The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-04-17


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"A verdict for $2,O4O.49 was Friday
last rendered in the United States Circuit
Court in favor of Adam Forepaugh against
the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad Company for delay in transport
ing a circus train.
We are panied to learn of the death
of Miss Lillian, daughter of Rev. G. w.
Sanderlin, which occurred on the 18th
inst at her fathers home near Boston.
The deeply bereaved parents have our
sincere and profound sympathy.
"A correspondent says a sure way to
get rid of the depredations of crows is to
make them drunk on corn that has been
soaked in whiskey over night. They
never get drunk but once, and steer clear
of your premises ever afterward.
"A marvellous medium, indeed: "To
show what a good advertising medium.
The North State is, we can say that Mrs.
M~cAdoo-King got her vinaigrette, before
the paper containing the notice was
prlnted.-Greensboro North State.
Mr.. Pearson's meetings in Whining
ton were to have closed last Wednesday
night. 1t is agreed that no such awaken
ing was ever known there before. Up to
Monday night there had been 692 profess
sors of religion and 217 reclamations of
backsliders.
The Pittsboro Records suggestion to
have a reunion of Chatham's ex-Confed-
crate soldiers on the 4th of July next has
been favorably received, and that jour
nal says there is no reason why it should
not be the greatest occasion ever known
in the county.
Give hundred Farmers Alliances in the
State" says the Durham Tobacco Plant.
We beg leave to correct the brother by
writing "six hundred and ninety" on
April 18th. By the first of June, we
doubt not, the number will be one thou
sand and upward.
The Farmer and Mechanic is the name
of a new paper just started at Greensboro,
N. c., by w. T. Landreth & Co. Publish
ers, with W. P. Landreth, editor. 1t is
published, as it's name indicates, in the in
terests of the industrial classes, is well
edited and very neatly printed.
Judge Jackson, in the United States
Circuit Court, at Louisville, KY, on Fri
day, affirmed the decision. of the lower
Court in the West Virginia habeas corpus
case against the State of Kentucky for
possession of the Hatfield prisoners, max
ing the second victory for Kentucky.
The Cosmopolitan for March, pub
lished in New York by the Cosmopolitan
Magazine Publishing Co., is on our table.
1t is not loaded down with heavy, pom
derous essays, nor filled with trash and
shams, but it is bright, crisp and invigorat-
ing. Price 20 cts per copy or 50 per
annum.
DIR. Joseph Graham, of Charlotte, n.
c.. has Just bought and brought to North
Carolina the celebrated young stallion
Mambrino Pagan, No. 1850, lately the
property of Mr.. J. D. Thomas, of Ovid.
New York. Thus North Carolina con-
: tinues to add to her already large list OF
: fine blooded stock.
The young gentlemen and ladies o.
, Raleigh organized last week a society te
l be known as the Star Dramatic Club
The object is to promote social pleasure
and from time to time to present publicly
in the best possible manner, a play fol
/ the benefit of some one of the charitable
$ institutions Of the city.
f The Thomasville Gazette announce
: that Mr.. J. A. Leach, of that town wa
charged with the sad duty of conveying
e Mrs. L. P. Odds, daughter of ex-Governo
Holden, to the Asylum at M%organton las
week. This week he is absent with tn
q two children whom he has taken to Balti
8 more to place in a Roman Catholic Chill
dren's Home.
The Greensboro. North State remark
rather sneeringly, that after a "thoroug
canvass of the county one Farmers ALI
v ance has been organized in Guilford.
We simply desire to call the editors atten
. +;on to the class and character Of the me
who compose this Guilford College ALI
ance, and inquire if they are not OF tn
very hest citizens of that county.