The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-05

Mr.. B. B. Lewis card.
-Ex-Judge David Schenk says he
was named on the Prohibition ticket
without authority, as he is a Democrat.
Major Crenshaw, of " axe county, IS
making fine stock profitable. He refused
$500 for a jersey cow at the Exposition.
Capt. J. w. Thack.ton left yester-
day for a trip through Georgia and Ten
nessee, for his Publishing House, y. 5.
Barnes & Co.
Mr.. w. N. Yeates, son of eX-COn-
FRESHMAN Yeates, who married Miss
Julia Moore, formerly of this city, spent
the past week gathering exhibits for the
Smithsonian Institute.
1t is "ColoneE" Tom Evans now;
the Republican papers have promptly
promoted him since his recent turn to
Blaine. Well, some go up, and some
90 down, and thus the world keeps wag-
ging round.
Capt. Alf. H.. II. Tolar who is a
Democratic nominee for the State Senate
in Texas, is = native of Cumberland, and
was among the first volunteers from Bla-
den county, though only II years OF age
at the time. He went to Texl Is in 1870.
The election of Rev. DIR. Paret, of
Washington City, as the new Episcopal
Bishop of Maryland, is considered a
triumph for the High Church party, tho
elected by a few votes from the Low
Church ranks, after a week of balloting.
Mr.. Andrew Syme, who has not only
the confidence, but the good will Of the
community, has joined Mr.. Edward I.
Pescud in the Insurance business. and
Messrs. Pescud & Syme will have the best
wishes of all. They succeed the late firm
of P. +. Pescud and Son.
Mr.. VIM. NJ. Boylan, and his es-
teemed and attractive bride Miss Pla
eide E~nglehard), will take with them to
their new home in Durham the cordial
good will of the community, and the
best wishes of a very large circle of
friends. The ceremony was witnessed
by a large assemblage in Christ church
this morning,
Miss Fannie Louise Buckingham who
played "Mazeppa' in Metropolitan Hall
did not have any particular superauity
of clothes on the stage, but was very
particular about her garments on the
street; and paid one of Raleigh's milliners
the compliment of giving her more pay
than she asked; saying thao the work and
the promp tness were worth more than
the sum set.
When you read the account of the
burning of the Dutch steamer in mid
ocean, you will wonder what sort of a
captain he must be. who could allow a
barrel of kerosene oil to leak for a week,
and then send a reckless sailor with a
lamp to stop the bung! And what sort
of a company must it be that could en-
trust $50 lives and 5000. 900 worth of
proper to such a fellow?
The colored arristocracy had a ball
the other night in Knights of Labor
Hall-fourth story of Briggs Building.
We had often made fun of big feet, but
when that dance began-our fun became
'sicklied over by the pale cast of thought
for the dancers were directly over our
room and although three floors interviewed
there was not much consolation in that,
when each fling fantastic fetched a chunk
of wall plaster the size of your hail
t- We can furnish to persons living
in the city or near enough to call and get
it, a copy of many costly magazines and
periodicals at halt price, after being read
and sometimes clipped by ourself. Of
course any clippings we took would
appear in the Farmer and Mechanic;
hence there would be no real loss. Har-
pers, Scribners, Bradstreet, the Turf,
Field and Farm, the Poultry Journal etc.
Mr.. Frank B. Gibson, one of our
subscribers at Gibsonville, the Southern
end of the Hamlet Branch, on Friday
night was awakened by a noise and rose
from his bed in time to see a burglar leap
from the window. Himself and other
male occupants of the house at once gave
chase, and in piece of woods, about half
a mile they flushed the burglar, who was
loaded with stolen goods. The burglar
refused to halt when commanded to do
so, whereupon he was shot dead. He was
q colored man.
-Lincolnton Press last week con-
tanned tRo items as follows-''The charge
of embezzlement against A. S. Haynes
was mol pros'd. at last t."-Capt.
A. s. Haynes has discovered a gold mine
on the h. W. Burton farm, four miles
from town, ON Carolina Central R. R.,
that is of fabulous richness, near a
thousand dollars per ton! Capt. Haynes
has sunk the shaft six feet below water,
and finds the vein growing wider and
richer almost solid gold"
Thus doth fortunes wheel. etc.
Mr.. Leo. D. Heart, treasurer of the
Exposition, and forty-leven other things
who handles more money to his size
than any man in the State, except per-
haps MI. Donald Balm, dome need to be
told to keep cool" but his admiring
friends on Friday night presented him a
nice silver ice pitcher and goblet; MI.
Chas. d. Lewis gracefully telling why
and wherefore; to which Mr.. Heart ex-
pressed his heartfelt thanks very neatly,
amid hearty applause.