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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-22
HOW THEY LOVE Us

Chicago Tribune publishes a lull
report of Col. Pat Domains speech at
Springfield, the home OF Lincoln. Read
this comment on the speech:
The great speech of Col. 7. Donan
at Springfield, H., is pronounced one OF
the campaign efforts that will live after
the shouts of the masses who were stirred
by its electric fire and burning words
have died away. 1t will be reproduced
in all sections not only for its logic n
effective presentation of the issues of
the canvass. but as an inimitable word
picturing and scathing portrayal OF the
career of the democratic party. Its
effect. as it came hot and scathlng from
the eloquent lips OF the orator IS de-
scribed as wonderful. There were fifty
thousand people, ten thousand torches
and tr~ansparencies and one thousand
on horse, with twenty bands Of music
and nineteen drum corps, 4 procession
five miles long, led by n bicycle club
with the bicycles decorated with flags
and colored lanterns. IN a carriage with
four horses. were seated Senator Culiom
and Colonel Dorian, the orators OF the
occasion. with hnts off and bowling TO
the miles OF waving handkerchietS and
salutes from torches, bands and banners.
The whole city was Illuminated with =
blaze of light. with flags, banners and
festo0ns in every direction, the streets
rs Iioht as dav. while rockets, roman
candles. bombs. crackers and glee clubs
kept up a ceaseless blaze and crash ana
roar"
The Springfield Journal says:
Then followed a dazzling word
picture. 1t was an impassioned and
brilliant sketch which was Interrupted
by constant bursts ofapplause.
Several times the applause was so
long continued that Colonel DOMAIN had
ample opportunity to rest his throat.
When lie had finished President Conk-
ling sprang to his feet and before his
three cheers for Colonel DOMAIN" the
immense audience, as with one impulse,
grasped the idea, and three times three
cheers were given with a will for the
gifted orator from Dakota"
And now you will be curious to see
what could nave so delighted the hearts
of our Yankee Brethren. Read this
sample Of the stuff.
ABUSE OF THE SOUTH.
DOMAIN said: Swearing it only wanted
to be let alone and to be allowed to go
peace. southern democracy fired upon
Fort Sumter and inaugurated a war that
made a hundred rivers run red to the
sea with .ratricidal blood and reared
Golgothas of fraternal skulls on count
less beautiful fields, where once the
clover bloomed and golden harvests
smiled and all this while northern
democracy was crying Peace, peace
though there was no peace and was
hosting the soldier Mcclellan on a
white-flag platform and trying to cap
ture the government with a major-gene-
rails uniform stuffed with musty peace
straw.
The democratic party Announces itsell
as the party of civil service reform; yet
It's great exampler and patron saint.
Andrew Jackson, originated the cardinal
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-22

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.ho window OF alE MAGGIE R.G5.
-.l forget The se- ola Deg-.-
Eer sLaua One g. eErra3sar5 W.s a.--
led 1y oar notice ana entered another
store mex. door which lad some feut-
nine trick. IN the windows. Miss Reese
invites Eou-r remember t0at.
18Th Nearly opposite Briggs, -.
PLAIN letters over the door, read the
name OF ID. :. WATT. lie has two
floors full Of fall aud winter clothing.
and VIII sell ut fair figures.
10th On down Fayetteville street.
and the bright lights o. PEsCUD. LEE 4
Co. on the corner, invite you to enter
1t is a splendid scene you will look
upon, and there are drugs enough to
move even the bosom OF Old Ocean. OF
| settle the stomach Of Mt. LEtna. This
firm has two stores, and can supply
country dealers at New York rates.
goth. y little lower, directly opposite
the p~ostotiiee. we enter the extensive
establishment Of BERwANGER Bros.
They are first class business men. buy
for cash. and sell the finer kinds Of
/ clothing. They can beat the doctors IL
curing bad fits"
Dist Now, in passing from Fayettc-
Vile to Wilmington street. we change
from the outer to the inner IA but
when you get there you cannot pass,
because GEo Z. S~THoNACH's windows
show G temptin-ly his finest stock o!
groceries at tile capital. they say.
22nd. Aud right here is MEssKs.
LATrA & MYATT (thcy keep a stand
inc invitation to you. Look at it in
another column and you can sell yous
cotton to them. if you like. There are
some other clever fellows down thai
way, Capt. W. \. Smelling, Mr.. Dayi(
= Avera. and so on; but we haven't
their ads as yet.
BIRD. But what is the meaning o
this crowd? Only the usual rush o
business at WM. WooLLCoTT's, OF
Wilmington street Now he is a MAJ
who when he writes en- advertisement
tells you something. Look at it.
ITO be continued merit reek. Clip on
and keep IN your Note Book TIL yor
! come to R~aleigh.)
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25
Opening of tho New York, PhiIadel-
 Dhfa and Norfolk Railroad.

On Monday, the 17th inst, the New York, Philadelphia ana Norfolk railroad was for rnally opened to trade and travel. The road commencing at Delmar, Md, extends along the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia to Cape Charles, ninety-fve miles. At this point passengers are transferred from the cars to fast mail steamers and ferried over to Norfolk, distance of thirty-six miles. Leav- ing Delmar the line of the road traverses some of the most fertile and productive sec tions of the two States, and passes through the following towns and villages: Salisbury, CruitIand, Eden, Loretto, Princess Anne, King's Creek, Adelia, Pokomoke, New Church, Hallston, Matomkin, Accomac, Pun goteape, Belle Haven, Birds Nest, Nashville, finding it's rail terminus at Cape Charles, Va From this point the ferry service will be performed for the present by the swift and commodious steamer "Jane Moseley." She will stop en route at Old Point Comfort and Portsmouth, Va A steamer especially designed for this service is now being built, and will be put into operation in March, when solid trains, without change or trans fer, will be carried through to Norfolk. The completion of the road closes most impor- tant link in inc chain of southern conneG-
 tions. At Delmar the new line connects Wl.n i
 the trains of the Philadelphia, Wllnaln8Son 8S!1
 and Baltimore railroad for W1Im1ngton' Ii 2 nj
 adelphia, New York, Boston, ana ana Gne i1tlss, ..
 At Norfolk close connection VII oI pa4e.s nta b,,rr.1, r 1-ncbbI1re. and other points in Vlr- o;ie a,9 fbe Norfolk Southern for Eliza
 SSatb 1titv Edenton, and points in North Csso1ina At Portsmouth connections will So roe5e with the Seaboard and Roanoke ro;lroad connecting at Weldon and the Atlan- tic Coast Line system for Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, New
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25
UNCERTAIN.

Thermometers are over 250 years old, and yet the weather is just uncertain as it ever was.-Boston Transcript. Glove begets love,'' sings the old song, but how are you going to reconcile that with the homeopathic claim that like cures like!- Rockland Courier-Gazette. A scientist says it is water, not food, that makes people fat. Now we thoroughly un- derstand the cause of our terribly emaciated condition.-St. Paul Herald.
 A Georgia man has paid for farm with the melons off it, to say nothing of the strug- gling young doctors he has firmly established in business.-Lowel Citizen.
 Innocence abroad by moonlight: Mother, to tbree-year- out for a walk after tea e'See the full moon, Mabel.'' Mabel, suffer ing from satiation S'Has the moon had SUD- per, too?"
 A well known judge, who appears to slum- Der good deal on the bench, disarms his critics by informing them gravely that ''no one can judge by appearances. Burlington Free Press.
 EFDid anyone ever see girl get letter at the posteffice from her fellow and not read it until she got home? No, sir; and history has no record of any such freak of girl. Kentucky State Journal.
 To write for all time is the ambition of every author. The man who originated the series of negro minstrel jokes is the only one up to date who has apparently succeeded in his endeavor.-Boston Globe.
 Too cautious: He-F'I am going to take away bottle of salt water as a memento of this watering place." She-SBut don't fill it too full, or it will slop over on us when the tide comes in. ."-Fliegende Blatter.
 F'When Maud S. made that mile in IA at Lexington, the ladies rushed into the course and kissed her repeatedly" Such treatment as this is enough to induce any body to be fast.-Boston Transcript.
 ssWhy, Mary, have you come back to be a hired girl again! I thought you left us to get married and have a home of your own?" 'fSo did, num-" FFWell, what have you come back for?" s'Well, ye see, mum, Jo6n's done purity well, an we kep' ahired girl, too, and I'm kind O tired ay the way of life. l thought I'd like to come back an be boss agin for awhile. .'-Albany Press.
 A San Antonio man was bitten by dog that was supposed to be rabid. Much anx- iety was felt by his friends to know if any symptoms of hydrophobia had developed, so one of them asked his wife: ''Does your hus- band show any signs of aversion when he drinks milks' ''No, not at alb ''Then he is all right. A person who can drink milk is never afraid of water. ."-Texas Siftings.
 EsNo. sir! begone Your suit is cold,''
 Exclaimed unto wooer bold
 A belle who boaSted bluest blood,
 Alas! how bitter is my woe!''
 He cried then he turned to go
 And as he out the door did scud
 His voice fell with a frozen thud
 New York Journal.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25

to the whisperings of the besetting ghoul. He published the catalogue of Marie Antoi- nettes private library, and then there were excursions and alarms. Of course, no i'm partial student expected the queen to be oth- CT than a woman of her own times; cruelty treated as she was, she still belonged to the French court of the eighteenth century. But this philosophical view was not taken in high places. There were other publications of the Bibliophile-one in particular on an impor- tant topic-which were attacked by the po- lice of his native land. It is more pleasant to think of him as the friend of collectors, es- pecially of Pixercourt. When that anna teur's theatre was burned he feared that his library would be seized by his creditors He, therefore, had about sixty light wooden packing cases made, and in these he carried off. by moonlight fitting" the more cherished of his books. These were deposit ted in the Bibliophile's rooms, which became for the time mysterious place, kind of brigand's cave. Pixercourt finally won his lawsuit, and took back the books which should never, he was determined, fall into the hands of the creditor and the enemy.
 The Bibhophile was not rich man, and when his books are sold the best will prove to be the captives of an ingenuity like that of ''Davy" In 1884, for example, he was prow1ing on the Quai St. Michel when he saw little brown volume with the tarnished arms of Louis XIV. This was the first edi- tion of ''Tartufe," and must have belonged to the majestical monarch himself. The Bibliophile bought the volume for couple of francs, and presented it to M. Didot on con- dition that it should never be rebound. But the librarian of M. Didot had the book bound in morocco, and it fetched about ESQ at the sale of the famous collector. The shade of the Bibliophile may expect, per haps, many such rises in value when hls oo,1laofiOn ia Soatfera6
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25

were Republicans and four Democrats. Some of our Democratic friends appear to think that MT. Harrison will show partisanship in filling the vacancies. The idea is absurd
 It is expected thut New York's erematory will be ready for business in February Its equipment will be such as to remove as much as possible the prejudices against the innovation. There are, for instance rooms for keeping bodies to insure against cases of suspended animation; dissecting room for cases where the evidence is not positive that death was the result of natural causes, one of the chief objections to burning being that fire destroys all evidence of poison; chapel for appropriate religious ceremonies, and an urn room for enshrining the remains. The building will cost s19,000 The capital stock of the company is $25, 900, of which $22, 900 has already been subscribed and most of it paid in. There are now twenty bodies in the vaults awaiting the completion of the structure.
 There are three ways of destroying the
 phylloxera, but, according to M Balbiani,
 professor of the College of France, not one of
 GhClAA Cdi4 OC 1clISo upOu do GuOTOuRQlY eIQca-
 cious. The first method, which has long
 been practised by the vine growers of the de- partment of the Gironde consists in peeline the vine by means of rubbing it with the hands, protected by special gloves of steel chains. But as only the older vines permit of such treatment, it cannot be universally applied. Watering with boiling water is eff fective, but it is nowhere practised with reg ularity. A wash of coal tar and oil, applied to the vines, has shown good results; but as ' the coal tar is apt to stiffen when exposed to cold, and has to be warmed every time be- fore it's application, this remedy has been abandoned as too tedious. M Balbiani rec ommends 6 wash of raw naphthaline, un- burnt lime and water, which has been used on large scale in the departments of Lot-et- Garonne and Loir-et-Cher with encouraging l results. The expense is forty francs for 5000 vines, which no vine grower would grudge if by it he would be enabled success fully to combat the greatest enemy of the vineyard,
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25
Tuesday, November 25, 1884.
REFORmM PHILAnEIP1a


 The Philadelphia Committee of One Hun dred, an organization which has been work ing during the last few years to secure better government for Philadelphia and to protect the taxpayers of that city from robbery, has just issued a report of what it has been able to do. The report contains much that is in teresting, encouraging and instructive.
 By what are known as the gas trust frauds the city of Philadelphia was robbed of three and a half millions ill six years The com mittee reports satisfactory changes in this department, stating that whereas not many years ago the trust met it's obligations by promissory notes, and no permanent inn provement was made without new loan, that persons who wanted gas mains laid had to pay for them and the city was charged a large sum for lighting and maintaining the lamps,-now these latter works are done without expense to citizens or the city Saving the city $35O, ,000 annually and there is cash balance on hand of $1 ,685, ,599. I'm portant reforms and economies have been instituted also in the water department The committee obtained of the legislature Q re- duction of $22, GOO per annun in the salaries of county officers. The police department was cleared of it's partisan character and re- stricted to it's legitimate duties; and there has been an efficient prosecution of cleo tion frauds, and police outrages at the polls, in which in almost every instance the com mittee was stubbornly resisted by the party organization. A great reform has been made in the collection of delinquent taxes. An act giving extraordinary fees to the city re- corder, estimated at $50 900 a year, has been repealed. In short, in all directions this un- official committee has secured great reforms in the honesty and economy of administra- ton, and it has also obtained the establishing and equalizing of the salaries of judges. The worst case of corruption it unearthed, in- volving as it did human life, was that of the encouragement of the alnshouse, resulting in the punishment of Superintendent Phipps and some others, though the committee was unable to reach several of the most conspicu- ous criminals.
 The committee has withdrawn from the field, although it is evident that it's work is still needed. But it has done great things for the people of Philadelphia and deserves the praise which it has received. By the way, has anybody seen anything of report of the reforms brought about by the New Haven Taxpayers association?
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25
History Of the Rose Aphts.


 The life history of the rose aphis, small and familiar as is the insect itself, forms one of the most marvellous and extraordinary chapters in all tho fairy tales of modern sci ence Nobody need wonder why the blight attacks his roses so persistently when once he has learned the unusual provision for excep- tional fertility in the reproduction of these insect plaques. The whole story is too long to give at full length, but there is brief recapitulation of a years generation of com mon aphides In the spring, the eggs of last years crop, which have been laid by the mothers in hooks and crannies out of reach of the frost, are quickened into life by the first return of warm weather, and hatch out their brood of insects. All this brood con sists of imperfect females, without single male among them, and they all fasten at once upon the young buds of their native bush, where they pass sluggish and unevent- ful existence in sucking up the juice from the veins on the one hand and secreting honey-dew upon the other. Four times they nouit their skins, these moults being in some respects analogous to the metamor- phosis of the caterpillar into chrysalis and butterfly. After the fourth moult the young aphides attain maturity, and then they give origin parthenogenetically to a second brood also of imperfect females, all produced without any fathers. This second brood brings forth in like manner athird gen. eration, asexual as before, and the same pro cess is repeated without intermission as long as the warm weather lasts. In each case the young simply bud out from the young ova- ries of the mothers, exactly as new crops of leaves bud out from the rose branch on which they grow Eleven generations have thus been observed to follow one another rapidly in single summer; and indeed by keeping the aphides in warm room, one may even make them continue their reproduction in this purely vegetable fashion for as many as four years running. But as soon as the cold weather begins to set in,, perfect male and female insects are produced by the last swarm of the parthenogenetic mothers; and these true females, after being fertilized, lay the eggs which remain through the winter, and from which the next summers broods have to begin, afresh tho wonderful cycle: Thus, only one generation of aphides, out of ten or eleven, consists of true males and fe- males; all the rest are false females produc- ing young by process of budding.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25
The ProcessIon Of the Icebergs.

lCOrTeSpOndence or the montreal GiaZeUIe-
 ST. JoHN's, Newfoundland, September r.
 During the last week we have witnessed
 most unusual phenomenon at this season of the year. A long procession of icebergs has
 been passing our shores, slowly pursuing
 their southern march on the bosom of the
 Arctic current, and we have not yet seon tine
 last of these glittering wanderers of the
 deep. Frequently sixty or aeventy were wis
 ibIe at the same time from the top of Signal
 Hill They are of all shapes and sizes some lofty and turreted, some dome-shaped
 or fiat some having series of beautiful crags and pinnacles. A few were of i'm mense size--low fiat islands of ice. 1 saw one at the entrance of Conception bay, near Baccalien Island, which was not less than two miles in length Another in the same neighborhood was estimated to be over three quarters of 8 mile. One pecul1arlty Of them was that they appeared to follow each other as if arranged in single line of march, but at irregular distances. This is accounted for by the supposition that the bulk of them are fragments of an enormous ice mass which was seen on the Labrador coast some time ago. If the accounts of two captains who were close to it can be relied upon, this was the largest iceberg ever seen in northern lati- CuQ0S- OD0 or UHo CdpGdlI1S SSLlulaGCo 1O IO be fifteen miles in length and three or four in breadth; the other made it twenty miles. Allowing a margin for the excited imagina- tion of these worthy shippers, this must have been an astonishing island of ice. As it did not make it's appearance off our shores in its full dimensions, the great probability is that it grounded on some rocky ledge. By the ac- ton of the summer sun it's joints had become and by the rising and falling tides and the force of the waves, as it hung on the ledge, great fragments were snapped off, and falling, one by one, with sullen plunge into the waves fioated off as icebergs, thus in part creating the ghostly procession which has been filing along our shores for the last ten days. All of the immense group, how eyer, could not have had the same origin. sfThe oldest inhabitant" does not remember anything approaching to the ice phenomena of this year. In ordinary years few ice bergs are seen after the first of August, But now we have huge fleet of them sailing past in the middle of September and chilling our atmosphere. Since the beginning of Feb ruary a stream of icebergs and foes has been passing at intervals. Some great ice move ment must have occurred in the Arctic re- gions of an unusual character to cause such an abnormal disagreement and call into ex istence the vast ice argosies of the last seven
 months. As @ consequence, the supply Of the next few years may be comparatively small, and we may have but few of these mighty wanderers of the deep, the Arctic warehouse being temporarily exhausted.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25
NO. sO7

Point Comfort with the Chesapeake and Ohio for Richmond. The route is both short CT and quicker than any existing route to southern points, saving to the traveller five or six hours between New York and Norfolk. A through train, with Pullman sleepers, will leave New York at 500 D. m. Philadelphia HOO p. m., Wilmington 11.50, D. m., ar irving at Cape Charles at 6.30 a. m, and Norfolk at 930 a. m Leaving Norfolk at 6.S0 p. n., the traveller will reach Philadel- phia at an early hour of thes smorning and New York at Q. m. Supper will be served to north-bound and breakfast to south-bound passengers on the boat. The employment of the road is first-class in every particular, and it will, doubtless, soon be- come a very popular route of Southern travel
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25

The recent death of prominent New Yorker is attributed to his being "quinine crazy" He lived in malarial part of the city, took strong doses of the drug to drive out the poison and ended in damaging his brain and committing suicide. There is good reason to believe that many people take altogether too much quinine.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25

The list of goods canned has been enlarged by company in St. Louis, which has begun canning eggs. A factory has been erected, and is now in operation, where they will can 1000, 900 dozen annually. The eggs are put through some sort of a process by which the yolks and white are separated from the shells, and the substance is then dried and canned One teaspoonful is said to be equal to one egg, and it is warranted to keep fresh for three years.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

King county, Washington territory, has one woman justice of the peace and one woman constable. Let the good work go on.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-25

An American traveller in England who re- gently visited Birmingham lodged at hotel in that city which he found well supplied with religious tracts by some of the profes- sional tract distributors. On going to his room he found tract in his washbowl, one pinned against the window frame and one peeping out of the bureau drawer. One of these was headed: "Have you got Christ! We mean you, and don't you forget it!" There are moro tract distributors in England than in this country, and they are moro ob- trusiVe