The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-20

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this morning, with a pistol by his side,
is one of the saddest events we have
known in years. Ill health, was doubt
less the chief cause.
na-He's got 'en! Fits And you
had better not 90 in there, unless you
want to be bothered by having people
remark-"What a nice fit! Where did
YOU get 'em?" OF course you will have
to answer ID. S. WATTS" And that
will take time, even if it does save
money.
Capt. Ashes appointment has been
highly endorsed by the State press.
Raleigh will celebrate to-day t"Meck-
lenburg Day. by a big game OF Base
Ball at 4; Flreman's Parade at 8; Masque
Ball on roller skates at s.
There have been eleven cases of sui
eide at Hornellsville N. Y. (hali the SIZE
OF Raleigh within ten days past. North
Carolina averages one per week.
BY the blunders Of the Democrats,
and the foolish ambition of VIM. Morri-
son, John A. Logan was yesterday re-
elected United States senator from IL
linois One Democrat, barry voted Tor
him, his price not stated.
1--WE know of a young man; a
graduate of Trinity College, who would
like to have a situation as editor or
school teacher. Address "a. NJ" care
f. & M.
The fools are rot all dead yet: but
there is one less. Prof. r. f. Odlum, a
disciple of Paul Boyton undertook to
lump off from Brooklyn Bridge $50 feet
above water. He expected to sink 20
feet. He made the leap; but died after
being taken out of the water. The rapid
descent drew the breath out OF him.
Mrs. Annie McGilvary of Moore went
to the La. Expo. last week and will
take a G-weeks vacation in Rutherford.
The last days of the war, elsewhere
pictured by a Raleigh lady ought to be
touching. Think of q thousand meals
given away to strangers. And a dead
Confederate int he Office (Froneybarger is
a Lincoln or CASTOR county name) and
two Yankees on the porch and young
girls upstairs!
The trial of Cluverius at Richmond
has thus far proved his intimacy with
Lillian Madison, his correspondence with
her, his meeting her alone in Richmond
at each of her three visits, and his poss-
ession of a coat and hat such as were
worn by the man who went towards the
fatal reservoir with her. The watch key
found within the grounds has also been
traced to him. 1t looks like a clear case:
but the defense has not yet opened.
Send for a specimen copy of the
Goldsboro Messenger,..if you wish to see
the largest, and handsomest. paper ever
issued in the State and a picture of the
finest printing Office and a picture OF
Bro Bonitz (tho' it must have been taken
the day of the late fire. when he saw
thousands of dollars Of hard-earned
earnings vanishing amid the smoke OF
an idle boys cigar and good likness
of Ransom, Vance, Scales, Cox, Green,
| Jarvis, Skinner, and other celebrities.
| Send US some ''extras," Bro. B. to hand
out.
of Raleigh's splendid Cattle Show has
been forced aside, because in weekly
newspapers at the South which have
neither extra printers, nor extra
type-the rule is first come frs! serv-
ed'' and the last to come often gets
left out" Suffice to say that the thing
was a success. More hal one hundred
and fifty Jerseys, Attorneys, Gvernseys,
Devons, Brahmas, B%eresfords, ETC.,
were brought in; and well fed stock they
were. Our State Fairs, with all their
premiums, will do we'll to draw such a
show. Mr.. Will Stronach, DR.. Mckee,
Capt. Williamson, Mrs. Grimes, and
half a hundred others, had beautiful cat
tie and kline, with gentle names, and all
of us who love good milk, said we hoped
fine stock would some day come near
enough to buy a piece.
The Anti-Stock Law Convention in
Wake County, whose indignant selti-
ments lawyer Tom Argo SO forcibly set
forth, have selected Col. Tom Fuller,
Ex.Judge Geo. V. Strong, and Maj. A.
NJ. Lewis, as Counsel, to test the Consti.
tutionality, &c, of the recent act. Glad
to hear it. IT the matter is to come into
court, we desire to see the strongest view
that is possible by those who wish to live
outside of the fence. The eminent at
torneys named are not noted as stock
~raisers: but they know as well how to get
through "a lawful fence"-(which in the
language of the statute must be-"Horse
high, bull strong, and pig tight as
any men who ever let down the lega
Bars in Raleigh.
Elk Senator Geo. N. Thompson, of Cas-
we'll, prints a letter, stating that when
Caswell was make liable to the Stock Law
there was a very large majority in opposi-
ton; meetings were held counsel en-
ployed, etc. Yet at last years election
the subject was scarcely mentioned. The
whole matter had lost interest.
Similar reports come from nearly every
county which has tried it. We trust it
will be the same here though personally
we feel little interest it. If people would
rather maui rails, let 'em rip. Every
tail knoweth its own split stick.
Raleigh Trades With Chatham.
And a young man from Chatham
! unIlA lie to haua q s1tnation In q aoaI