The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-02

Chattanooga, Tenn. Its capacity will be
5000 cans a day.
The average death rate in New
Orleans, for six years, is 23.47 per thou
sand of whites and 43.37 per thousand of
blacks, nearly two to one.
WIN. Brown, aged fourteen, and Miss
Anna Cooper, aged thirteen, were mar
ried lastweek at Deerhorn Creek Church,
Laurens county, South Carolina. !
-Oleomargarine was a topic of dis
cussion in the lower House of Congress
the past week. There was nothing of
special interest in the Senate.
The inventors have before them a
rich prize-a fortune, for the best ma
chine for gathering peas. The man who
will bring it forward will reap a rich
reward. 81 a m
1t is said that James G.. Blaine has
joined the Knights of Labor. James G.
Blaine is one of the "horny-handed sons
of toll" who always keeps the lids of his
weather eye ajar.
We hear great complaint of the
''cut-worm" in gardens, in orn and to
bacco. The Colorado potato bug is also
busily at work on the Irish potatoes.
Six hundred British peers W $4,000
600 acres o fland, valued at So, 200 900, 900,
from which they receive an annual rental
of $66,OOO,OO0. No wonder they are OPP
posed to reform in the tenant system.
Hugh Maxwell Brooks, the young
Englishman who killed his friend Preller
in the Southern Hotel at St. Louis, a
year or more ago, is now on trial. He
admits the killing, but says it was from
accidental overdose of chloroform.
About 1850 miles of railroad track
have been, or will be, changed within
the next few days to conform to the
four-foot-nine-inch gauge, the standard
gauge, thus making but one gauge for all
the roads in the country.
One Jaehne, a New York Alderman,
convicted of having accepted a bride, has
gone to Sing-Sing prison, and thirteen
more of them are in a fair way of being
sent to keep him company.
DO not fail to utilize all the available
on your farm this year. The oat
crop is short not only in our State but
throughout the country. Save your own
hay, and every pound that you can. 1t
will pay you.
In the late Presbyterian Assembly at
Augusta, Ga, they had a lively discus
sion on evolution, DIR. Woodrow stoutly
maintaining his position, and insisting
there was nothing in the Bible con-
to the doctrine of evolution, as held
by him.
President Cleveland is to bemarried
to Miss Frances Folsom, at the White
House, this evening. She arrived at New
York from Europe last Friday, and was
met by Col. Lamont, the Presidents pri-
vate secretary, who was sent for that pur-
pose. This seems to settle the matter
which has been engaging madam rumor
for some time.
Plant peas in rows for seed. One
peck to the acre is sufficient when
at the proper distance-three
feet apart. 1t takes comparatively little
labor to cultivate them. We know of no
crop that is SO little appreciated in the
If wanted for forage or for recu-
perating or %renovating the soil, SOW
broadcast.
An Iowa Judge has decided that a
husband is in duty bound to tell his wife
where he spends his evenings when away
rom home. Correct. Suppose the wife
we're in the habit of spending her even
1ng away from home and refused to
her liege lord where she spent them,
f he had the curiosity to ask, wouldn't
be a lively racket in the domestic
There wouldn't be much Eden
about that house until the answer came.
Maj. Charles H.. Smith, the humor-
,us Bill Arp, of Georgia, passed through
Charlotte last Thursday on his return
rom a lecture tour in Eastern North
Carolina. While there he was inter
by the local editor of the Observer
IN the effects of prohibition in Georgia.
He said it was a success in his State, and
hat in his own county, Barlow, where it