The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-14
All Growing Except North caro-
lima!

All Growing Except North Caro-
lima!
Braistreersjournai the great huaneial
~repor,er for American Business heu'
recently sent cut an inquiry to It's cores
pondents all over the South. asking them
to investigate the hnancial condition oil
| Southern farmers as compared win pre-
vious years" There we're $40 repliesi
Of whom 1:1 correspondents reported
the farmers getting along about a. u>u
Al" aud l23 reported the farmers to be
falling behind
After carefully considering these re
ports. the editor of Brddstreets says =
We are convinced that q distinct lm
provemeut has been effected with respeci
10 the financial condition of the Southern
planters Much has been written OF lat"
| about Mississippi, but our returns froEi
81 cut Of the 10 cotton counties OF TN"
State show that an improvement has
been effected even there. an improre-
ment - reportea ~ ereTy State sdre North
Cardinal"
Now that is too bad! Can it be true
that our grand old North State, which
grows everything in creation. and has
more Woodworking white men than any
other southern State (deny it who can y
is really falling back, when "all OTHER
States" not excepting swampy Florida
and fever-smitten Mississippi. and
rowdy-cursed Arkansas. are advancing :
What State has d better climate: Or
a better soil: Or cheaper lands: Or
better location for reaching the North
ern markets, or the seaports of Norfolk,
Wilmington, and CharlestoE2 What
States has SO much timber, or SO many
magnificent waterfalls, awaiting man
~utactories: In short, what State has
been 50 favored by Nature, as a seat Of
Empire and Prosperity?
Well. then. if all are prospecting Eek
cept North Carolina" does it not look
like a good time for the ~office-holders,
and R~ailroaders. and politicians to cease
abusing the Farmer and Mechanic, and
got o work to try to remedy matters?
The CLERGY.-The Church Nesseaye.
says the widely printed report about
Bishop Lyman's $50, 600 gift is untrue;
that lie had too much good taste TO
court notoriety in that fashion. -The
Division of the Diocese" question is
likely TO cause quite a str at the Epis-
copal State c%onventlon, at Charlotte.
, An article, ofRev. DR.. Marshall. iavoring
division, W 5 printed IN the Messenger
recently.-Prof. Latimer, Of David
: son College, has accepted a call to : d
t Presbyterian church at Memphis. THIS
is the pulpit recently vacated by Rev.
5 John NJ. Rose, who has entered upon q
t new charge at Goldsboro. Rev Theo.
Whitfield has taken the Baptist church
in same town.-Dr. Pritchard's daugh.
ter, Mrs. jenkins, created considerable
= sensation, when She sang a solo in the
:. Louisvi lie church; and, by the by. Mrs.
E w. G. NJ, Ryan. OF Charlotte, has done
the same thing in jacksonville, Florida.
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TABOR In another column we
remark upon the acknowledgements OF
' the new Colorado Senator, who bought
!, his way into the Senate (for a two
weeks term. in order to make a big
"splurge' in Washington. He has now
''done it sum more" Being tired OF
the partner of his poorer days, (betore
he ..struck it rich" in a sand bank he
bought Eer oti'' $50 the Western pa
pers say tor = quarter of a million dol
lars. and las now (four weeks after his
e d~ivorce) married an aspiring Oshkosh
[ widow. whose steers have hardly
: ceased to trickle down her delicate nasal
= organ or guitar, lutte, flute, or what not.
o Some persons may think this language
rude; but we imagine that a girl OF
: 20 who, while still wearing funeral Grape
for her first husband, takes another,
three times her age, and fresh from the
e bed of a divorced wife. cannot care
what is said about her especially as
1 her daddy came along to make sure that
L Tabor's dollars are well tied up in her
5 favor. Tabor bought si~ night-shirtS at
: $3.50 a piece. 81, 800 fol The h~alf-lozen,
the day before the wedding. Coal Oil
). Johnny died of poverty.
!. Mr.. j. r. Randall, in his last very
: graphic and interesting letter in the
e Augusta Chronicle. describing the closing
scenes il. the Senate thus photographs
Tabor:
MIR. Tabor, after having gone the
rounds of his associates begging for
. their autographs-much to their disgust
stretched himself in a chair aad soon
: dozed off with his shaggy head thrown
back and caverpous mouth wide open.
He looked like some hideous monster
' washed ashore from some convulsed
: sea. He will step down and out to-
day as the most despised creature that
ever disgraced the American Senate
e senators must have been proud to
5 have presented their distinguished auto
graphs in Tabor's red-bound book as
they did so, he called frequent attention
to his bride smiling from the gallery,
until the whole Senate became aware OF
r her presence. President Arthur attend.
: ed the marriage and Mr.. Randall a y
e made a prominent exhibition of him.
e self"
t Col. K. Nj. Douglas, the outgoing
marshal, thinks the President is making
n great mistake i'm displaciDu him The