The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05

The Kinston Free Press, growing
hilarious, exclaims: "Huckleburies are
.ripening! So doth the ubiquitous mos
quito, the festive 'chigre' and the vora,
cious tick also abound"
The commencement exercises of the
Wilson Collegiate Institute, at Wilson.
will take place tomorrow June 9Th. The
annual literary address will be delivered
by Mr.. W. j. Peele, of Raleigh.
Last week while workmen were en-
ployed in making alterations in the Royal
Theatre at Berlin a scafold collapsed and
one workman was killed, six were seri-
ously injured and seven slightly hurt.
The Massachusetts, Senate has passed
a resolution in favor of further investi-
cation into the question of heating and
lighting railroad cars. This gives the
car-stove a lease of life in that State.
The Philadelphia Record says: "Every
laboring man ought to know that to
whatever extent tax reduction may cut
down the cost of living, to that extent
must the wages of labor be advanced.
The law has determined to take cog
nizance of the woman in Massachusetts,
who, believing in the "faith cure" al
lowed her daughter to die of neglect; and
she has accordingly been held for man
slaughter.
We are under obligations to Prof. J.
B. Brewer for an invitation to attend the
commencement exercise of the Chowan
Baptist Female Institute, which takes place
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 10th and
Goth, 1888.
The Smithville (Ga.) Mevs says: If
a delinquent and a half should come up
and pay a dollar and a half in a year and
a half, an editor and a half would then
stand some chance of getting a meal and
a half occasionally.
Mr.. B. II. Bum, a lawyer of Nash
county, was nominated for Congress in
this District by the Democratic Conven-
ton which met in this city on Tuesday
last. Having no opposition he was nomi-
mated by reclamation.
The sanitary officials of the cities Of
Paris and Munich asserts that the years in
there is most water in the ground
are the healthiest. If this rule applies to
the American Continent, central North
Carolina may Congratulate itself for once.
The negro man Will Houston, who
killed Kate Mckee, colored, in Winston,
Tuesday Of last week, was tried Thurs
day, (the Superior Court, Judge Clark,
being then in SESSION. and was found
Of murder with a recommendation
for mercy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Carroll, of Warren,
Ind, claims to have been born in Penn
in IVA. Her husband was a
in the war of 1872. There is
good reason to think that Mrs. Carroll is
really 113 years old, although she is as
active as a woman of sixty.
An immense crowd of people, from
almost every section of the State, was in
upon the State Democratic
Convention held in this city on Wednes-
day and Thursday last. The good effect
of Prohibition was plainly seen and noted?
In all that vast crowd there was not a
drunken man to be seen.
The prohibition convention met at
Indianapolis on the 31st of May. 1t was
attended. The utmost enthusiasm
prevailed. Over $4,000 for a campaign
fund was raised among the delegates. The
announcement of individual subscriptions
were hailed with cheering. General Clin-
ton Fiske, of New Jersey was nominated
for President. . -
The man Potts, who, after robbing
poor Paul Lincke of the love and affection
of his wife, stole upon him as he slept
and pistoled him to death, has had the
sentence of death pronounced upon him
by the lower court, approved and con-
frmed by the Supreme Court; and he
will soon pay the penalty of his crime by
by the neck until he is dead.
Mr.. Silas Fulcher, of New Bern, has
detected a dangerous counterfeit silver
dollar that was passed on him by some
one on Friday last. He has left it at the
Journal Office for inspection. It is almost
an exact counterpart of the standard silver
dollar and separate from the genuine it is