The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

....A young lady Of Clifton, Ill sent
25 cents TO learn how TO make an u
pression," and was told TO st down on a
pan Of dough.
REV. johnson Olive, a well known
Baptist minister, whose home was near
Apex. died Saturday aud was burned
with Masonic honors-
....Hou. +. K. Bridgers arrived in
his private car on Tuesday. he comes
to locate his road within the limits OF the
towu.--Fate,teville Obserrer-
....As the time approaches when Mr.
Evarts will make his maiden speech IN
the Senate a kind Of awe-stricken gloom
settles down upon the mind OF the IA
ton.
....A seamstress IN New York is ex-
/ pected to make shirt Tor p cents. This
single fact is a proof that the generation
OF vlpers i a continuing evil.
....Parson Newman is occurring IN
California on Humility Ii is 10 be
assumed that he practices what he
breaches, but as yet his humility ap-
pears TO resemble an unknown quantity
....By means of a ladder which reach
ed to a second story window, a thief en-
tered the wholesale liquor house of Messrs
Key Il Co, Monday night, and made oil
with fifteen gallons Of whiskey.
....Gov. Scales has appointed the fol
lowing gentlemen as aides de-camp on
his personal staff, each with the rank OF
colonel: Frank II. Fries, John l. Bridg-
ers, James NJ. Leach, Jr., Isaac r.
Dortch.
,n,ar SvuAn,,AR- , y F., 4 mr. a nd
prosperous merchant Of Houston, Texas,
committed suicide yesterday morning by
taking strychnine in his coffee. No
cause is assigned except heavy drinking.
....New York, January 29.-Henry
Sandtord. a young stock broker shot
himself in the breast this evening at 81.
West 18th street, after a quarrel with a
/ young woman, which made quite a sensa
ton.
....Rev. A. ID. Hepburn, President
of Davidson College, had been elected
Professor of Greek and the English Ian
guage and literature in Miami University
for some time just after the close OF the
war In 1868.
...Washington, ID. c., January %
The postoffice department is informed
Oh INC tIIcSl VI q. > DDtli'
postmaster at Goldsmith Indiana, OF
charge of OBTAINING registered letters, .,
being found On his person opened.
...."Sambo," says Pat, give US
song" | can't sing, massa, replle,
Sambo Cant sing, is it?' respond.
Pat; thin why is your leg stuck in th'
middle Of your fut, like a bird, If yo'
can t sing?
1.-The woman that Fitzpatrick tool
with him in his march through Nortf
Carolina has turned up, a complete drum
ken outcast in Chicago. Xii was a hare
case. She was a Northern school teache
he came across In South Carolina.-Wii
mington Star
Mrs. James a. Garfield was sue,
yesterday at Cleveland, O.. by a woman
named Thankful Tanner for $25. 900
Thankful was run over by Mrs. Garfield
carriage on December % while in TIL
public square, and she now alleges tina
she was seriously injured.
1.-THE Rev. DR.. Mangum, of tn,
! University, has published, at the South
ern Methodist Publishing House, Nash
vile, in neat pamphlet form, his lecture
to young men on Your Lite Work
What Shall it Be? A friend who rea,
) it, speaks highly of it.
....Capt. Joseph De Wyfa, of Waldo
borough, Me-, has taken a trip to Can
ada with about So, 600 Of other people
money.-A fire at the insane Asylum
at indianapolis, Ind, did $40 900 dam
age, on which there is no insurance
There was a panic among the seventeen
hundred patients and no lives were lost
.~...Senator Vance's reelection by ac
clamation gives universal satisfaction t
the North Carolinians in Washington
: He has few peers in the Senate now
With his studious habits and close appli
cation to all the duties pertaining to hi
office. there ;s no estimating what in1u
/ ence he will WELD 10 the course of a few
years. understand that Grover Cleve
land has picked him out as one of hi
: chief counselors in matters pertaining t,
} the Senate Wilmington COrrespoaden
!: Gn2efte
seems to be coming with double fore,
upon Mr.: G. /. Miller. Fast upon tn
heels of his recent loss by fire, his dr.
/ kiln was burned on Wednesday. A 10
f Of lumber damaged. THE caucus 0
: the Democrats in the Legislature hav,
Endorsed and recommended Daniel q
, Fowle, for Solicitor General. They mott
fed Grover Clevela0d ofthe action. Th
Endorsement is a commendable act.
, has our hearty approval.
....Raleigh, n. G., January %. -
i, number of railway projects are being pu
!, on foot. One is Tor a road from Gold
l sboro' TO Fayetteville. connecting at tn
latter place with the Cape Fear and Yad
kin Valley railroad The pressure 70
this road is strong. The project 70
, building a road from Raleigh to Rock
: Mount IS again being agitated. A Surve
t of the proposed line from Gaffney City, s
C., cta Rutherfordton, Marion and Baker
vile, n. C., to Johnson City, Tenn.
has been completed as far as Rutherford
ton, and is progressing towards Marion.
1.-THE Indiana Democrats have In
: Structe3 Mr.. Cleveland, as we learn
through their Legislature, as to a Cabi
t net appointment Mr.. Mcdonald i
their man. Wisconsin, through a leyis
! lative movement, asks for Col. Villas
Illinois names Mr.. Springer through it
Legislature. This is three. North Caro-
5 lima has named ex-Gov. Jarvis. Thi
makes four Of the seven. Now ifArkan
+, sas will name Garland, and Delaware wi
name Bayard, there will be only on
portfolio left and Mr.. Cleveland, will
assistance, may be able to dispose of it
. especially as his own State is entitled t,
i a place. This is very funny. Is it no
even very ridiculous. Star.
e Mai. Bingham thinks that tn
' greatest blessing that ever befell Oh
South was "a failure to establish
nationality" We are not suffici entl
to see that far. The blessings of Repub
s lican rule under Grant and Hayns wnr