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

An accomplished young lady will
accept.a position as teacher. See adver-
tisement in another column.
Joseph G.. Cannon, Of Illinois, favor
ably spoken of for the speakership of the
next Congress, is a native of North Caro-
4 lima. 4G .
Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court,
addressed the negroes on Emancipation
Day, at Louisburg, and gave them whole.
some advice.
The Picayune says, true mobility
consists in paying ones debts before the
tradesmen are done wearing themselves
out with duns.
The Richmond & Danville Railroad
has leased for SO years the Oxford &
GAINESVILLE Railroad, and also the Oxford
& Hendersonville Railroad.
The Person county Courier has
changed hands and it is now published by
Messrs. Jno. A. and J. W. NOEL, both of
whom are practical printers.
The life insurance companies of this
country charge negroes one-third higher
premiums than they do other people, ac-
cording to a New York paper.
The Journal says that MI. Fielding
McLain, of G~waltney township, Alexan-
der county, aged rs, dropped dead in his
/ feld while ploughing on the LIST.
The New Berne Journal says since a
Railroad Commission for North Carolina
is III apparent certainty, the prospects of
Eastern Carolina are much brighter.
The Durham First Baptist Church has
extended a call to Rev. j. L. White, of
Elizabeth City. Mr.. White was a former
pastor of the First Baptist Church in Raj
eigh.
We call the attention of those who
have horses to be shod, and other black
smithing to be done, to the advertisement
of Messrs. Andrews & Goodwin in to-
days paper.
The Murphy Bulletin says: "When
this country becomes plastered all over
with spareribs, backbones and sausage,
instead of mortgages, then we will begin
to see daylight.
Col. w. T. Blackwell was elected
President of the Durham Street Railway
Company, and the fare wa reduced to two
and a half cents if ten tickets. are pur-
chased at one time. Il
Greensboro has postponed the Pear
son meetings from February to May,
which will give her time to build a house
big enough to hold the crowds that will
flock to hear the preacher.
Some days ago two little daughters
of Mr.. William Faucet, of Orange county,
were crossing a bridge over Little River
when both fell in. One was drowned but
the other managed to get out.
The Monroe Enquiser writes that
hereafter persons reporting large hogs
killed will please bring the editor n of
the hams, mot necessarily for publication,
but as a guarantee of good faith"
-Adiutant General Jones has forward
ed his report of the strength of the North
Carolina State Guard to the War Depart
ment. The number of enlisted men in the
| State is 2,457, an increase of 267 over last
year.
We call the attention of the reader to
the special notice, set in large type, at the
top of the third column, on the first page
of this issue of The P~RoGRERsIvE FAREER.
1t is purely a business notice and means
just what it says.
The Weldon News says a little girl,
when told for the first time of the identity
of Santa Claus, looked up in disappointed
surprise, and, with a tear in her little eyes,
hesitatingly asked, "And is it all a story
about Jesus, too?"
A Norfolk, Va, paper says that North
Carolina is not only furnishing Norfolk
with a desirable class. of citizens and much
valuable trade, but it is now also furnish
ing the material which adorns it's most
imposing buildings.
Mr.. W. Fl. Christian, Jr., the husband
of Miss Julia Jackson, for several years a
resident of California, where he was en-
gagged in journalism, has purchased a half
interest in the Charlotte Democrat and
will become one of its editors.
-nurino the consideration of the tariff
bill ia the Senate a few days ago, Mr..