The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05
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jeff Davis was so years old on Sun
day June Sd.
The Northern and Southern Presby-
terians will not unite.
China is expected to resist any
further English influence in Thibet.
The premium list of the State Agri-
cultural Society will shortly be issued.
Dogs killed % sheep for Mr.. Mark
Cole, of Richmond county, IN one night.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
declared the local option law unconstitu-
tional.
Round trip tickets from Raleigh to
the st. Louis Convention will be sold at
$3.50. Z"
General Sheridan who has been dan
gerously i'll for som days past is rapidly
recovering.
Judge Gresham is being doomed as a
candidate for the Republican Presidential
nomination.
The National Convention of the
Democratic party meets in St. Louis on
Tuesday, June 9Th.
-Lititz Express says: 1t was the lady
who thought she was going to swoon who
had a faint suspicion.
A Pennsylvania school boy recently
defined the word "barnacle" as "a tramp
who sleeps i'm a barn."
Dom Pedro, of Brazil, is still in a
dangerous condition. His departure from
Milan has again been postponed.
About 10000 quarts of strawberries
nave been shipped from Mt. Olive, N. c.,
and the shipments are active yet.
The General Assembly of the North
ern Presbyterian Church had an exciting
debate over a decoration day resolution.
The Charlotte Chronicle says, "the
first man who essays a pun on Judge
Fowle's name should be shot on the spot"
Near Blackmer, Rowan county, last
week, Mr.. John A. Locke killed an eagle
which measured 6 feet 6 inches from tip
to tip.
Mr.. Spier Whitaker, of this city sue
ceeds Mr.. Richard Battle as Chairman of
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee.
The House, on June LIST, passed the
Senate bill to revive the rank of General
of the Army for the benefit Of General
Sheridan.
"A joint stock company has been
formed at Morganton and a cotton fac
tory is to be built. Contracts are to be
let at once.
The girls of a literary society at
Washington, N. c., are debating the ques-
ton (which is the more desirable, mar
ried or single life?"
Mrs. Esau Evans, of Longview, Tex,
attending to her household duties May
2lst, suddenly exclaimed, "Ohl my
breast!" and fell dead.
Mr.. Blaine once more declines the
Republican nomination for the Presi-
dency; and yet his friends believe he will
accept if the nomination is rendered him.
An analysis of the salt rock recently
discovered in Hutchinson county, Kan
sas. shows that it is of wonderful purity,
99.77 per cent. sodium chloride or pure
salt.
In August next the Cotton States
Farmers Convention will meet in this
city. Eleven States will be represented
and it will doubtless be an immense
affair.
"A fair applicant for a teachers posi-
sition in Clinton county, Mich, said the
days are longer in summer than in win
ter because heat expands and cold con-
tracts.
An exchange has discovered that If
the world was willing to accept most
men at their own valuation it would nave
to go into involuntary bankruptcy IN a
fortnight.
The grand jury of Forsyth county
found a true bill, Monday, against forty
two citizens of Winston for gambling.
They were tried before Judge Clark and
fined SO.
The largest flower known is the Raj
fiesta, a native of Sumatra. 1t measures
3 feet in diameter, weighs Is pounds and
has q calvx holding e quarts. The Odor