The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-23

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The Raleigh Lodge. knights OF
Labor is numbered 3,2,2, 80 there must
be a good many out o knights. Whites
and blacks belong TO that order.
Mai. Stedman went to Greensboro
last week to consult with Gen. Scales
after which he went to Asheville, and
viii begin a canvas of the West about
the 10th of next month.
Prof. Venable at Chapel Hill, is ez.
nce,inr a visit next month from his kins-
man, Prof Chas. S. Venable, of Va the
sId soldier, who has been spending his va
c~at,oni 10 London.
Mr.. Ashley Horne prints a we'll
cypressed letter, stating that he cannot
he \ candidate for tie Senate owing TO
pr.cate reasons though he wishes sue
cess 70 The party.
About two dozen editors from Ten
ncssce. and about the same number of
RicGsville Light Infantry passed down
TO Norehcad on Monday. Arts and
arms. Pen and swordl Who licks?
The hardware Ninc,"R +. Lums-
den. captain; and the ''Grocers Nine"
w. Ford Taylcr, captain, Will play a
match game a. the Ball Park this after
noon The receipts to 60 to st. Johns
1Icspita.
w. C. Parish. of Durham county,
Offers $50 reward for John NJ. Thomas
who shot him July L.; and the town of
Durham oilers $3.50 for the man who
rlaceG distractions on the track June
%.
Capt. l.. A. Mills, President of the
Spar'anburg and Rutherford r. L., and
enc of tire best il,dges Of stock in the
South, adverfiscs Thoroughbred Jerseys
for sac. lie is at a convenient point for
Si.x)mcnt, and viii treat you right.
-CrAaus happenings nowadays. A
man a1t so excited ii the Chicago DEM
9c.atic Convention he went crazy, and
h-i to be pr, il the nearest asylum.
Another man. in Connecticut, after list
ching to Il sermon against liquor-dcal-
ers went out, and died.
The State papers are telling about
line crops Of mllIet. Capt. Is. p. Will
hanson has haitian acre near the centre
of Raleigh that is waist high, and so
thick that the g~rasshoppcrs get lost in
it, and have to yell for the police, 1t
IS a good thing. well grown.
Take 4 peep at the new card Of the
Tucker Hall Emporium. II has two
doors and both wide open. Clever
young men up that way, and most of
them unbridaled,-matrimouially speak
MISUNDERSTANDING that Leap Year
Is half gone, \ chance for IaSs-oes.
Col. Beasley, President Of the SOL
dicr's Home Association, last week re-
ceived his first cGSh subscription, i. c
fifty cents from Mr.. Jas. Il. Tuner, OF
Popular Hill, Arkansas,-who lost three
brothers in the war, and feels that he
must give his mite towards a home for
their old comrades.
For the first time since the war.
Capt. Marsh Alexander is not Il candi-
date for Sheriff in Mecklenburg county
Che having declincd) and as the Office
pays as much as the Go%vernorship there
is a scramble-almost equal to that
which Will bcset eX-Sheriff Grover
Cleveland after November next.
We do not belong to the n. G.
Press Association, but nine in ten OF its
members are our friends, we think ,
therefore it is pleasant to note that the
annual meeting has been changed 10
this city, where it will occur in October
next. The occasion will he a royal one
for a turnout en- masse, and We have no
doubt if a few changes in the organiza-
ton be made, the majority Of the press
will unite with it.
At the first news of Blaine's nomina-
ton, Gen. James Longstreet telegraphcd
a gushy congratulation. And yesterday
Nj. Arthur's cabinet telegraphed Gen.
Jun to resign the Office of Marshal of
Georgia, on the ground of careIessness
and i~ncompetency. So the poor Oh SOL
der goes adrift, in disgrace, in his old
age! But We don't doubt that his re-
removal was excusable, for we know Of
old that he was negligent if not lazy.
-Newspapcr people see heaps of ro-
nance (Yes. we knew you'd all
laugh9 But fact is stranger than
felton, and the wide-awake ncwspa-
, per Ives or facts. Don't have much
OF anything else to live on. nowadays.)
Recently a LADY wrote TO US for Il situa-
ton as gOyernesS. Sooa afterwards q
Wdower applied ior a housckeeper. We
put them into communication, and BOW
he twain" are ''aine; - the lady be
coming wife, h~Ousckeeper. and COVER
ness. all IN ouc,-as a recent marriage
notice stated. Quick work. Next?
"A very neat pamphlet edition of
Mai. John Hughes Memorial Day Adj
dress on the Life and Services of Gen.
T.. OBJ. Branch, has been printed for
private circulation by the family Of the
gallant Confederate, whose portrait
adorns the ~title-pagc. We make our
Acknowledgements TO Mrs Robt. IL.
Jones for a copy of the pamphlet; and
though We think the biographical Incl
dents might have been made much full
Ter 1--WE had collected a great many items