The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-10
Fairs In North Carolina
Matt Manly is the new Presi'

dent of Newbern Cotton Exchange.
-Sloan's History Of North Carolina
Confederates has a portrait of Gen. l..
OBJ Branch.
R. J. Lassiter, ESQ, recently editor
of Sm1thfield Herald, is canvassinS Rai-
eigh for Richards City Directory.
Bingham cadets will be quartered
in the court room, and the Obserrtr
learns a reception-iunch VIII he gwen
at Peace Institute.
A neat cottage residence fnr Tie
Steward of the Insane Asylum VIII soon
be occupied by that clever gcuIlcnnan,
John W. Thompson and family.
The New York Chamber of CON-
merce has elected to honorary member
ship, Senators Ransom and Vance, udse
Merrimon aud Coi. L. e. Fuller.
Miss Eleanor VI. Jones, OF Newbern.
whose early articles and verses we print-
ed several years ago, has begun a serial
stuly iu Savannah Nears entitled Little
Miss Lirtlejohn"
Col. j. P. Cobb having resigned,
Mr.. Ed. Griswold was elected Clerk Of
Wayne Inferior Court, say the .HesseHa~'
Col. Geo. w Collier has moved into his
handsome new residence.
Gen Cox. DR.. Grissom, and other
n.l.+xI;,.. - ot+.pIinn tho Grand
Lod g OF Knights Templars at Char
lotte. Mrs. Grissom is visiting friends
in Eastern Carolina.
Naval cadet z. B. Vance was grad
uated at Annapolis the other day, and
with his class, honorably discharged from
the service; there being no vacancies at
present. This is the rule in such cases.
When you come to the Fair next
week "be a good Boy,"-and bring along
a couple of dollars for the +. Il NJ; re-
membering that when crops fail and
times are tight. nearly everybody thinks
has little bill will not be missed.
The report that a white baby had
been found on the streets. wrapped in
silks and laces. continues to 20 the
rounds, and add to the already strong
prejudice against Raleigh. The baby
was a china doll.
Charleston Courier says Gen T. NJ.
Logan is understood TO have lost every
dollar he possessed during the fictitious
boom of the Richmond d DanviIle
stock last year. That paper thinks TIE
recent charges serious enough" but
has no doubt they can be satisfactorily
answered.
Why don't somebody invent glass
spoons: They could be toughencd to
unbreakableness and would be far c! cap
er, and healthier than the common sill
vered' spoons. which soon tarnish. and
if used in pickles, preserves. or anything
sourish, are liable to poison the user by
their rerdigrts
From ex-Sherif Moore. of Gran
willie. we learn that Sheriff Gamers SUI
posed arrearage was found, On investi-
CATION, to be due to defective book
keeping; and it is understood that
when the proper settlements are made.
the county will owe him. instead of vice
reversa.
1t was Beast Butler who command
ed the troops sent to New York TO muir
der the citizens because they refused to
submit to be drafted aud sent to fight
the South. More than three hundred
Democrats were killed by the Soldiers
in those so-called-"Draft Rio s.
which occurred about the time Stonewall
Jackson was killed in 1868.
senator z. b. Vance has consent.
ed to deliver the address at Rocky
Mount Fair. on Thursday, Oct. 25th.-
and 1--WE have every assurance of sue
cess writes Capt. T. NJ. Arlington.
That is we'll. Let our farmer friends in
Johnston, Wayne, Nash, Wilson. anC
Edgecombe, make up wagon-parties.
and camp-out, in the groves around the
Mount. 1t will be a pleasant trip, a
small expense
Hon. Wharton j. Green favor.
Sunset Cox for Speaker of the Mex
House. After giving his reasons. Ii,
adds -
Again. if we are adhere TO part,
pledge, and tradition, and make tax re
ductlon, civil service reform and econo
my, u slogan i'll the next, and as i
was in the last. contest, no one has TIN
advantage of him IN the score of revenu,
record. And not to force the fight or
that issue and the collaterals named.
to me fatuity-worse. madness. TIL
opportunity for doing SO is abandonet
or lost if one of known high tariff pro
clivities should be called TO the Steak
er's chair. Gauged by that standard c
%quirement, Mr.. Cox fills the bill if an
does