Randolph County Journal

Our Outside.
We hope none of our agricultural or mechanical readers will entirely neglect the outside of our paper. We are at considerable pains to place matter there which we think ought to interest and profit them. We would beg leave to call the attention of the Randolph farmer in a special manner to the agricultural department.
We trust no one will tire of our articles on the "Sewing Machine;" we have just commenced that subject. We expect to "agitate" till the article is generally introduced, or we become convinced that we over-estimate its value. What has machinery not done to lighten the labor of man! and shall not woman participate in the general beneficence? It is she, in most of our families in this part of the country where "help" is so scarce and for the most part so poor, whose labor is unintermitted, and, we had nearly said, unmitigated, from Saturday night to Saturday night again.

"We speak what we do know," when we say that many wives and mothers in our midst are, physically, but slightly removed from the condition of galley slaves, while their lords and masters are good, hearty, jolly fellows, with very little on their hands or minds either. And, as we are a "woman's rights" man, we want to do our share in the way of "sapping" this state of things soon as may be.

We do not propose to write only in reference to the value of labor-saving machinery, but, as in the case of that under consideration, to introduce it into our family, test its value, and report the result fairly and candidly to our readers. It is one of our objects in becoming connected with this journal to enjoy thereby an opportunity of contributing something, though ever so little it may be, to the amelioration of our common lot.