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

-EX- Vice-PresIdent Schuyler CoiiaA
fell dead Of heart disease on Monday.
The trial of George Mills for a CAPT
tai crime occupied Wake court yester-
day.
Mr.. A. Il. Page Of Blue. Crossing
has leased the Cooke Hotel tor three
years. The more the merrier.
Several gentlemen can get board on
Hillsboro ST., four blocks from the Capt.
toll, at a reasonable price.
Mr. w 5 De Vane, a young mar
who had numerous friends in Raleigh,
died in Savannah last week.
-Nowitzky's Tar-LfeeI Monthly gives
good notice of Mr.. Geo. g.. Jordan's
success in the Life Insurance business.
The residence of Judge ''Jeflreys'
Bond in Baltimore was robbed of sew
eral hundreds Of dollars on Friday
night.
A number of articles, items, and
letters must 90 over until next week,
owing to lack of space and time to get
them in type.
Lewis p. Bayne, oflhe famous firm
of IL Z. Bayne & Company, (Little-
field, Swepson, AID other North Caro-
linians used to be acquainted wuh htm),
died last week.
-Logan's chances are certainly not
bright. The Democrats have organized
both Houses of the Illinois Legisla-
ture: one Republican member voting
with them in the lower House.
Capt w. J. Young, a pleasant gen
tleman, whose friends in Raleigh, gave
him cordial welcome last week, brings
us word that a young physician might
find a good location at Cairo, Arson
Co., N. e., by writing to S. Z. Lilies
Esq.
Col L l. Polk is here. Mr. Chas T
Askew also: representing the biggest
paper house in the country. Sheriff j.
Knox Hughes of Orange Co., gave us
a call yesterday. Squire AT Mial and
Mr. Landon Doub, also. Bro J A
Thomas, also.
Randall in the West; Mcclure in
the East the Pennsylvania Prophets
of "Protectton'' appear to be invading
the South, at head and tail. But come
along, folks! Ifyou can persuade US to
make two dollars where we are now
making one, all right!
Rev. DR.. General Curry, of Virginia,
An Ex-member of the 'Rebel' congress
but now Agent Of the Peabody School
Fund, preached %eloquently for DR.. SKIN
ner on Sunday, and then plead elo-
quently for the Blair Bill, before the
Legislature, Monday night.
Mr.. Eugene L. Harrell, originator
and manager of the State Teachers AS
ISOLATION returned or Monday from a
Flying Squirrel Trip among the misty
mountain tops" On. B.-A flying
squirrel has "a tail TO- unfold.'O He has
arranged for the "Chatauqua'' this year
in the big new hotel on Black Noun
tain.
-"Uncle Job Osborne" as We called
him, is not the richest man in the State,
but when he read the note in the f. s.
NJ. from johnny Jump up in behalf
the Oxford Orphans, he telegraphed to
his son, who runs the Osborne Bakery
in Raleigh to send a barrel of cakes fcr
the youngsters Christmas. He has the
warm heart.
Coming in to renew the subscrip-
ton of our good friend his mother, MI.
w. j. Exum Jr., who had been taking
vacation with his sisters, Mrs. w. T.
Blackwell and Mrs. r. H. Wright, gave
US favorable account of Trinity College
whereat he is a student. And by the
by-our Methodist friends will please
note the card of Rev. j. F. Hoffman
who is acting as Chairman of the faculty
pending the election of a Pr. sident.
The Farmer and Mechanic which
numbers among its friends the best peo-
pie of Johnston county, has for more
than a month past asserted that Clay
ton has been unjustly accused of Ku
Kluxing Smith and Davis, the rascally
negro burglars. By the laws of North
Carolina Burglary is punishable by
Death, but we have steadfastly insisted
that the Death penalty would not be
imposed in a case sc sure of swift trial.
Chief of Police Charles Heart, who
has been %slandered in the Yankee pa
pers, last week obtained positive proof
(three sworn affidavits) that Smith is
in the vicinity of Franklinton: while
there is no longer any doubt as to
Davis, or See. The rascals lay low be-
cause they know their crimes.
Bro. W. II. Gregory, of the Torch
light, called on us the other day to let off
his indignation against the Legislature
for not reducing the tax on marriage
license. We replied that the matter had
nc interest for u s,-unless, indeed, he
could arrange it to throw in some girls,
with the license. But he was in earnest.
and quickly proved that the interests of
morality and good citizenship demanded
low, or no license. Thousands of negroes,
aad poor whites, are. living in a state of
concubinage, because the s. requisite for
. Legal License was lacking when the
mating mood came upon them. There
may be force in the argument. Anything
which settles the colored people ID Al adj
vantage to South. The African as . va
grant is apt to be . brute. The colored
man, domesticated, with some pride Of