
aid for Southern schools. Gen. A. NJ.
Scales has presented similar petitions.
So has Gen Cox. Col. Armfield handed
IN ten at one UlWe, anu SluildT OueS are
pouring IN from all parts of the South.
Now we must not be understood as
directly opposing this movement. We
know the need Of public schools SO
strongly that we should be willing to
strain point to get them. Bat it is
dangerou precedent.
| The National big \" is daily growing
bigger, and the rights of States with a
/ big S, are daily growing smaller. Al
ready the Washington Government is
more autocratic than Queen Victoria.
Already the Federal courts utterly scoff
at the State laws Already the Federal
Government tamples on all State iden-
tity.
And for our part, whenever we concede
that it is better to have NATION"
than an Union of States,' you may set
US down for New England Black Re-
publican There is no half way ground.
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