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

in the State to date.
The Pearson meetings commenced in
Asheville on Sunday night last.
Cotton is coming up nicely in the
neighborhood of Washington, N. G.
1t is proposed to rase $4,000 to en-
dow a chair at Trinity to be call the Brax-
ton Craven Chair.
The Rev. Lyman Abbott has re :eived
a call to the passionate of Plymoutl (Henry
Ward Beecher's) church.
The Episcopal Convention will meet
in annual session in St. Luke's Church,
Salisbury, on the 23d day of this month.
Public declarations and private letters
lead us to believe that Warren county
will declare for Alexander for Governor.
The pastors of Wilmington have or
ganized an Evangelical Alliance, auxiliary
to the Evangelical Alliance for the United
States.
The Hillsboro Recorder regrets to
learn that ex-Judge Rufin has been con-
fined to his home with sickness for a
week past.
The editor of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER will address the farmers at Cedar
Rock, Franklin county, on Saturday, the
I'd day of June, next.
Blaine recants and has given his
friends to understand that his name may
be used before the Republican Nomina-
ting Convention for President.
1t is announced that the Greensboro
Patriot will be issued as a Daily, about
the Goth of this month, with MI. J.. H.
Myrover of Fayetteville as editor.
Senator Vance passed up the West
ern Railway a few days ago and upon
being Intercepted said his business in the
mountains was to look after his "tater
crap"
The Cleaner announces that Graham
was visited last week, from Hillsboro, by
a rare combination, to-wit: "a revenue
officer, a negro, a dog-cart, and a billy
goat" t'
Miss Maria Mitchell, for twenty-five
years professor of Astronomy at Vassar
College, New York, and the first incum-
bent of that position has resigned the
professorship.
Fayetteville, N. c., with a population
of upwards of 5000 souls, can barely
support in decency four medical prac-
titioners. 1t is a fact, Fayetteville has
only four doctors.
Col. L. L. Polk, editor Of The Pro-
GREssIvE FARMER, will deliver the literary
address at the commencement of Cedar
Rock Academy, Franklin county, Fri
day, June LIST, 1888.
AS anticipated, the Guilford Battle
GroNnd celebration was a huge affair.
Certainly ten thousand people were pres
ent on the field. Judge Schenck's grafton
is spoken of as a mastery effort.
The Fifth Annual Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Do
cese of East Carolina, will meet Cd. W
in St. Johns Parish, Fayetteville, on
Wednesday the 23rd day of May, 1888.
The latest thing in the conundrum
line is this, from the Wilmington Messen-
ger: "Can you tell why the choirs don't
sing well on Sunday" Give it up "Be-
cause notes executed on Sunday are not
good"
Nothing has yet been heard of the
fellow Mcneil who shot Miss Poe at
Carthage last week, and it is thought he
has made good his escape from the State.
Hopes are entertained of the young lady's
speedy recovery.
The Pittsboro Home says: We find
a growing sentiment in the county for
Alexander for Governor and Broughton
for Congress. Both are good and true
and pure men and they would command
an enthusiastic support.
Most of the depositors in the largest
saving institution in Philadelphia are
women, and an authority in such matters
asserts that by far the greatest share of
all the invested capital in Philadelphia
held in trust belongs to
just as we go to press we have re-
ceived a ringing letter from a prominent
gentleman in Chatham who believes that
Alexander can poll 400 more votes in that
good old county than any one who has
been named. We regret that it came too