The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-27

with railroad work, and a good telegraph
err, who desires a situation.
Major Finger delivered an address at
Nahunta in Wayne last week and at
Oakdale 10 Alamance TO day.
THE Governors, Treasurers, and
Acknowledgement offices are being re-
foored. carpeted. aud painted.
-Messrs Pescud Lee & Co make State.
mcnts in relation to their business that
are well known in Raleigh. Try onel
The children of the graded school
18th grade were to have a picnic Mon
day, but have postponed It till Wednes-
day, Ito day.
The funeral Of Chester, the lAtant
child Of Mr. Seymour W. Whiting was
held Sunday afternoon at 6 o'clock from
the First Presbyterian church.
The American Medical Convention
at New Orleans last week appointed DR..
Grissom to represent North Carolina on
| the committee to arrange for an lnterna-
| tional Medical Convention 10 Washington
City in 1887.
Miss Ella +. Richardson Of Johnston
has been visiting her brother Mr. .. NJ.
| Richardson. 1870 X. L. Daingertield
Esd, Of Col. Burgwyn's Bank IN Hen
derson, aud weil-known in Raleigh, has
becu elected Treasurer of the former
town.Miss Mamie Hatchett's new
paper, the ".Southern Wonnn," will APP
pear in a few days.
-Messrs. T. II. Murray and John
Winder, of this city, and Brainard Whr-
ting, of Hamlet, have established a hen
merry at the latter place. They have
bought fifty acres of ground, an acre OF
which has been enclosed by a fence
ten feet high. They will have the best
egg-producing hens, such as are guaran-
teed to lay 200 eggs a year.
Fast girls may learn a lesson from
Fanny Madison. Although warm
hearted, generous, gifted in mind and
person, a steady church goer, and called
after the Lily, emblem Of purity,-sh
is now being shown up as void Of virtue,
urdutiful to her parents, a practlsed de
%cciver, and a willing recipient of letters
and poems SO nasty that they could not be
read aloud in court; and made even the
baldheaded Jurors blush 1t shows that
the girl was murdered; for if she had had
any idea Of self-destruction she would
not have left any such filth in her trunk
We do not know if he desires it, but
we should like to see our young friend,
Prof D. Harvey Hill, now of the Uni
versity of Georgia, chosen to one of the
nine new Chairs at Chapel Hill. A native
hams, and Davidson College (where he
for a time held a protessorship) the son
Of Gen. Hill, the nephew of Stonewail
Jackson, Gen. Barringer, Judge Avery,
Col. Brown, ct al, with both talents and
experience on his own account, he ought
to be useful to the great State I%nstitu-
ton soon to be.
Very neat and tasteful is the card of
Peace Institute. Rev. DR.. Watkins will
deliver the annual sermon, Cat First Pres.
church, on Sunday next. Commence
ment begins 8 p. IN. on Monday. Grand
Concert s p. m. Tuesday Glass of 1885:
Full Graduates-Mamie Brewster, Carrie
| DIO., JJon,o " Na. N -.
church. Graduates in Literature and
Science-Leila ". Anderson, Mary P.
Bates, Myrtle G. Branson, Frank p. Fai-
SOD, Nellie Cole, Belle Fleming, S. Liz
zie Morgan, Truletta kreth, Minnie Red
ford.
Another of the old citizens of Raj
eigh went from earth last week after a
continuous and fearful suffering such as
rarely falls to the lot Ofman. We refer
to VIM. d. Cooke Esq, founder and for
Is years Principal of the D. d. & B..
Asylum, the first purely benevolent
public institution e organized in the
State, if we be correctly informed. He
dISo " d tliIiC III tIlulNc VI lIlC
Georgia Institute at Cave Spring; and
the Maryland Institute at Frederick
City. In fact his whole life was given
up to this work; and what vocation of
life could be nobler? He sent many a
bright mind into the world unShackled
from its letters; yet his own last dozen
years were a living death. Wonderful
are the incongruities of Nature! Mr..
Cooke died in his 74th year, surrounded
by his family, including Mrs. Geo. C..
Jordan, who has so many friends in
Raleigh. Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan returned
from Stanton on Monday.
A letter from Raleigh to the N. Y.
Times alleges that Senator Ransom op-
posed the appointment of Judge Fowle
as Solicitor-G General in order to prevent
his becoming too prominent for the SEN
atorial succession The reason given
would of itself be enough to kill the bill
even If we did not know more about the
facts. Gen. Ransom is not worrying about
an election four years distant: but in any
case he is too smart, and we believe too
highminded, to play such games.
Since the above, we notice a very sim
liar letter in New FORK San, dated from
Misunderstanding that Ransom begged
Jarvis to take the place: and hat Vance
was not invited to share in it." etc.
Also, that Maj. Ed. Hale's appointment
was a surprise; as he was a good looking
young man who had resided out of North
Carolina, and had no political record. etc.
We merely allude to these as showing
what is being said. Gen. Ransom is in
Northampton at present.
The Pitt county correspondent of
Washington On. O. Gazette, referring to
the hub bub kicked up all over the country
by the report that Minister Jarvis had re-
ceiyed a Free Pass for himself. and whole