The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-27

DR.. W, B. Phillips, of Chapel Hill,
has located in Birmingham, Ala, to prose-
cute his profession as Engineer, Chemist
and Assayer. THE Progressive FARMER
wishes the firm of Phillips & Claghorn a
prosperous and successful career.
The Reidsville Weekly says, zone of
Reidsville's prominent citizens has worn
one and the same collar since last April
without washing" but strives to take off
some of the roughness of the statement
oy explaining that it was a celluloid
collar.
"A horrible and brutal murder was
committed in Cleveland county by a burg
lar on the night of the 21st inst, Mr..
James Philbeck aged 60 years was called
to his door and shot down, the house
robbed and his wife shot. 1t is to be
hoped that the monster will be caught.
A letter from one of our leading citi-
zens puts to us a puzzling question !:
why is it if a farmer waters his bale
Of cotton he is called a fraud and a swim
dler-but if a railroad corporation waters
it's stock, it is praised and commended?
We give it up. Ask us something easier,
brother.
"A letter from a prominent Georgian,
who has recently been in Raleigh, says:
1t did my heart cook to see so many
bales of cotton rolling into Raleigh, baled
in burlaps. 1t tod eloquently Of the noble
work your Alliance has been doing" The
Alliance of our State is true as steel
against trusts.
We are proud to note that Mr.. James
w. Wilson, of Morganton, and to whose
skill and genius as an engineer, the survey
of the Western North Carolina Railroad
will stand as a monument for all time, has
been selected by the Canadian Govern
ment to inspect the railroad from Ottowa
to the Pacific Ocean.
The Inter-States Immigration Con-
vention will be held at Montgomery, Ala,
on the 18th day of December next, and
is regarded as of great interest and i'm
portance to the people of the South. Gov.
Scales has appointed two persons from
each senatorial district as delegates and
four from the State at large.
The National Grange at it's recent
session in Topeka, Kan, elected Col. J. II.
Brigham, Of Ohio, Grand Master, and
Leonard Rhone, Of Pennsylvania, one Of
the National ExecutivelC ommittee. It also
adopted a resolution favoring the election
of United States Senators by a direct vote
of the people. The Grange and the ALI
ance stand togethe ron this as an all great
questions of National interest.
The 29th inst. is to be observed as a
National Thanksgiving day. Let it be a
joyous, happy, thankful day. Let US re-
member the poor on that day. Let US not
forget the widow and the orphans Of that
dav. Let it be indeed a day of thanks
giving with some distressed and suffering
one, whom you can bless by some kind
act Of charity and benevolence. Let you
name and the day be stamped on the
memory of some little orphan whom you
hal befrlend. If you would be happy
make some one else happy.
1t is good for sore eyes, it is good for
the blues, 1t is good for chronic growing,
it is good for chronic l~aziness, it is good
for sour temper. 1t makes you feel better
and brighter, it makes you walk quicker,
it makes you hold your head higher, it
puts new life into YOU whole being to
90 into such a store as that Of Norris &
Carter and see the counters thronged with
men and women from the city and coun-
try and goods piled up everywhere in
"beautiful confusion" and over twenty
c~lerks-polite young men and charming
girls-as busy as bees. And that's what
comes Of advertising in THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and this splendid house has the
fairness to say so. Read their new adj
vertisement and go to see them.
-Plucky little Durham will emerge
from her recent financial trouble clothed
with renewed spirit and energy. We adj
mire and applaud her conduct under the
trying ordeal. Away off Oh the high hills
towards Chapel Hill lived a gentleman at
the time OF the earthquake, who had an
old colored cook-"Aunt Hannah" At
early dawn on the morning after that
memorable shake-up, he found on going
out that a dense fog had settled over the
rallav Intervening towards Durham and
on a plane below and entirely obscuring
the distant town with its tall and familiar
church steeples. Calling Aunt Hannah to