The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-12
Fairs In North Carolina

Clinton Sampson Co. r ALL. e .
Report speaks highly OF the MI
burnie Falls advertised by Judge Fowle'
to be sold Sept. 22. See card.
The mention of Maj. Chas. Nj.
Steadman,o of Wilmington, for Lieut-Gov-
ernor meets with appreciation from his
numerous friends.
DIR. Battle, of Earpsboro, brother
of DR.. A. J. Battle, went to Baltimore
Yesterday, to nplete his medical
course. al the College of Physicians II
Surgeons.
Gen. w. R. Cox and lady returned
from Europe on Saturday. The steamer
was crowded with prominent people, as
is every one of the daily arriving fleet.
Probably so, 900 Americans will return
this month.
If We had a dollar of idle capital, We
should invest it in town lots, in the small
but growing towns of North Carolina.
Five years hence any of those lots, if ju-
diciously selected, will have earned fifty
per cent. See card of Mr.. John Smith
of Smithield.
E NJ. Holt's Sons, cotton manufacture
ers, at the Company shops, North Car
olina, have added a Westinghouse engine
of 40 horse power to supplement their
water-power. The f. NJ. Holt Plaid
Mill, Of the same place, have their new
mill nearly completed, and will also use
a Westinghouse engine.
MIR. 2. HI. Winston. Jr., of Win
ston. has printed a five column letter.
vehemently a%rraigning the Democratic
Party, or Policy, and announcing his
adhesion to Re~publicanism, the doctrine
of Protection etc. A very large edi-
ton of Greensboro State is being circu-
lated by the Republicans.
Mr.. Sylvester Smith was elected
alderman from the 4th ward, BY the city
council at its last meeting. The city
taxes were fixed as follows: Real and
personal, 81 on the sl00; 81 on the
poll. Special taxes: % cts. on 800
and 40 on poll. This is a reduction OF
135 on property, and 20 on poll.
Rev. DR.. Chapman and his good
lady (whose graceful pen indited the
letter from Warm Springs in last weeks
paper) have returned to Asheville for a
week or two; the Doctor much strength
ened; but Mrs. c. less so than was
hoped. The same is true, we hear. Of
Judge Ruffin, and our townsman. z. f,
Pescud, Esq, who last week return,c
home.
VIM. Grimes, Esq, and family, have
returned. w. W. Smith, Esq, anc
lady, have returned home from More
head. Swarms of fish are said to have
lined the shore, some of them even
crawling up on the wharf to wave THEN
hats In joy, as our Raleigh Nimrod bun.
died his fish rods and departed. - Mr..
O0 SoAfoi' Ado SOue 10 NOTIOIk tC
clerk for a firm there.-Postmastu
John Nichols went to Washington Oh
Monday as did also Mr.. r. H Lee
Messrs. A. S. Lee, of Pescud. Lee 4
Co, and VIM. Simpson are attending
the National Pharmaceutical Convention
at Washington.
"A note from Capt. L. G.. Robinson
OF Selma, who is spending som,
weeks in New York, speaks i,
high terms OF Drs. Henry and A. II
Goelet, brothers of Mr.. E. b. Goelet
recently of Goldsboro. The praise il
divided between their medical skill, an,
their kindness to him, because he was
North Carolinian. As a Railroad man
Capt. r., notes that the cheapest thin!
IN New York City is transportation. 4
nickel will take you anywhere. Gear 0
stage); and on the elevated Road Ii. G
70 feet above the level OF the street,
tram OF 4 cars passes every three min
utes. He thinks Coney Island til,
biggest thing of the kind on the globe.
The crowd On Sunday was fifty to siyt,
thousand and the sights and sounds
and games, and deviltry, exceeded be
lief. The devil don't need to work there
be can go to sleep and still rear a ire
mendous crop.