The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-21

Mr.. Il. NJ. Uzzell has purchased The
interest Of Senator John Calling III the
printing firm of Uzzell & Calling.
TO save waste of time and stamps on
both sides, we mention that the position
advertised by Mr.. Austin Grimes Is al
ready filed.
Prof Chas. Smedes, recently ofGra-
ham, and having wide acquaintance here
abouts, has taken the Academy at KELVIN
Grove. this county.
,-Zeb's Jokes at the jackson dinner in
Washington may not do Tor Sunday
reading; but everybody laughed until
they had to apologize to their wives, and
ask for Bulls Cough Syrup
Wake county tobacco farmers were
tickled last week to near old ''W eedist,'
from Orange, Granville, Person, and Gas
well estimate the grey, ashley %chinquapin
lands of southern and eastern Wake at
$25 to $50 per acre.
1t was pleasant to take by the hand,
and swap stories of war-timcs and peace
politics, with Maj. II. w. Reinhardt, of
Thomasyille Female College, well Known
in Raleigh: where he once resided as part
proprietor of the Baptist Female College.
AS you walk along Fayetteville street,
nearly opposite the Farmer and Mechanic
office. notice a three story brick building
with the sign -DRY-GooDs! Maj r. +.
Petty, a clever man, is proprietor, and
he has a set of clever clerks, and his card
tells about something you want.
"A friend in Eastern Carolina writes
US in high praise of Gen. W. G. Lewis
work in his section in surveying the
swamp lands; to drain which the States
convict labor will be asked. Well, the
West has had much of such aid and we
think the East should have her share.
Scales are made to weigh; but to-
day North Carolina weighs SCALES, and
finds him '%'true," and ''meH Jalanced,"
and mot wantng." May his platform
hold steady and close no weight" but
yield true measure for measure" four
years hencel So says the Farmer and
Mcdaniel And SO say we all!
Sheriff K. w. Hardie, of Cumber-
land, spent 4 few days with his brother,
p. C. Hardie. Esq. Always genial, his
latest joke is on the spelling class. Col.
D. r. Walker who happened to come in
just in time to shake his joviai sides, viii
tell it to you at next court week in your
county, provided he isn't appointed Pos
tAl Inspector in the meantime.
From Hon. w. Z. Audrey, Of Neck
lsnburg. We have q package of useful
documents. He agrees with the Register
shat the way to make such things useful
is not TO print them lat cost of the tax
payers) and then leave them bundled in
tho members desk, or some friends
room. but to scatter them where they
will do the most good-for the use Of the
people.
The election of Jas. w. Reid. Esq,
to serve for six weeks as the successor
of Gen. A. M. Scales, and the Prede-
cessor of Jas. w. Reid, passed Off
quietly, or let US say-Unanimously !!
For while some hundreds Of votes were
cast for Col. L.. G. Edwards, Mr.. j. S
Worth. and others, they were hardly
worth counting and were meant of
course merely as a personal compliment.
w ithout opposition" "Unani-
mousiy," ''by acclamationl" Thus was
Senator Vance's denomination Ii. c. re-
slection) for six years from March next !
What = compliment To be one of the
two men chosen to represent two millions
Of souls in the National. Senate is an
honor few men can aspire to. But to
get that honor by Unanimous CONSENT
that is piling Pelion upon Ossa. Three
times has Vance been elected: but this
last is most glorious.
AS our Legislative friends are read
ing the narrative ofGen. Lafayette's visit
to the State House, let them raise their
eyes to the Painting on the wall, and
they will see a pretty ''Tar-Heel," of
the HAYWOOD clan, far back in the time
when a State was a State-no military
order to the contrary notwiths landing.
Mr.. Harris, the writer of the article re-
ferred to, is of the "Harrises of Cabar-
rus, good and clever men since the
days Of the Powder Boys and be-
fore.
Letters continue to come to us 10 high
praise of Judge Fowle, etc. The action
Of the Democratic party through its
county Representatives in the Legisla-
ture in asking the appointment of the
Judge IS Solicitor General, vice Sam
Phillips, seems to nullify or overshadow
Any individual expression of opinion:
therefore We withhold the letters for the
present: merely remarking on our own
account that we appreciate from the heart
the many illusions to another person
Who il usually, (but mistakenly referred
b.
H. d. Stowe, Esq. an old friend
from Mecklenburg, we notice has intro
dueed . bill to order by law the doing of
. thing which of right ought to be done
under the natural law of common sense,
TO wit,-the furnishing of newspapers
with 4 copy of all enactments by the law
making power.
When the Supreme Being had arranged
tho eartn for mans abode he gave COM
m.nd-"Let there be LightF' And surely
= State which ordains a law ought to let
III citizens know the law. Whe a poor
devil has not Is cents in his pocket, it
aeen.s hard to hang him for stealing a