The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-27

O1ld OuC-UulIo IL Glc WIlOlc uuIlUCT dU-
tend the Methodist schools.
MIR. John R. Marshal, brother of DR..
NJ. NJ. Marshal, of this city, died in Balti-
more a few days ago. He was a drug
gist of high character and leaves a widow
but no children to mourn his loss!
The Roanoke Nees, an excellent
State paper, has entered it's nineteenth
volume, which is tossay 1t has been dis
s~eninating the news regularly, once a
week, for the past eighteen years.
The. attention of the reader, the
farmer especially, is directed to the adyer-
tisment of Nj. D. T. Johnson, grocer and
wholesale commission merchant, which
appears in this issue for the first time.
The Congressional Committee in it's
Investigations of fraudulent compounds
called pure lard, are told by some of the
very scientific chemists, that they find
"no dead hog grease in refined lard"
The editor of the Durham Recorder
@as Mortified a few days ago at seeing a
ten-year-old Lad lying on the street in a
beastly state of intoxicatlon. Does local
option prohibit in Durham, or elsewhere?
The railroad companies Of the United
States have made greater profits since
they have been operating under the pro-
visions of the Interstate Commerce law
than ever before in the history Of the
country.
The Forest City Ne,cs makes the
startling announcement that Henrietta
Mills is now running 5000 spindles, day
and night! Perhaps we ought to state
that Henrietta Mills is the name of a cot
ton factory.
The "Second Regiment Waltz. is
the name of a beautiful piece of music
composed and published by Prof. I. HI.
| Greenwald. 1t is dedicated to the North
| Carolina State Guard and is described as
a splendid production.
Hon. D. G. Fowle, of this city, has
been invited by the ex-Confederates of
Beaufort county, and has accepted the
invitation, to deliver the address at the
unwilling of the Confederate monument
at Washington on May 10th.
Fab. H. Busbee, Esq, of this city,
has been chosen to deliver. the address at
Morehead City on the. occasion Of the
laying of the corner stone of the Teach
er's Assembly building which takes place
on the first day Of May next. -.
Chef Justice Morrison Renwick
Wait, of the SupremeC Court of the United
States, died suddenly at his residence
in Washington, D. C, on Friday morn
ing, at ten minutes past six o'clock, at
the age of se~venty-two years.
"A dressed block of tale, weighing 24O
pounds, from the Thomas quarry on the
Nantahla, in Buncembe county, is on ex-
hibition in the city Of Ashevihe. It's
beauty strikes every observer, it being
absolutely free from any impurity. .
-I1Ou. d. .. 1lellucISOH " IIlc CdllSUuIy
District has introduced a bill in Congress
to abolish special taxes on distilled spirits
and articles subject to internal revenue
taxes at the place where such goods are
delivered by the c~arrierto the vendee.
The Guilford Grays.' is the name of
the: new Greensboro military company,
and Mr. R.. Percy Gray, Secretary and.
Treasurer of the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley Railway, has been elected captain.
Nobetter selection-could have been made.
b" We direct the attentionsof. read
1eefrss to the advertisement of Mr.. J. G. l..
Harris in this issue of The PRoGREss1vE
FARMER. in which. he offers. to supply
farmers. and gardeners. with the several
kinds of Sweet Potatoe slips at a greatly
reduced rate: >. .,e !.
William Ray, a well-known. young
white man of Chatham county, wa mystic
riously shot and has died. He went away
with a gun and returned without the gun
and covered with blood. A load of shot
had entered his side. 1t is thought he
committed suicide. =. .aH
The Monroe Enquirer thinks it is
getting time for would-be candidates to
go into the forest and practice on their
campaign speeches. Next November
they can again seek some lonely spot
suitable for giving vent to a wall of grief
over the result of the election.
The Mt. Airy News learns of a woman