The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08

the combination of white paper with
black characters changers the eyesight of
their work people. Black on green has
always been recognized as a good combi-
nation, and many railway tickets are so
printed.
The bill creating a Department of
Labor, which lately passed the House of
Representatives, provides for a Commits
stone at a salary of $4,000; an assistant
at $4,000; a chief clerk at $4,000; forty
clerks and copyists and twenty special
agents.
There are some who doubt hat Jacob
Sharp has died. The funeral took place
at night; and all but the family were ex-
Guided from looking into the coffin. The
doctor certified to his death. There is no
other proof. Some believe the old man
still lives.
A New York belle has just ventured
upon a green dinner, at which the deco
rations were wholly of palms, maidenhair
and smilax: the soup asparagus, the ice
cream pistache, the china all green, with
a suspicion of gilt; the hostess's Jewels,
We're emerald.
Mr.. Thomas Starbuck, a strict
Quaker who attended church twice a
week, near New Garden, had a dog that
always accompanied him. 1t is said that
now since Mr.. Starbuck's death, the dog
continues to be a regular attendant at the
religious services.
college commencement" will soon
be the order of the day, when the young
girl graduate will bid adieu to chewing
gum, and read her "piece" informing the
sympathetic audience that she is about to
embark in her frail "dug-out" upon the
billoway sea of life.
"A duel, with cavalry pistols, between
two girls, Mary Seemore, aged Is years,
and Sarah Ballon, aged l6, took place in
New Mexico on April lst, resulting in
the serious wounding of Miss Ballon in
the right shoulder. They were rivals for
the affections of a young cowboy named
Whitman.
At their last regular conference
meeting, the First Baptist Church of this
city decided to elect, at their next regular
meeting, ten additional deacons. This
will give the church a college of seventeen
deacons. The addition is made necessary
by the large and increasing membership
Of the church.
-Buie's Creek Academy, Harnett Co.
honors us with it's neat invitation card,
which is a veritable daisy. Exercises on
Thursday May 18th, 49,. The literary adj
dress will be delivered by our talented
young friend Alfred D. Jones, Esq, of
this city, and rich feast is in store for
those who attend.
We acknowledge the receipt of an
invitation to attend the closing exercises
of "Morning San Academy" at Fish
Dam, Durham county, N. c., which takes
place Saturday, May 10Th, 1888. The
literary address will be delivered by J. H.
Southgate, Esq, of Durham, and will no
doubt be a fine production.
Rev. J. w. Hood, a colored man,
Bishop of the Zion Methodist Church of
North Carolina, and a man Of education
and ability, in an address before the New
York conference a few days ago advo-
Gated payment to the Southern people for
their loss in slaves emancipated by Presi-
dent Lincoln's proclamation.
In less than twelve years we shall
have entered upon a new century, How
happy has been the lot of the man who
has lived in the closing years of the nine
teenth century. Has he not witnessed
the grandest achievements in true religion
and science, if not in art and literature,
that the world has ever known?
The Rev. DR.. Strickland, of the First
Baptist Church of Nashville, Tenn, it is
understood, will be extended a call to the
pastorate of the First Baptist Church of
this city, at a salary of $4,000. He is one
of the most eminently distinguished
divines of his day, and if his services are
secured Raleigh will be most fortunate.
AT a recent Florida marriage there
was this glorious blending of colors:
Ivory White was welded to Olive Green,
Rev. Mr.. Black, assisted by Rev. Mr.. Red