The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-01-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Monroe is taking active steps towards
building a cotton factory.
Millboro, IN the Factory Branch Rail-
road, is now a telegraph station.
Col. Rowland has entirely recovered
from his illness and is at his post in Wash
ington.
The revenue receipts in Durham on to-
bacco during the past year were $780,
1886 {.
The total loss by fire during the past
year amounts to the vast sum of 1920
264, 900.
1t is announced that the State Assem-
bly, Knights of Labor will meet in this
city on the 18th inst.
The business portion Of the town of
Beaufort was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 3rd inst. Loss about SIS. 900.
The Tarboro Southerner has completed
it's sixty-ffth year. May it live and
prosper and strengthen for a century to
come. a. ..
+. Van Lindley, of Pomona, goes this
week to California to attend the annual
meeting of the American Horticultural
{ The Charlotte Chronicle complains that
they have a coal monopoly in that city.
Charlotte seems determined to "keep up
the fashion"
The Emanuel Presbyterian Church, of
Milwaukee, was burned Sunday January
LIST, 1888. The building cost $780, 900 and
was erected in 1873.
1t is stated that the negroes of North
Carolina pay 100000 poll tax and $685.
900 property tax annually, and they re-
ceive $25O,O 900 for education, or twice as
much as they pay.
There was a fatal accident near Jones'
boro on the 9TH inst. by the explosion of
a boiler of X. H. Worthy & Sons mills,
killing Richard McIver and fatally injur-
ing Henry Dark and Peter McIver.
The Board of Trustees of Wake Forest
College will meet at the College January
18th inst, for the purpose of securing a
man for the Chemical Department, made
vacant by the recent death of DR.. Duggan.
Mrs. Gov. Scales was riding on Fayette-
vile street on last Friday, when a horse
attached to a buggy and running with
great speed overturned the carriage of
Mrs. Scales. She was extricated by the
driver and fortunately sustained but slight
Tobacco is booming at Stronach's Ware
house, under the management Of T. B.
Moseley. He understands his business
and is building up a rafting good trade.
When you get a load of tobacco ready for
market, try the Stronach Warehouse and
he will set yon up.
A Wilmingtonian has a healthy, vigor-
Gus moccasin which was corked up in a
bottle eight months ago, which the Even-
ing News says has not received a particle
of food or water. We kept a Texas
horned frog which lived ninety-six days
without food or water.
A friend in Washington writes US:
''Speaker Carlisle has recognized the farm
ers of North Carolina by placing Maj. c..
W. McClammy on the Committee of Ag-
riculture. The Major grows the largest
watermellons of any man in the 5Oth Con-
gress. And long may he continue to
grow them"
Mr.. Leonard Henderson, General Agent
for Courts Formula for Fertilizers, passed
through this city on Monday on his way
to the Greensboro Convention, where he
proposes to present the claims of his form
lla to the attention of the farmers. He
claims that it is one-third cheaper and
,quag to the very best grade sold on the
market.
IF the industries of this country were
adjusted and its energies properly
directed, we would see the towns and cit
es furnishing, the farming and rural dis
riots with population and as a result the
would grow smaller and richer, but
he country is furnishing the towns and
titles with population and as a result the
grow larger and poorer.