The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-07-24
ii PROGRESSIVE FARMER, JULY a, 1888.

LII. DIS.
Lewis F. Allen, of Buffaloe, N, Y, an
uncle of President Cleveland, is President
of a Harrison Campaign Club it that city.
A little odd.
"A cotton factory company has been
incorporated at Tarboro with a capital
stock of 100000. The building will be
begun at once.
The first bale of cotton of crop of
1888, was shipped from Albany, Ca, to
New York and sold for twelve and a half
cents per pound.
--Asheville has voted to have a system
of sewerage to the tune of 100000
Several hundred votes over the required
majority was obtained.
The House Committee on appropria-
tons will report in favor of a bill appro-
priating $3T,OOO,O0O for Notifications to
be expended in thirteen years.
Virginia State Agricultural Society
gives ten thousand dollars for t~rotting
and running races at it's fair, which will
be held at Richmond in4October.
The Guilford County Commissioners
decline to pay more than rs cents a day
for the support of prisoners in the county
Jail. Price heretofore was 80 cents a day.
Potts, Lincke's murderer, cheated the
gallows oy taking a heavy dose of NOR
phine the night before the day fixed for
his execution. He died at half past II,
p. m.
"A Wall street paper boasts: We have
got the head of one ticket and the tail of
the other and a fair hold upon the remain
der, and don't you forget to remember the
fact"
-Abnormally cold weather prevailed
last week in England and a considerable
snowfall is reported, the first event of
the kind in July in the history of the
country.
"a breathing picture of moral DEATH"
seems to be slicing it pretty thick, but
it is the Wilson Mirrors reference to
the beautiful Lilly Langtry, of the Island
of Jersey.
The Shelby Aurora says a Lincoln
county former has a 14-year-old daughter
rejoicing in 24O lbs. His nearest neighbor
has a daughter sixteen years old weigh
ing $50 pounds.
The State Guard are in camp at
Wrightsville, in the neighborhood of Will
mington, in considerable force, and the
occasion is said to be one of great pleasure
to all concerned.
Mrs. F. F. Young, Of Fuller St., St.
Paul, Mimi, had a girl baby on June 10th
and a boy ten days after; and, strange to
say, there is not a spot or blemish or any
thing wrong about either.
Gus Boyle, executed at Fort Smith,
Ark, July 9Th, for the murder of a mar
named Morgan in the Indian Territory,
died protesting his absolute innocence and
that he never saw Morgan in his life.
At Buncombe Superior Court last
week, Messrs. Furman & Cameron, edit
ors of the Citizen, were found guilty and
fined S25 for publishing an advertisement
of the Louisiana Lottery. An appeal was
taken.
An immense crowd, said to have been
4, 1000, attended the Democratic jolification
in this city on Wednesday night last.
Among all the fine speakers present San
derlin seemed to have been the most
taking" and popular.
The Sixteenth Annual Press Associa-
ton convened In the city of Morehead on
the 18th inst, between fifty and sixty
newspapers being represented. They made
a very pleasant excursion to Washington
City on Friday morning.
English farmers have turned against
the sparrows as a pest to agriculture, and
are offering rewards for their destruction.
1t is asserted that these vicious birds cause
e loss to agricultural England of $40, OOO,-
900 to $50, 900, 900 per year.
The editor of the Baptist orphanage
paper-C Charity and Ua1dren-reminds
his readers that "a soul is a soul, and that
the soul of a poor, ragged orphan is as
nrecious as the soul of a Chinese Manda-
rim or of Grover Cleveland"
The Danbury iron mines are develop
ing wonderfully. During the last few