The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-23

the Senate last Friday by a vote OF g ff
to Sc against.
-Messrs. Louis Dagger & Co.Solicit-
ors of Patents, Washington, DC, write
us that t%wenty-nine patents were granted
to Southern inventors, bearing date OF
June 18th, 1886.
Winfield S. Thompson, Of Kansas
City, Mo-, terminated a bridal tour in
New York City by shooting his wife in
the back of the head and sending four
bullets into himself.
We are in receipt of the |premium
list for the North Carolina State Fair,
beginning October Doth to goth inclu-
sive. The premiums amount in the ag-
gregate to over $4,000. .'a+
Ludwig, the crazy King of Bavaria,
who was recently d~ethroned, when out
walking on the l4th inst, accompanied
by his physician, threw himself into a
lake and was drowned. The physician
was drowned in attempting to rescue
him. ID --a--i
The National Convention of Ameri,
a Nurserymen was in session in Wash
ington City last week. S. Ohio Wilson,
J.. Van Lindley and G. s.. Anthony were
present from North Carolina. Mr.. j.
Van Lindley was chosen Vice-President
for our State. The next annual meeting
will be held in Chicago. ,.5
The town of Monroe having voted
for prohibition, the physicians met and
issued notice to the public that they
would not prescribe spirits for people
who may be thirsty, and in no case un-
less to those who were really under treat
ment. They propose to deal squarely
with the public and the druggists.
Miss Tabitha Holton, a native of
Guilford county, died at her home in
Yadkin county on the 18th inst. Some
years ago, after a very ~creditable ex-
animation, she was licensed to practice
law by the Supreme Court of this State,
while Judge Pearson was Chief Justice.
She was the first woman in the South to
whom license was granted.
Mr.. Gladstone in his temporary de-
feat is proving hat the title of "grand
old man has not been mistakenly con
ferred. With heroic resolve he goes be-
fore the British people and pleads for
justice to m~isgoverned Ireland. He is
building we'll, and victory is sure to come
whether he live to achieve it or not.
The House of Representatives on
last Thursday refused to take up for con-
sideration Nh. Morrison's tariff bill by a
vote Of 157 nays t o 40 yeas All the mem
bers from North Carolina, except Q Hara,
colored Republican,, favored eonsidera-
ton. Mr.. Reid was absent but paired
with an opponent of the bill.
The RichmondG& Danyille railroad
company has purchased the large build
ing in Washington formerly the office of
the National Republican. The building
will be fitted up as headquarters for the
officers of the company, and anNapart-
ment will be especially arranged for the
of the mineral, wood, grain and
other of the Southern country
through which its lines run. +
An act has been passed by the New
York Legislature and signed by the Gov
ernor, limiting imprisonment for debt in
that state to six months. ALL prisoners
in Ludlow street Jail who have been con
six months are to be released.
There are men in that Jail who have been
imprisoned so long that their friends, if
they ever had any, had forgotten that
they were alive. ...ef ..1u.
The proceedings of the Farmers
Clubs which appear in these columns
week to week are attracting much
attention from papers in the State, and
some of the leading agricultural journals
of the country. The Newbern Journal of
18th inst. makes the discussion on tobac-
co culture, by Cedar Grove Club, the
of a leading editorial, IN which it
the good sense ofithe mem
bers of that club in resolving to diversity
their crops.
"A superabundance of rain during
the past six weeks has greatly retarded
the farmers in the cultivation of their
The overflow of bottom lands has
materially damaged the r and other