The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-07-14

1HE OTATE he State
Normal now in session in Winston is
proving to be a great success, and is
growing every day in interest numbers
and enthusiasm. Already the enroll
ment includes about $50 teachers and
each day is adding to the Hist. The in
struction given by Profs. Tomlinson,
Mitchell, McIver, Moore and by Miss
Tanning in the Primary class is both very
practical and very interesting and withal
is being appreciated by the earnest set
of teachers in attendance-and they are
an earnestset intelligent, and Cuisines
is evinced on all sides. The advent and
opening lecture Monday Of Prof, Joseph
Moore, L. L. D., President of New Gar
den School, infused additional enthusi-
asm into the special subjects which he
handles in a mastery and scholarly man.
ner. On Thursday and Friday of this
week, much time will be devoted to
Sunday School Normal work, when dis
tinguished Sunday School workers from
other parts of the State are expected to
be present and take part. Let every
body turn out and show an interest in
the work and at the same time be inter
ested and benefited, as they. will be if
they attend. The sessions run from 9
a. m. to l2:30 p. m, and from 4:3O p. m.
to 6p. m. 'i'
POLICE NEEDED.-The platform at the
depot is a favorite meeting place for dar-
keys at the arrival and departure of
trains. They are noisy and offensive,
indulging frequently in profane and
obscene language regardless of the fact
whether there are ladies within hearing
distance or not. Last Saturday evening
there was a squabble over a board bill
between an irate colored female board
ing house keeper and one of her boarders,
an ebony-colored, d~oublejointed young
buck, who was about to leave without
paying up. The old woman was backed
by her husband, and between the male
disputants profanity enough was hurled
at each other to pay a dozen board bills
if it was a legal tender. For awhile it
looked asst battle was imminent, in which
knives would have figured as weapons
offensive, but the young buck jumped
upon the platform when the train started,
while the boarding house keeper and
husband tried TO drag him off. He was
good on the grip, held to the rail and
got away amid the maledictions of the
hash-house iproprietors. The scene was
amusing to negroes looking on and
disgusting to the white people. The ne
groes should either be compelled to be-
have themselves decently or be prohib-
tied from lounging around the depot and
annoying the travelling public. Perhaps
a police officer at the depot at arrival
and departure of trains might not be out
of place.
PISTOL AccIDENT.-Robert Brown, son
of David Brown, the mail contractor be-
tween Germanton and Winston, and Win
ston and Lewisville, residing about a
mile northwest of Winston, accidentally
shot himself Friday morning. 1t seems
that he was examining a pistol, when it
discharged, the ball passing just under
the Y into the brain. His sister heard
the report of the pistol and called to her
mother, who fastened to the spot. In
reply he, on inquiry from her, answered
that he was badly hurt and died in a
little while. He was in his twenty-first
year, and we'll known in the county.
OUR ScHooLs.-We call the attention
of our readers who have boys or girls to
educate, to the advertisements of our
schools, which appear in The PROGRESS
I'VE FARMER. The University, and Wake
Forest College stand on a plane with the
most thoroughly equipped institutions,
the postgraduate feature of the former
being especially commendable. Oak
Ridge Institute, and High Poiut Classical
Institute IRE schools of fine reputation.
Peace Institute, and Oxford Female
Seminary, are f%avorite institutions, grow
ing in popularity every year.
SOMETHING NIcE-TRY IT.-Are you
fond of buckwheat or griddle cakes?
And do you want an elegant and beauti-
full syrup to go with them?i Here it is:
Three cupfuls of brown sugar, n cup Of
wafer with q ~teaspoonfnl of GOOD VINEGAR