The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-07

q. The Charlotte, and perhaps other
military companies, with bands, will act
as his escort here.
January 22nd is the day, And at
public auction Mr.. John A. Mltchnel S
place, one mile from Selma, Johnston
county. Stock, aud cotton, and tobacco
rai-ers invited.
The train on the Chester s. Lenoir
Narrow Guage was stopped at Maiden
Station one day last week by lack OF
water. A 6-inch fish had gotten INTO
the suction pipe.
The death Of W. 5. Mason, a Direc-
tor in the Raleigh Asylum, was followed
last week By the death OF Dr. Marcellus
Whitehead Of the Western Insane Asy-
lum.
Mr.. Jas. williamson passed through
town to spend New Years with his KIN
dred in this county. The firm OF VII
Hanson & Blake has made a good start
at Smithfeld, and aims to succeed. Good
luck to it.
With his eye on another opening,
| our friend, John r. Paddison, Esq, Of
fcrs a good business stand at Point Cas-
well Sec card. He went to Henderson
Yesterday, but will be back at the Point
ere your letter arrives there.
Mr.. L. T. Booker being sick an
nounces that the Smithfeld Herald will
be offered for sale at public auction, Sat
urday Jan. 10th, bona tide. The sale IS
for the purpose Of winding up a partner
ship. but the paper will OF course go On
under the new purchaser.
Mr.. w. A. Safer, Supt. of the Pen
~itentiary farm, brought in some monster
turnips last week; two Of which would
fill a peck bucket, One was placed on
our,table, and has been sampled by
nearly nineteen candidates for the Leg
~islative clerkships.
We know of a gold mine in Central
Carolina, about 40 miles west Of Raleigh,
from which the only samples taken as
| saved between $40 and 800 per ton.
Very large tracts on Haw River, con-
nectcd Herewith, or separate, The reas-
ons for selling may insure a bargain.
As we 90 to press, Raleigh bolls,
bubbles, fries, stews and gags with the
/ ferment of politics. Thus far, the only
noticeable feature is that Nobody is a
candidate for anything, and Everybody
is being urged to run for Something.
Fellow citizens,- if none Of you will take
that little salary we know a man who is
the very man-tspare our bushes There
arc no bushes to spare, nowadays
Eleven thousand dollars! 1t is a big
sum. Yet when the Blackwell Bull Of
fered it in premiums, why didn't we all
put in? 1t seems from the long list Ill
the Durham papers that the premiums
were actually paid. Mr.. J. M.~..Sherwood,
Of the Raleigh Bank, got $40O, for some
Raleigh dealer, we suppose. Faith is a
good thing sometimes. That firm does
big business.
At the meeting of Raleigh City
Council last week, Gen. r. f. Hoke
presented aresolution for the relief OF
the State Agricultural society, allowing
the society to mortgage the land, Sc,
in order to secure an Indebtedness oil
827. 600, and allowing the issue of bonds,
sc. The assent of the city is legally
necessary in the matter. The resolu-
ton was adopted.
The Literary Society will present
their play, THE Eleventh Hour" at
Tucker Hall, Friday evening, January
10th, assisted by the young ladies and
the Euterpeaa orchestra. They will
present some special new features, and
one scene never before shown on the
Raleigh stage. The cast Of characters is
an unusually good one, consisting OF
Raleigh amateurs, and the proceed will
be devoted to the purchase of books for
a reading room for the society.
Mr., julius Lewis spent several days
in Newbcrn last week. By the by, the
Teacher objects to the modern spelling OF
the name of that town. 1t is due tC
mistake of the Legislative clerks in copy.
ing the charter. The town was undoubt-
edly named by De Graffenried for his old
home, BERN, or Berne, as it is spelled or
all the cid maps. But when the towr
was Incorporated, some ignorant clerk
Wherefore you see the Importance Of
having Legislative clerks who don't spell
January with a little g e~ngrossed the
name as NEwBERN; hence all legal docu-
ments must follow that style.
If the Legislature wishes to perpe.
tuate Democratic rule it will award the
. State printing to the lowest bidder, who
can give bond to do the work correctly.
If necessary, let a State Proofreader and
auditor be appointed to see the work
properly done. Fifty dollars a month
will pay a competent man for that pur-
pose. Why tax the Taxpayers of North
Carolina 81, coo or Sc, 900 a year, to re.
ward some editor for only doing his duty!
We know editors who fought for the
party at the risk of their lives yet ask nc
pay for it.
The Supreme Court has given a new
trial to Jos Williams who was sentenced
to be hanged for the killing of Willie
Watkins near Rolesyille. The judgment
of the court is that the Superior Court
ought not to have excluded the testimony
Of the prisoners counsel. Messrs Fowle,
Armstead Jones, and K. Bledsoe, to whom
both Pool and Williams confessed the
killing, bat claimed that it was acciden-
tal,-a drunken attempt to frighten Peo-