The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-08-14
NEWS ITEMS.

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Remember the State Fruit Fair at
Raleigh, August, 18th and 16th-to-mor-
row and next day.,
Ed Noyes, of West Butte, has sold
ONE wheat this season that yielded 651
bushels to the acre. = .
"A: Wilmington street wag says many
Family skeletons" are now on exhibit
ton at Morehead City.
-Messrs. Fowle and Dockery will meet
for joint discussion, at Lenoir, Caldwell
county, September 10th. -
Rev. r. g. Pearson, the Evangelist,
will m his meetings in Winston
about the first of September.
The, Wake County Commissioners
will borrow $40, 900 to complete building
and repairing bridges of the county.
London has eight homes for poor
working girls, where they can get three
tolerable meals a day for 81 a week. {
We learn from our State exchanges
that in the city of Raleigh, a colored in
FAINT at the age of six weeks has twenty
teeth. " s~
Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court,
went, as the escort of a number of charm
ing young ladies, to Buffalo Springs last
week.
The "Hints to Housekeepers" in
this issue of The PRoGREssIvE FARMER
will be found unusually interesting and
valuable.
The Sanford Express provokes a
smile by remarking: ascot Partin has
been released and Raleigh is as dull as
jerusalem"
In the election for State officers in
Alabama, held Monday, August 9th, the
State went Democratic, as usual, by q
large majority.
Montgomery is getting to be famous
for big snakes. Dick Hamilton, near
Flagtown,. killed an eleven-rattle rattle
snake last week.
cold John Robinson" as the ia
nous circus man was Familiarity called,
died a few days ago in Cincinnati, a mill
l~ionair, at the age of 80 years.
Rains, during the last ten days, have
been more frequent, and now the remark
is common, "There will be a great deal
of corn and cotton made yet"
Many sections of the State have been
blessed with refreshing rains during the
past ten or fifteen days, and the crop
prospects have very much frightened.
The Greensboro Workman notes the
fact hat attacks of typhoid fever, all
through the country, nave been attended
with unusual fatality this spring and
summer.
The Picayune says, very few people
of the present day ever saw or can tell
what a petard is; but politician knows
it is something a man can hoist himself
with or by. ~ z
Wilmington will have a frenan's
tournament, commencing tomorrow and
continuing through until the 18th of this
month. The railroads give. very low
special rates.
For the half year ending with June
the net profits Of the Canadian Pacific
road were $1,113,87O, an increase of
$172,533 over the profits for the same
period last year. @5olG
The Kernersville Necs, brother j. 81.
Lindsay, has been consolidated with the
Winston Advance, under the able a
agement of Messrs. J. o. Foy and J. W.
Duggins, editors.
Tickets to the North Carolina To-
bacco Association, at Morehead, will be
on sale August 25th, at IL cents per mile
each way and will be good to return as
late as September Sd.
The blackberry crop is very good
this year generally, and with an unusually
good drying season the crop will be much
Larger than any previous year. 1t is esti-
mated that the crop will be worth $4,000
to the county of Caldwell. ;