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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

....Lopdou. January y be Bank
Of England rate Of DISCOUNT has been re-
duoed to four per cent.
....SOme people ike oysters on the
half-ehell. Others quail Oh toast, but We
prefer eagles on sl0 god pieces.
ITO what length may the widow 20
when she desires a new parent for her
children? She may 30 one step father.
The ieople of South Carolina are
agitating the subject of extending tie
Camden branch of the South Carolina
Railroad northward to Charlotte, or Mon
roe.
MIR. 5. ;. Con2nt. editor OF Har-
per's Weekly left his office nearly two
weeks z presumably 10 go home to
dinner. He has not since been seen or
heard from.
....General James Chestnut, United
States Senator from South Carolina at
the time OF that States secession from
the Union. and afterwards a member Of
the Montgomery Congress, died at Cam
den, ). G., yesterday, aged 20 years.
THAT bel is not long enough for
me. said a gruif old Englishman, upon
being usbered into his bedroom BY an
Irish waiter at one of our hotels. Faith,
An you Il tind it is pretty long, sir, when
you get INTO it was the reply, for
there II be Two more feet added to it.
....A fine basket Of flowers, the gift OF
North Carolina ladies and Others resident
and s%ojournlng in the city, was found on
Senator Fance's desk Tuesday morning.
4 card explained that "a few friends
had bethought them Of this mode of con-
veylng their congratulations and com
pllments on the occasion of his re cleo
ton.
1.-The majority, probably nearly all
the North Carolina members. will vote
for the Blair education bill, not because
they are satisfied with the measure. for
they would have preferred a better bin
to accomplish the same object, but be-
cause they want something lone for the
removal of the reproach of ~illiteracy.
The chances are not very good for the
the passage of the measure.
1--WE wonder if Cleveland will fol-
low the instructions given in that rather
remarkable and o~ticious Legislative
enactment, and give Gov. Jarvis a place
III MS CtDliiGt. MI. 1ICNtIdDu Is Idli-
er bull headed, and he may deny the
right of a State Legislature to instruct
in a matter purely and strictly his own.
Nous Ue1ronS. -Wilso Mirror.
Mr.. w. G. Kerr, superintendent
of the wooden and wooden mills, in
forms us that he will soon be ready to
90 TO work in his wooden department.
This department will turn out work such
as blocks, etc., that is used in cotton
and wooden mills. They will be able
to make a large number of these goods,
and will work about seyenty-five oper-
atives. Work has not yet begun on the
WOODEN mills, but it is proposed to COM
plete them during the coming summer.
Durham Recorder.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04
Water! Mater! Water!

During the engagement on the
18th INST. described above, the British
became exhausted FOR want OF water. aud
L OF the boldest movements ii the his
toay Of Egyptian campaigning was or
dered by Col. Sir Charles Wilson. Col.
Wilson saw that the whole force was
doomed unless water coald be obtained.
The Nile was only three miles distant.
but some thousands of Arabs were be-
tween the British troops and the river.
The Arabs were keeping up a hot FIRE
on the British position, and their attack
was especially heavy on that side of the
square which faced the river. Neverthe-
less Col. Wilson detailed a number of
picked Guardsmen to cut through the
enemy's line. with rubber sacks, in
which to carry water from the river.
The Guards charged in squadron front
and sabred their way through the Arab
forces. Nearly one-half OF them reached
the river, and almost one-half ofthe re-
mainder succeeded in forcing their way
back, bringing water enough to refresh
the troops and enable them to repulse
the enemy.
On the 22d the British encamped at
Abu kru, two miles south of Metemneh.
The enemy were most sparing in their
use OF ammunition while defending Me-
temneh, and only kept upa desultory
fire. Five Of Gen. Gordon's steamers,
conveying 500 soldiers and five guns, ar
rived at Gubat on the 22d. All the
troops and guns were landed, and the
guns were turned upon Metemneh, with
oul, however, producing any apparent
effect upon the Arabs. 1t is reported
that the Mahdi is sending more troops
and guns TO Metemneh.
Gen. Wilson, with four Of Gordon's
steamers, a.number of black troops. two
companies of mounted infantry, and six
guns bombarded Shendy for two hours
on the 22d, and almost completely des-
trOyed the town. The steamers after
ward returned to Gubat. where a num-
Der of forts are being erected. 1t is said
that the Mahdi has a force of 6,000
around khartoum. The population of
khartoum is estimated at 1900. A
convoy has gone to Gakdul to fetch
stores aud ammunition. The inhabi-
tants OF Metemneh are apparently re-
naming IN hiding, as scouts are able to
see only a few persons in the town.
The total British loss. including the
loss at Abu klea, was l04 killed and
PIG wounded. The enemy's loss was
5000 killed and wounded.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

VANCE on NANDERBILT.-On this Mr..
Vance took the floor. He ridiculed the
idea that Senators did not have sufficient
knowledge and c~ommon-sense to be able
to say hat railroads should be prohibited
from pooling and discriminating
against persons and places There were,
no doubt, matters of railroad manage
ment that Senators did not understand,
but there were also some simple matters
that ever the Senate pages could under
stand. Much eloquence had been ex-
| pended on this railroad subject, but Mr..
Vance thought the ~eloquence OF the
Senators was in the inverse ratio to their
disposition to do anything effective. 1t
had been said that so many people we're
interested in railroad stocks thi We
ought not to pass laws to restrict their
charges. The same argument would
apply, to the business of robbing henn
roosts. The claims of the railroad men
were like the protests of chicken stealers
who would inform the legislators that
they did not understand the business of
chicken stealing, that it was a very com
plicated business and differed totally from
the vulgar business OF stealing things
other than chickens. Reference to rail-
rOaU authorities as experts was, III
Mr.. Vance'S opinion, as though the
| chicken s~tealers should insist that one OF
their number. Bill Sykes for example,
| should be consulted by a representative
Of .e people before laws were passed on
the subject Of chicken stealing, because
Bill Sykes thoroughly understood the
| subject, bill Sykes" had been in the
business for forty years. and could tell an
old hen from a pullet by starlight in the
top Of the l~oftiest apple tree in a farm
| yard. There was, in Mr.. Vance, opinion
one great mystery about the railroad bust
ness, and that was the meek endurance
and long suffering patience of the Amer
can people. The claims of Vanderbilt,
Jay Gould, Albert Fink, 'et id omue
genus" to having cheapened the price OF
commodities by railroad transportation
were claims that the property did not
belong to the parties named. As wei
might a sieve claim credit for letting
water pass through il, There was not
much credit to be given to people who
saip the public be damned" The
| Cullom bill was the direct product of the
"cirumlocution office and would result,
In nothing, The Senate should not dodge
| the issue by presenting such a bill. Mr
Vance said he favored the House bill.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

THE SHORT RoAD WITH THE LONG
NAME.-The situation of affairs on the
Charlotte and Statesville Railroad gets
worse and worse. 1t is no unusual thing
for the train going south, and due in
.. IN. to get in after midnight. They
have adopted. too, a pleasant little fash
ion of carving a train along in different
sections-that is to say carrying a part OF
it forward from one station to another
and then coming back for the balance Of
it. This road is, in fact. as said of it BY
Bill Arp. As miles short and s hours long,
and entered and registered as second
class matter in all respects. 1t ought &c
be reported for a nuisance. Statesville
Landmark.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04
Home Come the BOOSTERS to
RooSt!

....New York, February 2.--O'Dono-
van Rosa Was shot by a woman this
evening at 5:l2 O'Clock, on Chambers
street, neal his office. Rosa was in front
of the Stewart building, on Chambers
street, when he was approached by a
handsome young lady, dressed in plain
clothes. She wore spectacles and had
the appearance of an intellectual looking
school teacher. She drew a five barreIed
revolver from her dress pocket and level
ing it at him fired one shot. Rosa threw
his hands above his head and cried, Pm
shotl" He then fell heavily to the side
walk. The woman fired the remaining
bullets in her pistol at the PROSTATE man,
and then calmly and unconcernedly walk
ed off with the smoking revolver in her
hand. She was followed by a large
crowd, while a still larger mob surround
ed the wounded dynamiter.
City Marshal James McAulay, In the
absence of a policeman, saw the revolver
in the woman's hand aud arrested her.
She was conducted to the Twenty sixth
precinct station house -in the City Hall.
Her imperturbable gravity and GOODNESS
demeanor were remarkable. When ar
| raigned at the sergeant desk, McAulav
had the rOVetVer, a small callDre nVe-
| shooter, to the sergeant, and said be
found the woman brandishing the weapon
| on the street. A citizen who entered the
| police station with the prisoner said she
had Just shot a man on Chambers street.
DO you know the man 2" asked the Ser.
geant, turning to the woman. "1es, !
shot O'Donovan Rosa, said the prisoner,
with a slight English accent. She looked
very pretty as she stood at the bar, ano
betrayed no excitement whatever. She
gave her name as Esther Dudley.
Rosa, in his ante norton statement t(
| the coroner, says he was inveigled int
the meeting with the woman who sho
him by a letter protesting to be from
friend in Ireland, who wished to con
tribute to her cause. lie protessei tt
know nothing about her previous to thu
occurrence.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

THE ARKANSAS SENAToR.-Some wag
once said that North Carolina was a good
State to move from-drawing the quick
repartee that it would seem so. when her
SOM stand SO we'll when they move to
other States. The Senatorial election in
Arkansas led US to look into the Con-
gressional directory where VIC found that
not only was Hon. Poludexter Dunn. at
present a member of Congress and a
leading candidate for Senatorial honors,
born in Wake county, but Hon. John 81.
Rogers, another member from Arkansas,
is also a North Ca%rolinian, having been
born in BERTHE county. That we thought
was good enough. But what is yet more
striking, the successful candidate for the
Senate was the Hon. James Kimbrough
Jones-hkewise a Representative in the
present Co~ngress-whose name sounds
very familiar to our ears. While this
Kimbrough Jones was born in Missis-
SIP pi, his father went from Wake county
and the klmbrough Jones en- Orabtree
are his kin. His wife is also of North
Carolina stock, being a relative of the
Bodie family in Nash county and a kins.
man of Mrs. Moore, of this city. Mr..
Jones was a private during the war-be
gan the practice oflaw in l973.-Raleipf
Observer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

....A woman says very few men have
the slightest idea how to hold a baby.
And we don't suppose nj in a hundred
has the slightest desire to hold one. If
it is a female baby he is willing to hold it
after it reaches the age of seventeen
years.
Twenty four children have died
recently from diphtheria in the town of
Fullerton. Neb.--Directors of the
Island City Savings Bank, Galveston.
Tex, report a deficit of s117,4l9: there
are no new developments concerning
the Wells failure.-The Weather
very cold in the Northwest, with the
mercury from Is to so degrees below
zero.
....Six people killed. twenty injured
and six to eight houses wrecked by ex-
plosions of natural gas in Pittsburg, Pa.
John Sandford's home at Chatta.
nooga, Tenn, was burned to the ground
and two Of his children persisted in the
flames. THE cotton crop in sight is
4,863,697 bales. -The Legislature o.
Arkansas yesterday elected Jas, K. Jones
U. S. Senator.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04
For Legislators.
OFFICE OF THR EVENING SQUEAL,
January IA, 1885.

OFFICE OF THH EVENING SQUEAL,
January IA, 1885.
General Passenger Agent, Great North
american Gtthere Railroad, Chicago,
H.:
DEAR SlR-I desire to know by return
mail whether or no you would be pleased
to swap transportation for kind words.
| am the editor of the Squeal, published
at this place. 1t is a paper pure in tone,
world wide in its scope, and irresistible
ia the broad sweep of its mighty arm.
[ desire to visit the great exposition at
New Orleans this winter, and would be
willing to yield you a few words of edito.
rial opinion, set in long primer, next tc
pure reading matter, and without adver-
Using marks. You may make the Pass
read: For self, Chicago to st. Louis
and return" and | ill write the editor
ial, or you may make it read: self anc
wife," and | will let you write it for your
self. Yours truly,
DANIEL WEBSTER Braces,
Editor of the SquedI.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

Mrs. PoLLARD's PRESENCE OF MIND.
New York. January 30 A fire broke
out last night in the building No. 80
West Fourteenth street. Mrs. Maria
torian, E. A. Pollard. a lecturer of re-
pute, was busy at work writing, when
smoke began to fill the room and she
heard the cracking Of flaming wood.
Starting up she found the stairway on
fire. She managed to awaken three
other persons asleep in the building, and
an alarm was given, to which the fremen
promptly responded. All the inmates Of
the house we're rescued unframed.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

A Coop OLD NAME Our Senator
is doing work for the State, and we feel
proud of him. We know Senator Ora
ham in his every day life, when he is at
home, and we know whereof we speak.
lie is a pure man. We see that he has
introduced a bill in the Senate making
it a misdemeanor for newspapers in the
State to advertise lotteries. The morals
of our people ought to be looked after,
and we hope the bill will ass.-Hills-
boro Observer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

HIT THE NAILl-Mr. Means has in
troduced a bill in the Senate to prevent
the Legislature from filling Offices created
by it. This is timely and much needed,
and it ought to become a law. 1t is very
d~iscreditable to create offices and pack
them with members of the creating body.
Wilmington Star.
Or to let a fellow hold TWO offices.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04
A FIaHT FOR A PRETTY WIno,

Quebec, January PA desperate en-
counter between two suitors for the hand
Of a comelY widow took place near Lewis.
The parties are all residents in this city.
They were duly seconded, and fought
with pistols, but finding hat method
slow, drew knives and hacked each other
until separated. One Of the parties is
now in the hospital, with a bullet hole
through his hip and several knife thrusts
in his body. The other received a few
SLIGHT cuts.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

WANTED-by a middle-aged single
lady, a situation in some pleasant fam
ily, as teacher Of small children. and if
desired, would assist in housekeeping
Address, Miss NJ. A, at Buchanan,
Granville Co., n. c.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

New YORK MARKEIs-Money l!(0I
per cent, cotton quiet at lItgllsc,
southern -four dull AMI easier at IS 2G(a
5 IS; wheat, ungraded red S4(a CSC; corn,
ungraded $50 soc; rosin dull at 81 25lG
! 273; spirits turpentine quiet at Bile.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

1CAUTION TO FARMERS l. DIAL
0N1abEsS In selecting II A Il p o Y
VSH FORKS Double or Singled, accept
HSSNN only those having III, reon imprint
~ Of our TEADK MARX. thereby secure
@N~ a GENUINE MILLS CORK and avoid
w S>infringement fees. By sending your
address on postal we furnish illustrations for
moving and stacking. Also, M'n'f's Ag't'l Steels,
Iron Wheels, Iron Fencing, MID Hsrrowe,
Seede-s, Riding Flows Il CultivatOrs, Graders, &c.
A. N. NELLiS, Pittsburg, Pa.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

Ex-senator Hawley's paper com
plains that jeff Davis is still thrust
upon a disguised public without regard
to their feelings" SO we thought
when a few days ago Senator IIawley
thrust Mr.. Davis before the disguised
public and tried to keep him there.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04
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The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-04-08
KAlrw.nese Women.

The features of the Kairwanese wo.
men are pure, but without character
q sort of general regularity uninterest-
Ing in itself, and which does not appeal
TO the fancy. One seeks In vain in
their almost classic faces something u
reveal the individual, something of the
deeper experience of life which diselo-
es itself in the harassed faces Of North
ern races. Their large eyes, surround
cd by thick dark circle, have the fix
ed placidity of expression Of the ami
NAL They put white cosmetics with
out stint on their breasts, color their
lips with carmine, and the tips Of their
fingers with henna. All these pun
gent seasoning well become their phys
Economies, sometimes proud, come
times gloomy, and the picturesque
frame which surrounds them.
Thus adorned, they like to remain
motionless; one would take them for
Hindoo idols, with their silk garments
ornamented with gold, their bare legs
and arms the color Of amber encircled
BY old ard heavy jewelry of silver.
Poor daughters of 3 condemned racs.
plunged in profound stupor, their
life passes in household work and the
manufacture of carpets and wooden
stuRs Sometimes they practice sing
ing while playing the tabor and the
d0rOO&cG. or move nonchalantly through
some measures of the dance. Women
Of neans-the happiest of them-inter-
rHDt their empaoYment bv long Maps.
ANS is tneir greatest pleasure, Lnelr
greatest luxury-to sleep. Their fa-
Vorite distraction in summer Is to
mount for few moments in the even
ing to their terraces and exchange
greetings with each other and some
brief gossip. They must return only
the more depressed to that cloister-like
solitude which characteriZes all Arab
dwellings,, and where alone is revealed
all the Jealous suspicion, all the fero-
cioHs surveillance of Mussulman life.
Parents do not always wait till their
daughters are marriageable to sell
them, after disputed bargain, to an
old or young man. The price of the
woman varies from 100 francs to 500 or
600. This great difference comes from
the fact that the future husband pays
according to the importance of his
wife's family, but the degree of beauty
never enters into consideration, since
the couple are supposed to see each
for the first time on their wedding day.
Marriage, lar from emancipating wo-
men, only changes their opinion. The
tyranny Of the husband is even harsh
er that that in the family, where the
father loves his daughter, since his ca
price is absolute law. The man al
ways eats alone; the woman is not
admitted to the honor of sharing his
meal; she serves, standing respectfully
before him.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-04-08
A Family of Asinary Genus.

Nor must we forget that if there are
wUmen who strive to unsex themselves
by becoming too masculine, so there are
men who most effectually unsex them
selves by general emasculation of
dress and manner which would readily
strike stranger from another planet
as representing transition period be-
tween the sexes. If manish woman
ofends our good taste and judgment,
a wOmanish man is an insipid embodi-
ment of nothingness, and ought to be
treated as geological curiosity repre-
senting some hitherto unknown family
of the asinary genus. From these con-
siderations it therefore follows that if
there are female oddities who furnish
the weapons Of satire to those who are
opposed to the advancement of women,
there are also masculine oddities who
show how closely a man can sometimes
resemble monkey. Touching the i'm
portant questions of life in the most
remote and superficial manner, and
representing phase which cannot be
seriously treated, these peculiar Great
ures excite our visibility and cause us
to abandon ourselves to the claims of
Democritus, the laughing philosopher.
Much as the study of these superficial
tiles may amuse us, they do not, how
ever, and they cannot, reach those
strata of evidence from which we must
draw our conclusions if we desire to be
philosophical and Henry
@. Pedder, in Manhattan.