The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-12
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Judge Rufin is at Warm Springs

items gathered from visiting friends must
stand over to next number.
Capt Willie" Cain, the Charlotte
Observer says, has been offered a Profess
orship in Erkshire College, at Due West,
S. G.. lie has been surveying for Bird
gers Fayetteville Fast Line.
Philip Faison, eolored, Was hanged at
linton yesterday, for the murder OF
another negro named Sill ers, whose
daughter he had seduced.
Wake Forest did not elect a Presi
dent. The matter was left to committee,
viz: DIR. Skinner, DIR. j. ID. Huffman,
Col. Polk, and Capt. Cooke.
Many Southern officers were In the
Egyptian army ten years ago. Gen. Stone
OF the Yankee army, who was so badly
whipped at Balls Bluff, is still Chief of
Staff to the Khedive, we believe.
Mrs. Sam Shotter. nee Miss Isabel
Davis, daughter of Hon. Geo. Davis, OF
Wilmington, died in Savannah, July 9Th,
after brief illness, and was brought home
for burial.
That negro, Rev. Fl. V. Turner, who
used to publish the Raleigh Repubh-
can, under various titles, is at his old
tricks. The Washington Republican,
prints a card from his partners in the
new stalwart organ at the Capital
warning everybody to beware of him.
Col. Wilde did not make an hit at
at Wilmington. The crowd was ccnspicu-
Gus for its absence. The lecture failed
to interest, except in personality of the
Lecturer, although the city press plainly
wish to speak kindly of MIN.
Interesting to Granville folk. A
Iirginia paper says the Richmond and
Mecklenburg Railroad will be completed
to Fort Mitchell, eleven miles from Keys
vile, Va, by the 10th of this month, and
if the work is vigorously prosecuted, will
reach Chase City this fall.
Farmers will find a fine lot ,f ''tield
peas the best or cheapest of Fertilizers
for the South,-at l.. L. Polk Il Cos;
price 81. IS per bushe.. Also, a Thrash
er, and Cleaner" on easy terms. And
no end of other tools and machines for
the farm. Ad. next week.
We are pleased to notice good-sized
meetings in Ansor, in Cabarrus and other
points TO organize the ex-Confederates,
and send names, and delegates to the
States Association which meets during
Fair week. Judge Bennett will speak
in Raleigh, July II. FIX Rebs of Wake
county invited to assemble that day.
Col. Wharton j. Green is to deliver
an address at the State Fruit Fair. And,
by the by, we trust he will be deputed to
carry the banner of the Democracy in the
Sd Dist. Without knowing who will be
brought forward for the nomination, we
can at any rate be sure there will be no
question as to the merits, and deserts, OF
Col. Green.
Big Bugs and Little Fishes! The
Duke of Edinburg, Queen Victoria's
youngest we believe, who is Lord High
~Cockolorum of the British Fleet, at
Gibraltar the other day was fl hing when
a%seven-foot fish dragged him offthe rocks.
and nearly drowned him,-keeping hi.
Royal shirt, Tapping water for more than
an hour! That deluded and ''Dem"-Dem
ocratic fish must have mistook the Duke
for a Duck lie due is the Italian title, or
else mistook him for his brother, the
Price of W(hlales.
No Rest for the Wicked" Quit
eau's body was dug up, and wagoned t.
to the U. S. Army Museum: where it
was boiled for several days, until the flesh
fell from the bones. The latter were
spread upon the roof to air during the
day, and at night an old negro gathered
them in a bag. This beats the old Grave
digger in Hamlet The bones are to | e
strung on wires, and If you want to see
a disgusting skeleton you will know where
to find it.
Great care should be taken by Demo |
Gratis to discriminate in their attitude be
tween "Prohibition" and Temperance
The late Prohibition bill is believed by
some to have been a piece of cunning and
treachery, a deliberate device TO bring
the Democrats into disfavor, and set
back the clock of Temperance for 20
years. We do not hold this view but
certainly the Prohibition bill Was crude.
loose, unevenly balanced, and full of in
%congruities! For this reason it received
the open or silent, direct or indirect, op
position of a majority of the Democratic
voters, and two thirds of the Democratic
leaders, including many GOOD Temper
ance men. Let US not go too far.
The "Sunny South like a good
many of her Natives" has begun to
''ape" Yankeedom, even in climate.
Fires we're started in many houses in Raj
eigh on the Fourth of July; and winter
garments were unpacked. The Editor
suffered all week from cold and neuralgia;
spending part of the Fourth, aud three
other days in bed. with the big Head'I
sufficient for a "PhiIadelphia Lawyer"
or a new>fedged Congressman. The
cause of this suffering dates ten years
back, to ill-usage in a Yankee Peniten-
ti,rv. ond r. Won uorJor q, IL ri