The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-20

Clara Albright, the Misses Jones, Miss
Staples, Mrs. Branch Merrimon, and Miss
Katie, Scales, when she is at home in
Greensboro. These, with the aid they
receive from the excellent Greensboro
Female College, also of the "West-End,"
enables the City Of Flowers at short no
tice to present rare musical entertain
ments.
Having investigated the complaint
of MANY Farmers" that the authorities
of the city of Raleigh discriminate
against transient dealers in horses in ia
o of local dealers, we find that there is
no just ground for the~complaint. The
city taNon dealers in horseszis fixed at
$25 a year. This tax is paid by the resi-
dent and transient dealers alike, and Sc
cures a license to carry on such business
n year.
We saw some interesting relics of the
olden times at Newbern, among them the
old family clock of Governor Tryon. We
saw, too, a pair Of pants made of home
spun for a man who was born and raised
in that country of malaria, frogs and
fever" as some people enormously call it,
which measured "a inches in length, Sc
inches in the waist, and 81 inches in the
hip, and being too small for the man, they
had never been worn
An experienced pomologist having
made an examination, informs Ut that
very few of the peaches have thus far
been killed. He further informed us that
not more than one-fourth of the apricots
have been damaged by the cold, and he
says it is a fact known to all fruit growers
that as long as any apricots escape there
is sure to be an ample peach crop. We
are glad to hear this report, as some days
ago, it was reported that the peaches had
been killed in the bud.
The Wilson Mirror, that pathetic, @s-
thetic, journalistic marvel of the nine
teenth century, which causes you to
laugh and weep by alienation, and which
is the pet-idol of the feminine gender
universal, closed its sixth volume with
last weeks issue. By reason Of it's unique
and extraordinary style, it is probably
better known abroad than any other
North Carolina Journal. There is just one
Wilson Mirror, andt has no imitators.
Public Printer Benedict at Washing
ton, has refused to give the Committee
investigating his bureau the names of the
persons who informed him of the charac-
ter of the work performed BY certain dis
charged employees on the ground that the
information was given in confidence. The
Republican members of the committee
have threatened to bring the matter be-
fore the House with the view of having
the contumacious witness incarcerated for
contempt until he divulges.
Friday, March the 23d, having been
set apart as North Carolina State Day at
the sub-Tropical Exposition, now being
held at Jacksonville, Fla, the Richmond
& Danville Railroad will sell round trip
tickets to Jacksonville and return, for this
occasion, on March 2lst to 23d, good to
return until April 18th GO days., at the
following rates: From Asheville, $780,;
Charlotte, $l7.65; Greensboro, $21.3O;
Hendersonville, $3.50; Raleigh, $1,000;
Salisbury, $19.4O; Statesville, $l9:4O.
Those who. contemplate a visit to the
Gland of Flowers" will doubtless take
advantage Of these rates.
WIN. A. Parker, a white man, but of
very disreputable character, was taken
from the guard house in the town of
Washington on Saturday night, March
10th, and hanged by the neck from a
draw-bridge. This man was believed to
have been the murderer of Gen. Bryan
Grimes, and, indeed, he was arrested and
tried for the crime in the year 1880, but
was acquitted. Upon q placard pinned
upon his breast were these words, Gus
tice at last" He was probably hanged
upon the ground of general cussedness,'"
as .the ~vigilantes seem to have made no
specific charge against him.
The commissioner Of Agriculture at
Washington has. published an elaborate
report of the alarming ravages caused by
English sparrows in all parts of the coun-
try where they have been introduced, and
urges that systematic efforts be made for
their determination. The report says: GIN