The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-23

The report of the purchase of the
Patriot is denied.
Republican convention for Wake
county on Saturday.
There is considerable sparring be-
tween the friends of Chas. Price and
Maj. Yorke, for the Coalition Guberna-
torial nomination.
Burke county Republicans endorsed
Mr.. Duncan Cameron Pearson for State
Auditor, and Iorke for Governor, or
Congress- as might turn out.
Greensboro North State learns that
DR.. Eugene Grissom decidedly declines
to allow the use of his name for the Gu
bernatorial office.
The Republicans on Monday last
swept the deck ut Elizabeth City, filling
all the offices. Z. f. Lamb, Democrat,
was elected mayor last year.
"A telegram from Bloomington, ILL.,,
says Senator David Davis. not only
will not head the illinois delegation TO
Chicago but will not attend nor affli-
ate with the Republican convention.
The Republican Convention in Char
lotte broke up in a row-part of the
crowd seeding. Col. Bill Myers prints a
card saying he wasn't there but fayors
the Secessionists call for another conven-
ton.
The National Union League"
which is the chief pole from which the
"Bloody Shirt" ops,-formally declares
in favor of'tLo. the poor Injun"-Lo-
gan, of Illinois, for President.
Capt. Nat L. Brown, a good soldier
in the days when it was not unfashion-
able to wear Grey" garments, has
bought an interest in the furniture bust
ness of Basil l.. Duke, Esq, of Dur
ham. Horseshoe
That Congress will not repeal the tax
on tobacco is said to be the opinion of
Gen. W. r. Cox. Ditto ours. We said,
and were rebuked for it, three months
ago that Congress would neither abolish
the Revenue Department, nor greatly re-
duce the Revenue taxes.
Mr.. f. L. Pescud and w. T. Craig,
Esq, have formed an Insurance CO.
partnership to carry on the business of
the late 2. f. Pescud. Mr.. Craig, who
has repeatedly represented Mcdowell
county in the Legislature, will make
Raleigh his home, and many friends
will welcome the return OF Mrs. Sue
Craig to her old home.
-'Parson Davy JONES'" as he signs
himself, adyertises in Weldon Macs
that he will pay So for information
concerning the lurking place of Dallas
Sledge, alias Henderson Pugh, who con-
junctively with Jones' wife and $50
worth of Lares ct Penates eloped to
Part. Cndiscernable. The parson sure
ly "gets even" with Sledge Or Pugh bv
advertising him as ''black, with a bio
head, hump-shouldered. knock-kneed.
spraddle-toothed, large mouthed, etc."
A man filling such a bill as that ought
to be allowed to elope in peace with
any woman willing to 60 with him.
The Boston parson who preached
on Divorce said the morals Of South
Carolina were no higher than of Massa-
chutts. Almost at the same hour,
Judge Noah Davis was lecturing to the
Nineteenth Century Club" in New
York City, and said:-
Better no divorce than the GOAL TO
which we are now madly tending. In
South Carolina, where there is no d.
vorce, the home is probably happier
h IN any other State"
Frederic II. Coudert did not think
that even adultery should be n reason
for divorce. Let those who caunot
live together part in peace" he said
''but do not let them carry into another
home the qualities which have blasted
enc"