The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-24

LEX President Jefferson Davi
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Xxx President Jefferson Davis.
health is said to be failing fast.
....Mr. Cleveland proposes to move
from Albany to New Yerk soon after
New Years.
....Gov. Eaton, of Colorado, accord.
ing 10 the Greeley Tribune, cleared $50,
900 by this years farming.
lone of the most startling things
revealed in DR.. Holmes life Of Ralph
Waldo Emerson is that the great Yam
kee poet and philosopher always had pie
a breakfast.
lord Byron, after buying a goose
to eat on Michaelmas day, tearing that it
might be to lean, fed 1t every day fol a
month previously, %whereupen the poet
| and the bird became so mutually attached
hat when Sept. % arrived he could not
kill it. but bought aud devouEed another
ia its stead.
.-..Jay Gould's steam yacht Atalanta,
which has been undergoing repairs az
Cromp's ship yard, has been ordered to
New York this week. \ $1,000 steam
launch has been added to the Atalanta's
outfit. II February her owner and a
number Of his friends viii sail from New
l. OIh " Z
....Mr. Julian Hawthorne. in a re.
cent lecture stated that no Englishman
is a gentleman because he is continually
looking down on somebody. and look
inc up to somebody else. There is no
Englishman, he says, so humble or so
high that he is not at once cOndeScending
and humble, a state OF things which he
considers fatal to chance Of a gentleman
hood.
1.-THE Messenger is at present the
only paper published in this city We
hear it stated that the Messrs. Hollowell
will not resume publication of the Bule-
tin. The Methodist 1draRce will start
again but the publishers have not yet
fully decided as to the point of publica-
ton. Since Mr., Robey las been assign
ed to the church at Charlotte the remov-
al of the paper to that point is under
Observation-Disclosures Messenger.
1.-The New York World OF Tuesday
gives this glimpse of social degradation
and unsavory scandal.
'The excitement incident to the elope-
ment of Farmer Terry and Mrs. Clary
Downs, wife of the pastor of the COngre-
g%ational Church at Worthwhile, i. l., had
hardly subsidized when the town was over
whelmed by the news that Mrs. May
Arch, the handsome married woman IN
the town, had eloped with a colcred man
of Ouogue. She was the wife of Eph-
rain Arch, a wealthy farmer of
Quogue.'
lit must be a hard matter for a poor
man to live in London. Laborers get
40 II -l 30 lz1l-
keeper, So, skilled mechanics, IS. A
seven-roomed house within three mile.
of the heart ofthe city costs 5000 a year.
Beef and mutton are "a cents a pound.
Clothing is not as cheap as in Philadel
phia. Working people live IN bread,
cheese and beer, with meat once or twice
a month. Even on these wretched salar-
ries and with this miserable food they
seem to be contented, attend church Sun
DAYS. and heartily thank God for tha
blessings they enjoy.
AT the recent session of the n. G.
Conference held in Washington, Trinity
College was placed under the supervision
of three laymen. Messrs j. w. Allspaugh
and ]. A. Gray of Winston, and Julian
s. Carr, of Durham.
Last week this committee was in ses-
sion at Trinity College and laid the
foundation for new era OF prosperity
for that institution. Three ofthe old fac
ulty were reelected and four new ones,
While We are not at Liberty to give IL
names, we have been assure that they
are all young, thoroughly educated and
fully in accord with the progressive spirit
of the times.
Why should not Trinity be a success?
If the Methodists Of North Carolina will
it there can be no trouble. They have
the boys who ought to be educated, they
have the means to sustain the college and
with unity of actions, a liberal expendl
ture of money, the faculty composed OF
the best teachers, it can be made the
pride of every Methodi>t's heart. We
believe the gentlemen now in charge of it
will accomplish these results.
DID,