The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-15

Rev. Charles S. Farris, formerly OF
this city, has purchased the High Point
Enterprise. We believe he is also pastor
of the High Point Baptist Church. He is
a young man of fine talent and is amply
able to fill both position with credit to
himself.
Gen. Thos, L. Clingman, was in the
city last week. He and Jefferson Davis
are the only surviving Senators who re-
tired from the United States Senate on
the withdrawal of their States from the
Union in 1861. The others have CROSSED
the river" 1
Our young friend, Charles A Ander-
son, who has been with the firm of Messrs.
Norris & Carter for the past two years,
has accepted a situation, with Messrs. w.
II. & R. S. Tucker & Co. Charles is one
of the most popular statesmen in the city
and we wish him well at his new post.
"A stock company Of the leading citi-
zens of Asheville, of which Mr.. M. E.
Carter, is President; J. G. Martin, Vice
President, and T. W. Patton, Business
Manager, have purchased the Asheville
Citizen, and by the addition of press dis
patches the paper is very much improved.
George Vanderbilt, Of New York, the
young millionaire, has purchased about
three thousand acres of fine land near
Asheville. Mr.. Vanderbilt will not talk
for publication concerning his plans. but
there is a report which he does not con-
tradict that he is about to establish a
women's college there.
1t is proposed to have the takers of
the next census make a schedule of the
surviving ex-Confederate soldiers. The
idea has been very well received, and will
be considered at the next meeting of the
Senate Committee on the census. The bill
already passed by the House provides for
a similar schedule of Union soldiers.
Significant. The Washington cor
respondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
says: "Mr. Blaine went out for a walk
on Connecticut Avenue yesterday after
noon with William Walter Phelps, and
friends who met him and saw him for the
first time since his arrival in Washington
were shocked at his changed appearance"
The Washington correspondent of
the Durham Plant says: "The snobs here
are somewhat elated over the report that
Mrs. Levi P. Morton's coachman used to
drive the Prince Of Wales. He was
brought to Canada by the Marquis of
Lorne and he is to set the style for the
swell coachmen of this city next spring!
When the average Washington parvenue
starts out to play the fool, he can beat the
world at it"
An eminent physician of Sylvania,
Miss, DR.. W. Fl. Hill, writing the editor
and ordering THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
sent to his address, is kind enough to say:
81 heard your speech in reply to Hon.
Joel P. Walker, and was pleased with it.
I hope I may live to hear you again. I
know I can safely say that you have the
best wishes Of our order from the Allan
tic to the Pacific. You have a bright
future before you and I hope you may
live to enjoy the realities in all their full
ness.'
Mr.. J. D. Parker, the able represen-
tative of P%erquimans county, in the pres
ent House of Representatives, is a lead
ing farmer in his section and raises all his
own supplies. In December last he killed
a hog, two and a half years old, that
weighed, when cleaned, $50 pounds. An
other, Is months old, weighed $50
pounds net. He also killed a Shoat six
months old, that brought down the scales
at 1916 pounds. The breed of hogs is the
Snap-Dragon and Poland China mixed,
and Mr.. P. says he can make them weigh
a pound for every day they live.
The Rev. DR.. Carter, formerly of
Parkersburg, w. Va, recently called to
the passionate of the First Baptist Church
of this city, filed his pulpit here for the
first time on Sunday morning last. An
immense congregation greeted him, and
listened attentively to a sermon of great
power from the text: "Arise, go unto
Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it
the preaching that I bid thee."-Jona 3D..
At 7:3O p. NJ, the DR.. preached again to
an OVERLOOKING audience, and to say that
his praise was upon every tongue is but
literal truth. He is indeed a great nreacher