The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-16

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several days. There is but little COM
plant of wheat. while the oat crop is
very good.
Out of the 49S Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress 2S3 belong to some
Christian denomination, while l25 have
no religious preferences, if they haveany
religion.
The Prohibitionists gained very
heavily at the recent local option cleo
lions in this State 1t is only a question
of little time when the town where liquor
selling is licensed will be the exception.
The King of Bavaria is pronounced
insane and has been deposed. He ire
mains in one of the rooms of his palace
under guard. He has a maniac brother
who has been for years in confinement.
The grangers of Cabarrus' county will
hold their annual picnic at st. Johns
Hall on the 18th of July. THE PRoGREssl
I'VE FARMER accepts a courteous invita-
ton to be present
Cyrus Long, who killed his father
in-law, w. F. Cuthbertson, in Charlotte
last Wednesday, was tried for murder
last Saturday and acquitted Public SEN
timent was with the young man.
Secretary Manning has rendered his
resignation, which the President de-
clined to accept, requesting the Secre-
tary to continue in Office at least until
October, and to take in the meantime
such recreation as might be conducive to
his health.
Germany has been visited recently
with disastrous thunder storms, accom-
panied by water-spouts and heavy falls
of hail.stones. In some places the hail
was of extraordinary size. The damage
done is estimated at $25O,OOO.
The appropriation bills were the
principal business before Congress the
past week. 1t was varied a little by a
spat in the House of Representatives be-
tween some Republican and Democratic
members about the dead Secretary of
War, Stanton. ".'....
DR.. Freire, of Rio De Janerio, Bra
iii, writes to the Louisiana Board of
Health that he has performedF 600 in
EQUATIONS for yellow fever, out of which
there were but I or 8 deaths, while in
the same infected district 1900 persons
died who were not inoculated. "a
There must have beenNsome corner
ing in the meat and grease market out
West. Bacon, hams, &C., have gone up
about 20 per cen We wish they would
go up a thousand per cent, for the higher
they go and keep asgoing the sooner
Southern farmers will get to raising their
own meat.
Gen. S. D. Lee, President of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Mississippi, has placed US under pbliga-
tions for the biennial report of the col
lege, reports on ensilage, Gotten seed and
cotton seed meal, farm work, japan 'clo-
yer, and other interesting documents,
showing the progress and utility of that
institution. sc @@'
We are gratified to see the proceed
of Trinity Farmers Club, which
have been so thoroughly reported In
these columns, quoted entire, in some of
the leading papers and agricultural jour
mails of the country. 1t is quite a tribute
to the merit and good sens of that in
telligent club.
Farmers are not politicians; they
do not take as much interest in politics
as they should; but whether politicians
or not, they should take interest ienough
in politics to see that none but good
are nominated for ofice-men for
whom they and other good citizens can
vote without ~apologizing to their CONF
afterward. "
Factories r. good things, becahse
they convert the raw products of the
State into shape to be converted into
money; but the factory is dependent
upon the farm for its success, as in fact
nearly everything else in the business
world is. When the farmer prospers
all other lines of business pros
per-; when he fails, they fail. The farm
is the foundation which supports all.
In the local option elections in this
State on the 7th inst. the following towns