The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-28
Payment OF the awards OF PREMIUMS
by the State Fair began last week.

New York Seventh Regiment, -
writes for a copy of the Farmer and
Mechanic sketches of the War" to DC
placed in the Regimental Library, If
published in Book Form and If not
to order them sent so soon as they ap-
pear in book form.
"A young lady well-known in Raj
eigh is studying stenography, or short
hand, and is said by her teacher to be
very adept in catching on" toit. When
fully trained she will be dangerous es-
p~ecially next year,-Leap year. Socie-
ty beaux will find themselves taken off
by her wit; and their awkward speeches
taken down by her rapid pencil
The watch which was stolen from
Rev. W. S. Black was the one present
ed to him by Edenton street church.
The burglar failed to see 800 which
happened t o be in a valise lying wide
open on the floor else it would have
walked in the ways of the wicked. along
with the watch, aud the 800 taken from
Bro. Blacks pocket.
Now here is your chance? Good
land, good home, good mill and cotton
gin, in a good neighb6rhood. only three
miles from Wake Forest College which
good BapIists regard as the coming
Princeton of the South. We refer You
to the card of John w. Thompson, Esq,
a gentleman who needs no introduction
to the people of Wake so that we need
only add that as this is a bona tide sale
TO settle the estate, there will be a
chance for any of our readers to &C
quire a comfortable homestead in one
of the most flourishing sections, OH rea-
sonable terms.
The retirement of DR.. Geo. w.
Blacknall, from the Morehead City Hotel,
as mentioned by us last week, is followed
by his surrender of the Marlborough
House, -greatly to the surprise of the
general public, and to the regret of many
who have been his guests during the
past twenty years. Genial and gene.-
Gus, with unusual executive capacity, he
seems to have a natural turn for Land
lordism-and we suppose will not long
abandon 1t.
1t is understood hat Mr.. r. b, Raney,
of Kittrells, who has had a valuable ex-
perience both here and at Atlanta, and is
a clever young gentleman, will take
charge of the Marlborough on the LIST of
Dec, prox.
The scarcity of poultry at Raleigh
would seem to signify that the receut
dark nights have been judiciously i'm
proved by the chicken thief that "walketh
in darkness and snoozes in bed at noon
day. All kinds of Thanksgiving birds
and Christmas pottery are in demand.
One man advertiseses for 1000 chickens.
Another sold 270 last week. Mr.. B. H.
Woodell received a score of fat gobblers
from Mr.. Geo. w. Nicholson, one OF our
Warren county subscribers, and they
were "gobbled' before they could SAY
Turkey" to it. Mr.. E. j. Hardin ship
ped half a dozen dozens of partridges to
a good liver at Durham last week. Eggs
also have %eggnogged themselves to the
top of the market house. Now is the
time to say to your hens-"Lay on, Mac
Duff"
Persons who have hitherto had
slight doubts whether the moon is real
ly made of green cheese need doubt no
longer. You recollect that ridiculous
hoax about the accidental carrying-off
OF a baby at Morehead last summer ?
1t pretended that an old italian had
tied a bunch of toy-balloons around the
baby's little stomach-ache, and then let
it escape into the clouds You recol-
lect that Col. Chas. Voorhees, happened
to be out at sea in a skiff, (planting
suckers),-and seeing the airy, fairy
voyager about a mile overhead, knelt in
prayer, spit on his hands, drew a bead
and busted the balloons with his rifle,
n after another" allowing the dear,
darlin'. pity, little sing TO descend
slowly so that it didn't even make a
dent in the soft sand!
When this story was sent on its rounds
to advertise the Norehead hotel /; and
when it was reported that several we'll
known clergymen had referred to it in
their ermon as a wonderful miracle.
we refused to believe that such credulity
could exist upon the face of the earth.
1t appears, however, there are people
who swallow the whole story,-from
Voorhees, to the baby! Here is a copy
of the well-known Sunday school paper,
KIND WORDS" published at Macon,
Ga, aud read by thousands of Southern
Sunday school children, which not only
gives the yarn a an actual fact, but
even has pictures, showing the ''pool
mother lying fiat on her back, in a
dead faint, while Colonel Voorhees, bangs
his blunderbuss to the rescue of her
darling and Col. Whitford stands with
outstretched arms, in all the tenderness
of a pappy, awaiting the baby's descent
from the windy empyrean!
The editor of Kind Words" mus,
have seen the "cow jump over the
moon," as related in certain ancient
nursery rhymes, by Mistress Goose.