The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-15
Fairs In North Carolina
+. Montague. ESQ.,, and lady, re-


,,r,od l,St week from a visit to DIR. >.
j. Montague at Winston. P.F fescnd'
Esq. went to the mountains on Satur-
dav q, last week. Miss Mary Pescud Is
visiting Judge Albertson's family IN
Elizabeth City.
By an annoying typographical blunder
the above was badly jumbled IN last
weeks paper; part being omitted, and
the names disconnected in a way to mis-
,t.,e the facts. Our paper is printed at
a press-room down town. and we tailed
TO notice the error until every sheet was
printed, we much regret.
Wake Court opened on Monday :
judge Shepherd on deck. Troy Bau-
com foreman of grand jury.
&C D Rand, Esq. left Monday after
noon for Louisville. During a four weeks
absence, he will visit Chicago and other
western cities.
The Kimball House, at Atlanta, one
largest hotels in the South, was burned
on Sunday morning. 1t cost over hail a
million dollars.
Sol Haas, of the r. Il ID. had to
scoot out of the kimball House without
hi. watch and money. The total loss
BY the hotel fire is over one million dol
lars. Hotel will be rebuilt.
Fourth Annual Fair of Roanoke
District Grange will be held at Wood
land. y. c.. Oct. 23rd, 9th, and 18th.
Officers: Capt. j. H. Edwards, Presi-
dent; Z. B. Lassiter, Secretary IL. {.
Edwards, Treasurer.
A visitor last week said that Prof.
John f. Kelley's Union Home Academy
advertised in another column) in
Moore county. had opened the fall SEES
sion with a larger number than ever be-
fore. Now considering the tightness OF
the times.-most schools expect to fall
of somewhat this tall,-whereas this
one gains. We hoTe that all of our adj
vertising schools can make the same re-
port.
Col w A Turk will grow to be a
good SIZE man, if they keep on. We no
tice that the Atlanta ladies who attended
the Insurance Agents Convention, adopt
ed resolutions, saying In looking
back over our trip, no part of it will
bring us brighter memories or more graft
flying associations hal the few hours in
which we sped along over this wonderful
route, at once a masterpiece of man and
nature. The beauties of which enhanced
by the true g~allantry of our esteemed
friend made US feel that we were in reali-
ty approaching The Land of the Sky"
A card from DIR. Blacknall says,-"I
wish ali my friends of the Press to come
down to Morehead on the 18th, and enjoy
. few days fishing. Don't fail to come. "
That's clever and here is one who would
like to be in the swim, even at the
risk of submerging that section, and up
fitting Gen. Bob Vance's districk
''higher'n a kite the fear of which
accident, according to the mt. Gilead
correspondence, was the sole reason
which deferred certain prominent politi-
clans from venturing down to Beaufort
town.
"A daughter Of Col. Duncan X. Nc
Rae is making an handsome support in
New York City, by doing co~pying-work
with type-wIiters. AS some of our
country friends have never seen one.
we will state that a typewriter is a lit
tie machine with keys, like a piano,
each key representing a letter OF the al
plabet. Press a key and it prints the
letter, Some ladies can print as fast as
they play a piano. Miss McRae proved
to be skilliul. and soon built up busi-
ness enough to run sel eral machines.
ouipioyihS 5UuHa SH@
And now lest this should tempt some
OF our many Southern girls to try SINH
lar experiments in the great CITY. we
add that Miss McRae had very uncom-
mon advantages; a thorough education.
q wide acquaintance with scores of
prominent ~personages, and Southern
business men to give her work. Tins
she succeeded, where 500 out of a thous-
and Southern girls would fail-without
her hacking.
Twenty thousand dollars worth Of
tickets were sold to promident people
who wished to see the prize-fght between
John IL Sullivan and Slade, the Austria
liam halfbreed, or Maori" Every class
OF "NCrthern civilization" from T. S
Senators to college Professors, we've pre- :
ent, and eager to see the bloody encoun
ter, which had all the elements of a bull
light, except the mnuccnce of the bulls.
Suih,a an. VIII 80 i ny arms and wonder
ful hsts, co, Id knock blood out of
iras' monkey, whipped the half
breed 10 three rounds, Knocking him
headlong over the ropes, and off tho
platform down amony the yelling. howl
ing. haifcrazy multitude. The last
blow rendered Slade idiotic, and blinded
with blood, SO the police interferred.
The meeting hastily adjourned, forget.
ting to stop and pass resolutions depoun,-
ing the '~barbarity and inferior ciyiIiza-
ton Of the South" Sullivan returned
to Boston, amid a storm of cheers and
rejoicing More than ten thousand citi-
zens of the limb of culture and refine
ment' III America turned out to welcome
and honor the bully who had ''beat the
hle out'n the big niger"