The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-03

for the State Bar Association, change
last week.
DR.. James Mckee bought a $50
trotter from j. w. Lamb, of Goldsbor
last week.
"A. G.. Jones, Esq, has been clcctc,
chairman of the Board of County Com
missioners.
Squire \. j. Montague, ofthe Coun
ty Commission, has gained in popula
standing every year Of late.
Mr.. John Whitehead. recently 0
the Chronicle, succeeds Mr.. j.. j. Itch
ford as collector Of the City Gas Works
Sam Phillips was in Raleigh Mon
day at the Tom Jarvis spiritual seancee
Col. Buford, Col. Lott, and others also
Mrs. w. II. Tucker aud daughter
Miss Inda, of Raleigh enjoyed a shorr
visit to friends at Sanford on last week
The Messenger thinks the outlook
for the Snow Hill II. r. is not at AL
bad. Greene is likely to vote her $25,
600.
Wake County Board of Education
Lon u. Stephenson. Henry G.. Olive.
w. {. Brewer, wen known, and intelli-
gent gentlemen.
Nv. Henderson Weaver, a respected
farmer of Rutherford county, received
fatal injuries by a fall, we learn from
Asheville Adruace.
Miss Alice c. Page is Assistant
Principal and teacher of Music and Art
at Morrisville Institute. Fall term will
begin August Goth.
Gov Scales, Col Saunders, Attorney
General and Mrs. Davidson and quite a
number of other prominent citizens are
spending the week at Chapel Hill.
Prof. w. J. Scroggs sends a neat
card of Mt. Olive High School. Address,
June 25th, by Chas. B. Aycock, Esq,
of Goldsboro. He will do it well.
Another drowning accident at the
Rocks" below Fort Fisher, on Cape
Fear river. Several lives lost. Mrs.
Jas. Ii. Wynn, Mrs. De Steiano aud
three children.
Bro. Henry Foote, Of Warrenton
Gazette, and Mr.. Edward Davis of Louis
burg, will make a nice "talkee- talkee'
at Arcola Academy tomorrow. Miss Mary
Davis has a fine school, we hear.
Kings Mountain Academy this year
sends an attractive card which we gave
away to a young lady caller. The COM
mencement begins June 10th, and Hon.
Tom. Dixon will make an eloquent add
dress. This is all we remember.
Taken as a work of art the card Of
Il. j. 4 w. ID. Horner's classical aud
commercial school at Henderson is
about the most tasteful of the year.
The commandments tomorrow. Mar
shals: o T. Smith, chief; w. w. XIV
EFT, X. ). Pogue, J. l.. Rogers, II. A.
Foushee.
W. &. Moore Esq, of Moore 4 Proc
tors warehouse, has been elected a mem
Der OF the Board of county commissioners
of Wake-a place equal to member of
the Legislature in some of the smaller
counties. He is we'll known and popular.
Mr.. W. II. Mcdonald, Of the Uni
verslty, was in town last week arranging
for the excursion to-day. He gave us an
intelligent account of matters at the
hill, and showed a good photograph of
the New Memorial Building. 1t is very
handsome, and no doubt commodious.
An article 10 Wake Forest !Stu5ent
tells how the growing Baptist College
started. Rev. DR.. S. d. Wait, then a
young preacher, was journeying through
the South to solicit funds for Columbia.
Ills horse ran away while crossing a
p~uncheon, or corduroy road near
Newbern, and dumped him into the
swamp. He concluded to ''stick :" and
his works still stand.
A couple of pretty graduates of
Female College dropped in
At the F. & M. last week, on their re-
urn to Warren and ''old Virginia. to
see their first cousin Duck. Alas,
hat some folks have to keep a wild duck
instead OF a tame one! And what did
Deems tell YOU" we asked. sob.
le said Senator Colquitt is a happy COM
oinatlon ofcamp-meeting and Barbecue,
And it was awfully jolly to hear them
The universal regret expressed in
and the South over the death
1N-Gov. Gilbert c. Walker-an ex-
Yankee soldier. who entered the
state with Grant-shows the difference
'etween a bona fide settler and a scar
'et-bagger." And there is hot a day
Without illustrations. The prejudice was
Iot against any Northern man simply
S such, even though he had helped TO
7rong and ruin our section. But we
Id resent the coming of harpies, intent I
olely on using the ignorant degrees as /
means of robbing the remnants of our !
'%rtunes, and venting malice upon Ms Z
# course there were cases wherein '
'orthern men of excellent character and |
he best of intentions joined the Radi-
lis and sought to control the local pol 1
les with real desire to serve the South. t
e have known more than one such b
thought he was doing service to o
Cd n country by harranguing the :
'groes in bitter accents against their W
d masters. But time has opened their n
es, and experience shown the folly of Of
Oh an undertaking and there are to. o,
y no quieter, more industrious. nor ~
tier citizens in the State, Ia