The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-10

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bOrO.
The newspapers are again making a
Bustle in Social Circles. The giil' seem
to forget that every paper has a great
many Is IN 1t.
The vital portions of Bill Burwell
who was supposed to be poisoned at
Newton, were brought to Raleigh last
week for examination by State Chemist
Dabney. DabneY was up North, so
nothing could lie done but the four
.upposed murdertrs Will be held IN jail
until an examination can be made by
the State Chemist
Cant. +. y. Waddell sends a ticket
TO Western y. G. Fair, at Ashevllle, -
26 inst. We should enjoy being pres
ent not only 10 meet old friends, but to
witness some OF the development OF
that re.ion for which we have given
more time and labor than perhaps any
editor now on the State press.
= nt cOulLtSS Dl lAduiOu uIlNaic w
have been we'll named. Although clear
" a n~o-accountess morally speaking, she
knows how to stifen her back like a ram
rod in matters of trade, She has rejec-
ted Prince Louis offer of $1,000 a year
to take her board aud washing out Of his
house and will not bulge an inch until
he doubles the fee.
All three of the Durham apers con-
denim the umpire of the games between
the Banner and the Swiftfoot nile. We
do not know either the facts or the UNI
pire but we have been assured that his
rulings are strictly in accord with the
Rules, and that they have not been OBJ
jected to by other clubs; and that he
stands so straight as to rather lean over
towards visiting clubs. This is said by
dozens of gentlemen who don't care two
cents which side wins.
Texas .SJtings is supporting Beast
Butler, and ]. Armory Knox, the editor,
has become one Of the Beasts Execu-
utive committee. We confess to having
sent the t~reacherous sheet two or three
dozen subscribers but it was done while
the paper was published at Austin, Texas.
1t was recently removed to New York
and has become as nasty as the Police
Gazette.
Hickory Caroiinian has the advan-
tage of a bright and sensible daughter
of Carolina land member of the f. 4 NJ.
Household) for second lieutenant or adju-
tant, or, maybe, commander-in-chief
That paper remarks :-"Great minds run
in the same channel. Our better half is
always happy after she has moved furni-
ture from place to place about the same
room, and so changed the position and
~lacation of the bed that when We wake
up in the night we don't know where or
who we are. She is also happy when she
reads the Farmer and Mechanic, but her
greatest degree of mortal felicity was at
tanned when she found her own cherished
opinions expressed in her ~favorite paper
as follows"
-Tourgee has about reached the end
of another Fools Errand' in real life.
After making a fortune by his ISLANDERS on
the land which gave him '%'ofice," if not
"honors he embarked in a newspaper
enterprise which has been undergoing all
manner of fluctuations, until it last week
celebrated its birthday by Topping out OF
Alblon's hands forever. 1t sank $780,
900. 1t was sold to Frank Leslie
which, by the by, is no longer Demo-
cratic, the majority of its pictures be-
ing fashioned to cast ridicule on the
Democratic candidates. Tourgee is to
continue as editor of the Continent,
on a salary SO whatever profit accrues
from the papers abuse of the South will
60 into Mrs. Frank Leslie's pockets. Re-
member this. No one has & right 10
complain of Yankee lies on our people, if
he send his money to support such lying
sheets.
in making our inquiries as to the ex-
tent of the tobacco field, adjacent to
Raleigh, We asked Mr.. West of Messrs.
julius Lewis s. Co., to allow us to glance
over their list of farmers to whom they
had sold Barn-flues. The result was a
surprise. We found hat fues had been
sent to at least seven counties the to.
tal running above $50 barns though
the season rs yet is not complete. Some
of the fue: went as far South as Alma
and LAUREL IN Robson and Richmond
counties !; Some as far North as Little.
ton and Warren Plains. This shows
how wide a territory will be within ship
ping distance of Raleigh, and how large
crop can be made as fast as needed
On Messrs. Lewis & Vests list we no.
tice a large number of old readers of the
Farmer and Mechanic, including the fol.
lowing whom we congratulate upon theil
advance into this more profitable field o
industry II. e. Olive, Parker
4 Snellings, Chas. L. Hinton, J. III
Rogers, and others of Wake; b. w. Bal
lard, Norman Long, d. T. Ward, L. G.
Stanton, A. w. Wilson, j. S. Joyner.
and others of Franklin Edgerton Bros.
w. H. Rowland, w. +. Spruill and Others
of Warren; w. A. Sloan, The McIvers.
j. NJ. Stephens, and others of Moore
Wilkinson 81 Fore of Richmond, etc.
etc. This is a good beginning. and W.
hope to see it quadrupled next year
that is, both our readers and tobacco
growers.
Right here let us note that the ToJac.
co Journal, an authority on such sub
jects, last week declared there need be
no fears of an Over-crop of Tobacco, and
Tor the same reasons cited by the Far
mer and 4echrntc two months ago;
namely that the increase of popula.
ton far exceeds the increase acreage. OF
while the spread in the use of tobacco,
IN all its various shaDes. far surpa sses