The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-07

Alexander Creech, Esq, has put
an handsome front on his spacious
store. And he has a clever set of gen.
tlemen to welcome purchasers.
We beg to be excused for the wretch
ed printing last week. Having to hire
our press-work, We rarely can get it
properly done.
Gov. Jarvis has appointed Mr.. Mid
Leach and Mr.. Henry II. Bryan, OF
Newbern. to ill the vacancies on the
penitentiary Board.
The Legislative per diem (%2I0)
ends March 4th. and the brethren viii
march forth soon afterward.
las-A New Home given away! The
next issue of the Edrmer and Mechanic
will the fortunate family,
among our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., which
wins the goo Premium, New HOME
Sewing Machine, etc.
Senator Evans is very ill.
DIR. Sexton and Mr.. J.. S. Pcscud are
quite sick. Mr.. w. w. White has been
very ill, but is better. Miss Rosahella
Englehard WAS quite sick, Mrs. Gen.
Roberts also.
Capt. John Patrick, of Arson call
ed on Monday. lie has been negotia-
ting for $4,000 acre sale of swamp
lands to Northern parties for a Gram
berry farm. On some account they
failed to arrive.
There are single farmers in Eastern
y. c. who pay more tax than all the
people in whole counties west of the
Blue Ridge, yet the Railway demands
of some of these counties have kept the
State in hot water for a quarter of a
century.
lG-As soon as the Representative Wis
dom of the State has disbanded, dissolv-
ed, and dispersed to its several places
of abode, small matters can have an
hearing, and we shall relapse into our
old practice of giving the News, all the
News, and little else than the News
and there's bushels of it floating round.
Jessie" Dixie" .'Of the Rail-
road Farmer. and four of five other
very readable articles are ON file for
next week. The adjournment of the
Po~liticioners will enable US to transfer
the "Household Department. to the in
terror pages; Sc that communications
may appear the same week they come
to hand.
Alex. I'll. Stephens, of Georgia.
closed his long career at three o'clock on
Sunday morning. 1t would require col
umns of type to narrate his life and
public services, but there is DO need
to mention them; for in these days the
papers keep the lives of public men as
well known to the masses as to the few,
and obituaries are a nuisance .--Col
Harry Gilmor, the noted cavalry chief,
died of cancer, yesterday.
The fight to pull Senator z. B.
Vance out of his Senatorial seat has al.
ready begun. But you recollect that
Zebulon of old belonged to the Tribe of
Napthali," and Naptha is a very sticky
substance, and our Tar Heel Feb ought
to know how to stick, even tho all
the engines of the Richmond & Dam
ville's 20 leased lines were pulling at the
seat of his breeches, and the Capt. toline
aspirant sanding the track.
1t is rumored that the Republicans,
represented by L. 5. Attorney Jas. f.
Boyd, Z. s. Marshall Keogh, and Col.
j. j. Mott tall of whom were in Raleigh
last week nave had an understanding
with the Railroads, and trat Interesting
political developments may turn upon
the Legislative vote.
Another rich s~hoddycrat has turned
up in Washington. Tabor the new
Senator. sO-called, from Colorado. who
has figured i'll so many scandals. and is
known to have openly bought his way
into the Senate, gave a grand BLOW
Out in Washington to show the COM
mon people how he could squander
greenbacks, and green ideas. The
flowers alone cost 1000. There were
II kinds of costly wine. Sherman. and
Ring Robson, McDill and Morrill,.
keiter and Cockerell. Plumb and Saw
yer, Calkins and Chatfee, and others
were the invited guests. Meantime the
papers report cases of STARVATION in
Washington, Baltimore. PHILADELPHIA.
and New York. that same day
One of our warm friends wiitc.,-
The Machine are raising Heaven and
earth to defeat you en The A :ricultural
Department place This shows that a
false report, OF impression, has been dis
seminated, probably to do the dou, lc pur-
pose Of damaging us, and helping the "old
crowd" We rise to upset that Calcutta
ton. We do not want, nor would have
any place connected with the Departs
ment. We have no friend who wants,
or would have $50 far as we know any
such place. We have not been figh inS
the present Beard, nor present en-
ployees. and We don't care a pinch of
saw-dust what becomes of the COZ Germ.
All we have said was in the interest of
the people of North Carolina. Messrs.
McGehee, Wilson, Battle, Hol-, E.anS,
Kerr, ct al, are respectable gentlemen,
and we have nothing against them, ex
cept that they make the Department what
the Ashevllle Citizen terms IAN appen-
dage of the Governors Office" or IAN
annex of the University"