The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-10

Col. John G.. Washington Will buIid
a summer residence at Black Mountain.
Capt. w. n. Snellings has qualified
"a administrator of the late JAS w. San
ders.
T. A. Boon Jr., Of Durham, took
first medal, for oratory, at Rutherford
College.
"A train load of well-known people
went to Wake Forest ~mmenceme
this morning.
Judge Merrimon went to salisbury
last week to attend the funeral OF his
grandson.
Five leaf mutes were baptized at
the Second Baptist church, Sunday night
nv the Rev. DR.. Il. III. P%ritchard.
Miss Maggie Morrimon and Miss
Pattie Mordecai have been visiting
friends in Salisbury and Greensboro.
Mrs. Nora Cannon, OF SomerVllle.
Tenn, long a resident Of this city, Is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. +. a. Did
Miss Lille Long will teach i'll Miss
Everitt's school at Statesville next term,
saws Charlotte Observer.
-Rev. Chas S. Farris, has returned
this city from Nashville, Tenn, and will
spend the summer here.
Raleigh City Council has ordered a
81, 5OO rock crusher, and will re-grade
Fayetteville street widening the side
walks, also.
We regret to hear of the serious
illness at Salisbury of Mrs. Kerr Clalge.
Mrs. Craige is a daughter of Mrs. LOB
Branch of this city.
We learn that Maj John B. Hussey,
of the Greensboro Patriot, has been ap-
pointed chief of division in the office OF
third auditor of the treasury.
We hear the name of our former
partner, John w. Dowd Esq. mentioned
for the Deputy Collectorship for Durham
County. He is warmly endorsed by
numerous friends both at home and
abroad.
jarvis and Bacon will sail to-mor-
row the South Seas over. n. B.-This
is not a pun. Bacon is minister to IRA
quay. They simply travel from Norfolk
in the same vessel.
"A big summer hotel to be run by
Col. Davis of Kittrell a telephone line
from Manly Station: aud newspaper,
are among the things soon to be at the
new town of Southern Pines, in Moore
county.
Colonel w. j. Hicks said he was
out at Mr.. II. II. Powell's river farm a
few days ago, and saw some tobacco
growing which measured twenty-three
inches from tip to tip of the leaves. He
says it is undoubtedly tn. finest tobacco
in the county.
Col Bill j. Best must be fourishine
again. He gave a Theatre Party" to
number of New Workers in Washington
last week-with all the eclat of his famou.
Palace Car trip to the Cincinnati Conve
ton where he came near to being invited
on the Stage on motion of an eulogistics
side whiskered Tar Heel delegate.
The telegraph wire now runs t.
Webster, the county seat of jackson
county,-nearly 400 miles west of Raj.
eigh. AS soon as the ticker gets to Nan
tihala we shall want to hail a youn,
man named Kope E. Elias and inquire
the SLATE for the next State Conven
ton -four years hence) has been settle.
as yet?
We saw D.. S. Watt get an order 10
500 worth of clothing from a county 10
miles South of Raleigh. yesterday. "Say
your ad. in F. & M."-wrote the farmer
"a member of the State Board of Agri
culture. We like to hear OF our friend
giving their orders to those who advel
tise in the Farmer and Mechanic, an
we hope all of our BUSINESS men will d
so ere long. We never fail to speak
good word for those who do so-provide
we can do so honorably.
President Cleveland, after causin
ninety-nine North Carolina Democrat
in the hundred to begin to use cuss
words in relation to the collector VIII
is both old and Young. suddenly let 9
of the rope, and dumped the whole ca
noodle into the sand, ny appointing til
very man we were all asking him to a,
point! Some Somebody-either YaI
borough or Marlborough ought to 'st
'em up' after such a let down?
The conviction of young Cluveri,
for the murder of Fanny Madison W;
hailed with rejoicing over all Virgins
1t shows that although the New South
has produced a brood of yellow hare
Dudes who devote their lives to seducir
every girl silly enough to enjoy their a
tentions, we occasionally hang one
way of warning. The only pity is tn
the Kuklux methods which saved BOZ
scandal and public ense no long
prevail.
i will crafty a wide acquaintan,
to know that Gen. d. II. Hill and fan
ly are about to return to North Car,
lima to make their home where thu
hearts have long been. They have pr
perty at Charlotte and Flat Rock, I'll
fashionable resort near Hendersonvill
Miss Mamie Hill, after taking the A
Course in St. Louis and New Orlean
is in New York,-seeing what furth
can be learned in the same direction.
In Boston (Mass.) Musical Hera
is an account of the recent concert
Prof. w. II. NeaYes' Music school