The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-22

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nine months. The other school, at Fay
%etteville, gets $4,000 a year, and is kept
open the same length of time.
A constitutional amendment was
offered in the House on the 18th inst. by
Representative Neal (Tenn.) proposing to
extend the term Of Office of the President
and Vice-President to six years, and to
make the President ineligible for a second
term.
The artesian we'll of the Consumers
Water Company, Arctic and Michigan
avenues, Atlantic City, has been COM
pleted. 1t reached a depth of 1900 feet,
and flows 400 gallons a minute. The
water has been pronounced absolutely
pure.
We learn from the North State that
a company has been organized to build
the High Point and Asheboro Railroad
with R. P. Dicks, of Randleman, Presi-
dent, J. H. Mills, of High Point, Treas
urer. Grading is expected soon to COM
mence.
. An exchange says an old lady was
hauled to Stokesdale, on the @. F. & Y.
V. Railway, a few days ago, in a wagon,
to see the cars. She was 7O-odd years
of age and had never seen a train.
She was a cripple and had to walk on
crutches. sat Ia. a..
The Wake county Cattle Show, held
in this city last week, was indeed a splen-
did exhibition and was witnessed by
many hundreds of visitors from different
sections of the State. It was a success in
all respects and its permanency is now an
assured fact.
The Kinston Free Press says that Miss
Laura Wood, a plucky young lady, living
in the Bucklesberry section of Lenoir
county, the lady who killed a deer some
time ago, on Saturday, week, shot and
killed two large moccasins on the bank
near her home. .
Maj. Finger, Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, has effected arrangements
for special rates of fare to the State Nor
NAL Schools. Tariff Nc. 2 has been OBJ
tanned. It is about 2 cents per mile for
short distances and l cent per mile for
long distances.
"A special meeting of the alumni
Association of the University of North
Carolina has been called to be held at
Chapel Hill on the 9Th day of June, 1888,
(being Wednesday of commencement
week., to take into consideration such
matters relating to the University as may
be presented.
The editor of the Pittsboro Home
who has evidently been taking notes of
passing events, says in his last weeks
Captain Alexander is developing
unexpected strength all along the lines.
Vance, Orange and Granville instruct
chin, and Wake is solid except Raleigh
township which is for Judge Fowle."
The Pearson revival meetings now in
progress in the city of Asheville are at
tracing great attention, and the results
there, as elsewhere, are characterized as
This good mans power,
under God, is no less potent on the noun
tain top in the west than it was on the
sea-shore in the east. Indeed, it must be
the work of omnipotency.
His host of friends will be saddened
to learn that Rev. N. II. D. Wilson, of the
North Carolina Methodist Conference,
died at Franklinton, N. c., On Tuesday
last, at ten minutes to 5, p. NJ. He was a
leader in his Conference, and
came within a few votes of being elected
to the bishopric of the Southern Church a
few years ago. Verify, a good man has
fallen.
The Raleigh Chronicle having occa-
sion to mention the names of the three
for Governor puts themin this
"Mr. Alexander, Mr.. Fowle, or
Mr.. Stedman," and Immediately adds, in
perenthasis, GIVE write them in alpha
betical order'). W. grant that he did,
but he also named them in the order in
they will "pan out" before the
convention.
The farming man was in the city O.
Saturday last, and don't you believe any
thing to the contrary. You could go in
no direction without meeting him. He
was everywhere; in the stores, at the
stations, at the capitol, postofice,