The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

of fireworks at the recent railroad cele-
bration.
"A paragraphist of one of the daily
papers writes of a "quiet but effective
wedding"
A dispatch says the dervishes of Taft
let, Morocco, have declared a "holy war"
against the Sultan. p"
The next Convention of the Y. NJ. G.
A. Of North Carolina, will meet in the
city of Wilmington.
Remember the Wake county Cattle
Club will hold it's next show on the 18th
day Of the present month.
Green peas and cramp-colic have
been more or less prevalent in Whining
ton for the past two weeks.
An English scientist asserts that no
person can feel the sensation of tickling
so long as the breath is held.
The only consolation the Tsras Syt-
ings man finds in being poor is that he
don't receive any begging letters"
Mr.. B. Craven makes some timely
suggestions in his article in this issue of
our paper. Read and consider what he
has to say.
The. Democratic County Convention
of Wake will meet in Metropolitan Hall,
in this city at II o'clock, m, Saturday
May 10Th, 1888.
On the first Sunday in this month
Rev. Mr.. Pearson will begin a series of
revival meetings in Asheville, where he
is now recuperating.
-"Win Durham seize the opportunity?
Durham Plant. We suppose she will.
She usually does. 1t fact, she seems to
have been built that wayl
Mrs. w. H. Moring, Jr., of Asheboro,
has composed a piece of music for the
Guilford Battle Ground celebration, May
9Th. So says the Courier.
On the night of the 18th the Jeffer-
sonian Club of Newark, N. j., held a re-
ception in honor of the 145th anniversary
of the birth of Thomas Jefferson.
The excursion train for Morehead
City will leave the Union depot in this
city this (Tuesday) morning, at 6 o'clock.
Tickets can be secured at the station.
Mrs. Nellie S. Kedzie, says, in the
Philadelphia Press, "the sight of untidy
dress will do much toward lessening the
power for good one holds over compan-
IONS"
The correspondents to the London
papers agree that the crisis over the mar
riage of Prince Alexander to Princess
Victoria has been settled amicably, and
that there will be no political change.
The Wake county Democratic Town
ship meetings will be held at the usual
places on Wednesday May the 9th, or at
such places as the Democratic Township
Executive Committees may designate.
-"Did you lave any confederates?"
said the Judge to a prisoner who had
pleaded guilty to bank robbery. "Nary
one, .jedge. The other fellers was a Graf,
a Pub, and a Tetotaler, but nary one a
Reb." 1oi
The editor of the Jonesboro Leader
says it is shocking to ones moral sensi-
bilities to know that so many well
dressed and polite seeming men and boys
have either a bottle Or a pistol in their
hip pockets.
The proposition of the Indiana wind
mill company to sell the editor of the
Raleigh Chronicle a windmill, and take
it out in advertising, causes Bro. Daniels
to smile grimly, and to remark that "the
Chronicle is run by gas"
The pickle industry is a large n in
some localities. At Fredericksburg, Va,
the supply reached 80, 600, 900 cucumbers.
They are picked an inch and a half long,
and bring eighty cents per 1000. A
boy can pick 5000 per day.
The Rural New- Yorker is the latest
addition to our agricultural exchange list.
1t ranks with the leading agricultural
journals of the land and is cheap at $500
"a year. Send 5 cts. for specimen p to
No. "a Park Row, New York.
The following neat reference to the
late Rosco Conkling appeared in the New
York Herald:
"Great son of York !! when thou vert here
Thy life WAS full of strife and pain: -