The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-20

Civil Service examination at Golds'
boro, June 10th.
VIM. A. Smith of North Carolina
took second honors at Roanoke College
Virginia.
Judge Waltel Clark's Office may be
found at the Judges room, on second
floor of court house.
W. W. Pearsall, charged with muir
der at Goldsboro last week was not hang
ed. The Jury ''hung.'
Our type made Anthony M. kel-
lev" out of the name of the new MINIS
ter to Austria. 1t should have been
Anthem NJ. Kelley.
Pleasant call from DR.. Walter {.
Murphy, Secretary of the State Medical
Convention, who with a party OF promi>
nent Doctors from the East, went to Dun
ham yesterday.
-RaIei1h shows progress in many
things. Wilmington Star.
Very true, Bro kingsbury: therefore
we say unto you, WHY uou Jou '"H nv
BERNARD progress up this way Verify
you shall nave welcome.
"A young laGy-daughter ola deceas-
cd Episcopal Clergyman-well educat-
ed and observation-disclosures u situation IN
some family, or small private school. The
name is well known in Eastern Carolina.
Write this Office for address.
MIR. X. .. Gregory has presented to
the Asylum a fine Alderny heller. Thank
you, sir.-Orford Orphan asylum.
No use to thank him He would
rather do a clever thing than not. Two
Editors in his family. Runs in the
blood
Mr.. Romulus H. Weathers in pay
ing for his 'ad. in the Farmer and Me-
chamic says he does it ~cheerfully, because
of the continual call for eggs; some from
as far away as Texas and California.
The poultry men mean to beat the cat
tie show this fall.
"A well arranged pamphlet from Prot.
w. ". olnulOuS, lltdSuIeI VI "dho
Forest, shows the financial condition of
that institution. The endowment fund
has reached the handsome sum of $l02,-
SO. SO, from which, with rents, etc, the
college derived the past year ST, 109 66.
Bro. JOS. A. Harris, of the Orange
Observer, was elected Mayor of HiIlsboro.
p,o IhNnnoc 81 thA T,a,u, uao
reelected Mayor of Louisburg. Mr.. John
Weddin, of the Bud, was elected Mayor
of Clayton. Mr.. Geo. Hart, of the Re
porter, is Mayor of Rocky Mount, we be-
lievc.
Rev. DR.. J. VIM. Jones, Secretary
of the Southern Historical Society, and
author of the best life of Gen. r. E. Lee,
is reported as saying that if Stonew2ll
Jackson had been in command at Gettys-
burg, Gen. James Longstreet would have
been shot by court~martial for his con-
duct there. This is a very wild state
ment.
Mrs. Leo. Heartt, President of the
Memorial Association, Miss Cowper, Mrs
Olds, the Misses Whitaker, and the few
arrange the decorations at the Hall, and
make the tour hundred flags to mark the
graves, deserve the thanks Of those who
would not willingly see the neglect of the
last tribute to the memory of the States
martyrs, the men who died in hope that
North Carolina might livel
Neat, and good tasty" is the card
OF Wake Forest College this year. Com
mencing June 10th. Music by Kesnich's
Band from Richmond, Va. Eloquence-
by Rev. DR.. Geo. w. Sanderlin, Tuesday.
Lo0ic-by Lieut.. Gov. R. F. ArmfieAl,
Wednesday, Docti7ne-by Rev. DR.. f.
NJ. Ellis of Nd, same night. Orattons
by the Graduating Glass, Thursday
morning. Soft Sauder-by the whole
college at the Promenade Concert, s p.
IN. on Thursday. Style-by the marshals
Whitehead, Boushall, Thompson, Stew
art, Barker, Watson. .S,ceetaess, by
four hundred of the p~rettiest Baptists
out of water. Good Report, Prof. w.
u. Simmons statement of the college
finances.
Mayor VIM. Johnston, of Charlotte,
has offered 800 reward for the fellows
who turned the cottage OF ''Minnie Bell'
$50 called) into a pepper box lid by the
exploding of a dynamite bomb, made of
old gas pire, under the floor where
the brevet maidens reposed. The BELL"
girl, and her two sisters, formerly well
known in Orange, and familiary with
Chapel Hill classics which they trans
planted to Raleigh, are supposed to have
designed the ornate, NEUROLOGICAL, and
rst-classlcaliy fashionable cards which
(f report be true) sought the domiciles
of every baldheaded habitue of Raleigh
from Cotton-Town to the Orchestra
chairsl on the occasion of President
Cleveland's first choice of Minister to
Russia, viz Ellick Lawton, Esq.
Big Day in Bennettsville''-is the
title of a four column article IN Charles
ton Neaos and Courier describing the
Dedication of the new court house in
Marlboro, built by our townsman Jacob s
Allen. The chairman of the County
Commissioners, in his speech refers to
various parties and adds
The accomplished builder who has SO
skillfully and faithfully erected this tenn
pie, our people owe a debt of lasting
gratitude. In behalf of the Court and
all the citizens ! thank you all, and pub.
licly commend Mr.. Allen, the builder, for
the honesty, faithfulness and skill he has
displayed in his work from beginning to
end; and award to him, as we'll as to the
legislators and commissioners, the need