The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-08-07
NEWS ITEMS

A94Sst0tE liz puoIiS ~ oUi
ing the montho of July past was $4,l37,29s,
The Wake county Republican Con-
%vention is called to meet in this city
August 18th. - @q: /:
"A farmer who had placed Paris green
in a neighbours well at Virgil, N. Y,
hanged himself. s! 5 go
Prof. T. L Norwood, late of the
Bingham school, died at his fathers resi-
dence in Tennessee, last week.
A wild potato was found on the side
of Green Mountain on the lands of DR..
Earnhardt that weighed t~wenty-three
pounds.
The Durham Exposition will take
place October 10th, 18th and 18th. instead
of as heretofore announced, October 9th,
10th and 18th. RI
"A Berlin dispatch, dated July 30th
reads: "The Empress and the. young
Prince are both doing well.p Comment
is unnecessary.
Senators Vance and Ransom were
in the city last week e route to Pittsboro,
where they attended the Confederate
Soldiers Reunion.
A formal agreement between the
several cable companies advancing the
rate to 25 cents per word was signed in
London last week.
The Fourth Annual Fair of the Ca
tawba Industrial Association, will be held
at Hickory, N. c., on the 18th, 10Th, Goth
and 2lst, of September.
Mr.. Jno. T. McKinnon, of Mt. Gilead,
Montgomery county, killed himself a few
days ago by the accidental discharge of a
gun which he was loading.
The Plaid Trust of North Carolina,
at a meeting held in Greensboro on
August first, decided to raise the price of
plaids one-fourth of a cent per yard.
Another candidate in the field and
another ticket which always wins-as you
will see by reading the interesting adver-
tisement of Messrs. Julius Lewis & Co.
The County Line Baptist Association
will meet at Emo church, three and a half
miles from Durham, on Saturday, Sunday
and Monday, August 18th, 10Th and Goth.
President Cleveland, who has been
off on an extensive fishing frohc, is back
at Washington again and will devote
some little time to the business of the
people.
-"Rye sowed early in August, on
good land says a successful farmer, "can
be moved two or three times the next
spring and make choice feed for cattle and
horses"
The Asheville San learns from a let
ter received in that city that the engineers
of the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and
Chicago Railroads are certain to come to
Asheville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone celebrated
their golden wedding on the 25th instant.
The testimonials in the shape of letters,
kilograms, and presents poured in upon
them by hundreds.
The North State, published at Green's
boro, Gov. Scales old home, says: at is
said that Gov. Scales will go into banking
business in Greensboro after the expira-
ton of his term of Office" =
Frank Wilson and Joshua G. Lovin
killed a rattlesnake at the foot of Green
Mountain last week that measured 5 feet
9 inches long and A inches in diameter,
with Is rattles and a button.
In the interview between the En-
perors of Russia and Germany all refer
ence to France was avoided. The meeting
was purely a social one, and it is said
politics was not referred to in the remot-
est degree.
"A wealthy and experienced New Jer-
sey manufacturer of hosiery has pur-
chased the Long Island Cotton Mills, Ca
tawba, N. G. This is another indication
of the Southwark movement of manufae-
turing industries.
The two county fairs of Cabarrus, the
Popular Tent and the st. Johns, have
been consolidated, and the fair will this
year be held at Concord. The grounds,
located about n mile east of the town.,
are now being enclosed.
The Forestville Alliance gave a pic
mic dinner on the I'd inst, and had a most