The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-24
Items for the Ladies.

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ure of calls from nearly q dozen of Its
lady friends TIE past week. but among
them none were more appreciated than
that of a lady of Chatham, mother Of
Mrs. A. III. Merritt, aud also Mrs. Lieut..
Thos. NJ. Davidson, of Statesville, to
whose home she was proceeding. This
good lady is one of those true daughters
of the Old North State whose hearts are
yet warm for the men of Appomattox,
even though strangers personally. We
often think the war developed a stead
fast nobility of feeling among Southern
women superior ii may be to the physical
courage of the soldiery. Prom Mrs.
Col. +. A. Olds We learn that the Raleigh
Ladies Memorial Association by its re-
cent festival earned funds to pay all inci-
dental expenses and leave q balance Of
about $3.50 in the treasury for future
needs.-ln this connection we wisk to
call attention to the Ladies Bazaar to be
held at Go dsboro Fair, Nov. Is-2lst. to
raise funds IN aid of the Confederate
Home" From Mrs. Lieut.. T. II. Balm,
president of Goldsborc l.. NJ. A., we
learn that the ladies will keep an eating
stand on the Fair Grounds, with oysters.
barbecued fowls, cookies, etc; together
with a stand for sale of Fancy Articles in
Floral Hail. The ladies ask us to urge
all friends of the movement in every part
of the State to send contributions, either
OF money, needle work, or edibles, as
they most conveniently can. There are
no doubt hundreds Of ladies who could
employ their leisure in making fancy
uIck-nacko that would bear fruit tor good
10 these many years to come "A letter
describing a visit to Mexico by a Young
lady formerly of Raleigh. Miss Annie
Miller, now residing among the Indians.
will appear in next weeks L. K NJ
Mrs. V. Z. Aver returned last week from
a tour through Eastern Carolina, well
pleased with the country, except the
items of Africans and agues. OF the
white people she speaks in high terms.
Victoria and Ernest have set all the
silly girls in Yankeedom to plotting
now they may create a sensation.-
Miss Roma Sickles, a neice of Gen. Dan
Sickles, roamed away last week with
one of her guardians clerks. The old
gentleman reflected that it was a thing
bound to happen sooner or later with
the romantic Roma ; therefore gave the
young couple money enough to start in
business, and seemed so well pleased
that the runaways will soon get sick of
their eXperiment.-Then Miss Eta
Turnbull, daughter of one of the wealth
iaC4 nnrl-CN.lor &c .ylI,aw0 - .--.r
one of her fathers hog-stickers-a biz
muscular fellow who must have looked
very interesting while daubed with the
blood and slime of the butcher pen.
Still he may make her happier than
some dainty dude" who would always
look nice, but act the brute.-It was
a curious coincidence that Mrs. General
Custer and Sitting Bull, the murderer of
her husband, were both conspicuous in
the columns of the New York papers
last week. The lady was driven from
her home by an incendiary fire, during
which she was robbed of her money and
valuable relics of her husband. ''Sitting
Bull' has been taken TO that city at the
expense of the government is enter
tanned at one of the finest hotels fares
su~mptuously every day is dined, wined
and stared at, feted aud lionized until he
acts as if he owned not only the grand
ca~ravansary where he stops. but the
rest of the city and the United States as
well.--IIenderson Gold Leaf says:
Miss Maggie Parish, of tIillsboro, and
Miss Bessie Lynch, of Oxford, are visit
Ing Mrs. George Adams. Miss Halle,
sister of Mr.. j. r. Young, has gone to
Raleigh to attend school. Miss Maggie
kingsbury, of Wilmington. is visiting
the family of Col. L. l. Jones. Mrs.
Il. l.. Daingerfield and her sister, Miss
Fannie Campbell, have returned home
after a pleasant stay of several weeks
at Fayetteville. W. are brave
creatures. The North Carolina mis-
sionaries now in China are in a state Of
much peril, as the anger of the Yellow
skins has been aroused by French as
saults until there is risk of a general
massacre of all foreigners. Last week
Rev. L. L. Baldwin, of Greensboro,
with his wife and pretty daughter, pass
ed through Raleigh (receiving a public
farewell from the Baptists) en- route
to Tangiers, in Algeria Us miles South
Of Gibraltar) where they will spend their
lives teaching the kabyles, a tribe of
Moorish negroes or Arabs.-Niss
Lennie Greenlee, of Mcdowell, started
last week to attend an Ohio college for
study in Music and Art. More than
half a dozen young ladies of our ~acquain-
lance are attending a New England In
stitute. What a pity !-Miss Nellie
Williamson has entered a well known
Richmond female seminary, on Grace
St., to complete her education.
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