The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-04-10
NEWS ITEMS.

moving Davidson College to Charlotte.
The High Point On. Co. postofhce
has been raised to the Presidential class.
-Prohibitionist ST. John now makes
his home in that land of wine-California.
-Warrenton will have an agricultural
fair and farmers institute in October
next.
A permanent Fair Association, with
a capital of $25,O 600, has been organized
at New Bern.
The first cotton mill started In this
country was at Philadelphia in l775 by a
stock company.
-Ex-President Jefferson Davis is said
to be busily engaged on his new book
about the late war.
-Ex-Gov. Jarvis says he isnot and WILL
not be an aspirant for the Democratic
nomination for Governor.
In the adulteration of lard in the
United States there were used last year
so, 900, 900 pounds of cotton-seed oil.
ALI the arsenic in the united States
on the LIST of January was in the hands OF
twelve druggists, who, it is said are try
ing to force up prices.
Frank McGuinn, who lived near
Jack Reinhardt's, in Lincoln county,
dropped dead in the woods while hunting
SQUIRRELS last Saturday.
Bro. Bonitz, of the Messenger, has IN
vited the Press Association OF North
Carolina to hold their next annual Con-
vention in Wilmington.
Something new under the sun. N
Wilmington Messenger says: MOST OF
the business houses will be closed during
the hopr of services at the Tabernacle
to-day"
"A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Star, writing from Philadelphia, says
there are only about 10000 members OF
the Society of Friends left in the City OF
Brotherly Love.
The London Court Journal says a
fashion advertised is that of two forks
wherewith to eat fish. These are meant
to supersede the present dinner appliance
of the fish knife and fork.
We direct attention to the advertise
ment of the Rev. DR.. 81. NJ. Tuppers
Holstein Friesian Stock Farm, which ap-
nears for the first time in this issue OF
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
The teachers of the Graded School
of this city presented the scholarly super
.intendent, Prof. Moses, with a handsome
students lamp at Easter, as a token Oh
their esteem and appreciation.
Adam Suits, of Carlos City, Ind.
celebrated his Tooth birthday on March l
He was born in North Carolina, was {
blacksmith by trade, and boasts that nc
man ever laid him on his back.
The Wilmington ~artesian well ha
reached a depth of two hundred and nifty
feet. A thin strata of iron pyrltes wa
stuck a few days ago which led to tn
false report that gold had been discovered
Hon. Kemp P. Battle, President o
the N. C. University, has accepted IN
invitation to deliver the annual address
before the literary societies of Davldso'
College at the commencement on the 2ls
of June.
Miss Octavia Hathaway, of Green
Vile, Pitt county, having sued Ge(
.Whitehurst for breach of promise, ate
wv days trial, including many speeche
of able counsel, she got a verdict fo
$1,000 damages.
If any reader of this paper desire t
purchase a fine cow four years old, an
a calf nine months old, he or she can d
so by communicating with MIR. K.
steadman, Winston, N. G. See advertise
ment in another place.
A Tennessee lady recently picked u
an old bomb-sheIl and laid it IN the Ole
fashioned fireplace. 1t is said that u
new house which is to be built on tt
site is to have all the modern improv'
ments, including telephone and electr
lights.
1t is said that, in the State OF Ne
York, the Trusts have discovered u
meaning of proposed legislation again
their interest. 1t means simply that tt
professional politicians have found a ne