The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-10

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Detroit, Michigan. In some localities
the shake was severe enoughNo fracture
glass i'm windows. i IT.. .
In order to get time Improperly dis
charge his duties, the President has given
notice that he will receive no callers,
except upon important public business,
between the 10th inst. andthe meeting
of Congress.
The umbrella must soon be classed
among deadly weapons. Last week a
mar was killed in Philadelphia by being
punched in the eye with one, making
the third or fourth case of the kind
recently recorded.
The oleomargarine law went into
effect on the 1st inst. COMMISSIONS
Miller thinks there is ahundred millions
of pounds manufactured annually for
home consumption, not counting what
goes out of the country.
-Four negroes assaulted and beat j.
j. Cutting and Henry Plowman, special
policemen, in Lexington the night of the
2nd inst, fracturing the skull of Cutting
so badly that he died from the effects
that night. The negroes were arrested
and are in Jail.
Mrs. Hetty Green of New York is
worth $3O,OOO,OOO, $l3,OOO,OOO of which
she inherited, the balance she made in
specializing in stocks on Wall street.
She is bold but s~agacious and makes
things lively for the stock dealers some
times.
Three thousand car loads of wheat
are being delivered at Minneapolis,
Mimi. There are already in store there
3,579,O8O bushels; in Duluth 7,4O5,3O5
bushels; in St. Paul 223,O0O bushels.
There are now 32,953,324 in store in
Minnesota and Dakota.
"A foolish m of a contemplated
negro insurrection in Randolph county
was t~elegraphed to Raleigh from High
Point on the 4th inst. There was no
foundation for it further than the assem-
bling in a certain locality of a gang of
negroes on a drunken frolic.
-Congressmen were voted on in thirty
FIVE States on the I'd inst. Three hun
dred and eighteen out of three hundred
and twenty-five in the House were voted
for. Elections had been previously held
in Maine, with four representatives. Yer
mont with two and Oregon with one.
The scientists nave not yet fully
explained the cause of the earthquake
shocks which were felt throughout the
country on the 3lst of August and have
been felt more or less extensively at
intervals since. Neither have the poll
fully explained the cause of the
political shake up which occurred
throughout the country on the Cd inst.
1T the farmer showed one-half then
earnestness in looking after his interests
the political field and in the legislative
hall that the manufacturer does, perhaps
the farm might recelvca portion of the
attention WHICH the mandatory does.
The manufacturer shows good sense in
looking after his own interest. and we
hope to see the day when the farmer
will follow his example.
We saw a splendid lot of orr at
the Carolina Fair. of which the enterpris-
farmer who owned it said he pro-
luced 63 bushels "on old upland" per
acre. He promised to tell us how he did
t. This is one of the many ways in
which your paper can be made useful
the farmers. Write for it-give facts
md write them briefly. Write for your
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The November number of The
Cuhfrator and Dt.rte Farmer.
at Atlanta. GA. comes to us
n an entire new outfit. and makes one
IF the handsomest, as it is one Of the
BEST agricultural journals in the country.
It is an excellent publication in every
aspect and well deserves its liberal
support. We congratulate it on it's pros
)erity and the farmers Of the South on
such an able instructor and advo-
We publish elsewhere a lively letter
one of the progressive farmers of
Pitt county, taking the liberty, however,
# withholding that portion of it refer
ing to the editor of this paper. While