The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-06

Der lIth.
VIM. E. Gould, Cashier of the First
National Bank, of Portland, Maine, and
son.in-law of Neal Dow, the celebrated
Prohibitionist, has created a sensation in
his town by d~efaulting to the amount of
$751; 200.
The Eastern Carolina Fair Associa-
ton will hold it's fair at Goldsboro on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 3rd,
4th and 9Th of November. There seems
to have been a wrong impression as to
the date.
From August 9th to September
3Oth there were 80 shocks of earthquake
ut Charleston, some slight, some severe.
The greatest number was on the 3lst of
August, when FIVE were felt and so much
damage done.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER desires to
return its thanks to the Southern Cuhiva-
tor, of Atlanta, GA, one of the best agri-
cultural journals in the country, and to
UIlc NEW U0Tllc cOUTNUC dIIo duCSDO1
InteUigencer, for kind words.
The New Garden fair will be held
at New Garden, Guilford county, on the
Dist inst. The secretary is Mr.. j. r. Fitz-
maurice, who will give any information
desired. This is one of the best local
fairs held in the State.
The one dollar silver certificates
Will be issued from the treasury to the
banks asking for them, at the rate of
$4,000 a day, one thousand dollars at a
time to the banks in succession ordering
them. No bank will receive a second
installment until all on the list have
beer attended to.
-Messrs. Louis, Dagger & Co., solicit
ors of patents, Washington D. c., inform
US that there were issued to citizens OF
Southern States, thirty-fve patents bear
ing the date of September %, among
them one to S. E. Allen, of Winston, for
lock seal, and one to J. B. Dukes, Dur
ham, for paper box.
The case of Miller. the Raleigh gam
bier, who was convicted and sentenced
by Judge Clarke to thirty days in Jail
and to pay a fine of $1,000 had a hearing
before Judge Gudger at Warrenton, on
a writ of habeas corpus, last week was
allowed to take the insolvent debtors
oath and was discharged.
Don Piatt writes to the Chicago CIR
rent on the depressed condition of Agri-
culture in Ohio, saying that in the last
25 years it has deprecated % per cent?
He says the farmers of that State borroE
money to pay taxes and that Ohio lis
being shingled with mortgages which
will carry the farmers under.
IA bull in a china shop" saying
was somewhat varied one day last week
when a Texas pony broke loose and
galloped into a china store in Charlotte.
The Observer says he meandered be-
tween the stands of costly china ware
without even as much as rafting the
show cases. He must have been remark
ably well behaved for a Texas pony.
"A merchant named A. D. Owens
was murdered by two supposed burglars
in Creswell, Washington county, on the
night of the Oath ult. One of the men
suspected of the murder, a negro, was
killed while resisting arrest. Two other
negroes were afterwards arrested, and
also the wife of Owens, who is charged
with having employed the negroes to
murder her husband.
Mr.. Sloan, of the U. S. Geological
Survey, who has been investigating the
earthquake disturbances in the country
around Charleston, thinks he has located
the center of the disturbance between
Charleston and Goose Creek. The fact
that shakes have been recently felt at
Summerville which were not felt at
Charleston would seem to indicate that
the center was in that locality.
The Fayetteville Evening News, COM
mentin upon the figures in the Farmers
Address, published in last weeks Pro
GREssIvE FARMER, on representation in
Congress says the Figures are startling
but congratulates the farmers of that
district that they have a farmer represen-
tive. Yes the figures are startling, and
they will continue to be startling" until
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