The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-03-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

morning or the eth INST, hardly worth
mentioning. s @s- ~
Rev. r. G.. Pearson's first service in
Wilmington will be held on Sunday
night March the 18th. $3.50 = t
The parents of Josef Holman, the
musical prodigy, have decided to with
draw him from the stage.
The Republican State Nominating
Convention has been called to meet in
this city on May 23d, next.
Coal is scarce and high in Durham
and the ~shivering Plant calculates, Cant
somebody start a coal factory?"
"A State Sunday School Convention
will be held in this city, commencing
March 21st >inst.,' continuing three days.
The ~nteuigencer says that a car load
of negroes, men and women, left Wades-
boro for Arkansas a few days ago, and
more are to follow.
The Morganton Land and Improve
ment Company have invited Bin Nye to
spend a month in Morganton, the coming
summer, as their guest. l.
Martin Irons, the leader of the great
railroad strike of 1886, was acquitted of the
charge of "conspiricy to tap telegraph
wires" during that strike.
What's going to happen next? The
monthly salaries of the conductors on the
Carolina Central Railway have been raised
five dollars without,a petition therefor.
There is a greater number of print
ers in the present National House of Rep
~resentatives than members of any other
occupation or profession, except the law.
THAT valuable publication, the North
Carolina Teacher, for the month of Feb
ruary, is to hand, and, as usual, is filled
with good things for teachers, scholars
and pupils.
notwithstanding it is now under
stood that the railroad shops will not be
removed from L%aurinburg, on Wednesday
night Feb. 29th, forty of the employees
were discharged.
The Executive Committee of the
Catawba Industrial Association has deci-
ded to hold their fair this year in Septem-
Der, commencing on the 25th and contin-
uing to the 2Sth. -.5,...
In addition to the supply furnished
the corporation, the Raleigh Water Works
Company now lave 172 private consum-
ers in the city, and the number is being
added to almost daily.
The reported death of Col. E. B. G.
Cash, of South Carolina, turns out to be
untrue. A letter received in Rockingham,
N. c., from his daughter says that the
Colonel is convalescing.
We are indebted to Agricultural
Commissioners R. F. Kolb, of Alabama,
and Hon. J. 7. Henderson of Georgia for
important publications issued by their
respective Departments.
The Robesonian, of Lumberton, an
swers for this statement: "Mr. H. G.
Afford, of Floral College has sent US an
Irish potatoe weighing Is ounces, which
was grown this winter"
-Wrightsville sound, below Whining
ton, has been decided upon as the place
for the encampment of the State Guard
this summer. There seems to be no OBJ
lection to the selection of place.
In this city a petition for a local OPP
ton election in June next, has thus far
been signed by about eleven hundred SOW
ereigns. Fourteen hundred signatures are
necessary to ecure the election.
The oldest armchair in the world is
the throne Of Queen Hatafu, who flour
ished in Egypt 1000 years B. G.. 1t is
made of'ebony, and is beautifully carved.
1t is now in the British Museum.
We have received a copy of the
Rocbdale (Tex.9 Messenger, which quotes
eggs at 8 centsa dozen, with the prospects
of becoming considerably cheaper, as the
demand is not equal to the supply.
In Augusta, Ga, the other day a tree
was cut in the forest at 6 o'clock in the
morning and by night it had been turned
into printed papers and the people were
reading in them the news of the day.
"A movement is on foot to establish a
home for disabled Confederate soldiers in
Maryland. A bill has been introduced in
the Legislature Of that State to grant for