The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-19
r.,,. In North Carolina

Sampson Co. Fair. Dec. .
Mrs. f. f. Patrick has returned
from New York to Richmond.
Nearly a dozen North Carolina pa
nars now favor a Protective Tariff.
If il were not for deaih-bed scenes
the stock of religion among men would
soon run out.
Another interesting letter from VIM.
O. Gregory, Esq of Granville, a gentle
man of character and intellect.
The speech of Grand Master Wins
r. Williams. of the State Grange, to the
Granrers of St. Johns, in Cabarrus, IL
much complimented.
Thanks to Col. p. +. Pescud, OF
New Orleans, and Mr.. W.. n. Kerr, at
the Boston Exposition, for copies OF
local papers.
DR.. Pritchard's church is said to be
composed of very rich men, who were no'
anxious to see new members. DR.. Bur
rows and DIR. P. wanted to see new mem
bers. Sequitur sc.
Parish C. Furman, the Georgia far
mer who won fame by making 4 bales OF
cotton per acre, died suddenly on Sat
urday. The Georgia papers speak OF his
death as q State affection.
After giving gratuitous and often
repeated, advertising for our Asheville
friends, during fifteen years past,--it is
gratifying to learn that last week town
lots in the little burg sold for $4,000 per
acre, and not ON the main streets.
The Raleigh friends OF Mrs. Anna
Saunders Bacot, of louisiana are pleas
ed to hear pleasant accounts from her
new home. Mr.. Bacot has the finest
crop in the vicinity, and ia harvesting
above one hundred bales of cotton.
Another Greensboro man is missing
this morning. Whether he has gone in
search of Sells circus or to get married
is amystery.-Pdtriot.
Isn't it .'sell'' and '~'circus' either
way!
An advertisement in the New York
Herald recommends Q Fl Riotthh ePsy6ooddvr
Society of that latitude. whose chief
attribute is to spend money and use pro-
fame language.
-Abram Connolly. aged 50. a rock
mason. had been on a spree. Sitting
down to dinner. he took two bites and
tell over dead before any n could
catch him. We learn from Charlotte
Obsereer. Such occurrences must spoil
the appetite of the others in the VIC
tualing party.
Heaps of curious Happenings now a.
days. Mrs. J. G. Sossamon. of Cabar-
rus. carried her baby to Rocky River
church to be baptized. As she and her
husband were driving home, the buggy
wheel dropped into a rut in the road, and
she was thrown out. The babes skull
was broken, killing it, as We learn from
Charlotte Observer. A sad ending for a
bright Sunday,
Thanks to the young gentlemen of
Raleigh, Literary and Debating Society.
for election to Honorary membership
therein. They have shown their annre.
cation OF the sw Get side of Humanity by
inviting their lady friends to attend the
meetings one evening in the month. On
Friday night, there was a large turnou,
OF the fair ones, and the electricity of
youth, beauty and mirth brought down
the house. Qikewlse the plaster in the
room below repeatedly.
Amid all the frolicking and iupket.
ing at Boston 1t is to be hoped our North
Carolina Fairs will not be entirely for
The State Fair opens Tues.
day Oct le. Some Sc, 200 in premiums
will be given. The FIVE best bales Of
cotton will get $40, $40, $50. $40. $50.
besides specials, of one, two. and three
tons OF guano. The society gives $40,
w. $50 for the three largest yields Of
cotton per acre, from ) acres. Tobacco
$50 ZACH on Bright Leaf and Shippipx.
" neat $50 and $40. Corn $40, $50 and
$50. besides specials; And az on
through the list. We get no paw for adj
vertising the Fair year after year. there
lore cannot go into details. The day will
come when our Fairs will all advertise
even if only a simple announcement card
and this will enable the press to sneak
more frequently and extensively Of tho
The Chiefs of the several Departments
the State Fair seem to have been we'll
selected as follows +: Dept. A.,-Farm and
arden crops, Rufus H. Jones, ESQ.
Dept B,-Live Stock,-Msj. j. NJ.
.renshaw Dept. e, -Poultry-Wm. G.
pchurch, Esq !; Dept. d, -Orchard and
Flowers, Col Walter l.. Steele. Secr'y.
APT. 1. 9. Williams, Field Marshal
nal NJ. Worth, and enough good looking
young assistants to make the girls dream
OF sugar-kisses, sashes, mustashes, dudes.
danclng, and green apple pies for months
Glad to see q move to have the streets
sprinkled during Fair week. It would
also be well to publish a list of families
who will furnish meals or beds. We have
known men to come on one train. and
return the next, because they could not
afford to pay % a day.