The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-02
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leaves at 5.l0 p. M. or l'-io.
MANY items and articles prepared
for this issue are from necessity ohii'-
ted.
Sec Legal Notice given by Messrs.
A. NJ. Lewis 81 Son and also q py
Dr Hawkins and Col. Clark. trustees.
Sorry to learn that Prof. Jerome
uorpar.s trunk was stolen at Oxford,
while he was absent at Raleigh
Prof John +. Digger, a good man
and good teacher, Supt. of the Rocky
Moupt Graded School. spent part OF the
week in Raleigh, and welcomed.
Raleigh shortage in cotton is not so
bad after all. And we notice that New
bern is behind three thousand bales,
and Charlotte over 1000 bales. The
little towns eat up the big.
-Hoke Secrest. the wife and child
murderer. has been removed from Nor
canton Jail to M~organton Asylum his
actions clearly establishing his insanity
and sustaining DIR. Grissom's opinion.
Another bad affair. A man named
Robert Yorke, while at a party. slipped
behind a man named y. Priest, shoot
ing the latter in the head, probably ia
tally. The parties reside between Cam
eron and Manly Station.
Mr.. j. A. May, of Franklin, last
week removed to Haywood county, to
engage in fruit culture. He says he has
seen the fruit of many regions, but no
spot of the United States can equal the
apples of Haywood.
Pleasant calls from Capt. Garland
f. Webb, the popular -warehouseman,
whom one of the Durham papers
says is the best a%uctioneer in the place
also, Bro. Jas. c. Robinson and Mr.. L
III. Nelson. o. Winston, en- route to Ok.
ford Odd-Fellows celebration.
The Farmer and Mechanic has been
selected as the Official Bulletin of the
Raleigh Postoffice. for 1864,-and will
contain a weekly list of Due Letters,
etc. Persons residing u OF town
would do well to keepan eye to the list
The Christmas business card sent
by the Oliver Chilled Plow Company,
South Bend. Ind, is a beautiful chrome
lithograph, representing the old yeai
with many fearful accidents by food
and field) and the New Year with lis
bright promise.
1t is a poor newspaper nowadays
that isn't able to brag about a big hoe
in the community. Wake county show
ed up last week with a pair of pOrkers,
weighing 4.S4! and 4.594, killed Dec.
Il, by MIR. Henry Kelley. They were
Is months old, and brothers /; of Old
Field lineage and oonswineguinity.
The sign of a big golden horseshoe,
nearly opposite TIE city clock, will show
YOU where Messrs. Julius Lewis & Co.,
are handsomely installed in their new
building, with a welcome for you, and
hardware for the million. They are here
to stay.
-Rev. DR.. Blrkhead preached two
sermons against Dancing, at Newbern
The Journal stirs up society with this
sort of paragraph:
I'VE Imagine that it would be hard fol-
any member of his church, or of any
other Protestant denomination, who
heard these discourses, to engage in the
modern dance without feeling that they
are in the wrong place. The Doctor
took the ground that it was not only SIN
ful for protesting christians to join in the
modern dance, but also for men ant
women outside the church,"
Ouch! Seat o sweet sinners!
Til. is election year /; = the Farme,
and Mechanic will tell you all about it
Oaly 81.
This year we elect a new Governor
the Farmer and Mechanic will tell you
his name-between now and next
Christmas. Fifty-two weeks for 81.
This year we elect congressman
the Farmer and Mechanic will point
lleIu OUl. 1LDOk tul " Gllc Lu0Illt
Only 50 a year.
This year We elect county officers
The Farmer and Mechanic is Wake.
awake. Candidates will please remit 90,
and charge it to the poor house when
they get there.
Tie F s. NJ acknowledges the cour
tesy of a ticket to the grand annual bal
OF Oxford Lodge, No. lO3. L F., to.
morrow night. Committee of Arrange.
ments G p Hester, j F Edwards, j b
Bryan, II l. Bobbitt, L NJ Washington
l. HI Walker, f t RAWLINGS. Com.
mittee on Invitation II G. Cooper. f
b Hines. DIR + L White, A S Davis, {
ID Hunt. Juo B Booth, f L Crews
Floor Managers: w a Bobbitt, ] G
Hunt. EFT Jones, J + Rogers, A S Hall
Honorary Managers: J Payne, Jno I
Woodland, III G Bates, j j Litchford, d.
5 D Booth, { NJ Busbee, b H Woodell
Hon \ II A Williams, w F Rogers.
Walk jail resembles the ruins O
Fort Sumpter but the population in,
creases. 1t now numbers %. Las
week. two white men, Williams ant
Hood, were jailed for murder; two ne.
groes, VIM. and Walter Parker, were
sent in for robbing Mr.. w. II. II. Jones
corn-crib; Cy Palmer, col committed
by Justice Joseph Blake, for obtaining
money on false p%retense /; a tramp fol-
stealing an overcoat; three negroes fol
petty stealing; and sundry olher sinners
for similar slip-ups. Judge James E.
Shepherd will hold the next term Of
Wake Superior court, beginning Jan. 7.