The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-20
rbam Plant favors Gilmer for

HALL Il t@ftt
Governor.
"A great many Democrats would like
to see Mai. John w. Graham nominated
for Secretary of State.
Col. L. L. Polk is on a ten.day visit
to his family. He looks in fine trim ard
talks in fine spirit.
The murder trials Of Pool and Will
liams were postponed to the June term
| of Wake court, the plea of the defense
being that witnesses were absent.
A correspondent of Clinton Cau-
casian advocates Charles NJ. Cooke TOR
| Governor. He has numerous warm
friends.
Henry George, the noted Socialist,
made a speech to the Skye Crofters last
week, urging them to emigrate. They
| responded with cheers. This may add
to the North Carolina Colony.
j. II. Virgins, who went West,
after escaping the charge of assault on
the girl Martha Evans, has been brought
back, and sent to the Poor House farm
to work out" the Sis costs.
The article entitled-''The Dance
of Death"-is the first of a series OF
| Sketches. written from the personal mar
ratives of Confederate soldiers,-by a
well-known and gifted lady writer OF the
Household Dept
When Mr.. Gladstone, the English
Premier. was walking down the street
last week, a mar grasped him by the
c~oat-collar and gave him a shaking. 1t
was done to win a bet! AS Mr.. Glad
stone is nearly so years old, the English
idea of fun seems very unique.
BY courtesy of the marshals, Messrs
J. Bryan Grimes and Sterling Rufin, We
have received a very neat card to the
Washington's Birthday Exercises at
the University, Feb. %. Mr.. j. Lee
Love will make the Introductory speech,
and Mr.. Jas. A. Bryan the Grafton.
1t looks now as if the Boosting Expo
sition with Baked Beans and 'Beasts")
will result in enticing more of our citi-
zens to Yankeedom than it has brought
Yankees hither. Scores of enterprising
men have gone North, and are located
all along the line from Boston, New
Haven, New York, Syracuse, Chicago,
| Detroit, Minneapolis, and ever far Far
go.
The editors of the New York Tri
| Juae make a practice of marrying rich
girls. John Russell Young, John Whit
law, and John Hay all did it. The lat
ter gets more than one million dollars
with his bride. He will no longer have
to 60 t o the Devil (the Devil stays in
the back room) when the man-with-a.
little-Bill peeps in the door-crack.
The Republicans have captured
the county court of Greene county,
Sheriff Luby Harper %consenting. He i:
said to be a Democrat. The court dis
placed Solicitor Monroe, and elected Lon
J. Moore of Newborn. w. A. Darder
Esq, who represents the Democratic
court will sue quo warranto.
"A correspondent asks the meaning o
"Bey" as applied to DR.. Edward Warren
1t is an honorary title, comforting rank
given to him while connected with The
Egyptian service directly after our war
"Bey'' is nos strictly a military title, bu
the rank of Bey in the Khedive's army il
about equal to our Colonel. "Pasha'' i
a Brigadier- General. Khedive is a king
Sultan is an Emperor.
MIR. James Williamson is spending
few weeks at home, shaking friends BY
the hand, and shaking off the shakes
which usually make shaking Quakers'
of all new corners in the land of the gal
nipper and juniper. Luckily it dom
last long. Many Of the oldest, and
healthiests citizen of the State live nea
the sea coast, in sections where the sol
Is so soft that a tat man cannot Sit dow
suddenly without starting an earthquake
over half the county.
-Messrs Edwin Alden & Bro, the we'll
known advertising agents of Cincinnati
address an appeal to the Farmer an
Mechanic, and the pless in general, say
ing
The towns on the Ohio river hav
been visited by the greatest flood of tn
century. So appalling is the disaster
that pen fails to describe the misery an,
restitution prevailing. Over one hun
dred thousand people are homeless, an
must be provided with food and clothin
for weeks to come. We earnestly ap
peal to the newspaper fraternity to al
these unfortunates Immediately, by start
ing subscriptions and urging the neces
sity of haste"