The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-15

"No Pi"N'iooi "n"iio VI every udy Alo 1o
is usually we'll up:
HE kissed her under the rose"
Is how the poet wrote it
He kissed her under the nose"
liz how the printer put 1t.
1t is understood that ex-Lieut-Gov.
Armield, of Statesville, was the author
of the article against Judge Fowle which
appeared in the Statesville Landmark two
weeks ago. He withdraws the charges
and says he believes the Judge did moth
ing Intentionally wrong in regard to the
bond matter.
The largest shipment of paper ever
received in Wilmington reached that city
last week. The lot consists of 26O reams
124,S 800 sheets), and is only a part of the
paper to be used in the 'trade issue of
the Messenger, which is soon to appear.
These brethren seem to be boring with a
monstrous big augur. r
Commencement at Graham College
will begin Maybe. The representatives
of the two literary societies will speak
Wednesday, May l6, at 8 o'clock, p. m.
The literary address will be delivered by
Prof. Geo. T. Winston, of Chapel Hill,
May II, IL a. m, and sermon by Rev. M.
L.. Hurry, 2 p. m., same day.
Congressman Nichols has introduced
a bill to appropriate 100000 for the
erection of a Government building in
Durham. While they are engaged in dis
tributing the surplus" it is nothing but
right that the South should try to get it's
share, even if they have to take 1T in the
shape of bricks and mortar.
The Aurora says Miss Adair, ayoung
lady at Stice's Shoals, five miles south of
while engaged in cooking We'd
nesday, met with a sad and perhaps fatal
accident. Her drass caught fire from the
fireplace and her clothing was consumed.
alone in the house she wa badly
burned, and it is feared will die. p
The great tunnel through the Cascade
on the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, was finished on the I'd day of May.
1t is $500 feet in length and is one of the
greatest achievements of this wonder
working century. The work has been
done in a little more than two years, not
withstanding the fact that most of the
the workman had to tunnel through
solid rock. .r, -.
The young ladies of Oak Ridge Insti-
tute, Guilford county, have recently Or
a debating society and their first
was over the question: "Resolved,
hat women folks have more sense than
men," Resulted in the affirmative, n
young lady establishing the fact that Solo
mons reputation for wisdom was alto
due to the advice given him by a
thousand wives. , .-
The North and South Carolina plaid
have glutted the market with
Dlaids and the price has declined in con-
sequence. The mill owners will meet in
tomorrow to agree upon shut
down the factories until the supply
S worked off and the price increased. But
what is to become of the thousands of
Door mill hands who are to be thrown
out Of employment.
Hon. Walter l.. Steele Of Richmond
county, has published a card in the Rock
ngham Rocket in which hereturns thanks
70 his friends, but declines to allow his
to be used in connection with the
nomination for Governor.
This re-establishes the trio as it stood be-
:ore Mr.. Steele was brought out, to wit:
Alexander, Fowle and Stedman-a TRAN
gle, so to speak. with A well at the apex.
Hon. Carl Schurze, of Chicago, dined
with Prince Bismarck in Berlin on Friday
asst. How wonderful; Carl, an obscure
German lad, a half century ago, worked
lis way to this country "before the
In free America he became a gen.
leman-a statesman,-now, in his ma
'ure manhood, he returns to his father
and to be "wined and dined" by that
grand old chancellor of the German
Empire, Prince Bismarck. >
"A paragraph is going the round of
he press to the effect that a certain min
ster had preached 121 funeral sermons
With only "net returns" Of two barrels
# apples and a silver dollar. By the way,
ust what is considered the correct thing
O be done in such cases? Would a min
ster of the Gospel of fine sensibilities be
expected to receive money for his words
f comfort and coincidence, offered on such