The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-31
The clamor about the curtains to

Matt Atkinson for Postmaster at Ashe-
vile. Glad he got it he needed it.
-"Gone to the ogs!'-the "Sheep
Husbandry" movement in North caro-
lima. p. S.-The Sheepare nightly TAX
ing the same course.
Gen. w. r. Cox contributed 500
for the relief of the Raleigh poor ana
J. L. Stones Sewing Machine store gave
the use of six machines for the same
charity.
"A pleasant call from Judge A. I.
Avery who has been spending the week
in the CITY. warmly greeted by many
friends.
-.'Retrenchment," if not reform, !"
is the order of the day along the K. 4
d. r. R. The car record office at
Charlotte has been abolished; six clerks
step down and out.
Mayor of Oxford, S. A. Goodwin,
while attending a public concert, fell
over. and died instantly. Il Will see
you to-morrow!"-were his last words.
His body did not cool for several days.
1t was buried Sunday.
The BaltmOreda contains a poem
by Miss Mamie L. Ha.chett, (about
whom the fatal duel was fought last year
in Virginia) and also ''Homel Sweet
Homel'-On the Rappahanock,- by
Cecil Alton, DR.. Z. w. Pugh, of
Windsor, BERTHE county, n. G.
Gen. w. r. Cox will have a pleas
ant party of gentlemen friends to break
fast with him at the Marlborough this
morning at 81 O'Clock. Senators Ran
som, Lamar, and a number OF members
OF the House are expected. Thanks,
General, and many good wishes!
The communication from Robson
relative to a difficulty during the war
between Gen. NJ. W. Ransom and Mr..
NJ. j. McSween, the well-known editor,
came too late to affect the object for
which it appears to have been written,
and as the latter gentleman is dead, it
would be better we think, for all con-
cerned, to let it go.
Raleigh is more crowded by Lob
by"-ists at the present time than we
have ever seen it before. If the Repub-
licans had really wide-awake and fear
less paper here, such as Gov. Holden
used to run, and if the leading Republi-
were not themselves ready to
catch on, and tote their end" of Lobby
schemes, both in, and out Of, the AS
sembly, there would be lively reading in
the Raleigh mail bags.
Raleigh colored ''chillun" are keep
ing within doors these nights, you betl
Last week a report gained wide credence
that a gang of Doctors, with''injun rubber
and hog-sticker knives, are in the
city, and nightly prowling on the dark
streets to grab up stray darkeys aud tote
them off to parts unknown, to chop their
skins in pieces, and boil them for
The scare is so general that
few of the negro women will venture to
church after night and those who do go
are very careful to go in gangs carrying
clubs, and dodge past any suspicious
stranger on the sidewalk. We
suppose the story originated as the echo
of the trials of the grave robbers at
and Philadelphia.
One of the neatest and handsomest
we have seen in years. is the en-
graved invitation of the 18th Anniver-
of the "Philo'' and ''Euzelian'; So
of Wake Forest College. Friday.
Feb 16, proxi.no. 1t is really an work
of art, and shows how the science of
fine Typography is advancing. Public
Debate at . p. NJ: G. C.. Briggs. Pres:
IL. T. Markham, Sec. Question-"Re-
solved that Foreign immigration ought
be Prohibited l.. L. jenkins. w.
f. Marshall, in the Affirmative: d. NJ.
Austin, III. b. Folk, Negative. Phi
orator:-E. S. Alderman. En- orator.
Ihos. Dixon. Marshals, Chas. L. Smith. |
\. S. Jones, W. E. Wooten, Philos: A..
Redfearn, Len. G. Broughton. A. ].
Euzelians.
The day is coming when nearly all
letters will be te~legraphed.
Within ten years the price of telegraphy
will be reduced to one cent per word. for !
every hundred miles. Already you can
send a ten-word message in any part of
New England and New York, to any
other part, for 2! cents a word. You
can send a message of ten words from
Galveston, Texas, to London.-six
miles, in one hours time
for %. The leading Northern Dailies
have three or four columns telegraphed
across the ocean every night; and often
they have an equal amount telegraphed
from California, Oregon, Dakota, and
southwest; thus stretching one OF
the ears of the 5000 miles TO-
wards the East, and the other ear 8, 1000
miles towards the West; to collect to-
night, while you are in your bed, the
news which happened in W worlds to
day;-and all for five cents a copy!
-Caswell is a good name, and Point
easWeil continues to come to the front
note from Capt. r. p. Paddison brings
the pleasing intelligence that the Survey
the Clinton r. r. begins to-day. AS
as Is miles have been located
an advertisement for Contractors to build
tie Road will be published, and the
work pushed vigorously to completion.
Tho Point fo L. r.