The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-19


Court Especial term for Wake open
ed at 8 D. m. Monday, and will probab
ly run two weeks.
Elk Judge Mackey's assertions IN re
gard to the ancestry of Harry Timrod the
passionate poet, are fatty denied by hl'
kinsmen.
A big Vance Tariff Reform clut
has been organized at Tarb"ro, n eN'
poets to number 1000 members.
Senator Ransom was absent when
the vote on Fitz John Porter's case
came up. lie arrived IN Raleigh on
Saturday last.
Wilson Mirror pays high and merit
ed compliment to the legal ability OF
Hon. Geo. V. Strong, and refers par
ticularly to his tenacious fight for his
clients.
DIR. James Mckee. of Raleigh, last
week sold to W. 7. Blackwell, Esq. at
Durham, one of the finest pair of match
carriage horses in this State, for $1,000.
He has some fine cattle also.
-Twenty-seven pounds and ter ounces
of butter in seven days, is The record OF
a Jersey Princess" owned by 5. NJ.
Shoemaker, of Baltimore. Four pounds
of butter per day ought to supply the bis
cults of even DR.. Blacknalr aoteL.
Plenty of Durham Cattle in Wilkes,
awaiting our R. R,"-write. Mr. A. W.
Finley, in renewing hi. subscription.
That i. the country to which hundreds of
Northern lovers of milk, butter and beef
will p~iigrimate ere many years.
Gen. Grant told a reporter that
this years Presidential campaign ought
to be fought by the Republicans on the
old issue (the Bloody Shirt,") because
the Danville and Copiah affairs show
that the South still needs Reconstruct
ing. 'sGush',-ers to the front,
The report published in some papers
that Messrs. Tate s. Walker, of Me-
GAINESVILLE, had tailed, is incorrect. y
firm of young men in that town were
compelled to surrender their extensive
plant of flour-making machinery, bought
on too close time; but this firm had no
connection with Messrs. Tate & Walker.
whose manufacture of plug tobacco and
cigars continually increases. we hear.
There was a big meeting of Free
Traders at the Sixth Annual Dinner of
the n. Y. Free Trade Club, in New
York, on Saturday night. Senator
Vance answered the toast-'Equality
before the Law Speaker Carlisle,
(although openly warned by the y. Y.
World, Phila. Times, and other Demo-
cratic papers under control of the Money
Party,-to keep away from the meeting)
was present and made a lengthy
speech on Tariff Reform.
Because the old soldiers at New
Orleans presented some boquets and
badges to the daughters of Lee and Hill,
one of the Republican L. S. Senators
who are working up the Copiah distur-
Dances for political use in tie campaign.
declared that these "houors to the
daughters of dead Rebels did not look
much like Reconstruction. but would be
called treason IN many couutriesr -
And Sergeant Bates, the truly loyal
tramp, told a reporter that the people
OF North Carolina were still traitors at
heart, because they would not gush over
the ''old fag,'' o deadhaad him and
his son on their tramp.
--"What will our tobacco barns cost"
asks a subscriber. The answer de-
ponds on yourself. If you have plenty
of pine saplings, and enough rocks to
build a fireplace, the cost of the build
ing need not exceed SO or 81. And
the sheet iron fues will cost about the
same. If you build your own barns, the
cash outlay need not exceed $50 for a
couple of barns. p. S.-'Squire Lums-
den, the well known Iron aud Tin man
ufacturer ,-opposite the City Hall en-
trance,-has handed US a card, stating
that he has an abundance of sheet iron,
and a workman of long experience in
making the fiues. Lumsden has sold
thousands of them to the Yellow To-
hacco growers.
1t is enough to make d pocket book
look sick to walk through the establish
ment of Fred A. Watson. next door to
the Express office. Why? Because he
has so many handsome ana enticing ar
ticles. Paintings, engravines, mould
ings, ~statuettes. and all manner of house
hold ornaments. His line of Easter
cards is very large, pretty, and low
priced. One style is an heavy frinoed
silk ribbon, having a gold cross on the
front, and on the cross an oval ivory-
mache photograph of Angeles Mater
Dolorosa, the Holy Mother. Other
styles range from 10 cents upward.
We advise the lady readers of the Fan
mer and Mechanic 10 send 10 Mr.. Wat
son for specimens. Send aay sum from
so cts. to s., and you will be surprised
at the cheapness and beauty of his
rerda apd nrpamnnfs