The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-18
Ten. Tom Thumb is dead.

Mfr. II. b. Albertson, formerly OF
Raleigh, has gone to Washington Ter
ritory to live.
DR.. Jack Watkins will remove from
Henderson to Durham to deal in tobac-
co. we hear.
Hon. Walter Pool, NJ. C., from the
Ist Dist, is improving. il is said. He is
Al Hot Springs.
Mr.. W. Cary Norris has withdrawn
from the firm of Parker & Avera, who
will continue a cotton-brokerage busi-
ness.
The past three days have been UNI
usually oppressive--even Tor mld-sum-
mer-in Raleigh. The heat at times
seemed sitting.
They rave arrived. Butsts Best
garden Seed Turnips Of all sizes, aud
low prices. The place is easy to lind,
Pescud, Lee & Cos Drug stores.
-Margie, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. F. Craig, of Marion, was buried
Monday afternoon from the residence
of z. f. Pescud, Esq.
Big Reunion of ex-Contedera;cs III
Warrenton, August 10th. several
thousand people expected to attend,
and numerous speakers.
We notice in the Western papers
that DIR. f o. Elliott & Son, Of Spark
ling Catawba Springs, have a iarge and
fashionable list of guests. People
bound for the mountains ought tn stop a
couple of days at the 'Sparkiing.'
The city of Wilmington having
made overtures to the State Fruit Assoc
citation, it was decided to hold the An
nual Fair in the City Hall, of that city,
Aug. 22nd and Ord prox. Capt. II. +.
Paddison, of Point Caswell, is Presi-
dent, and will make it a success.
Carriages and excursions ran all
day, and till midnight on Sunday. car
rying people to the biz colored camp
meeting in West Raleigh. In this con-
nection we will merely mention that Oh
Saturday afternoon we were startled by
the CHATTER of footsteps on the stairway,
and hurrying out found four men chasing
one chicken!
-Messrs. w. III. Warner ( Bro, of
Chestnut ST., Phila., have sent us a
specimen of the medals to be issued
during the Santa Fe tertio centennial.
They are very neal in design and eXecu-
ton, and wonderfully cheap-by the
quantity. Sunday schools can 10Y have
silver medals which look and wear well,
for % cents a piece.
According 10 the census, this coun-
try raises an average OF 9 bushels OF
wheat to the head OF population but as
about 3 bushels per head is exported
to Europe, and probably one bushels
made into liquor. there is an average of
five bushels per annum, per belly.
Therefore bear in mind, Mister, and
don't eat your five bushels in supper Ia
BILE biscuits.
Capt. Harry Jackson and 3S men
of the Atlanta Guards, went TO More
head on Sunday. They were given a
treat by Raleigh Light Infantry at the
depot, and left with three cheers for the
Raleighites. BY the time the train
reached Blacknallborough there were
200 or more passengers. Sunday is a
"gay day" up in Yankeedom. More
thar half a million people leave New
York and Philadelphia on that day, to
eat, drink, aud be merry, (for oil week
days they nave to make money" at
the bathing, drinking, and billiard
rooms. 1t is a little rough on the
Shorter Catechism :" but
The extreme hot weather is prov
ing very deadly at the North. The
Phila. Record reports the death of los
children in one day--who might have
lived. if in cooler quarters. Large num-
bers of cases of sun stroke also fill the
Northern papers.
Reports from different localities in
North Carolina reveal a very distressing
state of affairs, caused by the extreme
heat. Atseveral places large numbers OF
men women and children are huddled
together under the same root, packed
into small, and poorly furnished apart
ments, where the women sit and yawn.
men roam about unOccupied. or frequent
the bar; and over all the midday sun
beats down like a broiling furnace.
Very sad! isn't it?
But if those poor Devotees of Fash
ion and Wealth riU 20 of to the water
ing places they are bound to put up with
what they can get.
n. B.-Those Of us who can't-get-
away are bound to get even by joking
al those who can.
-Messrs. Jarvis, Washington Bryan,
Judge Faircloth. NJ ,ior Calling, ct al,
came up from Morehead on Monday.
Some good spirits also came along. 1t
is stated by the Only Observer that at
the stockholders meeting in Salisbury
last week, the Directors of the n, G
r. R., controlled by the Richmond and
Danville) were authorized to make over
lures for . purchase, or virtual con-
solidation of the Newbern r.. r.,
with the n. c. r. r. The first ar
ticle We ever wrote for the press Us
years agol was in advocacy of this
consolidation, and some of the
most prominent among those who now
favor it as = last resort, to save the old