The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-20
moving snoY from the streets, against
$25, 0OOfor the same period last year.

The Clarendon. Water Works Com
pany, of Wilmington, are sinking an ar
tesian we'll at Hilton, a suburb of Will
mington, the tube of which is ten inches
in diameter. Alta depth of sixty feet a
strata of granite has been reached, but
the boring goes on.
Bro. Mills little paper, Charity and
Children, says a note from a rural post
office reads as follows:A DEAR: The
reason I didn't laff when you laft at me in
the Post Offs Yesterday was because I
had a bile on my Ease and kant laff. If I
laff she'll bust. But I love you, bile or no
bile, laff or no laff.'
Hands employed on the Greensboro
water works at IS cents a day have
"struck" for a dollar. a day. The con-
tractors refused to advance the wages,
and the work is suspended. There is talk
of supplying the places of the strikers
with Italian and Irish laborers.
"A Georgia farmer, who lives near
Kenesaw mountain, with a small branch
running through his farm, which you
could dam up with a couple of spades of
dirt, has the following sign stuck up:
Hunting positively forbidden on this
place, but you can fish as much as you
please"
The editor of the Dunn Signboard is
evidently encouraged and is looking upon
the bright side. Hear him: "The South
should rejoice. Her resources have been
noticed, and her development is assured.
In twenty-five years the South will be
the grandest as well as the richest coun-
try in the world"
Col. James D. Glenn has appointed our
young friend, Mr.. David Schenck, Jr., of
Greensboro, to the position of Sergeant
Major of the Third Regiment of the State
Guard. This is a deserved compliment to
a talented young Carolinian upon whose
square shoulders the handsome uniform of
the State Guard will sit gracefully.
The mostharrowing accounts are given
of a recent rain and snow storm which
spent it's fury upon the devoted cities of
Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
Telegraph wires were down, railroads
stopped, and business of all kinds was at
a lead stand-still for forty-eight hours.
Nothing like it ever known before.
DIR. II. B. Battle, of the North Caro-
lima Experiment Station, who went to
Washington City to secure payment of
the appropriation to North Carolina I'M
der the Hatch bill, has returned with
$500, the amount due the State for the
first and second quarters. The appropri-
alton for North Carolina amounts to
$4,000 annually: &c
The Elizabeth City Falcon gives a
practical evidence of the way in which
North Carolina towns are Disseminated
against by the different railroad compan-
les. The Falcon received two small pack
ages the same day; n was from Raj
eigh, on which the freight was 20 cents.
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freight on that was only rs cents.
Col. John R. Winston, of Caswell
county, who distinguished himself dur
ing the late war as commander Of a Con-
federate Regiment, and who, having been
taken prisoner escaped from Johnson's
Island in the dead of winter, and after
great privation and suffering reached the
Confederate lines; died at his home, of
consumption, on Wednesday, the 7th inst.
"A lady's hand. in requestl The
Dunn Sign Board says: "Two young
men met last Thursday the 9th inst, at the,
residence of Mr.. D. T. Jones FOR the pur-
pose Of marrying his daughter, Miss Sarah
E.. Jones. Both had license, but it is said
that Mr.. Jesse Reaves carried off the
prize. Our sympathies are with the fell
low who had a license on hand that he
had no use for. Is
"A dispatch says, two American girls
who arrived at. Queenstown England
from New York, by, the steamship Celtic,
were found on being searched by the
custom house authorities to have consid-
cradle quantities of American tobacco
concealed in their bustles. The tobacco
was confiscated by the authorities, and
the girls were compelled to pay a fine be-
fore being permitted to 60 free.
The first of a series of concerts given
bv the ladies of the West-End Club of