The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07

small places like Raleigh.
When you see a pleasant notice oi
any man In this paper you may set it
down that we mean it, and that it was
not instigated Ly him. We would not
mention a man who tired to get a puff. y
The Democratic Caucus last week,
after a good deal of discussion, decided
in effect-to don't do nuthin'' on the
"County Government" and Elective
Magistrate questions. All resolutions
are promptly sent to grass,-"laid
on the Table"-or under it.
The account of the death OF DIR.
Geo. NJ. Beard, of New York, as the
result of pulling his tooth, must now be
supplemented by the death of his wife
from the same thing. She attended her
husbands funeral in a severe storm.
took cold, pneumonia, Chat scourge of
Yankeedom y and died in two days.
Good for Printers ink. If you have
a good thing it pays to advertise it, pro-
vided you select the papers which peo-
pie read. We hear that the Misses Nash
| & Kollock's school at Hillsboro is
The University is fuller than ever,-200
or more. Oxford Female Seminary
10 pupils, largest number yet had. st.
Mary is doing ex~cellently. Capt. Bells
Kings Mountain School, like Binghams,
is an young college. So it goes. The
Farmer and Mechanic wishes them all
well.
"A gentleman from Lenoir says farm
laborers are getting scarce there. A lead
ing farmer Of Chatham offers to pay the
expenses of a family of industrious En-
glish tenants, frrm London to Raleigh.
if they will agree to stay with him a rea-
sonable period. He doesn't care how
many children Ghey bring as the young
sters are useful in cotton picking season.
R6-Note the daily increasing call for
more peoplel" And what is being done
to Ill up our State7
pd-Nearly one dozen columns of orig
insl, and new and communicated matter
are crowded out this week There being
neither type, nor time for our printers to
set them up): and many of the items will
be stale" by next week. This is a pity;
but you must remember that the Farmer
and Mechanic, in addition to giving the
news, aims to help the State, by printing
articles relating to questions of public vel
fare. MANY men have many minds
you know.
The two last issues of this paper con-
taiDed no less than ta1enty sir contr7Ju-
tions five from lawyers, three from doc
tors, three from clergymen; two from
merchants, . from schoolmen the rest
from ladies and miscellaneous writers.
We have about 10 other letters now on
file.
Surely a paper which affords free utter
ance for all classes of citizens, without
fear or favor, is deserving Of your sup
port. If you think so, please send a new
subscriber for proof.
Bro. Jos. P. Caldwoll's paper,
StotesriM landmark, says, The Sen
ate administered a whitening rebukc, the
other day, to its presiding officer, Lieut-
Gov. Robinson" 1t explains tina, Mr..
Linney was not made chairman OF the Ju-
dietary Committee, nor even a member
of it. We suppose that among 81 lawyers
it was hard to name the Judiciary Com
mi,tee as all could not be on it; but
the Landmark will please remember that
Mr.. Linney favored Fowle and Carr, in
the contest which resulted in the nom
or at least gave James l.. his place.
A prominent gentleman asked us to
note the fact that Capt. S. B. Alexan-
der, formerly Grand Master of the State
Grange, and a member of the State Board
of Agriculture. and one of the most pro-
g~ressive and prominent farmers of the
State, was not made chairman of the
Committee on Agriculture, no even nam
ed as a member of it.
The Republicans have a right to
raise an yell of derision at Democratic
Honesty and Reform"-now that two
State Treasurers of Southern States have
defaulted, as have Polk of Tennessee.
and 1. II. Vincent, Of Alabama. Treasur-
er V~incents s~tealings run above two hun
dred thousand dollars. The Montgome-
ry Advertiser says THAT the u
ment that he was a defaulter was ian
appalling surprise, at first received with
absolute incredulity, and reluctantly
credited as the developments of the day
swept one by n the hopes of even
those who most freely trusted in the
honor and duty of the fallen official.'
Mr.. Vincent and filled many important
positions. Plain. undemonstrative, un-
ostentatious, diligent, he inspired in all
brought into intimate relations with him
the most unbounded confidence. 1t is
the story so often heard of late. in in
sane desire for sudden weaHh, tempta-
ton. adventure, losses, ruin"
We said last week that the South is
already almost Yankccized. Does it mot
seem So? Our proudest boast twenty
years ago IA that a %Southerner might
fight, or do desperate deeds; but he at
least was loyal to his friends and faithful
to trusts. The history of the Rebellion is
stained by no Benedict Arnolds,'
nor Aaron Burrs - and of all the vast
sums extended during the war. little il