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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

VIEWS OF II NEXT REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE FOR PREsIDENT.-Those
whose are SO anxious to lay aside the
Confederate Grey to don the Yankee
Blue, ought to lake the hint from Sena-
tor Logan's speech in the Fitz-John Por.
ter case. He is likely to lead the Re-
publican party iii the coming campaign,
and his views are interesting.
Turning TO the Southern Senators 5.
Gen. Wade Hampton, Gen. Butler.
Gen. Ransom, Col. Vance, Gen. Rea-
gan. Gen. Maxey, and others, he says
"Your course, assisted by a few OF
our side in this case, Will prevent the
| people of this country from having con-
fidence that you intend to administer
| the affairs of the Government fairly.
do not care what a few gentlemen who
were in the Union Army may say, | do
not care what a few gentlemen who
were not in the Union Army NAV say
but the great body Of the American peo-
| pie do not believe IN breaking down the
barriers Jetween the men pho failed in
time Of need, and the men who stood at
their posts. Il e. wore the .Blue.")
am speaking of Il loyal people. l
mean that our people do not believe in
your coming here TO regulate courts
martial for us during the var. | am
speaking the truth 10 YOU, and the peo-
pie will emphasize it to you hereafter.
Let your Confederdcy regulate its opn
courtS-martiGl chiIe it eriSted "a oDbosi-
ton to MiS tnion, but do not come here
from under your flag to put disgraced
men back in our Army, to cast slurs
upon u men WHO did their duty. to
trample in the dust the authority that
suppressed your C0nfederacy! Let not
your feelings 60 that far. If thew do. T
tell you that more years than you think
will pass over your heads before you
will have the confidence of the Ameri-
can people !"
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OBFpIENT EVEN CNDE

OBEoIENT EVEN UNDER THE
kNIFE.-New Haven, Conn. March 10.
A huge Siberian bloodhound weighing
100 pounds, belonging 10 John Morris
sev. OF West Ausonia, had a umo SIX
inches across removed yesterday by a
veterinary surgeon OF this city. The
brute was neither chloroformed nor tied.
but was muzzled. At word from his
master, he placed himself in position for
the operation, and lay quiet, uttering no
sound. although under 40 restraint ex-
cept the eye and voice of his master.
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CHATHAM COUNTY ITEMS.-Erom
the Home: The following report in the
case of the Gunter homicide was SUBJ
mitted by the jury of inquest to court
this week The Jury after a patient
examination of ali the facts and circum-
stances connected with the murder OF
Mrs. Olive and Miss Jane b. Gunter,
on Saturday night, December -, 1888.
submit as a report: That the said Mrs.
Olive and Miss Jane Gunter came to
their death by blows from an axe; but
that part of the jury find that there is
not sufficient evidence to designate any
person or persons as the guilty party.
The other part of the jury think that
the circumstances point to Baxter Gun
ter and warrant his arrest.' The jury
in this case has exercised rare patience
and displayed unusual zeal in their in
vestigations. And they have done a re-
markable amount Of work. They have
examined carefully over 20 witnesses.
and recorded with painstaking their tes-
timony. Mr.. Strudwick, the Solicitor.
tells US that after having carefully read
the testimony submitted by the Jury of
inquest he does not think the evidence
is sufficient to induce him to subject any
one TO the infamy of an arraignmcnt for
murder.-Mr. j. w. Atwater informs
US that forty new tobacco barns have
been built this year within three miles
square around his home at Rialto.-
The superintendent informs Us that five
new cars have been ordered from VIII
mir Delaware, for the Cape Fear
ROAD. Four Of these cars are passenger
coaches, two first-class and two second
class.
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Specimen kuggers ExhioitinS
the ''HIgher Civilization" OF
the North.

lst,-Mrs. Catherine Kett, OF Dayton
Ohio, confessed on her death bed that
she brutally murdered her own daughter,
II years ago and managed to throw the
blame on innocent parties.
2nd, Henry Richardson OF Vineland,
| New Jersey, outraged his " daughter,
and kept her as his slave for years, and
finally murdered the monstrosity resulting
from his brutishness.
Sd, A grey-headed old r~eprobate near
East LYME, Mass,-beat ibis l3 year old
bow until the little fellows body was a
mass of blister. He then ha~ndcuffed the
| child by a chain fastened to the horn OF
an old COW, and drove them out on tie
hillside, on a raw winters day. The
boy had no food. and at night he and
the COW were locked in a barn where he
was found in a frozen condition, hugging
the COW for the sake Of her warmth!
4th, At Brantford, Connecticut, John
Dawson quarrelled with his wife and
knocked out one of her eyes. This was a
year or so ago. He professed SO much
| contrition that she forgave him. Last
week in an angry fit he put out her other
eye! She is CO; he 20.
5th, Bridget Maloney, an handsome
Irish girl, was betrayed by the son other
employer. He sent her among strangers.
and she could get no shelter. She
sought a secluded spot in Maiden, Mass,
and laid down 10 the snow to give birth
to her child, and die with it. The police
rescued her By mere accident.
9th, Rev. Heber Newman Wright o.
Winooski, Vermont, is suing his church
In the courts to get his salary. About
twenty five years ago he was ordained
priest in the Episcopal church by the
bishop of Vermont, and assumed charge
of a mission at Stowe. His religious be-
liefs soon underwent a radical change,
and he Joined the Methodist Episcopa
church. From the Methodists he went
to the Baptists; then he was a Presby
terrain, and, finally, he became a Congre
~gationalist, in the ministry Of which
church he still remains. A few years age
he became pastor of the church at North.
vile. N. Y. Discussions existed, and they
rapidly increased. Symptoms of trouble
were manifested by the throwing of de-
funct cats into the church while services
were in progress, and by the splitting Of
the organ into kindling wood one night
finally the church building was burned.
Mr.. Wright and his wife were tee
on the charge of arson, but on trial were
acquitted. A luxuriant crop of lawsuit.
sprang up, and there was no end of trou'
bic, Mr.. Wright leaving Worthwhile for.
ever.
A still more painful experience subse.
q%uently befell him, when located in north
ern New York. He sued a man for Sian.
der, but was unfortunate enough to be
beaten in the suit, and in default of pay.
ment of costs of suit was committed tc
Potsdam Jail, where he ~languished sew.
eral months. At Winooski it is claimed
claimed by the church authorities that
he was too jealous in his attentions to the
lambs of the flock that he used vulgar
language in the pulpit and obscene out
of it that he neglected his pastoral du.
ties, and that he is a bad man generally
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

A MAN UP A IREE.-Mr. w. Ii. Peo-
piles of Charlotte, n. c., knows how
things look to a man up a tree. In an
evil hour Mr.. Peoples took upon himself
the task Of loving and cherishing a fe-
male person called Mary Ann, whom an
injudicious Providence had permitted to
survive a previous husband.
But Mary Ann seems to have cherish
ed the idea that matrimcny was invented
for the Christening OF man, and that she
was made the wife Of Peoples for his sins,
and she bent all her energies to carrying
out the design of the inventor and con-
vinclng Peoples that there was nc valid
reason why the spirit Of male mortal
should be proud.
One day she chased Mr.. Peoples UP a
tree, and called his attention to the ele-
waiting influences of welded bliss. and
when Peoples suggested hat he had
viewed the world from that exalted stand
point about long enough, and would like
to come down, Mary Ann got an axe and
began to make the CHIPS fly to the tune
OF 'Rock-a bye baby Peoples offered
to shin down. but Mary Ann wouldn'.
let him. She blithely hummed some-
thing about down come Peoples and
apples and all and kept the axe swing
ing. In due time Peoples came down
and broke some Of his bones, and when
he got well he sued for a divorce.
The new view of things which he got
while up the tree induced him to aban-
don all intentions of assisting in Peopling
the earth, and the court has Just relieved
him of all responsibility 10 that direction
by making Mary Ann a grass widow.
Other North Carolina men should take
warning and studiously avoid Mary Ann
and her little Ratchet. Boston GloLe.
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\ DEPLoRABLE ACCIpENT.-A
bright little son OF Capt. JAS. \. Ora
ham, of Graham, vas accidentally shot
while hunting saturday afternoon, and
died the same evening. II IS supposed
that he was getting v a fence and the
hammer OF the gun was caught, the
charge entering his head, causing most
terrible wounds. At the time Capt
and Mrs. Graham were absent from
home, and the news caused a great
shock.-Dlllu Obserrsr.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

"A carload of Wake Forest Boys
came up to hear Blind Tom;" and there
were enough pretty girls in the party to
keep their ora rhetorical mercury quite
up to the bubbling point.
The Ercning Tsitor estimates that
about one thousand persons (two-thirds
of them colored) have joined the various
churches of Raleigh within the past
month, or ''since the cyclone"
If rumor be correct the coming of
the Crofters has dispelled several illu-
sions. In the first place they were not
so dreadfully poor, and down-trodden
as was generally understood. Each
family had its cows, sheep, and dogs !;
and all agree that "Auld Reekie'' cudna'
be excelled for beauty and happiness
and ''sae furth." NeXtly, they found
North Carolina less picturesque and at
tractive than they had anticipated /;
while as for the tenant houses, they
were mot fttin for so much as a haste ~
Many a Northerner has turned back
from the South from the same cause.
Our home life is sadly in need of en-
bellishment, and the modern improve
ments.
The hotels at Old Point are not
only full, but oyer-run. We met at
Norfolk yesterday a party of Northern
people who were unable to gain admit.
lance, and as no vacancies were looked
for within ten days to come, they con
tinued on to Charleston. On train last
week were parties who had come around
by Raleigh to reach Kittrells. Conduc-
tors tell us that nearly every train from
the North has its pair or party of''tour-
ists," running away from Northern ice,
storm and hustle to Southern flowers
and fair weather. These wandering
wayfarers of fashion can generally be
spotted at first glance, by their pecu-
liar accent, or "twang." their travelling
rig. their open sneers (too often deserv-
ED at the lack of accommodations such
as prevail at the North, and by their
quaint surprise ON hearing the chorus of
bull frogs in the marshes which line the
sea coast route for much of the distance.
When a train leaves the track on one of
the Eastern routes they say-sShe ran
aground 20
1t is the best farming county in
the State !'-cried the Doctor from Sea-
board, in a tone of conviction. to a car
full of listeners. "In Edgecombe. they
do things by system. Negroes 90 to
work at tap of a bell. Labor is recula-
ted by an understanding among plant
ers. Approach the county from any
side and you discover the ascending
volumes of iand-clearing smoke. Every
fence corner is clean as a parlor. Every
farm has its Compost heap. And there
are men like Rayner Thigpen, who make
1000 bales of cotton. Oh. it's a great
county! Whereas my county-the home
of a Ransom. a Bragg, and a-well sew
eral others lis the equal of Edgecombe.
only we don't manage our Labor, and
the darkey drifts from door to door seek
ing whom he may %devour.'
The Doctors deep Diapason resound-
ed doletully through distant corners of
the car; but in the words he spake
slumbered seeds of wisdom. system
and settled labor are essential to success
in Farming.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

Prof. James y. Scwell, a. NJ. NJ.
d., OF Medical Faculty Laval Uniyer-
slty, Quebec, states II have found
Colden's Liebig's Liquid Extract of Beet
and Tonic lnvigorator particularly use
ful IN advanced stages OF Consumption,
ce0haeSs, dyspepsia, and all nervous at
tectlons. he pregnant womeH it has
been retained while every other article
Of food was rejected. Palatablc aud
easy OF DIGESTION (7obc M other.l
lIale's Honey of ]IIorehound and Tar
will arrest every ailment of the lungs,
throat, or chest.
Pixies Toothachc Drops cure in one
minute.
For the skin-Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26
-DEATHS.-At Hillsbo~o, Miss

-DEATHs.-At Hillshoro, Miss G..
Heart, sister of Mrs. Jos. W. Wilson.
and Mr.. L. +. Heartt Of this city. The
funeral services were conducted from the
residence of Miss Alice Heartt, 10 Hills
boro Saturday. She was a good woman
and held in high esteem.-In OXFORD.
Mis-, on the 18th inst, Mrs. Fannie De-
yereux. eldest daughter of Bishop Polk.
and wife Of Mr. Boyton H. Skipwith.
At his residence. on the 18th inst.
Mr.. George Brogden died. in his SO wear
He had been a citizr of Wake county
about for years. Mrs. Rosa T. Wet.
more, wife Of Rev q B Wetmore. died
at Thomlsville IT 10 o'c'ock on Mondav
night, the 18th. She was Miss Rosa
I. Hall Of Fayetteville. --Mr. Bas-
comb CoviDpton, who married A dauoh.
ter Of Col Walter l.. Steele, a few wears
ago, died last week in Texas.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

The GREENSBORO DEPoT.-The home
Of the late Ralph Gorrell, Esq, has
changed hands, having been bought
by the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railroad Company. Aud while 1t is a
beautiful place for a residence. It's prox-
unity to the depot renders it better suited
to some other purpose than that OF a pri-
vate residence. The house is a very
substantial one aud the grounds possess
many attractive features.
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MEMORY'S DAY.-The Ladies Me-
mortal Association met last week Mrs.
Leo. d. Heartt, presiding Miss Olivia
Cowper, Secretary. Capt. j. j. Fray,
one of "Moseby's Men," Ga title ofhon-
or in Northern Virginia,) was chosen to
act as Chief Marshal of the 10th of May
ceremonies. Maj. John Hughes will
deliver the address-taking as his sub
ject the Life and Death of the Gallant
l.. O'Brien Branch.
1t was also decided to hold an open
Fair Festival in Capitol Square, some
pleasant night in May, where mirth and
music and moonlight may make ii
pleasant to contribute freely to the
funds Of the Association.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

Mrs. Georgiana Griffin, of a re.
spectacle social circle at Erie, New York.
has deserted her husband and fed with a
negro bod carrier named Charles Holmes.
...Shelby-J. F. Stephens & Sons.
general store, assigned. Townesville-
W ID. Burwell. general store, assigned.
Liabilities So, 900.
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NEWSPAPER NEws.-Our enterpris-
in young townsman, P~inckney c. En-
mis-, Esq, has issued his prospectus for
the i" Exposition Ners,'-to appear
April lst, and continue until Nov. lst,
as a weekly, and expediting to a daily
during the 2S days of the Exposition. 1t
is designed to fully, and weekly, report
the Expo. doings and progress. Price
20 cts. for 3 mos; or IS cts. for the full
period. Circulation of 5000 copies.
Good wishes .-Mr. John Spelman,
the veteran journalist, announces the
resumption of the State Journal next
week. 1t will carry the Coalition Flag,
we suppose and will support President
Arthur for denomination. Mr.. John
Nichols tells an Observer reporter that
the Republicans are almost an unit in
favor of Arthur at the present time
Jacob y. Long, Esq, of Yanceyville.
has taken the editorship of the Casrell
County NewS, just started in that coun
ty. Mr.. Long has the ability and de-
cision to make an influential editor land
trance into the journalistic path, we
shall be glad to get the Caswell items.
The county is a rich and ''weedy'' re-
gion, and has long needed more puff
ng.'Mr. E. N. Journey is asso-
ciate editor of the Durham Plant, and
gathers numerous items.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

NEW YORK MARKETs.-Money II
a. per cent; cotton steady at III 3-l6
Gil 1-16c.; southern -four dull, at SO so
G6 so; wheat, No 2 red March 81 OS! !:
corn, ungraded 52G61c; rosin firm at
81 5O9 1924; spirits turpentine dull and
lower a. 34c,7
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Ny Wife's Nervous Affection.

we had ceased to hope that my wife's
nervous affection could be cured writes
Rev. j. A. Edie, of Beaver, Pa. MANY
physician failed to do her good, but
Sanadritan Neruine has cured her" At
druggists.
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For the Farmer and Mechanic
Fourteen Pounds Of Carp.
MANLY. y. C.. March II.

MANLY, y. G. March II
Since the exhibition on u streets a
few days ago BY our boss fisherman, g.
w. Adams, OF two German carp weigh
ing - lbs. which he took from his pond
near Manly, we have a number OF in
quiriSs as to how to get young carp
who to apply to. VIII you please give
the information. Yours, b.
The State Fish Hatcher, Mr.. ). q.
Worth, has a fresh supply of the eggs,
we understand and a late Bulletin of
the Agricultural Dept. contains detailed
information, with Illustrations. Write
to Mr.. z. VI. Wilson for copies of the
latter; and to Mr. Worth for the carp
seed. He is now at Avoca, y. c., we
think. In addition to these you might
| write Prof s. T. Baird. Washington. d.
c.. who is at the head OF the L. :. Fish
Commission, and has printed numerous
pamphlets. DR.. Il. L. Beall. OF Lenoir.
\. c., has been writing a series of pa
pers, describing fish ponds, and his
methods. The Industrial South. OF
Richmond, Va, has a lengthy account.
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SENSATIONAL, BUT SUGGESTIVE OF A
SMILE: '-SEVERAL SMILEs.-Gn Sun
day Governor Jarvis received a telegram
from solicitor Or. S. Ferguson, stating
that there was reason to believe that Ed
ward Ray and W. A. Anderson (who
February 10 murdered three men In a
mica mine in Mitchell county, contem-
plated escaping from the jail at Ashe
vile. Governor Jarvis at once ordered
Capt. w. I. Weaver, of the Asheville
Light Infantry, to detail for duty so manv
of his men as might be needed to aid IN
guarding the prisoners and in their reno
val, reporting to either of the sherifs of
Buncombe or Henderson, or both, as
might be necessary. The jail at Asheville
is said not to be a strong one. The
meaning of the words farms at their
command must be that Anderson and
Ray have armed friends upon whose aid
they count.
The following is copy of the telegram
from solicitor q. 5. Ferguson, dated at
Hcndersonville, March %: Il am in
structed by Judge Graves to say that he
has information that Ray AID Anderson
IN AsheVllle Jail are not safely kept and
that he has ordered them delivered to
lue SueilII Ol |IicuueTSOn county for safe
keeping that he is further informed
that they have arms at their command
and ~apprehends danger of resistance to
his order, and therefore requests you to
order the company of the State Guard at
Ashevllle to assist the sheriff of Bun
combe in holding the prisoners to night
and aid the sheriff Of Henderson in de,
llverlng them to the jail in Henderson
vile"
The Governor sent solicitor Ferguson
the following telegram: Il have direct
ed the Captain of the Asheyil!e ompany
to aid the sheriff in enforcing the order
of Judge Graves. Ask Judge Graves if
ne could not select a better county. Is
not Henderson too near the South Caro-
lima line? Had he not better send them
down the railroad to some county in the
middle Of the State. "-Neus- OLserrer
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HoRNER SCHOOL.
O\FOkD. y &.

IlHE SPRING ~ESsGON or 1el WELL ..
L kin the secoud Mau1ts 4u J.nuar,. ..
as heretofore. Send for catalogue
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.6- Now is the time to give Srith,e
Worm OIL. ~ .
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T. ]. w. D. HoRNER'S
Classical, Mathematical. AMI
Commercial School
HENDERSON, VANCE Co, \. c.

The Spring Session begins on tn. ii.
Of January, 1851 The school is .ra..
sible rs location hcalthiuI. The terms.
reasonable aud the Recommendations Ell.
%cellent. The teachers are tried AVID .s.
perienced. In the management 81 tie
school no pans are spared to MAX. i
answer the wishc, of is patrons. l.r
circular and particulars addre-- the rr.-
cipals,
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MARRIAGES At the residence of Mr..
E A. johnson, on East Martin Street
at s o'clock last night by the Rev. l.
Branson, Mr.. d. A. THAN. of Johnston
county. to Miss Octavia T. Belvir.-
Married in Edgecombe on the 18th, Mr..
Joseph S. Jones Jr.. of Warren, and
Miss Mcklnnle, of Texas.-At the
residence of the brides father 10 Buck
horn Township, Wake county. n. c., on
March the 10Th, 1881 ty Rev. j. NJ.
Holleman, of Apex, Mr.. David Ii.
Wheeler of Holly Springs. n. c., to Miss
Mary f. Nash, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Joseph Nash, of Wake
James NJ. Norwood, of Winston aud Miss
Lou c. Welborne, of High Point, were
married In Salem on Saturday night,
VIM. Barrow, Esq, officiating.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

Glad to learn that Rev. W.. 5. Lacy
has fully recovered from his recent sick
ness.
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ECm Embellishments.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-11-27
THE MOON AND VEGETATION.

Much occult and mysterious influence has
been, and is still. attributed to the moon as
affecting and ruling agricultural methods
and systems. | have known very success
tul onion planter who would never plant his
onion seed except when the moon was in a
certain phase or position, ns matter.how fa-
vorable the weather woulE appear to the
average observer, and his success was pro-
verbal. The explanation may be found in
the fact which took the pains TO observe,
that he took exceeding pains to cultivate
thoroughly and intellgently. which GER
result than observing and following the
quarters of the moon. Many sugar makers
will insist that the sap rams best when the
moon is right. and if it be true that the
weather is affected that the changes of the
moon there may be something in it; | am
not sufficiently verSed in meteorology to
venture an opinion Of any value. OF course
the weather affects the process of nature, as
weather is in and OF nature, but that the
moon affects the weather is doubted by
many, and fully believed in by others. 1t is
certain that certain signs OF the moon pre-
diet almost infallibly wet. and other signs
predict dry weather, and it is equally GER
tain that all our boasted knowledge of me-
teorology, when put to decided test, but
too often fails, and the wind still " bloweth
where it listeth;" we are like children play
ing on the seashore, while the wide ocean OF
meteorological science lies comparatively
unexplored before Us. But little confidence
can be placed in weather predictions. except
perhaps tor a very limited time, such as for
torty-eight hours. Notwithstanding the
time and study spent at the signal stations,
weater probabilities are regarded by many
as fully as likely to prove untrue as other
WiSe.-E1.