The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02

1870 - !
The eighth annual Fair of the Rocky
Mount agricultural and Mechanical Assd-
citation will Re Held on Tie 18th, 18th and
16thf of November. The Association has
large and conveniently arranged grounds
and buildings and. this Fair is always well
pstronized and is alwaysEenieyable.
The Pope has at last drawn on the
PapAlG Guaranty fund, established by the
Italian government in 1871. By this fund
the Pope was to receive an annual grant
Of $500, 600. Plus TX would not touch
it, but Leo XIII has been driven, it would
seem, by financial exigencyt to draw on it.
The, Washington Post says besides,
the work and time she is giving
to the aus of the Jacksonville yellow:
fever sufferers, Miss Clara Barton has
made a cash contribution of 81, 900 to
their relief. It is such as she that add
luster to the glorious, crown of woman
hood. 80, :. -. .....
ia The October number of the North
Carolina Teacher is at. hand and as usual
is brimfull Of valuable and Interesting ip-
formation TOR teachers, parents and pupils:
This magazine has reached the point
where it is indispensable to all teachers
who desire to keep up with The progress
i've methods of modern teaching.
.-r-Alamance Fair Association will hold
its first Annual Fair at Burlington Oct.
10th, llth, 18th, 1885, Mr.. Walter L.
Holt is. President and Mr.. S. a. Webb
Secretary and we predict a splendid sue
cess for this Fair. It is in a good county,
among a live and enterprising people who
have something to show and who will
take a pride in showing it.
According to careful calculation made
by a British clergyman of note and just
published, Protestants have increased dur
ing the last hundred years from 37,OOO,-
900 to 1874, OOe, 900, or nearly fourfold.
Roman Catholics during the same. period
have increased from 81, 1000, 900 to, 1885,
600, 900, or twofold. The Greek church
during the century has, increased from
40, 900, 900 to $4,000, 900, also twofold.
The Fair of the North Carolina In
dustrial Association (colored), which was
held in this city last week, was only a
partial success, owing largely, we suppose,
to the inclement and threatening weather
of the early part of the"week. The e3-
hibits in the main were good, and had the
attendance been half what it should have
been, it might have been considered
something of a success. 1t is thought the
receipts will cover the expenses.
The attention of the reader is
directed to the new advertisement of MI.
w. b. Hughes, of this city, perhaps the
most extensive China and Crockery dealer
in North Carolina. Those who are in
need of china, crockery, glassware, lamps,
table cutlery, silver-plated ware, tea-trays,
oil stoves, &C., cannot do better than to
give Mr.. Hughes a call. 1t will pay you
to 60 and see the splendid, artistic display
of goods even if you do not wish to pur-
chase.
A correspondent Of the Salisbury
Herald signing himself "Anti-Trust,"
goes into figures to show that "the South
realized last year Sc, 900 on bagging
and ties" That good brother is count
ing without his host" He doesn't know
that exactly the reverse is true, and that
a tare Of per cent. is deducted in Liver
pool from every bale of American cotton.
Figures are nice and sometimes very
convincing, but it is well to have them
founded on facts, as we 60 along.
"A few days ago q fly flew into the
of John Lord, who lives near Athens,
Ga. He got the insect out almost i'm
mediately and thought no more about it
until he was awakened in the night by a
violent itching in the ear. The itching
became a p~ain,-and. that increased until
the man was almost crazy. He sought a
doctor, who, with considerable difficulty,
brought out eleven well developed and
very active maggots, which had Matched
from the. eggs laid by that fly during its
brief stay in MI. Lords ear.
Noon reports to the Board of Health
at Jacksonville dated September 18th,
show only nineteen new cases of yellow
fever; all colored people. In most places
the disease has appeared it seems