The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-08-28

Greensboro is to have a new bank
to be called the "Savings and Deposit
Bank of Greensboro" The safe and vault
doors have been ordered, and as soon as
practicable the institution will begin
business.
If you want a Piano or Organ, write
to Hume, Minor & Co., Richmond, Va.
Read notice of this house in another col
umn. We have one of their instruments
and will tell our readers about it, soon.
Write them for catalogue.
Mr.. S. T. Oneal, city weigh master,
states that he has weighed for Maj. R. S.
Tucker, from May 9th to August Goth,
l32,2l6 pounds of hay. This, in addition
to supplying all the hay his own stock
has required, This seems to be an. enor-
nous yield. -:
In Fender county the eleven-year-old
daughter of James J. Groom was climbing
up rails which leaned up against a tree.
A rail turned and she fell upon the stump
of a bush with a sharp point, which passed
entirely through her body. She died in
half an hour. -
The Workman is indebted to Mr..
John Taylor, who lives near Vandalia,
Guilford county, for a curiosity of a
cantaloupe. It is a twin cantaloupe.
Each melon is perfectly formed and they
are held together firmly by a strip or
arm of understanding after the style
of the Siamese twins.
The seven practicing physicians of
the town of Salisbury print in the Watch
man an "Appeal to the Commissioners
for Cleanliness" in which they ask that
all hog pens be removed from the city
limits. They say, "There is nothing
within any town so much calculated to
bring on disease as a filthy hog pen, and
to keep a hog pen clean is an impossl-
bility."
Col. F. A. Odds, the newspaper cor
respondent, who furnishes ":the very
latest" to about fifty of the leading daily
papers Of the country, accompanied the
Interstate Farmers Association on their
excursion to Durham last week. The day
| after, in our Office, a wag asked the Col.
what it was this booming town had to
back her. His quiet reply was, "chiefy
smoking tobacco
The Republican Executive Commit
tee of the 5th Congressional district have
decided not to attempt to remov Mr..
Brewer and place another in nomination
for Congress, not that they endorse his
action in voting for the Mills bill, but they
question their authority to put up another
candidate or call another convention.
This would seem to give Col. Jim More
head an easy walk over"
There will be a new feature in the
Georgia State Fair this year, as the Hous-
ton County Farmers Alliance proposes to
enter for the premium of 1000 for best
county display. This will be the first
appearance of an Alliance display at any
kind Of a fair in that State. Houston is
a thrifty farming section and ought to be
able to win the co 1eted prize, although
several fine counties.
The Southern Cultivator of Atlanta,
Ca, for August, is rich in valuable in
formation for the farmer, stock-breeders,
fr~uit-grower, poultry-breeder and bee
culturist. Every department is full, and
numerous illustrations help to make clear
the views expressed. A finely Illustrated
article on farm fences and gates covers
several pages, and this alone is worth a
years subscription. For only one dollar
you can get this standard Southern agri-
cultural journal for a year.
Bro. B. A. Troutman, of Troutman's
postoffice, Iredell county, N. c., had stolen
from his stables, near the Catawba river,
IN Fallstown township, Iredell county,
Saturday night, April 28th, a bright clay
bank horse, with black name and tail, a
large white spot on one side, and a small
white spot on the other. The animal is
8 or 10 years old and when stolen was in
fair work order. The left hind ankle is
swollen. The brother offers $25 for the
return of the horse or for sufficient evil
dence to convict the theft.
Miss Winnie Davis, the youngest
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daughter of Jefferson Davis, is at Bar
Harhor as the pneSt of Mrs I.osenh Pulit-