The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-29

nine for Alexander and four for Stedman.
Thisis conceded on all. sides to about rep
resent the full strength of each of these
gentlemen in this county.
Oliver II. Dockery, the nominee Of the
Republican party for Governor, says the
Shelby aurora, lis a farmer and an ALI
ance man and will prove a formidable op-
ponent. It behooves the Democratic party
to select a farmer rather than place two
lawyers upon the ticket for Governor and
acknowledgements"
North Carolina will get about $780,
600 of the money appropriated by the
River and Harbor bill. That is to say,
the amount will be expended on our
rivers and harbors, but the contractors, as
is usual, will be from some Northern
State, and, Of course, no portion of the
money expended will remain in the State.
Some one has got up an alphabet of
precious stones as follows: Amethist,
beryl, ~chrysoberyl, diamond, emerald,
feldspar, garnet, hyacinth, idocrase, kyan-
tie, (more commonly cyanite, a blue min
eraD, lynx-sapphire, milk-opal, natrolite,
opal, pyrope, quartz, rubby, sapphire, to-
paz, u%ranite, vesuvianite "a species of gar
metz, water-sapphire, xanthite, ~zircon, "a
Cingalese stone).
The following is the ticket put in
nomination by the Republican convention
held in this city last week: For Gov
ernor, O. H. Dockery; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, J. G. Pritchard, Esq, Of Madison;
Secretary of State, Col. Geo. w. Staun-
ton, of Wilson; Auditor, G. F. McKesson,
Esq, of Burke; Treasurer, G. A. Bing-
ham, of Rowan; Acknowledgement, T. P.
Devereux, of Wake.
-Ye who have tears to shed prepare
to shed them now. The New York San
says: at is actually a fact beyond dis
pute that the hustle or Dress improve will
not survive this season. Already the most
fashionable women have discarded bustles,
and walk Fifth Avenue with straight
spines, unmarried by any unsightly hump
thereon. They look pretty and graceful,
too. AS for elegance, there was
any in a hustle"
At the Arson County Convention,
held on the 10Th of May, a resolution was
adopted %instructlng the Executive Com
lTo.o Aoo. of tho
Democratic voters of the county to be
held in the town of Wadesboro on the
first Thursday in August next for the
purpose Of discussing and determining
whether or not a system of primary cleo
tons shall be put in operation for the
nomination of candidates to fill the varl-
Gus county Offices.
Talk about Yankee ingenuity! Our
good friend Mr.. w. A. L%inebury, of Mud
Lick Pottery, Chatham county, brought
us a splendid milk pitcher, and the queer
est, cutest, strangestju jug we ever saw, bu
it is not a jug. There is no hole in it eN-
cept a large one on the side at the bottom,
where is also a nice cup. awe call that a
Chicken Drinking Fountain" Turn the
fountain on it's side fill it full of water sit
it up and the water just keeps the cup
full for the chickens and never loses a
drop" It is nice and convenient and
every chicken raiser should have one.
Thanks kind friend.
The Sunday School of the Baptis1
Tabernacle, of this city, made an excur-
sion to the hospitable old town Of Fay
ettevi1le ON Thursday last, to the grea1
delight of hundreds of our young people
Ten cars filled to their utmost capacity
left the Union Depot at 6:30a M, taking
the new "aShort-cut" route, vao Selma tx
Fayetteville, returning to this city at
o'clock, p. m. At least two hundred dol
{ lars, over and above expenses, were real
!, lied. No accident of any kind occurred
to mar the pleasure Of the occasion, ane
all expressed themselves as well pleased
with their flying trip to the Cape Fear.
, 1t gives us pleasure to call your at
tention to Messrs. Ya1cey & Stronach'
! advertisement in this Issue. They carry
l the largest stock of b%uggies, carriages AM
road carts, and farm wagons of any, deal
ers in the State, having in their larg'
Repositories. on Wilmington and Morgan
: streets over ESQ vehicles of all styles an
f prices. You can find what you want a
f prices to suit your purse. Messrs. Yane.,