The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-02

The Express claims that Sanford is the
most moral town in the State to be with
out a lawyer or a preacher, but adds that
both are needed, and are invited.
Belva Lockwood, the celebrated female
lawyer, will on the 18th of February,
prox., deliver in this city, at Metropolitan
Hall, her lectures on "'Social and Political
Life in Washington
1t was no less a person than Daniel
Webster who said, elderly cannot long
endure in any country where the ten
dency of legislation is to concentrate
wealth in the hands of a few"
Gray Pool, a deaf and dumb colored
man, of this city, was fatally burned on
Sunday afternoon last. He was subject
to epileptic fits and, 1T is supposed, that
while suffering from the attack he fell in
to the fire and was burned.
On Monday night, % ult., in the town.
of Newton, a company was organized for
the building of a patent roller Touring
mill, with a capital fixed at $4,000, with
the privilege of increasing it to $25, 900.
Shares to be 800 each.
W. see from the Forest City Ne,cs that
the people of that town are moving for
the establishment of a cotton factory. A
large and enthusiastic meeting has been
held and a committee appointed to form
ulate plans and report to a future meeting.
Welearn from the Monroe Inquirer that
at a meeting Of the citizens of that town
held on the oath of January, it was deci-
ded to organize, upon the cooperative
plan, a company for the erection of a cot
ton factory to be known as the Monroe
Cotton Mills.
Farmers! Are you interested in poul-
try, fancy or common? If so, send 25
cents, in stamps or otherwise, to The Fan
ciers' Review, Chatham, N. Y, and receive
the spiciest poultry paper published a full
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of thoroughly practical matter, with illus
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A member of Congress in the corridor
of one of the Washington hotels, the
other day, said in reply to a question:
"Congress is not legislating for the country
now, but for the campaign next fall !" and
that is just about the size of it. A huge
political game is on the chess-boards, and
the people will have to foot the bills.
A correspondent in a recent issue of
the Charlotte Chronicle refers to what he
chooses to denominate "an epidemic
among the ecclesiastical sheep of Char
lotte"-a sort of foot disease. The whole
is a we'll written arraignment of church
members who are in the habit of indulg-
ing in the German" and other round
dances.
The Racket store is booming. Have
you ever been there? Well, it would
pay you to go in there and see how they
do things. It is one Of the l~iveliest insti-
tutions in this city, and they sell "stacks
of goods" Be sure to 60 and price their
goods; this is all they ask. If you want
to know more of them, read what they
have to say in this issue.
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vertised in this paper.
The Concord Times says that within the
last few weeks their job presses have
turned out three thousand blank mort
cages, two thousand Of which have already
been sold. To our mind this a dark pic
ture Of the farmers of Cabarrus county.