The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-25

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cents a word, each week.
While preparing to move INTO larger
aud finer quarters, Nj. j. L. stone de
sircs to enlarge his business. See cara.
-RaIeich standard Guano. "A new
broom sweeps clean" They are max
inc a first-class article, to draw trade
A son of ex-Gov. NJ. l.. BonhaIn
offs. G., accidentally shot himself while
hunting near Rock Hill.
Rev. DIR. T. D. Witherspoon Is SAID
to have declincdth Presidency OF DaV-
ldson College. Why not recall Cen
d. III. Hill to his old post? Prof. Blake
declines to continue in charge; and OF
the three newly elected Professors, only
Prof. Graves has accepted.
cleveland has made another sur
prise" He yesterday appointed h. }.
Phelps, of Vermont to be Minister to
England, Ujce Jas. Russell Lowell resign
ed. Tx Gov. Robt. McLane. OF Mary
land, Minister to France. "Gentleman
George" Peudleton, Of Ohio, Minister to
Berlin, or Germany, Judge Ii. X Jack
son ofGeorgia, Minister to Mexico The
SENATE confirmed all these appointments
The card Of Mr.. j. s. Harris who
married a daughter of Col. l.. l.. Polk)
offers a good opening for q good teacher
male preferred, we suppose. Poplar
Tent is the centre of one OF the best ru-
raj regions in the State, noted Tor lntclll
gence. hospitality, fine farming and line
cattle. The late DR.. Columbus Mills,
Col. Thos. Robinson, and half a score OF
Harrises, a'e widely known IN the State.
An uncommon compliment to the
m of Rev. i. G. Phillips who died
in Durham last week, was paid by the
congregation of Person st. N. +. Church
on Sunday night. He ministered TO the
church several years ago; and those who
made addresses spoke Of him in terms
of genuine praise. Among the speakers
were Rev. f. l.. Reid, Rev. l.. Branson,
Mr.. V. Ballard, Mr.. Redford, Rev. W. L.
Cunllin9Hlm, ana OJHtES.
the trial ofyoung Mann for the kill
ing of old Mr.. Pace In Chatham county
accused. The particulars of the affair
have hitherto been printed. There was
i'll feeling between the two, and they met
in a narrow path one morning. A diff
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blow which resulted in his death shortly
afterwards. His friends claim that he
was wavlaid and strnck Stnalth;ly from
behind. Mann claimed that he acted in
self defence.
The scramble and squabble for Of
fee is 50 great that any man of small
means and average abilities, who does
not join in the race, or put i'll for''
something. is made to feel that he is
nerveless, lacking in enterprise, and
falling back in the march of life. We
know a person who has been %oftener,
and more severely blamed for not seek
ing office than ifhe had crawled through
all manner OF intrigue to get one. A
judge of the State courts remarked-''I
favored Soandso in 1880, and am his
friend still but III never again work
for a man who won't work for HIMSELF"
And very likely he had grounds for
feeling disgruntled: although it used to
be the theory of pure patriotism that
the Office should seek the man, instead
of the man devoting half his days to
capture the office.
Capt. Berry, the new United States
Senator from Arkansas (rlce A. II. Gar
land, promoted; and by the by, Gar
lands father and mother were North
Carolinians) is a young man, not above
As, and lost a leg while serving as a
Confederate Captain. He is, we think,
a brother, Though possibly a cousin) of
the gallant Rebel-'One-armed Berry"
who won much fame by his dashing OK
PLOTS inside of the Federal lines in
Missouri. and was arrested six months
after the war, tried by Military Court
Martial aud sentenced to be shot: but
being respited by Andy johnson was
sent to Albany Penitentiary for life.
His sad story has been published in the
farmer and Mechanic years ago. The
great wrong done to him Gas asserted to
us while we sat by his death-bed IN the
prison hospital) has since been proven
to our satisfaction by letters from Gov.
fFhnS y ~, DN1nttA T,lxo w I ~
and others.
The assignment Of Mr.. Alexander
Creech, and also his sons firm, John
d. Creech Il Co., on Thursday last made
a'Black Friday for Raleigh; the failure
beng the greater shock to the commu-
nifty because of the fact that for more
h forty years's ''Creech's Corner,
has been a landmark in Raleigh; and the
solid old establishment was in keepino
with the solid and steady-headed pro-
prietor WAC although identified with
many leading elements of public enter.
prise was never carried away by extray-
agant enthusiasms. The fact that his
assets are considerably less than half
the liability illustrates his caution. for
ms a rule nowaday S in case of failures
the stock on hand is usually rated to
nearly equal the Indebtedness and
there is no doubt that a man of Mr..
Creech's credit could readily have filled
his store to OVERLOOKING. The schedule
OF the a%ssignees, lawyers Geo. H. Snow
and Jos. D. Creech, estimates SIS, ZOO
assets $4,000 debts. Most of the lat
ter are due to Northern firms, we sun.
pose. MeQ orr nainhhos LII - -