The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-24
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There were goods breaks in the sew
eral warehouses Monday and Tuesday.
Spring is tagging this year but it is
all the better for the coming fruit crop.
We are under obligations to Con-
gresham Reid for copies of several bills
introduced in the Senate and House.
The Wilson Mirror, one of the bright
est and wittiest papers in this section of
the country, has entered upon its fifth
volume. We wish Bro. Blount unbound
ed success.
"A very large audience assembled in
Browns Hall Sunday afternoon to neal
Rev. Mr. Durham on the subject of tenn
perance, from a ~scriptural standpoint,
and they heard a very eloquent and a
very able discourse. azc rrE#ert
We understand that Rev. c.. Dur
ham will be in the city and deliver an
address on the subject of Local Option,
Thursday evening. The probabilities
are hat the meeting will be held in
Browns Hall, instead Of the Baptist
Church, as announced last Sunday.
A patent churn man exhibited the
claims of his invention at the court square
for the past several7days, to those who
took interest Eenonshin chtrns to look
at it. There nave been aboutseven thous-
and churns patented in this country and
every week adds to the number.
If some of our capitalists were to
of neat houses for rent it would not only
be a good investment but would promote
the prosperity of Winston. One of the
greatest obstacles. that persons7of fam
lily desiring to locate here have to con-
tend against is the difficulty of securing
houses to live in. t=f' - .st''ttft
The City Fathers of Wilmington are
considering propositions of a representa-
tive of an electric light company to light
that city. The cost seems to be as low
if not lower than gas; while the light is
far superior. The electric light for Win
ston would not only be a very nice thing
but a splendid testimonial of the 60
aheadativeness of our people.
Peter Degraff, a young white man
who was serving a sixty-day sentence in
Jail for carrying concealed weapons, got
tired of confinement and Friday night
- = -~~~o l.l-
from the wall and making his escape,
letting himself down from the second
story of the building with pieces of blank
cts tied together. He has not since been
heard from. His term would nave ex-
pired on the It'll of April.
A RUNAWAY GIRL.-We find the
following in the Atlanta (Ga.), Constitu-
ton of Sunday: "A gentleman was in
the city yesterday, from Winston, n.
c., hunting for his sixteen-year-old
daughter. A girl answering the descrip-
ton was seen in the depot Friday with
a ticket to Chattanooga" There must
be a mistake in this, as there are no
girls reported as having strayed from
this part of the vineyard.
One of the industries of the thriving
town of Kernersville is the granite works
of Messrs. McGalliard & Huske. The
granite is taken from a quarry about half
mile from the town, and is very fine,
bears a beautiful polish, which makes it
we'll adapted for monuments. The stone
is pronounced by old workers to be as
fine granite as al be found anywhere
in this or adjoining States. A fine mon
ument recently erected over the remains
of the father of our townsmen, RI and
H. H. Reynolds, in Patrick County, Va,
is of granite from this quarry, and was
made by Messrs. McGalliard q Huske.