The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-12-04

ScneIne Dy winch all the great lines ana
their connections are to be pooled, and
that such a plan will evade the Inter
State Commerce bill.
The official Presidential vote for the
three parties is as follows: Democratic,
(Waddelrs vote), 147,9O2; Republican,
(Boyd's vote), 3 1874; Prohibition,
(Walker's vote), 2,797. This gives Wad-
dell a plurality of Ii, 118.
Write briefly and pointedly. The
editor keeps no yard-stick to measure
articles for his paper. Give him ideas and
facts, sharp crisp and direct. If you want
an idea to stick-if you would make truth
effective; strip it of verbiage.
On the 18th ult., John R. Sammons,
a white man sixty years of age, who was
a mail-carrier on the route from New
Berne to Washington, N. c., was found
dead in the suburbs of New Berne. He
had died while on his way home.
On the 22d of next January it is pro-
posed to hold in this city a Convention of
all ex-Confederate soldiers who are now
receiving pensions from the State. The
veterans will be the guests of the city
during the continuance of the Convention.
A Northern gentleman who now re-
sides at Southern Pines, Moore county,
says he is preparing land at that place for
the purpose of testing the culture of
grapes for raisins. He feels confident that
the climate there is adapted to the growth
of this grape and it's manufacture into
raisins.
The provisional board appointed in
September last by the Christian denom-
nation of North Carolina to locate their
college, has chosen Graham, Alamance
county, as the site, that place having
offered the best inducements in the way
Of an eligible lot. The building will COM
hence early next spring.
One of our Wilmington exchanges
says there has thus far been expended
upon the improvements of the Cape Fear
river 1851, 900 with great success. The
depth of water has been increased nine
and a half feet since 1871. Every dollar
spent on these improvements has devel-
oped $3.50 of annual foreign commerce.
The jury IN the case Of MI. J. II. Ed
mundson against the r. & D.. Railroad for
damages by reason of injuries sustained in
the Rifles railroad accident while on route
for the State Guard encampment at Ashe-
| vile three summers ago, and which has
been on trial at Kinston court, returned
a verdict in his favor for ten thousand
dollars.
Christmas is in the near future and
all the little folks, and many of the larger
ones, are on tip-toe in anticipation of
the happy occasion. In this connection
we would refer the reader to the advertis-
ing columns of THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
that he may learn where the best and
cheapest Christmas goods can be bought.
See the new advertisement of Messrs.
Woollcott & Son in this issue.
We direct attention to the card of
that old, reliable and very popular jeweler
Mr. J. W. Cole, which appears in to-day's
paper. He has been our mex door neigh
Dor ever since The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
has been published in this city, and
knowing hnn we'll, it affords US pleasure
to commend him to the patronage of the
general public, and especially to the
brotherhood. You will always find his
goods just as he represents them to be.
The daily paper of Friday morning
last contained the following telegraphic
dispatch dated Chicago, Nov. Goth: "a
Tribune special from st. Louis says the
jute bagging trust is reported to be going
to pieces. The sales of bagging have
been far below the usual fall average, and
the fact that sixteen factories which were
leased by the "%combine,' and closed to
lessen the production, will start up Janu-
AIRY LIST, unless again leased, is causing
them some anxiety. 1t is said no arrange
ment has yet been made to keep them
closed, and that without doubt several of
them will start, naturally causing a
serious decline in prices of bagging.
Gov. Scales has issued a proclama-
ton offering a reward Of $500 for the un-
known man who assassinated James Phil
back, a white farmer at his home in Cleve-
land county on the night of November
Dist. The Chronicle says the facts as laid
before the Governor show that Philbeck,
who was at home with his family, was
called to the door, and, gong there with