The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-19

day of August next for the purpose of
issuing license to such applicants as may
be found qualified to practice pharmacy.
The national meeting of Dunkards
decided that members must quit using to-
bacco before they take baptism. The
question of recognizing a divorced per-
sons right to remarry caused much dis
custom.
The depositors of the late State
Bank of this city will receive within a
few days a dividend of 20 per. cent. The
probabilities now are that the bank will
eventually be able to pay or seventy
per cent.
DIR. West, of Mariana, Fla, cured a
dog of snake bite, a few days ago, by the
use of permanganate of potash hypeder-
mically. The same remedy Will probably
save a mans life when bitten by a venom
eus snake. -.
Excelsior Geyser, in the National
Park, Montana, is discharging a column
of water sixteen feet in diameter and 300
feet high. The -eruptions occur every
forty-fve minutes, and last from three to
five minutes.
+ The Reformed Presbyterian Synod
of the United States, last week in session
at Pittsburg, passed a resolution against
Sunday newspapers, and instructing the
Presbyteries to discipline all members ad-.
vertising in them.
The poet of the Wilmington Messen-
ger sings thusly:,
Now the poet stops his verses.
On Maude and Kate and Hannah, ,
And turns his fiery frenzy ON
The famous red bandana.
In Watauga county, Sunday, June
10th, Rev. George Badger Wetmore, aged
IS years died. He was a we'll known and
greatly beloved Episcopal preacher, a man
OF piety, courage, and aggressiveness in
the prosecution Of his work.
The Lexington Dispatch reminds
members of the Farmers Alliance that a
County Alliance is to be organized on
Friday, the 22d inst, and that DR.. D.
Reid Parker will explain some things of
interest to members of the Alliance.
The Board of Agriculture has ap-
pointed Gov. Scales, Commissioner Rob-
inson and State Chemist Battle a COM
mittee to- represent it in making arrange
ments for the Interstate farmers meet
ing which takes place in this city in
August next.
Rev. w. R. Gwaltney, Of Green's
boro, a member of the Board of Trustees
of Wake Forest College, and for many
years the pastor of the Second Baptist
Church of this city, was here or Friday
last shaking hands with his numerous
friends and admirers.
If one delays until tomorrow what
ought to be done to-day, he o~vercharges
tomorrow with a burden which belongs
not to it.-Eryo, send $1.25 to pay for
ffty-two issues of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, the only agricultural weekly
published in the State.
A new passenger tariff went into effect
on the Richmond & Danville Railroad and
all of it's branches, fares being reduced to
34c. per mile, first-class, and to Sc. second
class, from &c. to 31c. respectively. This
will help. The passenger business of the
Western North Carolina Railroad is re-
ported increasing rapidly.
" -"I honestly think" says T.. D. Eng
lish, "that a healthy and able-bodied toad,
of industrious habits, will get away with
and digest his own weight of insects
during twenty-four hours. If you be of
an insecticidal turn of mind, turn out by
daylight, and watch the toads getting
breakfast. 1t is entertaining"
The Dunn Sigmboard says: One day
last week Mr.. Alfred Blackwell, residing
near Barclayvile, Sampson county, was
found dead at his saw mill, and mostfear-
fully mutilated. He had been trying to
run his circular saw mill alone, and it is
supposed he accidentally fell on the saw,
when he suffered a most shocking death.
The Farmers Friend Fence Machine
Co., Greensboro, N. c., offer great in
ducements to farmers, mechanics, lumber
men and others desiring to engage in a
manufacturing business requiring small
capital and paying large profits. A few
good agents wanted to travel and organ
ize manufactures in each county.