The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-07
Many items prepared for this issue

Many items prepared for this issue
are necessarily omitted.
Maj. Crenshaw, mortgage, gives
notice of sale OF land
Next week We begin some interesting
"Reminiscences of the late Gen. Branch.
The Durham papers say Capt. Nat
Brown will take a position in the Kali
road office there. Sorry to lose him as
a citizen of Raleigh, but you will get a
square man, we think.
The Virginia papers pay hear
ty compliments to Gen..Altred NJ. Scales
address before the Confederate Histori-
cal Association at Richmond. A north
ern lady sent him an handsome boquet.
We owe an apology to the Raleigh
cotton men for mis- print of the weekly
receipts. The price of cotton is carefully
corrected every Wednesday morning; bat
by mistake the receipts" were left I'M
changed.
Wilmington Star says there is no
question that North Carolina is specially
fitted for silk-growing, and th,t MIR.
Edward Fasnach, of Raleigh, has done
much to establish and stimulate it.
The County Commissioners having
received a petition signed by a majority
of voters of Neuse township, granted the
Stock law to that section. So Wake will
have one township without the cost of
renewing fences every year.
1t is said the last State Fair cleared
$4,000 above all expenses. This would
be nice if we could forget the story of
the darkey who taught his horse to
work without food, and thus cleared sl0
in a week. But the next week the
horse died, and "swamped the farm.
Mr.. j. A Tate, the energetic young
managing partner or Messrs. Tate 4
Walker, Mebanesville, n. C.,-(see cardl
gave is a pleasant call, returning from
his tour through the Charlotte section.
He made sales at nearly all prominent
points; and his tobaccos grow in favor
wherever introduced.
Gov. Vance will speak at Currituck.
on Saturday ; at Elizabeth City on Mon
day night at Edenton OH Tuesday: at
Robersonville, on Thursday. and at
Washington, Monday night. Nov. 10Th.
Col. X. Tyler Bennett will speak at
Murfreesboro on Saturday and at Will
liamston next Wednesday night.
Forty years ago, when the Raleigh
s. CASTOR X. X. came crawling into
Raleigh. the population of this CITY was
1900 which was 1000 more than Char
lotte numbered, and 200 less than Fay-
etteville. A history printed in 1916
puts the total yield of cotton in North
Carolina at 10000 bales. Raleigh now
buys double that quantity by her single
SELF If a similar increase should oc-
cur during the coming 40 years, your
daughters baby, my dear young lady.
will live to look back in pity on the time
when his old grand-mammy used to
think it a big thing to go to a Hop in
Henry Hall.
All the reports which reach us
from Tarboro Fair are highly compli-
mentary. Many exhibits from Raleigh
and Rocky Mount Fairs were passed
on down the line.'' Col. Octayius
Coke's address on North Carolina Az
riculture" won much praise, and is even
pronounced a model" The Davis
cadets, of the Davis School at La
Grange, n. c., attended. The Battal-
ion is composed of two companies, COM
pany a and company B. The soldier
ly bearing. gentlemanly department
and fine drilling of the cadets were high
~ spoken of. The Cadet Cornet Band
the boy Band" furnished the music.
Our readers are aware that 'Ipde.
pendence Hall'-the old State House.
where the American Declaration of indie.
pe1dence was signed still stands in the
heart of the city of Philadelphia, and is
daily visited by people from every quar-
ter of the Globe. in one room is the
large bell which gave the signal-sPro-
claim Liberty throughout the Land" II
is broken, but stands ON a marble pedesta,
in the centre of the rom. Around the
walls are thirteen ar. c n edalions or CIR.
cular shields arranged to hold the Goa,
of Arms of each OF the thirteen States
Nearly all of the spaces have been fileG
by the States to which they belonged
but Old Rip Van Wrinkle was slow to pu,
up his sign and seal. Some time ago
Julian S. Carr Esq, of Durham, bein,
in Philadelphia, asked the Directors if !:
1rivate individual could do what thu
State had neglected ; and as they O
course we're glad to have the Goat o
Arms painted to fill the unsightly va
capcy, Mr.. Carr ordered the work don,
nl1ll.