The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-14


--Biilee Malone has determi ioed t.
rae for Governor Of Virginia
An indiana husband Who is seek
ing a divorce claims that his vile scahcs
him with hot tea on egh', oue differan
, occasions. There are some ustient mel
10 this country.
, -. An old maid in Nashville keeps ,
, parrot which swears and monkey whict
! chews tobacco. She says, betweeh the
two, she dosen't miss husband very
much.
-. The girls at Vassar college hav,
sent President Cleveland a huge spong,
! cake of their own construction, And ht
doesn't know whether to cut it into STR p:
and use it Tor blotting paper or use ii
tor brush in washing windows.
/ .Warrenton Home On Christmas
Eve, Mark Dickens, a white man, vas
found dead near Gretna Green 1t is
supposed he frozs to death, and had been
dead upwards of q week.
! ...."Ain't you almost boiled ~ in
CURED little girl Of gentleman visit
ing her father and mother. No" iule
one, | can't say that am. Why do you
ask, Daisy?" ''Oh, because heard
mamma say that your wife always kept
you in hot water.
/ -. Geo. w. Richardson has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Washington, n.
C.--An unofficial roll of the next Com
gress shows that the house will contain
! 182 Democrats, l40 Republicans, one
Greenback Democrat and one Greenback
Republican.
....As an advertisement a Milwaukee
dime museum manager threw /, 900 nick
! els into the street for gamins to scramble
after Among the crowd attracted BY
the notice of the throwing were many old
men, while of the 1920 boys and girls
who came every one injured his or her
clothes in the slush for more than the
nickel would repair
1.-THE new mansion of Governor
Scales. of North Carolina, is one Of the
handsomest architectural features of Ral-
+, eigh. 1t is of brick trimmed with the
are est blocks of brown sandstone ever
quarred in the State This stone has
remarkable richness Of color and frmness
of texture, and its fine possibilities for
building purposes have not elsewhere
been so adequately shown as 10 Governor
Scales house. Harper Weekly.
Lieut.. Wood, U. S. n. has raised
breeze on the subject of the Fish Com
mission. He charges that the two
yackhts, Lookout and Fish Hawk, We're
used for private pleasure, aud that the
fish station on tue Susquahanna, was
fitted up at Government expense, but
was always used as private shooting
station. He has asked for a court OF
enquiry, that he may prove his charges
against Maj. Ferguson, the officer in
volved.
....Dr. A. Y. p Garnett, of Virginia,
who was the family physiclan Of jefferson
Davis both before and during the war, in
an interview published here to-day, says
! that there is absolutely no truth in the
charge that Mr.. Davis ever had an am
bition to make himself dictator DR..
Garnett further says that at the request
of Adjutant General Cooper, of the Con
federate army, he suggested to Mr.. Davis
at one time that something ought to be
done in order to save Kentucky to the
Confederacy. or something to give the
governor a chance to bring the State into
the Confederacy, or at least afford those
of her citizens who wishes it an opportu-
nifty to get over into our lines before the
Northern army was allowed to overrun
the State. I'm doing anything Of that
sort without a formal request from the
State" Mr.. Davis answered, I'VE would
be violating those very principles of the
rights Of the States concerning which we
are now at war with the Federal govern
ment. We must avoid even the appear
ance of anything of the kind even if it
costs us the State of Kentucky. The
States must be left perfectly free to join
the federal compact or withdraw from it
as they please This" says DR.. Gar
nett settled the matter, and Kentucky
was left to her fate.
....I took the Queen aud Crescent
route-death is part Of it-from Bir-
mingham and got to New Orleans via
Meridian. Although this is an excellent
line, cannot say that my nights ride was
| altogether happy l was the victim of a
new style of sleeping car in which the
berths are arranged crosswise. There
was good deal more cross than wise
about them and as | have been accus-
| toned to lying with my head to the en-
CINE and my feet to the red lantern ma
lures sweet restorer refused to restore.
1t was to dark to see tie luxuriant swamp
scenery, SO | tossed about to the tintina-
bulation of the Kentucky horse drivers
snoring. who occupied the berth beneath
me. You will know from this that l
wrestled with an upper berth decidedly
upper. 1t cost three dollars. [ paid
one dollar and slept between Atlanta and
Birmingham. paid three dollars and
tossed between Birmingham and New
Orleans, about twice the distance.
suppose there is no use in looking for uni
formlty in sleeping Car fares until Cleve-
land takes his seat. 1t pleases me though
to think that very little experience may
warn some forlorn and sleeping-car-
wrecked brother travelling from Georgia
to New Orleans. The big feature of the
road is the eight mile trestle across LAX e
PonchartraiD. We struck 1t about ! next
morning. and everybody got up to look
at the lake. The Kentucky horse drover
was in ecstacies at first over the view and
the breeze, bnt when the train got out OF
ght of land, and like huge snake crept
along the creaking timbers of this slender
bridge of woodwork, he changed his time
and asked the conductor every ten sec
onds how ar it was to New Orleans. The
ex preston OF intense relief upon the
bronze face of that anxious mau as the
cars rolled once again on terra firma
would have done credit to ao art gallery
He was afterwards heardro rem ark Il
the porter that he had never before real
lzed the efficacy of silent prayer. | d.
not mean to say that this wonderful
: trestle is not safe; but believe it ia safe
where all the passengers can swim.
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-''Why. what are you putting tha