The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-18
Raleigh is full of "Mumps.''

The vote in the city of Raleigh on
the proposition to issue $50, 900 10 bonds
for the Improvement of the streets was
defeated by 452 against, to 232 for.
1t was an error to speak of the
FBard of Rhamkatte," in last week I;
we referred to Colonel Medlin, the
"Governor ofRhamkatte." The "Bard''
is a very clever gentleman.
South Carolina Department of Agri-
culture decides not make An exhibit at
the Boston Exposition. North Carolina
will make an handsome one.
The remains of Mrs. Col. d. G..
Coward, of Norfolk, daughter of the
late Col. p. E. Jones, Henderson reach
ed Raleigh this morning; and were
buried at ii O'Clock the funeral being
from the residence Of X. j. Harris, Esq.
The middle-man got the nomination
for Governor in Georgia. After Bullock
Boynton, Bacon, and the other B'-ans,
had been balloted back and forth, a bad
"break" to the Ozark Horse" commeEc
ed, and Col. Mcdaniel quickly came to
judgement.
Election Returns; Auburn so for,
8 against !; Swift Creek 80 to "a; Roles
vile 100 to 4; Edwards Store IS to %;
Cary l to 50 Apex II to 100; Neuse 81
to 60; Forestville Al to SO. East Raj
eigh to POP to IL; West Raleigh l49 to
81. The total Registration in county is
about 9, 200.
"A recent census estimate-revlsed
edition-puts the total area of North
Carolina at 52,250 square miles; OF
which 48, $50 are land surface, and 1910
water surface. We supposed the area
of cold water to be much greater !; but
the Anti-Prohibitionists always did
claim a big majority.
An attempt to blackmail Mary An
derson, the actress, has come to grief.
DIR. G.. H. Marshall of Pittsburg has been
arrested. He wrote to DR.. Hamilton
Griffin her step-father, stating that he
held some letters, and three Nude pic
lures which he said had been placed in
his charge with a demand for 100000
1t is claimed that the photographs were
made by attaching the head of the ac'
tress to another womans figure.
In order to accommodate holders
of sold Bonds of the State,-(whicl
ceased to bear interest Jan. l. $50
who may wish to exchange for the new
''4-per cent Bonds" without the trouble
and expense of sending them to Raj.
eigh,-Treasurer John Nj. Worth. with
his nephew, is spending a month in
New York City. About $4,000, 900 o.
the "old Bonds" have been put in the
new paper; and the Doctor hopes to
bring back the bulk of the residue
some $4,000, 900. The New York
World says some of the ''old Bond'-
ers kick, and threaten litigation.
Virtue is not always its W re.
ward. That noble Red Man known as
blue Horse" concluded to give W
roaming and settle at home like a white
man. But the white men at once made
him pack up and tramp 800 miles to
another Reservation. Then the old
chief laid aside his hunting gear, and
began to clear up the forest, to make a
crop. The first lick with his axe sent a
flying chip and knocked out one of his
eyes. The reformed warrior retired to
his tent, and took counsel with the
white mans "card of invitation name
ly a black bottle and he is now rest
ing on philosophy and his squaw's la
Dor, awaiting an appropriation from
Washington.
Col. Ike Young seems born for
good luck. Many shots have been fired
his direction, but all glanced. Giteau's
bang at Garfield was believed to have
brought down the Colonel's official head,
but when the smoke cleared away THAT
same old coon" still held the persim-
mon. Last week at Henderson. in the
thunder storm, a bolt of lightning came
down, and tore up a tree along side of
the hotel, and hunted all around for
Isaac, but he had just stepped out. 1t
yuoS q ssnlnSn oan - lnt 49,. g
country. Providence seems to favor
bald-headed people anyhow. You re-
collect the awful scrape which befell
those three score bad boys who were
torn UP By wild bears because they fol-
lowed the prophet Elisha, shouting
Hold up! old Baldhead!--Try st. ia
cob's Oil"
-Newbern stretched out her leg. in
two directions last week. The old buru
stands just where De Graffenreid left
her, in the forks of Neuse and Trent
rivers, each of which drain large tract.
OF b best lands in the State though
but little use of those streams has been
made of late years as a transporting
medium. Last week a steam lighter, OF
fiat boat, drawing only a few feet o.
water, sailed up the shallow Trent fol
35 miles from the Newbern wharf:
while about the same time another
steamer, the Kinston, went up the
Neuse 65 to Goldsboro, for the frs
time since the Shutdown on Dixie. Il
was Sunday, and the Journal says:-
"After getting above White Hal the
banks of the river were lined with col.
ored people who had never seen g
steamboat before, and whenever the
captain would turn on the chime of the
engine some would fall down, dodge be.
hind trees and sDlit thrOIlph the fields