The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-23

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believe in n He'll:
A lady wrote us-Where an
buy n kerosene oil stove 10 use instead
o." our hot wood stoves in summer
At Thos. II. Briggs & Sons. you can
see some splendid nickel-plated speci-
mems. Ad. next week.
Miss Emily V. Mason. author Of
Poems of the War. Life oi
Robert +. Lee, and other works. after tea
years conduct of a Girls School IN Paris.
has returned to Baltimore, 229, y. Ere
mont St, to reside. Miss Sarah Har-
vey, an admirable Southern oman died
in Washington City.
1t is understood that if the OPPOSE
ton. or anti-D odd- Busbee, forces wer,
successful they would appoint ~ otti-
GERS as follows: Mr.. j.. 5. Lumsden
for mayor, Mr.. Arnstead Jones for city
attorney, Mr.. Frank b. Arrendeli for
clerk, Mai. Chas. Heartt, chief of po-
lice, and the other officers as at present.
All GOOD men and good Democrats, so
far as we know.
A lawyer named IL. Clay England
lost his wits, and. escaping from his
friends, fastened TO the court Room
where the Star Routers' are being
tried in Washington. II put myseD on
a lerel nth nty clients he Murdered
q a loud voice. Everybody turned. and
10 ! the lawyer was stripped stark naked /.
The women screamed, and the Court in
timated that any Attorney who reduced
himself to that slim condition ought to
20 to the Lunatic Asylum and thlther
he was taken.
We regret to observe that the Ne,cs-
Observer, after courteously correcting
and withdl awing Tin the Daiiy) its charge
that we refused to vote for Judge Ben
nett, the Democratic capd date, in the
late election, reprints the charge IN the
,ceekiy edition, but omits our explicit de
NAL. 1t may lave been an iuaiverience.
and we trust it was; but a, the Weekly
Observer circulates chiefly outside of Rl
eigh, among the farmers, its editorial
accusation, left uncorrected, is calculated
to damage the Farmer and Methan,c.
wherever the editor Is hot personally
known.
Mrs. Lydia Pinkham, whose picture
VIC have furnished free of charge. every
week for two years, is dead at the age of
"A. She must have had a medicine OF
merit for she began making it in a
tea kettle, AID sold last year nearly
half a million 10 lars worth! True she
spent $lS0,0O0 a year in advert ing
il all over creation; but this only
illustrates what we have often said. nam
ly that # you hare a good thing, 1t pnys
to ddcertise! Even a fraud, like Hem
bold's ''Buchu," can be advertised until
it realizes a fortune for the maker:
though very soon it will play out. But
If the article be really good, like Pain
Killer" and Mustang Liniment," 1T
will run for twenty years or mOre,-yea
for generationsl By the by, we notice
that Hon. Daniel +. Beatty. who puts
the big organ eats in the Fan mer and
Mechanic, has just contributed $500 to
the Presbyterian Chapel in his village
He is turning out lOG organs per day.
Miss Fannie Heck i booked as "a mem
Der of a Tourist Party. under care Of
Prof. 9 I'll. Winston. of Richmond Fee
mele College, which will sail from New
York for Europe, June l3th.-Mrs.
Phil. H. Andrews returned from Il visit
to friends in Louisburg - Mrs. Mary
Johnston is visiting her father, J. II.
Wilson, Esq, at Charlotte - W. s.
Primrose. Esq, attended the Presbyte-
rian General Assembly, at Louisville. last
e,k.-Janet, the little daughter Of
Mr.. 4. B. Stronach was founded in the
breast by the accidental discharge of a
toy pistol which her little brother had
found in a little %negro's Rev.
Mr.. Stoddard one of the prominent Epis
copai preachers of Broos lyn &C .identaliy
killed his wife last week. They were
ciearing-up the house for the summer,
and he took a pistol from a drawer where
it had lain for IA year. Of course it
went off -Senator &. II. Hills
daughter Jumped from a runaway CAL
rage at Atlanta, and received fatal inju-
rles.
Philadelphia Press. and other Re-
publican papers. say that Massachu-
sets has covered herself with shame
by two acts. One is the attempt to
hide the Tewksbury disgrace. 1t is
really surprising to see all the leading
journals bowling against Beast Butler,
because he nosed out the nastiness.
There is no outcry over the proof that
10 out of so babies were killed within .
few weeks after they had been sent to
the ASYLUM and that dead bodies
were sold at IS per head and that sew
eral negroes Were skinned, and the
skins tanned for the amusement of tho
Harvard College men! No complaint
OF these atrocities, but a perfect howl
over Butler for bringing them to light!
OF course the old Beast is making all
possible political capital out of the af-
fair. but the disgrace is in the fact. not
the telling oft.
The other matter is the passage of a
resolution by both Houses Of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature praising Cakes
Ames. the chief of the Credit Mobilier
swindle, and actually asking Congress
to repeal the formal resolution of dis
grace and sentence put upon Ames ten
wears AGO. The Prexs says.-