The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-08
b f. Montague. Esq, and NH

NatGANor
-Tlc Raleigh resident tailors will hold
tn, ir annual picnic In the country to day
and a j lily time will be had.
by courtesy of Senator Ransom we
have two Volumes Compendium OF
the lat Census, which We shall no doubt
ind of service.
John ". eott, Jr., has become one
of the editors of Carthage Gdzdtte. we
had overlooked it, in some way. Our
best wishes.
-Staunton, Va, makes mention OF
Mr. Geo. G. Jordan in high terms tor his
success as North Carolina Agent OF the
Wiley NJ ituai.
-Dr Ro Gibbon, after spending.sever-
Al DAVIS at the bedside of Mr. Zeb Vance
in Asheville, started home, but was re-
called by telegraph, says Charlotte ~
serrer.
Marshall t. Polk was sentenced to
% years Imprisonment, and s3Oo.0oo
nne. lie elect naS UGH " I'M
sympathy for him.
Rev. Drury Lacy, d. d.. entered
his eighty-second year on Friday last,
and surely Friday for once was not
"Unlucky.'' He wa. at the home OF
his son in Jonesboro.
Austin +. Pike has been elected L..
S. Senator from New Hampshire. He
is, we believe, the father, or brother, OF
the one-legged Bohemian who at one
time ran the Standard, and wrote the In
famous article entitled Work! - etc.
Raleigh has l.76I reside ices and
go business houses, according to MIR.
Richards statement In the Observer. City
Council orders the houses to be number
ed at e of owners. The mali de
livery will then begin, by carrier.
The woman who WAS drowned at
Elizabeth City was the wife Of John
Armour. a boatman She was clipping
with another boatman named Spry.
1llC liiuuCsl dAiCFu LiIaL NV dONA4ClltdllN
fell between the two boats, while the
met were quarrelling but the public
doubts.
DR. Battle is doing his best to build
up the University, aud we wish him and
the faculty in~creasin. success. Teach
ers will note that there i. a two wears
course. Any II who aims to teach
ought 20 take up the business a 4 pro-
.fsssion. and learn all the deiails.
THE Raleigh Light Infantry has
adopted a Blue and Buff uniform
Nearly 100 houses in process. of erection
i'll Raleigh.-Messls Briggs 4 Son.
Williamson Il Upchurch, and Julius
Lewis & CO.. will erect one story brick
warehouses on the site Of Melvin
Mobiles burned stables.
Rev. VIII :. Lacy having been in
vIted by 4 Presbyterian church in New
jersey On the city Of Newark to u D
ply their pulpit for a month during the
summer vacation of their pastor. has
been granted by his churches i'll Moore
county Il generous leave Of absence for
four weeks, thus atfording change of
scene, recreation and rest. II would
be we'll II our country az well as city
pastors could have such vacations ex-
tended them. Rev. DR.. Mckay will o.
cupy Buffalo Church the 18th Sabbath '
August.
VIM &. Cochran. a native of Per-
son county. North Carolina. died in
Philadelphia last week. worth three
millions. At the youthful age Of Is
Years he went into business at Augusta.
ia lie was very prosperous, aud nine
Years later he removed to Phila. He
soon after married Miss Travis, a
younger daughter oI Lord Erskine. In
Is3j he bought out Wilson Hunt. a
prosperous wine merchant of consider
able renown, and remained in that trade
until his retirement. III 1871.
Thanks to the young gentlemen of
Narrenton for ali invitation to The Grand
Reunion Ball. at Phoenix Hall. on Fri
dy evening Dancing to commence at 9
o lock. Managers j. g. Tarwater, G
i. Jones, ii. L. Macon, W. X. Parker.
b. ii. P,ummer- Floor Managers: W.
q. Brodie, Dr. p j. Macon, L. G.. Price.
DIR. T.. b. Thompson Committee of In
v~itation W. II Polk, w. 5. McGraw
MIsic by Variila's band.
A charming letter, racing from til.
cultivated pen point at a son of his father
wiilb iound in another column. IL cor
reefs al error. common with us, and Will
other, unfamiliar with the locality. and
the Presbyterian organization, of cor
founding the College and the Seminar,
at Hampton Sydney a. one institution
But our readers viii thauk " COR draw
ing out d letter ~(leIteIs, If yUu pleas,
which hitherto existed ia the intangible
airir ess nf rrcmised 's"metime.'
Rockingham. the county seat 81
Richmond. Il i~ouri.hinr town ON tn,
Caro-, na q ntral. owes much of if.
prosperity To the sIA cotton mill, in = ,
near the town. The elegant new mill
the Isohcrdell. (iobcrt l.. steele
Esq. President,) about four and = hal
miles out, is a splendid building for tn,
purpose. and the machinery is now ar
irving To b put in position. Thi, fac
tory represents a capital of some half .
million, and will give employment I,
several hundred operatives, and secur,
the living perhaps Of five hundred peo
pie. Doubtless these six mills of Rock
I&. LII o. +Lo.nranl - .,o.e:i