The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-12-04
NEWS ITEMS.


Gray, blue and red is the fashionable
combination in dress this season.
But one vote was cast in South Coro-
lima for Gen. Fisk, Prohibition candidate
for President.
One hundred and ffty-eight new
postofices were established in North
Carolina last year.
Black horsehair bonnets embroidered
in gold are among the late imported
Partisan novelties.
Rev. J. L. Foster. of Alamance, has
accepted a call to the passionate of the
Christian church in this city.
Granville county has now seventy
four miles of railroad. There was not an
inch of track in the same territory less
than ten years ago.
One thousand million steel pens are
used every year in this country. Most
of these are homemade and are better
than the imported pens.
DR.. H. T. Bahnson, of Salem, has
been appointed a Director of the Western
North Carolina Insane Asylum at Morgan
ton, vice W. j. Yates, Esq, deceased.
There are 1889 industrial establish
ments in the city of New York, which
give employment of 227, 1852 persons and
the value of the output is S427, 926, 437.
The new justices of the supreme
court-A. G. Avery and J. E. Shepherd
will be sworn in January LIST and will
take their seats on the bench February LIST.
One of the leading stores of Sacra-
mento, CAL, has placed seats behind it's
counters for the accommodation of wo-
men and girls while not waiting on Gus
toners.
The n. Y. Central Railroad has abol-
ished the deadly car stove and has sub
stituted steam pipes for heating it's coaches.
These pipes are connected with the loco
motives.
"A full-blooded Cherokee Indian was
recently put in the p~enitentiary. He is
Tom Chiabilla. and he both murdered and
robbed another Indian. He gets 20 years
at hard labor.
1t is said that the number of ~convicts
in the penitentiary and on the various
railroads, turnpikes, ETC., at this time
reaches about 1900. There are only seven
women among them.
Governor Scales has appointed Leon
ard Henderson, Of Warrenton, a director
OF the pe%nitentiary, vice Charles NJ. Cooke,
resigned. Capt. Cooke is a member of
the House from Franklin.
The largest salary received by an
American bishop is that of the Bishop of
New York which amounts to $4,000 a
year. The Bishop of Maine, who receives
$1,000 a year has the smallest.
Walter P. Caldwell, a distinguished
lawyer of Greensboro, formerly of Neck
lenburg county, died in the former city,
on Tuesday the 9th ult., after a lingering
illness, in the Goth year of his age.
The Democratic members of the
Grand Army of the Republic, of Indiana,
have seeded from the original organiza-
ton and formed a separate organization.
1t is said other states will do the same.
Manufacturing enterprise Is at high
tide, and investors are turning their atten-
ton to the South. 1t is said that a com
pany with a capital of $500, 900 will build
a manufacturing town near Asheville,
n. G.
We call attention to the advertise
ment of the Messrs. White Bros. Patent
Well Fixtures" which appears in this
issue for the first time. Price reduced
from SIS to $40 to members of the Farm
ers' Alliance.
The three Prohibition papers of the
State nave been consolidated under the
name of the North State Prob ibitioni,t,
and under the editorial management of
Mr.. w. G.. Burkhead, will hereafter be
issued in this city.
Pension warrants are being sent out
to about thirty-eight hundred and fifty
pensioners. The warrants are for 1926
each. In South Carolina the appropria-
ton for Confederate soldiers and their |
widows is $4,000.
A large force of laborers is rapidly |
laying steel rails on the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad between New