The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-26

-Winston's Fourth-of-July celebration
promises to be the most gigantic thing of
the kind of modern times. The most ex-
tensive and costly preparations are being
made, more than $4,000 having already
been expended. Some idea of the mag
nitude of the preparations may be had
when it is stated that it will require $50
horses to move the floats and exhibits
which will be in the procession on wheels.
Winston isn't given to doing things by
halves.
The Engineers Excursion, which is
to leave this city for Portsmouth on
Tuesday, July the 3rd, will doubtless
be a pleasant affair. Persons taking adj
vantage of this excursion can visit Ocean
View, Virginia Beach, Fortress Monroe
and Baltimore at a very small cost. Re-
turning to this city on the 9Th of July,
gives one full day in Baltimore. Tickets
to Portsmouth and return only $500. As
the object is to raise funds for a
able purpose, we trust the engineers will
be literally patronized.
The Chatham Record in
it's last issue, that it will suspend the pub
LEGATION of it's "War "reminiscences"
until after the November elections. From
a tabulated statement in the last Record
we learn that the number of troops fur
nished to the army by Chatham county
was (by companles). 1,210; of this number
267 were either killed in battle or died of
disease, and $50 were wounded. Add to
this number Q,21O), $50 recruits who en-
listed in the companies during the wal
and you have a grand fatal of 1850.
The greatest menace to the success
of Judge Thurman, just now, is the many
villainous pictures which papers friendly
to him are palming off as good likenesses
of the "old Roman .. The Wilmington
Star thinks if the Judge can only survive
the pictures, he will sit in the Vice-Presi-
dents chair. 1t is hardly necessary to
state that the daubs referred to are the
work of the miserable pot-metal estab-
lishments of the North, who furnish the
rural press of the country with what they
are pleased to term ILLUSTRATED plate
matter, at a nominal cost" We notice
that some of the city dailies are beginning
to "fll up" with much the same stuff.
Under the caption, .Praise from Sir
Hubert" the Wilson Mirror publishes the
following letter, atedsBeauvoir, Miss,
June 18th, 1888: "ly Dear Sw:-Some
kind friend has sent me a copy Of your
brightly polished Mirror, and 1 find in it
an elegant and eloquent editorial in which
you touchingly and beautifully alluded to
my having reached the "eightieth mile
post in times roadway to eternity" 1t
touched and stirred my most grateful
emotions, and was most gratifying in all
respects although it exaults me above my
own measure of what is due. I have
often had occasion with deep humility to
acknowledge the kind appreciation of my
people, and certainly from none more so
than the noble citizens of North Carolina.
Greatfully and very sincerely yours,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
-When parents send their daughters
away from home to schools, they want
them under healthful, moral influences
and with such surrounding socially as may
tend to the development of those genial
qualities of woman's nature which con
tributes so much toward identifying and
adjoining her matured character. They
want to know that the natural healthful-
ness of the location and all the sanitary
conditions of the school are such as not
to imperil the health of the child. These
highly important considerations are met
in the Oxford Female Seminary. Assisted
by a splendid corps of Professors and
teachers, President Hobgood, comes be-
fore our readers and offers a fine oppor-
tunity for the education of our girls.
Write to him for a catalogue and ask him
what he will do in the way of special dis
counts if you should send him a club of
girls. Read his advertisement and write
him. Mention this paper.
At a Mass meeting held in Durham
on Saturday, June 9th, it was decided to
hold a grand tobacco exposition, railroad
jubilee and county fair in that city at a time
yet to be named. The meeting was very
LARGE and enthusiastic and took definite