The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-10

in Wake county,, called MASShio' aH0
1T once brought Ia a new subscriber,
thanks to the thoughtfulness OF Dr. t. L.
Peace.
DR.. Yorke is accompanied at WASH
ington bv his wife. He has been seriously
Ill. and made the trip from Trap Hill to
Statesyille, lying on the bottom OF an
old ambulance, with the curtains down.
1t would surprise people to know
the number of photographs taken III hai-
eigh during the Exposition. SIX thous
aad would not fill it. Our Eeighoor
Watson, was kept busy almost might
and day."
The day seems to be fast approach
nr when it will be fashionable Tor
fashionable Bellies to have their Laup-
dress's clothes-line stretched in front OF
1.-THE parlor window, for the edifcatlon OF
the public
The music lovers of Durham had a
pleasant entertainment at the residence OF
Mai. p. A. Wiley. Mrs. Lockhart, Mrs.
T. d. Jones, Miss Southgate, Miss Ida
Carr, Miss Dora flaming, Mr. Mackey,
and a long list of young ladies and geo.
tlemen took part.
News comes from Washington that
the Democratic party is daily making
tremendous gains-pa,ticularly among
the office holders. Some Of them who
left their desks to stump for Blaine now
explain that their speeches were intended
to be entirely Pickwickian.
Pat upon the back OF our remarks
about a gang of horse thieves in the
region of country between Raleigh,
Greensboro and Charlotte, m tidings
of the stealing of Prof. ii. W. Remnants
horse at ThomasvlIle, and also one from
Mr.. Joe Tyson at Pittsboro.
Christmas cards are growing more
and more costly; though there are many
pretty ones for a penny q piece The
handsomer ones sell for s., $3.50 and s..
A Young BiDghamite bought a card of
Alfred Williams & Co. that cost 81. 1t
will be found in some pretty girls stock
ing, we reckon.
The Electoral College Of n C.,
(called a college because school-boy
eloquence is the chief proceeding of the
meeting) voted for Cleveland and EIend-
ricks on ballots of North Carolina silk
prepared by Lieut-Col. f. A. Odds. Mr..
B. II. Bum, of Nash, was appointed to
carry the vote to Washington.
-Laurinburg did well by the Orphans
on Thanksgiving Day. The Masonic
Lodge gave SO; the Methodist 1920:
the Presbyterians $50: the knights of
Honor s.: and some other gift.
Col. II. j. Short, of Lake Waccamaw
gave 50. Durham Lodge gave $30.27.
The Presbyterians of Hillsboro and
Salisbury each $50.
Miss Mary Willard Of Washington
City is one of the new style of girls. She
was engaged to a man named Simpson
Of New York (Of the firm of Donnell,
Lawson & Co. Donnell is a North Caro-
linian), and she led him to believe that
all was ''iovely'' up to the day before the
wedding, for which 1.500 cards had been
issued. When she eloped with a young
man named Paxton, and left Simpson to
hear the news through the papers.
The present Congress was expected
70 prvpu,,l q n.yn-o 20 tk,,r.ol- n,4.r-
ity;" aud thus far has fulfilled expec,a-
ton. 1t adjourned several days last week
after purely formal hearing Of the min
utes, etc. As many of the members will
march forth on the fourth of March, they
do not feel called upon to fatigue them
selves By any special indefatigability of
zeal. There may be some tariff and to-
bacco tinkering; but the chances are that
the ~''weightier matters Of the law" viii
be left Cleyeland's first congress to ".iaw"
over.
DIR. Woodrow has captured one
synod, that of South Georgia and Florida
which approved Of his evolution doctrine
by 90 to Is. But the other synods con-
trolling the Columbia Seminary have
elected new trustees giving Woodrowites
to nine Ants.
We don't stand with either side.
Woodrow's monkey theory may be as
near right as those who oppose it (who
knows0 but in any case there was no
need TO make a fuss about such a little
thing as that.
J H. Collins, a prominent citizen of
Pinevillc, Meckienburg county, collected
$500 due to Baltimore fertilizer firms.
and eloped into Parts Unknown. The
time has been when personal frauds were
very rare at the South, among the %intelli-
gent classes. But the reported delin-
quentcy of Col. Rober. j. Breckenridge,
OF Ky, following upon the heels of the
defalcatlon Of Capt. Geo. T. Jackson of
the Augusta Cotton Mills, shows that
southwark the Star Of Enterprise takes
its way!"
One Of the best proofs of real RE
construction" as the result of Cleyeland's
election, Is the fact that thousands of
weddings occurred In the South on the
National Thanksgiving day. When South
ern Rebel" women don't object to
dating their welded bliss from the same
day on which the Plymouth; Rock peo-
pie chaw. Turkey, and forgive their
enemies" pro ITEM Ia tenn short tenn,
thought 1t is evident that ''old things
have become new" and that "Old John
Browns body lies a>moulderin' in the