The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-09
-Rishon Parker will preside at nexi

-Bishop Parker will preside at next
N. C. Conference.
WIN. Woolcott dates his advertise
ments. That shows they are fresh. And
50 is his new stock of goods.
Gen. Augero with a squad of20 men
escaped from Key West, landed in Cuba,
and has started another rebellion.
The open-air festival in capital
square in aid of the Memorial Fund Is
set for May l6.
j. r. jenkins & Sons, of Baltimore,
First National Bank Of Monmouth. H.
and First National of s.. Adams, w.
have failed.
They keep rolling into Maj. Petty's
the boxes and bales OF new goods,
and customers follow right at their
heels.
Mr.. Hal Worth writes to Otserrer
that Mr.. f. II. Wood, son of President
Wood of Trinity, fell and died instantly
of heart disease.
DIR. Dickson has accepted the super
intendentcy of Oxford asylum. He was
once a Methodist minister, and married
the widow of Capt. Plato Durham.
Alexander was surnamed the great.
| Alexander Creech has enough dry-goods
to clio. he the 'tother Aiexander's army
| together with their sisters, their cousins
and their aunts.
Among the List-Takers for Wake
are A. G. Jones, DR.. 7. p. Peace, X.
Walter Jeffreys, Thos. Johns, l.. ID.
Stephenson, w. ID. Haywood, w. II.
Hood, W. c. Brewer.
-What is "Ottomon:" And ar
mure:" And "Prunelle - We don't
know, but the fuckers can tell. And
their card names the price.
Strong effort will be made to pass
the bill which prohibits the holding of
mail Route contracts by spectators. 1t
is to take effect July 1st. If it passes,
there will be less trouble with country
mail routes.
Rev. Jethro Rumple was to be one
of the party who sailed for Europe last
w~eek.Rev. DR.. Sutton has declined
the call to Goldsboro. - Rev. G. NJ.
Payne, after all the denials, has accepted
the Concord offer. Rev. w. S. Lacy
would be a good man for the Wilmington
PresbyteriaDs.
Lewis Redmond, the Moonshiner and
Outlaw, has been allowed to return from
Albany Penitentiary to Columbia Jail be-
cause the life at Albany wa killing him
by inches" The government was not
so careful of the health of its prisoners
ten years ago. We saw more han one
poor fellow shrivel and die; and in sew
eral cases lose the reason by the severity
of that prison, and the climate.
Col. w. ]. Green appears to have
given much satisfaction to his con-
stituents. Fayetteville Observer ranks
him as the most useful member Of the n.
c. Delegation Ia mere matter OF opinion.
of c%ourse), and we have had letters from
and Point Caswell, calling for
for Congress, and Steadman for
Lieu: Governor.
Compelled TO condense an interest.
ing letter of our Ringwood correspon-
lent, we note that he compliments the
of Bishop Lyman and Rev. DR..
in the churches of that town on
last then tells Oft dinner given
oy Col. A. II. Davis, in W~arrenton, to
Judge J. L. Johnson of Newark, \. J..
Iol. Sturgis, and other gentlemen then
expresses qualification at the growing
to show recognition Of Col. Wal
er Clarke's patriotic and disinterested
fforts in behalf the State; aud then
lopes the day is at hand when another
bile and honorable gentleman, who
stands head and shoulders above the
losses shall be chosen to lead the true
nen of North Carolina in the ensuing
ampaign." G.. f. NJ, refers we sup
'ose to Judge Fowle.