The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-09
NEWS ITEMS.

do business in the city of Raleigh.
The German physicians have an
nounced that the Crown Prince has no
cancersm his throat, and that he will re-
cover. I.
A company has been organized in the
town of Newton to build a roller Touring
mill and the work will be proceeded with
at once. ;
The. booksellers of North Carolina
will meet in Greensboro on the 10th inst.
for the purpose of effecting a permanent
State organization.
In Greensboro, on Thursday morn
ing last, Miss. Sue Dick, the accomplished
daughter of Judge R. P. Dick, was welded
to Mr.. William E. Stone.
The bill appropriating 100000 for
the erection of a government building in
the town of Asheville passed it's third
reading on Wednesday last.
Gold mining in the Old North State
is looking up and much work will be done
during the present year. Many old mines
in the West will be re-opened.
A bright, pretty ten-year-old girl has
been elected page in the Iowa House of
Representatives. But won't she have a
chance to luxuriate in peanuts and tafyl
The Roman Catholic school property
at Hickory, N. c., has been sold to the
Ohio Lutheran Synod. 1t will be used
for school purposes by the Lutheran de-
nomination.
The directors of the North Carolina
Railroad company have declared a divi-
dend of six her cent, on the stock; three
per cent. payable March LIST, and three per
cent. payable September LIST, 1888.
The National Democratic Executive
Committee will meet in Washington City
on Washington's birthday, the 22d inst,
for the purpose of fixing the time and
place of holding the next National Con-
vention.
Mr.. Volney Purcell, the proprietor of
the popular Raleigh Racket Store, left
this morning for New York City, where
he will remain until he makes his spring
and summer purchases of dry goods, mil
linery, &c.
About two hundred and seventy-three
thousand pounds of smoking tobacco and
forty-seven million four hundred and
ffty-one thousand cigarettes have been
shipped from Durham, N. c., since the
holidays.
There will be a meeting of the State
Board of Pharmacy in this city, on Tues
day, the 21st inst, to examine applicants
for license to practice pharmacy. It is
understood there will be quite a number
Of candidates.
The Washington Progress, referring
to the recent blizzard, puteth it thus: at
seemed as if all the frost fends from the
ice bound realms of old Boreas swept
down in vengeful fury upon our devoted
Southland. 1t was cold"
"A Mr.. Pink Mullis, of Meeklenburg
county, recently sold a plantation for
which he took pay in wine. Having dis
posed of some of the wine to his neigh
bors, Mullis was arrested upon the charge
of selling wine without license.
John Shaw, colored, convicted of
larceny in Buncombe county in 1880, and
sentenced to ten years in the State Peni-
Tertiary was pardoned by the Governor
and released on Tuesday last. Ground of
pardon-an attack of consumption.
The United States Treasury contains
1922, 600, 900 in gold, the largest mass of
gold in the world. The government re-
ceipts for January have averaged about
s. 1000, 600 a1day. The reduction of the
public debt during January was $15,-
900, 1000.
AT midnight. JAN. 9th ult., Jack
Blount, Mathew Blount and Patterson
Spruill, all eoloredy who We're charged
with the murder of55one Dawson, at Cres-
well, Nc, were taken from Plymouth
Jail, carried about a mile from town, and
riddled with bullets.
The meeting held in Statesville on
Tuesday evening, January 31st, to.con-
slider the matter of establishing a cotton