The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-31

ST. LOUIs- Nelson Chesman.
DIR. Thos. fl. Pritchard preached il
New York Sunday night.
-Statesville calls for more houses
and more mechanics Goldsboro need:
house ROOM. Chapel Hill likewise.
A delightful Melange, in aid of tn,
Ladies Aid Society, of Kittrell, at Davis
Hotel, tonight.
Col. w. J. Long, Of Guilford, was il
the city yesterday, but went to Chape
Hill in the evening. His many friends
will regret that he contemplates remov'
ing to minneapolis, Minnesota, where two
of his children reside.
In Christ Church, Pensacola, on the
evening of June 9th, Mr.. Clarence
Knowles, well known in North Carolina
Railroad circles, will espouse Mss Fan.
ME Judah; a neice of Mr.. K. L. Camp.
bell. The gay and festive groom has an
insurance agency at Pensacola.
John Caldwell, colored, stole a fine
COW from Dr.. Columbus Mills, of ca.
barrus. He was caught in Charlotte,
where he had sold her,-and Is now in
stalled himself, in Jail. as we learn from
Concord Sua.
Roger A. Pryor is to speak at a
Grand Army Encampment." He and
his daughters are thick IS pease with U.
s. Grant and wife. Joe Johnston and
Tecumseh Sherman 60 arm in arm, and
swap stories.
By the by, wasn't there a war, or some
body killed, or some little plundering and
burning down about Fayetteville and
Columbia a few years ago? Seems as if
we had heard some such report.
The Jubilee Singers were denied
hotel room in Washington, ex-Congress-
Asan Small was refused a room at the
Revere House, Boston, and a negro Bish
CD was refused a state-room on the Hud-
son River steamer. And the clerks at
Toronto resigned because a negro was
appointed.
Yet whenever similar recognition of
color and descent is made at the South,
there is yell at our d~isloyalty!
Only time to refer our readers to the
card of Messrs. Cheek & Watkins, Land
Agents, Henderson, N. C. Col. w. H..
Cheek, (of the famous "1st cava!ry,")
Grand Master of the State Grange, mems
Der of State Board of Agriculture, etc,
is practical reliable, and popular. So is
DR.. ]. L. Watkins. Few men more so.
Write them about your property.
How many pounds will a bushel
measure hold? Well, that depends! 1t
will need only IA lbs. of dried peaches,
or bluegrass seed, to make the bushel;
20 lbs. of bran, or "a lbs. of dried apples;
IS lbs. of Timothy seed, and hemp seed
46 bushels of barley, and castor beans;
so lbs. of salt, wheat, Irish potatoes,
sweet ditto, etc.; so lbs. of buckwheat
So lbs. of rye, fax, seed, or corn 81 lbs.
ofopions; and 80 lbs. Of beans. Of iron.
= still bigger number. And as for gold
and silver-we'll tell you as soon as we
get time to measure up several bushel,
of our stock on hand.
In Lenoir county, the Free Press
says, Susan Stanley went to the house of
Mr.. Joe Ballard, and on leaving got in a
passion with him, cursed him and told
him that he kept two wives in one house.
This angered Nancy Whaley, to whom
she referred, and she then got an ak. ran
after Susan and overlook her and gave
her a terrible blow which felled her to
the ground, not however before Susan
had secured a stick and struck her. DR..
Tull stated that the wound was about 8
inches long and very dangerous. He
says she may get well but it is very doubt
full. Nancy was placed under a bond of
$1,000.
Greensboro is putting on airs. The
Patriot endorses the Danburg Reporters
suggestion that Stapleston should be made
the State Capital. And Winston RepuJ-
Hcan mourneth that Col. Arm6eld did
not fan out Gen. Scales in the race for
the $4,000 Federal Building which
Greensboro got. 1t says: 1.-THE compile
ton Of this building ~insures the removal
Of the Office of Collector of Internal Rev
enue;permanently fixes the location of the
Federal Court, and otherwise centers the
transaction of important business which
is Of immense benefit to the place. 1t is
an open secret that Winston was a rival
with our sister city for this honor, but
Greensboro had the advantange of Rep
resentative in Congress who was alive to
her interest, which We, unfortunately,
had not"