The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-04-24

heeu oI|collon noes, nov spades, forks,
garden hoes garden rakes OF hardware of
any kind, should visit the old reliable
hardware house of Thos. H. Briggs &
Sons.
There seems to be very little interest
manifested SO far in the approaching local
option election, and it is thought that I'M
less the prohibitionists bestir themselves
quickly the ants will nave a compare
tive "walk over"
Col. T. G. Fuller will probably be ap-
pointed by Receiver Dowd and Compt-
roller Trenholm to assist District Attorney
Busbee in prosecuting the defaulting
president and cashier of the late Raleigh
State National Bank.
An Englishman has discovered the
ancient porphyry quarries, where the
Romans obtained the stones used in their
famous buildings. The q~uarries are ninety
six miles from the Nile, and 1850 feet
above the level of the sea.
-Word from the White House passed
around to the stores in Washington re-
questing the withdrawal of Mrs. Cleve-
lands picture on tobacco and beer signs
from the shop windows has been followed
by their general disappearance.
The readers attention is called to the
advertisement of Messrs. Yancy & Stron-
ach which appears in this issue of our
paper. This firm is one of the oldest and
most reliable in our city and we unhesi-
tatingly recommend it to our patrons.
The house which has been purchased
by the friends of General Hancock for
his widow was on Monday 10th presented
in an informal manner by Mr.. Stilson
Hutchins, Chairman of the committee,
passing over to her a deed in fee simple.
"A tenant of Mr.. Jas. Taylor's planta-
ton caught, in Deep River, a few days
ago, a mud-turtle that weighed thirty-two
and a half pounds, which sold for Is cents
a pound. A fine dish indeed, and equaled
only by the magnificent price paid for it.
The Chicago Sockman says a North
Carolina doctor has discovered a specific
for ~kleptomania. 1t is a hyperdermic.i in
lection of lead from a revolver. The ap-
plication of the remedy was highly sue
cessful in several recently attempted bur-
glaries.
Two French ladies lately agreed upon
a trial for a thousand francs to see which
could talk the faster. The contest was to
endure for three hours. One pronounced
2O3, $50 words, reading from Eugene Sue.
The other pronounced 2O5,311, and won
the prize.
The Rev. DR.. Pridgeon, "a years old,
who preached his own funeral sermon
near Athens, Ca, on the 9Th instant, be-
fore a congregation of two thousand peo-
pie was a native of North Carolina, hav-
ing been born in Montgomery county 81
years ago.
A farmer says the politicians feel to-
wards US, like the old negro read his
Bible: ~ amt shore, but I think it's in
the 9Th chapter of Hatachacock, whar it
say: CHOW that I've got we down, I'll
hold we down, leastwise when [ want ye
down can't get we down."
Those contemplating the purchase of
Cotton Gins will find it to their interest
to correspond with the Smith & Sons Gin
and Machine Company, of Birmingham,
Ala, or S. F. Houston, Ag't, Charlotte, N.
G.. See their double-column ADVERTISE
ment in this issue of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The B~accalaureate Sermon of Salem
Female Academy will be preached on
Sunday morning, June Sd, by Rev.
Thomas Hume, D. D., one of the most
distinguished Baptist clergymen of our
State, and Professor of the English Lam
guage and Literature, at Chapel Hill Uni
versity N. G. 4| q
The Wilmington Messenger is re-
quested to state that a horse thief, Frank
Merrith by name, was captured in Smith
field, N. c., last week. He had IN his
possession a large clay bank horse, sup
posed to have been stolen. For informa-
ton about the horse, apply to James A.
| Woodall Esq.
From information received at this
Office, from every section of the State of
| North Carolina there seems to be but n