The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-12
.-Gea. Scales majority will reach ID

600.
-olo appears to have wiped out
s325"
boosters" for sale! Apply to the
late DR.. Mott.
-oTyree" he was Tired" he is;'
Retired he c~ontinueth from noH ever
lasting. Amen!
AT Manly, o S Jones, bar-roomlst,
had a row with a man named Kelley, ana
was dangerously, if not fatally wounded.
Mr.. Charles Gibson, an estimabie
Young man of Gibsons store, died OF
typhoid fever on Sunday. His funeral
was largely attended.
Fayetteville Fair begins to-day, and
there will be a grand Democratic jubilee
tonight. Senator Vance is billed to
speak ON Thursday.
AT the First Baptist Church to-day
a large assemblage of Shepherds of the
largest religious flock in the State will
meet in fellowship.
"A row at Morganton threatened to
result seriously. But ended nicely after
Eve men had been knocked down and
one shot. Whiskeyl
The negroes take great comfort In
yelling to one another-"Blalne beat
Cleveland in his own ward!' This was
true, but his majority was only go IN
stead of the usual 80 majority N that
ward.
The beautiful town of Palatka, Flor
ida, where a number Of North Carroll
mans reside, was half destroyed by fire.
Only two stores left. Loss nIore than
half Il million! Started from kerosene
in negro barber shop.
Big "Ratify" at Faisons in Duplin
Saturday night. Speeches by Frank
Ayecock, Will Burkhead, ct al. Efigies
of Ben Butler and Belva dear, burnt in
bonfire: so writes u correspondent, j..
o. L..
At Winfield, Kansas, VIM. Burge,
Republican killed a negro who would
not vote as he demanded. The negro
MORALLY wounded Burge. Alas! for
the truly Loyal, ever in bleeding Kan
:"
mrOur lady readers aud Republican
subscribers, and those outside the State,
will have to bear with US one more week;
and then the F. 6 NJ. will drop politics,
as a prominent feature, and seek to make
a paper that all can read with interest.
Out in Neuse Bailiwick, Squire
Walters Jeffreys and Squire John Dunn
have done some sensible talk to the col
ored congregation, and % of the Freed
men voted like as if really Free.
A negro made indecent proposals
to Lizzie Wilson, a pretty girl of Roam
oke, Va; and swore to kill her. Mex
night she was found with her threat cut
The citizens and authorities have Offered
$1,000 reward and the whole countr,
is full of searchers.
A man named Joe Howard wa
Jailed in Cumberland. charged with tn,
murder of c.. L. Blackman. He hat
sold the latter a piece of land, and afte
receiving his pay went out to drinl
some wine with the new proprietor
After while the latter was found in hi
barn with his throat cut, says the Sun
The Cape Fear R. r. always SENDS
US a bill of each change of schedule
These we post on our Office walls, an,
many callers examine them. IF al
roads were more careful to do this ther,
would be less complaint. We have nov
on file at least four letters complaining:
of missing trains, long waiting at tn
depot, etc.
The Northern Radicals seem yer,
bitter against St John, who they charg,
lost them the election. In Omaha a ST
John procession was mobbed, and dis
persed; its flag torn in pieces. At Brad
ford, Penn, ard several other places, st
John was burned in ethgy. "What TOO
these mortals be -
Ills an i'll wind that blows into n
bodys door. The incipient riot on Satur
day night caused a big rush to Brewste
(Northern Republican, for pistols; and
large crowd of negroes on Monday nigh
after The parade were heard to say-''Let
get good and warm at this Democrat
fire. its a free treat"
The item copied from the Charlott
Obserrer last week about the shooting c
Of a burglar at Gibson's store, in Rich
mond county, is pronounced a fabrica
ton, by a friend who was there las
week. Its astonishing how such storie
get afloat- 1t will soon become neces
sary to have a sworn affidavit before tn
simplest statement can be believed.
The types were so ungallant as t
mix names in the article on Ladies wor
at the Exposition, in last weeks paper
"Arrascare'' should have been arrascen,
Miss Gcrrell. instead of Miss Gsrrel
Miss Nixon, and Miss Hudgins instead
Mrs" in each case; Miss Vurgler shoul
have been Miss Voegler. The wore
facilitating, school, cashmere, stuff, etc
were wrongly spelled. In the hurry {
reading twenty columns of Proof,
generally by dim lamp-light, with sever;
persons talking within ear-shot, error
are apt to defy our utmost care, an
often the words, although started rigf
become ~'blundered'' while runnin
through the press. For example, "
recently said that Mrs P was visitin
Mrs B. The letter rs" dropped out {
the word "Mrs" while the forms wei
being carried to the press-room (half