The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-12-18

-COL Jas. ~. Glenn, or greensboro, is
prominently mentioned as the successor
of Adjutant-Genera Johnston Jones,
whose term of Office will soon expire.
The lOSth term. of Wake Forest Col
lege will begin Tuesday, January 18th,
1889. For further information, address
Rev. Chas. E. Taylor, President, Wake
Forest, N. G.
"A. long and lofty bridge is to be
built on the G. T. & Y. V. Railway,
across the Cape Fear river, at Birming-
ham, near Fayetteville, N. G., which will
cost $1,000 OO.
Judge Gilmer has appointed Maj.
Hamilton, of Hillsboro', Clerk of the Su-
perior Court, of Orange county, in place
of DR.. Pride Jones, who resigned on &C
count of his bad helth.
Some newspapers seem to be troubled
about President Cleveland's future. That
gentleman is solid. He has his board-bill
paid till spring and he will draw nearly
$4,000 a month until that time.
Judge w. J. Montgomery, Of 9Th
Judicial district, resigned on the 7th inst,
and Colonel R F.. Armfeld, Of States
vile, was Immediately appointed by Gov
ernor Scales to fill the vacancy.
We are glad to learn that Rev. DR..
Mangum, who had a stroke of paralysis at
New Berne, during the recent session of
the Methodist Conference, has recovered
sufficiently to be able to sit up.
The Supreme Court has decided, in a
case from Reidsville, that a municipal cor
poration has power to tax a railroad com
pany running its line through the corpo-
rate limits and doing business therein.
The Philadelphia Record Eliminates
this wise: "There's something radically
wrong with the electoral system which
defeats a Presidential candidate in a year
when he had a larger majority than when
he was elected"
"A new subscriber for 1889 from each
of our readers, accompanied by one dollar,
would be a nice little new years gift for
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER. By the way,
our paper is climbing up. Send along the
names, good friends.
Our genialand always pleasant friend,
Mr.. w. R. French, of Wilmington was in
our city last week looking after our
manufacturing enterprises and writing
them up for that progressive journal the
Wilmington Messenger.t
old Santa Clause has been to Norris
& Carriers and given orders for them to
sell his friends goods at Christmas prices,
and they are marking them down and
preparing for the rush Of holiday trade
which they will surely have.
On the 18th inst, the South Carolina
Legislature reelected Hon. M. G. Butler
to the United States Senate, by an almost
unanimous vote, the exceptions being
three votes cast by colored members Of
the House, for Thos. E. Miller.
We are indebted to Mr.. O. P. Line
berry for an invitation to be present at
the Exercises of the Hermessian Literary
Society of Franklinsvllle Academy, to
take place on the goth inst. The exer-
cises will consist of orations, recitations,
essays, &c.
The Boston Herald is authority for
the statement hat Civil Service Commits
sioner Lyman reports that the women of
Virginia average about Is per cent higher
in his examination than those Of any other
State in the Union. They are far in ad-
vance of Massachusetts women.
"A brother sends the cash with the
names of three new subscribers and is
kind enough to say: "THE P~BpGREssIvE
FARMER gets better every week. There
are plenty of articles in the last issue
worth the cost of it for twelve months. I,
expect to continue to work for the paper"
This notice stands at the head of the
local department of the Henderson Gold
Leaf: "This paper is published "for rev.
enue only" Gold not glory is what we
are working for. We say this for the
benefit of those who think a newspaper is
published simply for the fun of the thing.
"A Jones county correspondent writ
ing to the New Berne Journal says: Our
weather and crop prophets are again prog
nosticating that short crops and bad sea-
sons will end after 1889, then will come
seven years of bounteous yields which