The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-29
RALEIGH. n c., WEDNESDAY, APRIL % 1885

WILMINGTON AND FAY NETTEVILTE.
We understand that President Gray
and Mr. J d. Williams have gone 70
Wilmington this week to confer with
parties there relative to the extension II
the C. f. 4 Y. V. Railway to that place.
Fayetteville ObSerrer.
MORNING SICKNESS. A strong infus
ion OF hops has been recommended to re-
lieve morning sickness. Dr. Julian II.
Smith has found that bromide of sodium
would relieve more cases of morning sick
ness than any other remedy ol which he
had any knowledge,
How GoETH HENDERSON A beau
tiful new brick, Gothic church, has
been built on fine lot in a command
ing position. 1t cost s., 900, and has
been paid for The last. debt due,
amounting to nearly 81, 900, was present
ed to the church by Mr. Samuel Wat
kins, one of its young elders, at the con-
gregational meeting in January. That is
a good thing for people, not elders, to re-
member and to initiate. The present
was IN addition to his original subscrip-
tion of 800. Others followed his liber
allty in work.
A charming manse has been also built
and is now occupied by the new and
young pastor-elect Rev. Elex. Sprunt,
who is a son~in-law to Prof Thomas +.
Peck, d. d. This building is not yet
fully paid for, but this ''go ahead flock
cannot let that remain SO very long. In
some way they will wipe it out. Those
who help themselves deserve help from
Others
The Baptists and Episcopalians are
each erecting neat brick churches, but
neither will probably be completed for
some time \ handsome new Court
House has been completed, except that
on the lofty cupola bronze statue of
Gov. Z. b. Vance, now L. S. Senator,
is to be placed This is new county
called Vance. All this section of the
State is feeling the elevating power of TO
bacco.
The grape culture is a speciality around
Ridgeway. In Warrenton We have a
good brick church, the best in the town.
-itec. L. q. IdSS
THE New TYpE-SETTING MACHINE. =
Washington letter: The machine type
setter as it is called-it should be termed a
stereotyping machine-is being visited by
many people at Chamberlin's, where 1t
4 has remained on exhibition since last
nights dinner 1t is a wonderful piece
of mechanism, and is destined to revo-
! lutionize the business. A small gas en-
CINE operates number OF these machines
one Of which occupies space Axe feet,
and does the work of ten composltOrs
In appearance it resembles a mammoth
type writer, the keyboard being arranged
10 exactly a similar manner. The opera
tor sits at the board and, with the copy
in front, plays the keys. The dies, in
stead of stamping paper, are impressed
on heated type metal which, as fast as
each line is completed, is cut off and
automatically passed out in a galley.
The operator, working leisurely, can turn
out column of minlon of the size of the
Washington Post every hour.
This machine obviates the use OF type
in the printing business, and does away
with the compositor of to-day. The
work ceases to be laborious and un-
healthy, and the cost to the business is
reduced about 50 per cent. Machines
are made of different sizes of imprint,
and the plan of the company is to lease
the machlnes-not to sell them-at rates
which will guarantee this reduction of ex-
pense. The prospectus states that the
4 cost Of type setting in the United States
comes to 500, 600, 900 per annum, and
that the substitution Of this machine will
reduce the cost to 0,000, 900
When it is considered that in addition
to this the outlay for purchasing type is
entirely obviated, one can form an estI-
mate of the influence the machine will
exert upon the printing business. The
capital stock of the company is to be IN.
creased to $40, 000, 900, and factories are
being established