The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-08

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Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Are you going to the EXposition:
III it rains.'' This is heard in every
section Of the State. The dry weather
Is keeping away hundreds and hundreds
of people.
1t was at 1.-THE suggestion OF Miss May
Wood Alexander that Gen. Johnston
Pettigrew was called into the service Of
North Carolina.
DR.. T. J. b, of Bait, thinks the
C1pyiel-JouruaEs allusion to the n. y.
WoyId unjust. The latter paper lie
considers a faithful worker for Cleveland
and Democratic principles.
Winston Lea1er says a single gro
Ger Of that city sold 10000 pounds Of
Northern pork within two weeks past.
Truly our people keep their smoke
houses out West.
DIR. Paul L. Butuer, a young physi-
can of line promise, died Of consump-
ton in Forsyth county Oh Friday. lie
was 4 son of Prof. y. Butncr. county
Supt. OF Public instruction in that coun-
~.
1t was feared that the withdrawal
OF Col. j. L.. Polk partner ID the DIph-
iberia Cure Company tyoung Holman,
son of a rich Baptist p%reacher) would
...,t'r- -,T,,r, IL. y,,..n-. az tn. Tutnr-
prise; but we learn from a recent visitor
at Col. nolk's Office in Boston hat he has
several clerks and y constant stream of
callers many Of whom testify to cures
by his medicine.
The men Of ST. Paul, Num-, were
nearly all converted to St. John, the Pro-
hibitionist, one right last week. The
thermometer stood at 50 for many hours,
and the heat was frightful. People tclt
like the old Eutchman who discovered
the Warm Springs, below Asheville. He
was travelling with his son, and seeing a
spring stopped to drink, but quaffed only
one mouthfui, for as his eyes di>ccrned
the hot steam bubbing from the water,
he spluttered Drive on, Shoni, drive
on! Climb der ridge! For Hell himself
be's just ALI mile under dis creek. |
schmell 'ees s~mokepipc!'
Sewing Machine Agents are getting
to be rather noted for adventures with
pretty women. Cases like the Turpin,
IrarrTnr+,n arI cIn,r1.- - ~, - I,,-, -
ured in the papers for years past. At
Newberry, :. c., last week an agent
named J. J. Williams enticed n pretty
but giddy girl named Annie Southern to
clope with him; though fortunately for
her, ere the wedding day was over, Il
relative discovered that Williams had a
wife in Georgia. He eloped, but said lie
would return when he got 4 divorce.
Gen. HawIcy, Gen. Atkins (who
married Gov. Swain's ~daughter), Col.
Carl A. Woodruff who married Miss Ef-
tie Haywood, Capt. Hays who married a
Morganton lady, Capt. S. ID. Wait who
married a sister OF Col. Geo. Folk. and
numerous other Northern men were in
town last week, watching the liberal dis
play Of Ben Buffers b~unting-the loyal
Red, White and Blue" Somebody
asked us why we did not fling such a
flag to the breeze~dust. Reply: 1t We
don't like anything hat is Ring streak
ed and Striped" md. We don't care
to pay tribute to Beast "Bottled' Butler,
and he manufactures the bunting from
which all I. S. flags are made.
The nomination of Mr.. Hugh l..
Cole as Il of the Tammany Hall can
dldatcs for Judse of the county court in
New York City, is pleasant news for
his North Carolina friends, though it
comes much later than he expected
when he went North directly after the
war. He was at that time Il dashing.
rather self-conScquentjaI youth who
.lncicd the world his ovster.-elsily to
he opened by an eloquent tongue.
Twenty years vi hard work, and strict
IL adherence to party, have at length
gwen him foothold upon the ladder,
and We doubt not that the New York
press IS right in saying that he deserves
It. He has relatives in Newbern and
Raleigh; Mrs. Fred C.. Rob berts OF tie
former city being his sister.
When Col. T.. &. stevens. one Of
o Massachusetts subscribers, was IN
Granville, lac politely smiled his skepti-
cism over stories that tobacco lands in
the North Carolina Bright Yellow
Belt often brought $500 per acre.
"Well,'- said Mr.. John Y. Williams.
There is a sale row i'll progress let
Us 20 and interroeatc some OF the far
mers. MeSsrs. Crews, IIocgood. Til
ley, Currin, and others, were asked if
they lad any land to sell. Not a foot
was the reply. Well then tell Us the
best returns you ever had from an acre.
SN hundred dollars was found to be the
highest, and only one could claim that
but several said they had made from
four 10 five hundred per acre., These
replies so astonished one of the North
orn visitors. a New England school
teacher, that he scooped up Il pint of
dirt, wrapped it in a newspaper and
too. It home with him to ,how his
friends the soil which equaled a gold
anticipating 400 a year in weeds!
OF course Mr.. Williams explained
that there are only small sections of
twenty of twenty or thirty square miles
which produce such crops; though the
entire Bright Tobacco Belt will average