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Mrs. Holland. of BrOOkbaven, aged 60.
committed suicide by taking stryehuins.
The Southern herald., 1883-07-21

A great many psOple feel themselves grad
ually failing. They don't know just what
is the matter. but they suffer from . eOmbi,
nation Of iDdsscribabIs aches and pains,
which each month seem to grow worse. The
only sure remedy known that viii ccuuteract
this feeling snd restore perfect health is
Browns Iron Bitisrs. BY rapid assimilation
II purifiss the blood, drives out disease. gives
health and strength to every portion rsaehsd
by the eirculaiory system. rensws wasted
tissues and restores robust health aud
strength.
The Southern herald., 1883-07-21

certify he foregoing IS a true copy Of iho
petition of III p Bates, and The names thereto. s.
filed with the Board Of Mayor and Aldermen tbs
day, July 18th, 1883
WE RATF0RD. Clerk
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
What a Differences! Draining
North Carolina!

The rush of people out of North Car
DINA still goes on ! Last week a single
train took away seven persons from Raj
eigh to settle in Texas. Mr.. s. NJ.
Iuman, the well known capitalist, (of
New York and Atlanta says:-"Texas
now has 81, 900, 600 In the treasury. and
has no use for it. The last Governor
actually used part of the treasury sur
plus il buying up not-due State bonds
al $40. The of the State are
enormous and constantly growing. Very
few Of the cities owe any debt Of conse-
auence. The immigration to the State
is heavier now than ever in its history,
a great many of the arrivals being r.
eigners.'
Why is :his? Simply because the
Texas Board of Immigration is push
ing its advertisements. The Farmer and
Mechanic has had a $40 advertisement
from the Texas Land Commission every
year for several years past. The same
card, entitled ''Cheap Homes an Teras,"
can be seen In nearly all our State pa
pers.
The North Carolina Depa rtment in
stead Of encouraging the CO operation Of
the press, by giving occasional advertise
ments, actually got the State press to
''deadhead" its publications for several
years, until one by one the editors
dropped off in disgust.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07

Will. sSTAR" OUTLINES. Total net
receipts of cotton since September, A.
321,6 39 bales.-Business failures for
the week number 3O5 /; Southern States
7s.--A panic was caused in a wool
factory at Bombay, India, by an alarm
of fire, and twenty-three persons were
crushed to death in struggling to es-
cape.-A heavy gale prevails around
the British coast; two vessels wrecked
on the Isle of Man and crews drowned,
and a steamer and two other vessels
lost on Sunday Island, with all ON
board a gunboat with stores for the
starving on Innismurray Island was un-
able to reach the island.-Represen-
tative Smith, of Selma, is asked to take
charge of the Treasury of Alabama the
Governor suggests a reward Of $4,000
for the arrest Of Vincent.-Two
Cinnamon who opened a store at Way
nesborO, Ga, were driven out of the
neighborhoOd.-Gen. Pope has been
ordered to prevent Capt. Payne and his
followers from entering Indian Terri
tory.--Appropriations for the exec
utive, legislative and judicial depart
ments of the government aggregate
$40, 1913, 600, about as. 1000 more than
the amount last year.-3OO bales of
cotton burned near Terry, Miss.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
For the Farmer and Mechanic.
From the Far North.

A much esteemed friend sent me q
copy of the Farmer and Mechanic, in
which l find a few of the old familiar
non de planes whose pleasing letter,
added many "a charm to the Columns
of the ''Sunny South"
The magnetism of one of them drew
me to Atlanta, Ga, and now the S me
attraction draws me to Raleigh, n. G.
Ye Sage Neutrality-suspicious. and learned
psychologists. O! tell me why kindred
spirits are thus drawn to each other ?
Strangers, a thousand miles apart, who
never were in each others country,
never saw the likeness of each other;
ignorant, it may be of each others age
and sex, and yet through their trans
mitted thoughts on paper be led to es-
TEEN and prize each other? Perhaps We
cannot tell the cause. In this, like many
other things, we see and feel the effects
but cannot tell the which produced
them. But hold! l must not get out
of my depth. If could say anything to
cheer the Farmer and Mechanic, it would
be more in keeping alive the spirit of
this journal than the mystical Science of
metaphysics.
The farmer ranks prominently the
highest of the b~enefactors Of man
kind. He provides our principal food.
But while he dOes so, he is indebted to
the mechanic for the agricultural nipple
ments he uses in the cultivation of the
soil. And though the fruits of the field
be the great essential stuff of life vet
without the mechanic we would be des-
titute of the comforts, not to say the
luXuries OF life.
The prosperity of any country chiefly
depends upon the industry, OF the intel
ligent farmer. If the soil be fertile so
much the better, but no matter how
rich the soil it requires cultivation and
the care and judicious management Of
the skilled farmer in order to make it
yield its strength. The intelligent far
mer knows the adaptation of each field
to the growth of the most suitable and
most renumerative crops, and SO plants
accordingly. 1t is necessary that he
knows the constituents of each plant
and the adaptation of the soil TO it's
growth. He should also study the uses
and proper application of manures, the
dlsintegration of the soil and every other
thing required in profitable farming.
There should be a rotation of crops.
Cereals require Il nutriment not needed
by tubers or bulbs. And after a few wears
of rotation the land should have a rest.
After a crop of hay to be used as pasture
for two or three years. All arabic lands
may be greatly improved by judicious
cultivation. shallow soils deepened and
poor land enriched with In
telligent industry is never lost OH the
fariu.
1t is true that the great Benefcient
Creator has promised seed time and har-
vest, and we must get the sunshine and
shower else our efforts will be vain.
But it is the duty of the farmer to SOW
in time, to watch and care for his crop
and then to reap it in due season. They
who neglect these duties suffer for II.
But Mcore dnotre .fois. Anita | hope
to see you often in print.
VERITAS.
Box "A, p. O. st. Rochs. Quebec.
Canada.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
A Lively Session., and Some Plain
Speaking by mon who Have
No Axes to Grind!

Yesterday Senator Farmer. of Will
| son, introduced a bill in the Senate to
| change the organization of the Board OF
| Agriculture. 1t provides that it shall
be composed of one member from each
| Congressional District, to be elected by
the Legislature. Last night the matter
| was discussed at considerable length.
Col. Polk, by invitation, was there, and
repeated with emphasis his opinion that
| such a change should be made, and read
his letter that he published soon after
his resignation, in which he set forth this
view. Col. Holt, a member of the
Board, and Commissioner McGehee, ar
gued against the change. Senator John
| son wanted more fruits from the Board.
Senator Pemberton was anxious to make
the change-his section of the State was
not represented. hence it was neglected.
Argued that the Governor, the State
Geologist. and the President of the
University, were out of place on the
| Board. Mr.. Bennett wanted it made a
practical, working body. Said that Gov.
Jarvis in 1881 promised the Legislalur e
in his message that Prof. Kerr's map
aud second volume of the Geological
Report should be before that body be-
fore it adjourned. That four years had
elapsed since Prof. Kerr was appointed
to finish the work, and now at this ses-
sion the Governor came forward and
said that Mr.. Kerr had resigned, and
the book not yet finished. What had
become of the $4,000 to $4,000 that
had been taken from the department
by Prot. Kerr? DR.. Myers, of Neck
lenburg, took strong ground for the
change, and thought there were other
patriots than those on the Board, and
that it were well to have all parts of the
State represented.
We agree with these sentiments in
the main. While not Directing to the
present Board individually, we think
that it has had a iair trial, and if it be
continued for three years longer Gas it
must be if the Legislature does not act
at this term), it would be as well to turn
the whole Department over to Jarvis.
The discussion brought out the fact
that there are some men in this Legisla-
ture who are far from being satisfied
with the present working of the Board,
and that they intend to have a change.
The people want light. Gentleman, let
them have it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
a North Carolina Monopoly
1aTiH.

-" We don't care, zee n~sangfdcfhrers
| don't care, for the $500 tax or Feruii-
zers,'-eaid the State Agent, (who is
also one of the proprietors of Fertile
ger Factory at Norfolk, Virginia,-"we
wouldn't if the tax was $4,000. 1t re-
stricts the business to a fer, and as we
are among the fec. and l have a wide
connection in this State, you see how II
works. We need only add so cents a
ton to re-coup the tax whereas II any
new dealers were to try to get business
in North Carolina they would have to
put high price on their Fertilizers until
they got enough business to divide the
tax as we do into a small sum on each
farmer"
You admit. then. that the tax ONE
| off the farmer and that it is a kind OF
Tariff, benefitting the big dealers by
| crowding out the smaller ones, and pre-
! venting new ones from trying to sell to
our farmers?'
Eyes, that is the effect. You see the
Law requires a fee of $500. 90 from every
Fertilizer company, no matter whether
that company sells so tons or 500 tons.
The big companies, who have been do
| ing business in the State for twenty
years, easily pay the tax. Some OF
them sell 5000 tons /; so that ten cents
out of each farmers pocket pays their
| $500 for them. But a new company
just starting in business might hare the
| finest fertilizer eper iarented, yetnot sell
so tons the first year. OF course the
$500 tax would be very heavy on them.
But in fact the Law is very unjust.
The same tax of $500 is exacted from
every company, not only regardless of
the amount it sells, but also without
regard TO the quality OF price of its
wares. Some Fertilizers sell for s25
per ton, and some for $50; yet all pay
alike, so that this tends to keep up the
price %
"How is it in other States -
swell, Maryland, Virginia, South
Carolina, and in fact all other States so
far as l know, charge so-much per ton,
or such a per cent on the total raiue Of
the sales; which is fair and equitable.
The North Carolina law is simply a
Protective Tariff to drive out the small
dealers, and give the big dealers a Mo-
nopoly."
You think, then, that Senator Vance
and the others who are fighting Tariff
monopolies, and the impositions con-
trived to benefit a few Yankees and Out
siders at the expense of the Farmers of
North Carolina ought to turn their guns
on the Evils nearer home?''
Yes, the Law as originally framed
was shrewdly drawn to encourage the
sale of Chemicals and the making of
Home Composts.'' You ask Capt.
Dick Saunders and others who were in
Raleigh when the act creating the De-
partment vas put through. But the
action of your Board is to make the
Law protect the manipulators of fertili-
zers, and drive out the chemical and
hOme-cOmpOst" Dealers"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
Col. Robinson to Col.
Stand From Under ye Hun
seYs of Railroads!

Col. VIM. Johnston, late Coalition can'
didate for Congress in the Charlotte %
sezrsr District, wrote an article for Col.
Waddell's paper warning the Legislative
saees to beware how they meddle with
corporated capital. etc. President John
| NJ. Robinson, of the Bay Line, the Sea-
board & Roanoke, Raleigh & CASTOR,
Raleigh & Augusta, and Carolina Cen
trail Railroads, writes to Col. Johnston
(who is an ex-Railroad President, and
Gov. Jarvis appointee on the Board OF
Internal improvements as follows:
BALTIMORE. Jan. 81, 1888
My DEAR SIR:-i have read your ar
| t;cle published in the Charlotte Journal
| with much interest. l note you made
use of a statement | made to you the
other day, and am very glad you did So
| have asked our people to try TO have
| your article published in the other pa
| pers. | wish your name could be given
10 it. 1t would carry weight.
The action Of the South Carolina Leg
islature, and the contemplated action OF
the North Carolina Legisture has taught
me a lesson.
| don't anu one wth rkom Ihdre con
~nection, could be induced to put another
dollar in Railroads, either m North Car
DINA, or South Carolina. o IN fact any
,chere IN this country without substantial
guarantee, that our rights to property
would be protected.
This business of people trying to hunt
Railroads as if they were public enemies,
must put a stop to all progress. You
are at perfect liberty to make use of this
letter in any way you see fit.
| am very truly yours.
JOHN NJ. R~"BINsoN,
We ~italicise part of the letter in order
to add this remark hat while Mr.. Rob
insous Railroads may have done much to
develope North Carolina, yet the State
managed to exist before Railroads were
invented; and we have yet to see the
first Railroad man. or any other man.
who spent money for the benefit Of the
public! When Col. Robinson put money
in North Carolina Railways, he did it to
benefit has 10 pocket, not to benefit the
State. Moreover he is sensible enough
to know hat any public policy which
helps to up-build the State will eventual
ly help him for of course the soDuer
North Carolina becomes thickly settled,
and prosperous the sooner the Railroads
will prosper.
We make these remarks on general pin
ciples, and not in hostility to Robinson's
or any other Railroad. We know that
Southern Roads labor under great disad-
vantages, and need all possible forbear-
ance on the part of the public. But there
are two sides to almost every question.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07

WILMINGToN STAR GL1NTs.-Brant-
ford, Ontario, has a scandal. 1t is all
about Rev. T. r. Beattie, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church. He and his
wife are not harmonious. and 4 pretty
Miss Leishsman lived in the family. As
Dorsey Battle said: Then the trouble
began. "-Th Weldon Neaus saws the
Hon Mark Alexander lost his property bv
the fortunes of war but he now lives with
his son-in-law, Norfeet Smith, ESQ.
in Scotland Neck, Halifax county. About
= year ago he broke his hip and has since
been almost helpless. THE Lepisla-
tors did not like something brother
Creepy, of the Elizabeth City Economist,
said, and a resolution of censure was in
troduced in the House. We did not see
what the editor wrote. But here is a
warning to all editors, we suppose Take
care how you c~riticise the votes of the
Solons.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
For the Farmer and Mechanic.
EnRy-an Justice.

Blind Justice on the Court House stands,
With sword and scale encountered
hands;
So all who 1 er regard would win,
Should stay without, not 60 within.
A better pedestal by far
Were on the bench, before the bar,
But lawyers had so little wit,
AS never once to think of it!
EPI GRAMO.
(NOTE:-''If the Court know itself,
and it thinks it do,'-here is a chance
for the Lawyers to ''strike the tuneful
Tyre" in response. Be it remembered
however that 'Brevity is the soul OF
wit.-ED. F. s. NJ.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07

Now, as a staunch consistent voter.
viewing matters from q farmers stand
point, ten miles distant from the county
seat, and fifty from the capitol, we un-
dertake TO answer that courthouse
rings, political rings in and around Raj
elgh, OF which Gov. Jarvis has been, and
is now, the head and front. has well
nigh caused the overthrow of the Demo-
cratic party in n. c. Had not a politi-
cal revolution taken place in the North.
or the Republican party been united in
n. Z. he Democratic party would have
sustained a Waterloo defeat. Even
with disruption within the Republican
party in the North and in our own
State, our party barely did escape de-
feat. 1t now certainly behooves those
who are elected to our Legislature to az
quit themselves like men and patriots.
Ihey have very grave and important
duties to perform. 1t yetremains to be
seen whether our Legislators are ON
Petent TO the duties incumbent mon
them.-Capt- B.. +. ". in Durham Re-
corder.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07

The resignation of Prot. Kerr, and
hat of w. B. Philips Ito run a Guanc
factory leaves the State Geological Sur.
vey in charge of Mr.. rhos. c. Harris,
who was recently reappointed, after con.
siderable current talk about his displace.
ment. The question now is,-How shall
the vacancy On the Board of Agriculture
be filled? Better change the Act, and
remodel the Department. By the presen,
Law, the Board is composed of the Gov
ernor "a lawyer, who is Chairman, (the
President of the University (also a law
yer by education). President of the Agri-
cultural Society (Col. Thos. NJ. Holt; a
member of the Legislature), Master OF
the State Grange Ia secret Society, and
the State Geologist. These five select
the two farmer members (of the
Farmers Department., viz. Capt
JAS. r. Thigpen and Maj. Jonathan
Evans. The present Board is composed
of men of character but it may undergo
changes in brief period. Suppose the
Radicals take charge next year, as is very
probable that they will?
A correspondent of Wadesboro Times
says:
"The defects in this plan are shown IN
the present composition of the Board.
The " farmers chosen were Capt.
Thigpcn and Major Evans. both very In
telligent gentlemen, but both are from
the Eastern or cotton secttOn. At the time
of their election the Master of the State
Grange was Capt. S. B. Alexander of
Mecklenhurg, but now the Master is a
gentleman from Pitt county. Again, the
State Geologist is empowered to vote on
his duties, his expenditures, &C., &C.,
as a member of the Board. Now while
the Department should moi legislate for
sections of our State az sections; vet it
should be thoroughly informed as to the
various wants and necessities of the West,
as we'll as the East. 1t now has three
farmers from Eastern North Carolina
and only one (Col. Holt) lves Vest of
Raleigh. Mr.. Benefits idea is that in
stead of having the members Of the
Board chosen as at present and coming
from those positions, some of which have
nothing to do with farming, they should
come directly from the leading industries
of our people-such as farming, fruit
growing, manufacturing. stock growing,
the naval store and fish interest, mining,
and one perhaps to represent the grain,
one the tobacco, and one the cotton sec
tiOns. This plan would be infinitely bet
ter than the present one for many and
obvious reasons"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07

SHODDY-OCRACY. Mr.. WinstOn's
article on the three Epoch's Of Ameri-
can Republicanism is philosophic and
worthy of reflective perusal. 1t is GER
tainly true that the growth of specula-
tive wealth, and the power of that
wealth, daily shocks not only the sense
of propriety and %decency, but the spirit
of justice and patriotism as well.
Last week we gave two items side by
side one described a Shoddy ball at
Philadelphia wherein one lady-nay,
one woman !-wore $4,000 worth OF
diamonds, and about $40, 900 of other
dress materials,-and was fashionably
half-undressed at that! In Trenton, 10
miles distant, a man committed suicide,
after vainly begging a mouthful of food
We append an article from the Star as
follows:-
1.-The Goldfish aristOcracy are having a
glorious time of it. They are so rich
that they Guido royalty itself. The fol-
lowing from the New York letter in the
Philadelphia Ledger contains a glimpse
at the New York upper-ten:
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepherd, formerly
Miss Vanderbilt, entertained a party of
twelve at a dinner, where the perfection
of appointments and the novelty of or
namentation were only equalled by the
display of dress and jewels among the
ladies present. The table was round,
and, with the exception of narrow
margin for plates and glasses, was en-
bedded with red carnations. The dress
worn b. Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Depew on
this occasion was of white satin, heavily
embroidered with gold, with butterflies
of rubbies and sapphirss scattered over
the 'front.'"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07

YOUNG MEN Our OF WORK-do YOU
want employment? Here is Q chance Il
make good pay, and see the country in
this pleasant season of the year. MI. w.
p. Hendon, the General Manager of the
Wheeler 4 Wilson Sewing Machine
Agency, at Raleigh, wants five or six
active and wide-awake men to travel fol-
fifty miles around the capital. They viii
be furnished q wagon, harness, machines.
&c.
The Improved Wheeler & Wilson sell
rapidly. Very little effort to introduce
it has heretofore been made in this re.
gion but the company nov means to lei
the public compare it with all others
Write, OF call on, w. p. HENDoN,
Raleigh, N. G
Sales Rooms at Madame Blossoms, op-
posite Express Office. Ladies invited to
call and see it at work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
FOR The Farmer and

kINGwooD \. C., Jan. %
An old gentleman. Mr.. G u
living / n this section, and ahor, NJkss
sheep raiser around, inform we ou.s
terday that n day hast wegk NE @
got among his flock, and from 'e
they killed, scattered. and dn
until now he has only eishteon Vye.
l saw several of his fine sbec,-r
and frightened. runnin. ever & '''oi7
try, and could but agree with VI '4a-
of the Legislature, IF memhsra SIT
more of their duty aud less rs Ni'e
", 1t would be better Tor the
Mr.. Sykes in past twenty Year.
sheep enough TO outweigh in ra1a "'
erv worthless canine In IL tF-
Let something be done "a nrn,. unity
hus bandry. even If Gov. .iary..s
mention this important sub,s.. -, .a,
message. He was too mnr6 49, ' Els
il Railroad { rcles,and larrer ,rsa
il Is OF interest to the people urT.-
less.
Weather continues chaugeabIs
night the rolling thunder and ,.y.3 ,-''
ming reminded one OF sprin, or
while n few hours before il yy,.
midwinter. Pneumonia prevail.
George Branch and MIR. Cru
Branch, brothers, of Enfield.
past week. and learn Nj. A. H.
their brother, (ot WILSON, drt
week-last fall their brother. Nj
Branch, died, making four hrorI,-
die in a short while. They No..
clever gentlemen, and viii be grs,.
missed.
Your War Reminiscenccs are I.g,..
interesting. Continue them. ~Br 49,,
diverted from your duty by auyi1r.
Elections the silly world may max r.
you, for their censures are not I'M
power. and consequently should u,t
a part OF your concern" is a good mat.
10. G.. l.. N
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07

DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription"
perfectly and permanently cures those
diseases peculiar to females. 1t is tonic
and nervine. efectually allaying and cur
ing those sickening sensations that af.
feet the stomach and heart through re-
fex action. The back-ache, and drag.
ging-down" sensations all disappear un.
der the Strengthening effects of this
great restorative. By druggists.