The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-23

I The Raleigh Labor League is holding
frequent meetings nowadays. or night.
That popular gentleman. Col Jas.
u. Glenn, Of Rockingham. was also with
Us last week. attending the Agricultural
Board He gives good report Of the
business outlook in hs section
Grand Master Willis X. Williams, Of
Pitt, was in town last week. attending
the Agricultural Department meeting,
aud gave u a pleasant call His daugh-
ter who had been in attendance at Chapel
Hill Normal S,hool vas with him.
\ terrible aff air occurred al Owens
boro Kentucky. A negro outraged
lady. The citizens resolved to lynch hun
The jailor fired on them, and killed two
The mob then killed him and hanged
the regro
AT Richmond. Texas, an eN-con-
v,ct named " ebb lIattcn outraged and
murdered llannah Burton. aged H.
He was arrested, and confessed. and
showed where he had hidden her body
The citizens r!ddlcd him with bullets,
fifteen balls being fired into him. Yet
when I crowd left he revived. crawlcd
home lrcsscd his wounds and escaped.
The xhole laud is ringing with the
crime OF "a North Carolina farmer" who
attempted To pour nouten lead in his
wife's ear The only basis for the tale
is that a drunken negro and his wife at
Charlotte quarreled, and she charged him
with having melted some lead in spoon,
and acted as if about to pour it in her
ear
Eliza Pinkston could testify that the
story of an angry neQress rarely lacks the
proportion of nine parts lie to one of
truth.
We learn that the crops in Eastern
Wake and especially over the border in
Johnston county are superb. A gentle
man of ofjudgment and experience says he
saw finer corn and cotton on the Cover
! plantation, the Sanders, the Avera, and
other plantations, this side of Clayton,
than he has seen anywhere since the
great corn year, 1855. Had to note such
things. Raleigh should put forth all her
strength to attract the best trade of fifty
miles around US this fall 1t could be
done if the merchants and all classes Of
business men, great and small, would
unite and organize for the purpose. 1t
takes a great many different kinds of peo
pie to make city, and make it prosper
! a pleasant call from Prof JOS A.
| Holmes, Of the University. We had ex-
pected from MS reputation, to meet a
much older man but the classic "Hill'
will be none the loser by having few such
gallant .Bachelor's Of Arts" an
arms" Prof. Holmes is max ing a visit
to Angola Bay to investigate the Fauna
Flora, and zoology of that region, a
terra incognita to the world at large. lie
has entered qnite zcalously into the study
Of North Carolina natural features :;
bones aud feat hers horns, hide and tai
/ low. 1t is a patriotic work. Much is
said Of our physical resources but the
Farmer amt Mechanic has long coniended
that the hope of future prosperity in
North Carolina must depend upon re
sources as yet scarcely known certainly
not developed.
Mr. Blaine has written long and
adroit letter of acceptance which would
Till an entire page OF this paper. Few
men read such things nowadays ; even
when they agree with the sentiment.
expressed. Blaine's main points are
that the Republican party has made the
j Nation what it is; that "Protection" IS
the touch-stone Of American prosperity
that the Tariff keeps up the price OF la
Dor, and ena bles the American working
man to live in comfort, Gf a New Eng
lander, enriched by spoils and taxes
from the South. he ought to have added
aud that all American measures should
be american in spirit and effect. This
last is ticker for the Irish who hate all
things English and for the Westerners
who hate the Chinese.
As to the South, Mr.. Blaine tosses Us
a threat in these words:
'.Some of the Southern States have
already entered upon a career of indus
trial development and prosperity
These, at least, should not lend their
electoral votes to destroy their own fu-
ture.
ANY effort to unite the Southern
States upon issues that grow out of the
memories Of the war, will summon the
Northern States to combine in the as
sertion of that nationality which was
their ins spiration in the civil struggle
And thus great energies which should
be united in common industrial de-
velopment will be wasted in hurtful
strife. The Democratic party shows IT
self foe to Southern prosperity BY al
! ways invok ng and urging Southern 20
litical consolidation such policy
quenches the rising instinct Of patriot
ISM in the heart Of the Southern youth
it revives and stimulates prejudice il
substitutes the spirit Of barbaric ven
geance for the love OF peace. progres:
aud harmony.