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

w INsToN.-This institution was opened
yesterday under mos favorable promise.
About thirty-five male and fifty female
teachers were present. The exercises
were OF the most interesting character.
They were opened with prayer by Rev.
DIR. E.. Rondthaler, of Salem Academy.
Rev. DIR. c. H. Wiley, Chairman of the
Board OF Commissions, made a very
happy speech, and introduced to the
audience the following named gentle
men, who, in short addresses, most hap
PLY adapted to the occasion, and which
were received with real and genuine rel
lsh by the auditors: His Honor. Judge
|. &. Wilson, Mayor of Winston, Mr..
Lindsey Patterson, of Salem, Hon. j. c..
buxton, Rev. H. A. Brown, Hon. c.. w.
Wilson, Rev. DR.. E. Rondthaler, Judge
+. II. Farrar OF Virginia. DIR. Wiley then
turned over the school formerly to Prot.
Iomllnson, superintendent, who, after a
brief practical talk introduced Profs.
Mitchell and McIver, each of whom
made ~sprsghtly little speeches. Prof.
IomllnsOn announced that Prof. Blain,
Instructor in English Grammar and His.
tory, Prof. Neave, Instructor in Music,
"'iN Ahlco DCSSlc Tdll1lll1S, WHO Will have
charge of the Primary School, were
absent but would arrive during the week.
He also stated that the prospect for a
full attendance of pupils was C
aging.
We regret that our hour for going to
press precludes us from giving a more
extended notice of this interesting occa-
sion.
p. II. Terrell, who shot and killed
Buck Dunlap at Prestonville on Satur-
day, Goth ult., and was captured on Sun
day, was brought to this city Wednes-
day by Sheriff Dalton and lodged in Jail,
as it was apprehended that he would be
lynched by Dunlap's friends, if confined
III the Jail at Danbury. 1t seems the
sheriff got wind of the talk of lynching
and took the prisoner quietly from the
Stokes Jail and brought him over here.
CEDAR GROVE ITEMs.-In consequence
of the continued rains not over half of
the oat crop will be saved. Bottom corn
is covered with water. Some farmers
have given up portions of their corn
fields as hopeless.
Mr.. James Norwood, of Orange
county, the pioneer stock man of the
State, spent Monday in Winston. He
don't raise anything but fine stock and
his pastures will show horses, cattle,
sheep, &c, equal to the best bloods Of any
section.
We were shown a couple of days
ago an egg, found in a lot purchased by a
boarding house lady, which measured six
inches one way and seven and a quarter
inches the other, the achievement of an
unknown hen.
The Fourth of July was observed in
Winston by a partial suspension of bust
ness. The tobacco factories were all
closed, the Forsyth Rifles paraded in the
afternoon, and in the night the boys
burned lots of rockets and fire-crackers.
w. P. Jennings and J. T. Jennings,
of this county, sold in the Piedmont
warehouse yesterday 1900 pounds Of
tobacco for $352.53, an average of 293
cents per pound.
Mr.. S. r. Slate, of Mizpah, Stokes
county, sold at Browns warehouse last
week Col pounds of wrappers at an aver
age of $4O.9O per hundred pounds.
The Presbyterian congregation of
Winston are contemplating the erection,
at an early day, of a new church.
Fred Gunner, a butcher, was shot in
the leg Monday from the accidental dis
charge of a pistol in his pocket.
There were thirty-four patents
granted bearing date of June 20, 1886, to
Southern inventors, SO we are informed
by Louis Dagger & Co., solicitors OF
patents, Washington.
DIED.
For the Progressive Farmer.]