The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-29
Fairs in North Carolina
-Receint list stands over until next

Receipt list stands over until next
week.
Having no Job Office, we will ex-
change advertising for job printing with
any one desiring it.
An excursion steamer exploded IN
the river in New York. She was
crowded with passengers, apd the loss OF
life is very large.
Justice Lon D. Stephenson sent to
Jail VIM. Cotton, colored, for %assautlng
J. W. Penny with a curry-comb,
Good for johnson county, and Its
farmer. Marion Johnson, who brought
LIE first bale to Raleigh yesterday,
Bought by Parker & Avera at 10 cents.
DIR. Chas. j. O'Hagan, of Green
Vile, is on a trip of recreation through
the Northern States. And a clever man
goes where he does.
Just too sweet to live a minute -
was an old saying renewed yesterday,
when a package came by train, for that
was what was the matter with the con
tents.-a variety of very luscious grapes.
Maj. ". NJ. Cumming, of Will
mington, mas been promoted to Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, A1jt. and Inspector G :re-
RAJ, Taylor's Brigade, State Guard. lie
was a soldier, in old times,-and is
gifted in the arts of peace, also. He had
a twig with 80 Bartlett pears clingins to
it, at the Fruit Fair.
City people, or residents in malarial
regions,-who wish a small home in a
healthy, intelligent, prosperous commu-
nifty, out to read about the 50-acre prem
SEES advertised in this paper. Mebaues-
vile is a thriving place, with a good sur
rounding community, and Bingham's
School is a small town Of itself There
are county seats in North Carolina with
less population.
The second Annual Grain Fair got
ten up by Messrs. Hinshaw Il Fries of
Winston will begin tomorrow. Mr.. Geo.
w. Hinshaw is an old subscriber and
advertiser of this paper, and we take
pleasure in noting his energy aud ability,
which in spite of a serious reverse. thro'
no fault Of his own, a few years ago,
have already raised him upon a solid and
uncommonly successful footing, both as
to his mercantile business in Winston,
and his General Agency for Alison & Ad-
dison's Star Brand" A few enter
prising men made the fame of Durham,
and are fast doing likewise for Winston,
Henderson, and other points. Such men
can always count on US to help wherever
We can for they are building up Or
"~torn-down' old State.
ANY one wishing to employ the
services of a school teacher. book-keep-
er, copyist, governess, housekeeper, OF
other help, male or female, should
write to the editor OF the Farmer and
Mechanic. He can furnish the names
of half a dozen ladies who desire en-
ployment; some of them being qualified
to teach in a seminary, while others de-
sire situations in the family Please
hAShtASA -iS ~ IA NOul l1ACIstIS HIloIl
you think might want such assistance.
Let them write to us, stating about
kind of person they wish to employ
and for how long a time. and at what
salary,-and what Is their nearest rail-
way depot. We have no personal nor
pecuniary interest in the matter: but.
knowing the needs, and honoring the
aspirations OF many of our worthy
Southern women, impoverished by the
war, and in many cases deprived of ma
tural supporters,-we desire to aid
them by such advertising advantages as
our paper affords. Of those for whom
situations were obtained last year. all
have done well, and given s~atisfac ton
SO far as we AVE heard.
One of our subscribers in Dublin. and
n in Wake C miles out.) called for
lady teachers last week, and were both
supplied with names,-resulting in en-
gagements, we understand.
=" Beast Butler is to make the
opening speech at Boston Exposition.
and Gov. Jarvis is to respond to him.
1t will be a ''Gushy'' time. Gush is
the order of the day with politicians. and
there are even preachers, like Atticus G..
Haygood, of Georgia, who 90 North
every few months to make a speech.
stopping over on Gush and the Ne
gro. (N. B.--Seney, Il e Railroad spec
ulator, gave HaygOod's college a few
t~housands.) Wonder if the Beast
will recall that gallant son of North
Carolina, VIM. b. Mumford. whom he
brutality hanged for 10 crime save the
hauling down OF a dirty flag hoisted at
New Orleans before the city had sur
rendered, and four DAYS before the Fed
erals even pretended to take possession
OF the city? Wonder if he will allude
to his dragging delicate women out Of
their beds at midnight. and sending one
OF the first women of Louisiana to Ship
Island Whera for three months she was
Kept la a hut, on the scorching sand.
guarded day and night under the ewes of
negro soldiers? Will he allude TO his
infamous treatment OF the decent peo-
pie III Baltimore, or his more infamous
exposure OF Confederate prisoners to
the Southern shells in the Dutch Gan
Ditch? Will he recall his cowardly
Powder ship''-which didn't blow IN
Fort Fisher? Or the shooting of John
Y. Beall, bravest of the bravey Or his
his insult to all Southern she-Rebels.,.
We shall be glad to see North Carolina
represented at Boston; but we trust ev-
cry true citizen of the South will refuse
TO recognize the eX-AbOlitiOnist, ex-
Whio eX-DemOcrat. eX-Radical ey-
Everything except ex-"Beast Plea
yune Butler, whom Gen. Lee and Presi.
dent Davis in formal proclamation de-
.ornool ~ ON s.0uilnw and n Murdor,