The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-18
VINO HALL BE PosrMAsTER?-In

We recommend that the
wishes Of the people be ascertained by
an election, to be held IN any day this
week. which shall be conducted with inn
partially, and in which only Democrats
shall be allowed TO vote. A meeting
might be held IN the Town Hall tonight
and the proper committees appointed
Washington On. CO Gazette.
The suggestion outlined by the Ga
zette, namely that the Democrats who
have been deprived OF the privilege OF
selecting their own officials these twen-
ty years past, should now be allowed to
select all local officers Gust az they Sc
lect Congressmen) appears to be gam
| ing ground. We notice that several ar
ticles have appeared in the Visitor and
other apers advising that an extra box
be placed at the approaching city elec-
ton and that a test of public opinion be
made. We have no reson TO feel spe-
cially interested but We can see little
objection to it. The namas most ire
%quently mentioned in connection with
the Raleigh office are Messrs. Ashe,
Lacy, Anderson, White, Cheatham and
Faison. All have warm friends. fla
Primary be held the longest pole will
get the persimmon. But who holds il?
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH The
North Carolina State Board OF Health
will convene in this city on Friday next,
Goth inst, in order to recognize and com
mence operations under the new law re
Gently passed BY the Legislature.
.Nothing better for Tobacco Plant
Beds than Ober's"SpeciaL Compound for
Tobacco. Call at w. c. Il A. b..
Stronach.
....Mrs. Jennie G. Croly has been
elected President of the New York So
rosis Club.
....Mrs. Sarah J.. Adams. the wife OF
"Oliver Optic" died near Boston on
Saturday, aged SO years.
....R. B. Hayes, once of the White
House, has united the hard knots IN his
purse strings and given $4,000 to a
church at Fremont, Ohio.
....S. T. Cooper, Esq, Of Rockingham
made an assignment, last Tuesday, to
Mr.. A. B. Nicholson. Liabilities $1,000
and $1,000.
....Gen W. r. Cox proposes to IN
troduce a bill in the next Congress ap-
propriating 100000 annually for the
volunteer militia of the country.
....Judge McRae and Judge Avery
have exchanged circuits. Judge Avery
is this week in Burke and Judge McRae
in Robinson.
....Charles NJ. Busbee, Esq, has
been appointed by Gov. Scales a mem
Der of the public debt commission under
TIE act of March 18th, 1879.
IAN uptown girl sat on her low
er's hat and kept him three hours over
time, The next time the young man
goes to see his girl he should hang his
hat on a nail, instead of holding 1t IN
his lap.
1.-The Enquirer-Erpress says that
a daughter born to Mr.. and Mrs. r. Q.
Robinson. some days ago, is a curiosity
from the fact that she was born a couple
of teeth.
1.-THE Southern Agricultural Works,
at Atlanta, Ca, of which Elias Haiman
is president. made an assignment. Liza
biliiies $l97, 600, assets, $500, 900. The
work will continue.
1.-THE Carthage Moore county, Ga
zeHe publishes a list of names, by post
offices, of persons who owe 1t for sun
scrlptions and who will not ray.
....Hon. r. f. Armfield, of States
vile, has received and accepted an lnvl-
tation to deliver the annual address be-
fore the Literary Societies of Wake For
est College at their next commencement
....Stockton, Cal. March 15.-Leoni,
rope walker, while giving a performance
here last evening on a cable stretched
across a street, fell and broke his neck,
causing death an hour later.
....At the inaugural ball there were
a great many Carolinians, the name of
only a few of which are obtainable.
Among these were Senators Ransom and
Vance, Gen w. r. Cox, Mai. E.J Hale,
of the Fayetteville Observer; Col. and
Mrs. Staples. Mr.. G. E. Shober, with a
lady; Lieut.. Lemly. of the navy; Miss
Tucker, of Raleigh. Miss Hcke, of
Lincolnton, is calling upon Mrs Vance.
Mr.. ID. T. Johnson has made an
assignment. 1t was said on the streets
that he would meet all his obligations.
We dislike TO record failures in Raj
eigh; but of course everybody cannot
succeed. We think, however, that
among those who advertise in the Far
mer and Mechanic there has never, thus
far. been a failure.
IAN Alexandria dispatch says that
Iobehr Pasha, whom Gen. Gordon so
trusted and wished made Governor of
Khartoum, has been arrested under a
charge Of being implicated in reasonable
conspiracies against the authority OF the
Khedive. His residence was searched
after his arrest and in it were found
many documents proving that Zobehr
was in secret league with Ell Mahdi. The
prisoner has been placed in confinement
aboard a British frigate.
THE plan to connect Paris and
London with pneumatic tubes has been
reported favoratly by French engineers
and submitted to the government. It is
proposed that two pneumatic tubes be
laid following the line of the Northern
Railway from Paris TO Calais. thence
across the Channel to Dover, and follow
ing the line of the Southeastern Railway
to London Letters could be thus trans
mltted between the W capitals in one
hour. Wagonettes like those now used
to transport kilograms from Paris are to
be used, weighing ten k~ilogrammes and
capable of carrying FIVE kilogrammes
weight of mail matter. Twenty pneuma-
tic trains are to be started every hour.
The cost is estimated to be s., 900, 600.
Panama. via. Galveston, March
l. Heavy firing ceased at 9 CLOCK last
night and the rebels retired 20 Buena