The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-30

tors of patents, Washington, write us
that twenty-four patents were granted
to Southern inventors bearing date of
June %, 1886.
A company has been organized in
Baltimore to run a line of steamships
between that city and the Congo ooun-
try, in Africa, for "emigrant and COM
mercial purposes"
"A few persistent flies can disturb the
equanimity of the best tempered horse,
just as a few pestiferous men car dis
turb the serenity of the best regulated
community.
Jacob Weller, of Pennsylvania, was
s. rejoiced at the news of having been
allowed S LOO. back pay pension, that
he choked himself to death in hurrying
through his supper.
G.. A. Barcklay, a Sctoch traveller, who
says he has seen the night side of all the
principal cities in Europe, says that Chi
cago, for drinking and sexual vice sur
passes any place he knows of, except
Naples.
I'm 1871 the first house was built on
the site where the city Of Birmingham,
Ala, now stands. In 1885 the popula-
ton was q ,34s, and the assessable value
of property 81 ,O79,619.
Mr.. Pollen, of Kentucky, has a thor
oughbred mare which gave birth a few
weeks ago to a beautiful filley, perfect in
every respect, but without eyes. He pro-
poses to raise it, however, and see what
this blind racer will come to.
Texas never does anything by
halves. The last is a report of a hail
storm down there in which hail fell as
big as a mans head and weighing seven
pounds. These are pretty big, even for
Texas hail, but not quite as big as the lie.
The New South is the title of an ex-
cellent sixteen page paper published at
Birmingham, Alabama, devoted to the
industrial interests of that section. 1t is
very handsome and very ably conducted
journal, a credit to the publishers and
to the section in which it is published.
There is a proposition before Con-
gress to tax incomes as follows: All in
comes over $4,000 and under $4,000 D
per cent. incomes between $4,000 and
$4,000 5 per cent; $4,000 and over,
twenty per cent. The last is pretty heavy,
but the $4,000 chaps can stand it.
The corner stone of the building in
tended for an industrial school in con
nection with Oxford Orphan Asylum was
laid with Masonic ceremonies on the oath
inst. Over 400 Masons, from various
sections of the State, and $500 specta-
tors were present. Addresses were de-
livered by Gov. Scales, Capt. Oct. Coke,
Col. Charles R. Jones, D. w. Balm, T. B.
Kingsbury, Fab. H. Busby and others.
The State Horticultural Society will
hold its Fifth Annual Fruit Fair at Fay
e~tteville, on Wednesday and Thursday,
the 4th and 9Th of August. No entrance
fee charged. Premium list very liberal.
Fare on railroads two cents per mile each
way. We hope to see this splendid fruit
section we'll represented. Write S. Ohio
Wilson, Secretary, Vineyard, N. c., for
premium list.
Judge David Davis, ex-United States
Senator, died after an illness of several
weeks, at his home in Bloomington, ILL.,,
last Saturday, from Bright's disease of
the kidneys. He was a Marylander by
birth, and II years old. When a young
man he moved to Illinois, where he was
successful in the practice of the law, and
with that and other business accumula-
ted a large fortune. He leaves several
children and a young wife, his second,
who was Miss Addie Burr, niece of
Hon. Wharton j.. Green, of this State.
In politics the deceased was a Republi-
can, but conscientious and honest.
OUR COUNTY FARMERS CLUBl