The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-01

October 18th will cook the cake.
10 and West Va. vote that day.
Nails and such like are now cheaper
Raleigh than the iron out Of which they
ire fashioned.
Prayers for rain are being offered IN
churches Of Petersburg and other sections
# Va.
The Raleigh Car Company will de-
clare a dividend the LIST prox. This ID
the face of the daily suspensions OF SINH
lar companies at the North.
Lieut.. Lemly, Of Winston, will lee
turc there this week on his observation
in the Polar REGIONS on the Greeley Re
lief Expedition.
DR.. d Reid Parker, who has work
ed z~eaIously 10 get up Randolph county's
exhibit gave Us n pleasant call last
week.
The Durham Infantry is consider
cd the most stylish IN the Guard. 1t
wears the Blue, but not the ''Hegula-
ton" hue.
John Mccullough, the noted tragic
actor, was Kissed off the stage in Cleve-
land, the audience s%upposing him drunk.
1t turns out that his brain has broken
down.
Isaac Newton, a noted Engineer
who rant the Monitor III her fight with
the Nerrimac. cut his throat last week.
He lad endorsed a note and it threat
encd to leave him poor.
Raleigh Light Infantry has been
formally disbanded, and the arms re-
turned. y new company composed OF
well known young men, under the title
OF the Governors Guards" is being
quietly worked up.
Mr.. a. Winton, an experienced Rail-
road Civil Engineer of Harrisburg, Pa,
came to Raleigh last week in search Of
complementary kind of surveying. He
brought letters to us tcstifying his relia-
blity. He says there is an utter pros
tration of business IN Pa, coal, iron, car
building, etc, etc, are hopelessly fiat.
Mrs. Z. Morehcad, Mrs. Fries, Miss
blanche Fentress, Mrs. Goodloe, Miss
Nal. Haywood, Miss Lavine Haywood,
Mrs. Il. J.. Powell, Mrs. Jackson and
numerous other ladies are lending their
assistance to make the Exposition at
tractiye.
"A pleasant call rom that estimable
gentleman, Lieut-Colonel w. II. Fitz-
gerald, of the State Guard. In the
handsome grey uniform of the Monroe
company, he looks like one of r. +.
Lees people,"
II. 7. Dortch, ESD, is Chief Mar
shall of Rocky Mount Fair. Among the
Assistant Marshals are Messrs. Geo. l..
kimberley, T. ]. Braswell, DIR. II. B.
Marriott, A. P. Thorpe, Duke Battle,
Frank Graves, ct al.
Since we penned the note last week.
sitting Bull, " the slayer of Custer has
Killed another man. In New York, Fri
day, J. X. Gardiner was passing a fence,
and Stopped to look at a big picture of
the Indian. At this moment a huge
stone urn blew of the roof of Eden
-N9See, and dashed out his brains. He
never knew what hit him. Had he not
stopped he would have escaped.
Mrs. Annie Wetmore, who swears
she is a neice of Andrew Johnston,
whose sister was her mother, is still rails
ing a row in New York, claiming as her
husband (her FIFTH husband) one Halves,
who is claimed by several other women.
Mrs. Wetmore is rich, and has been
richer; but all the testimony goes to
show she is a great liar, and has had q
great variety of husbands, with all the
returns not yet in.
The Friedmau-Shurer elopement
now divides attention in New York with
the Morosini-Helscampf affair. Young
Friedman claims to be tie son of a colo
mel, and a brother-in. law of ex Senator
Solomons of La. But the Shurers said
his family wasn't good enough to mate
with theirs; so The young geese eloped-
the girl actually abandoning 10 costly
Paris dressesl There's devotion,
"A description of Capt. Renaud's
electric balloon has been published. 1t
has acigar-shapcd gasbag and an electric
engine turns 4 scrcw-propeller made out
Of canvas. These revolving air paddles
guide the balloon and propel it. Capt.
Renaud and his partner, Krebs, arose i'll
air and made a voyage Of ten miles and
then returned to exactly the Az spot
from which they started. But the dav
was one of the ~stillest of the year. The
experiment is considered very encourage
me. 1t shows that electricity, by fur
nishing a strong motor without much
trcjgbt, has made it very possible that
We may some day so to New York by
balloon. Such 4 thing would not seem so
improbable as it would have seemed ten
Years ago to be talking through a wire
or telephone.
Towns people have no conception of
the hardships of the prevalent drouth of
the past month. The dry and sparsely-
soiledridge farms ofCentral Carolina from
Hillsboro to Halifax have suffered severe
ly. County papers report the mills stopped
streams dry, springs falling, crops suffer-
ing. An old man, with tears In his voice,
said to us-'I had the finest crop up to
August lst the Lord ever loaned me; but
it's mostly ruint now" He took two
gloomy a view though it must be sore
iy trying to seq a splendid prospect scorch-
ing day by day at the season of harvest.
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