The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12
NEWS ITEMS.

Hon. Jas. H.. Berry was re-esected 10
the u. S. Senate from Arkansas.
will Mr.. Wm. B. Sturgeon be kind
enough to give us his postofice address,
The Asheville Citizen Ssys a new
Baptist. paper is soon to be started in that
place.
There were eight lynchings by mobs
in the State of North Carolina in the
year 1888.
VIII some of our readers give US the
best plan for planting and cultiyating
chufas? -
Judging from the Ground Hog"
test, the approaching spring will be back
ward Dr. late.
The residence of DR.. j. L. William
SON, of Graham, was destroyed by fire on
the night of, the Sd inst.
John Wanamaker's life-Harrison's
choice for PostmaSter-General-i in
sured!for a round million of dollars.
Capt A. j. Ellington has been APP
pointed a member of the executive COM
mittee. of the State Agricultural Society.
Mr.. r. M Oats has been elected presi-
dent, of the First National Bank of Char
lotte, to succeed the late R. Y. McAden.
In the article on the first page of this
paper, entitled Alliance Factories, "sin
third line from bottom read 6sqne, instead
of bone.
A raid was made on the smOke-house-
of Mr.. Rufin Davis, of Person, last week,
and 8O'lbs. of lard and II pieces of bacon
oorriod off Il t'ft~ "
We regret. to learn that all the Raj
eigh graded schools viii be closed on the
29th Of March, for want of funds to con-
tinue them.
Joseph M. Brown, son of Senator
Brown, of Georgia, and Miss Cora Nc
Cord, of Augusta, will be welded in that
city to-day.
The twenty-second biennial session
of the American Pathological Society will
be held at Ocala, Fla, February goth, 21st
and 22d, 1889.
This evening at Graham, N. c., Mr..
Omega FL. Foster, of this city, will be
married 70 Miss Ada Williamson, daughter
of Mr.. J. N. Williamson.
The Atlanta Journal says: claws
DISTINGUISHING every man who buys a vote,
will do more good than anything else to
purify our election methods.
The Norfolk VIrginidM says it is
rumored that Walter Bingham, the deaf
mute, who murdered Miss Lizzie Turling-
ton, is alive and well in France.
"A pretty eighteen-year-old girl, who
gives her name as Cora Wilson, was ar
rested in Huthison, Kansas, on Saturday
last for passing counterfeit money.
Rev. A. G. Dixon, of Baltimore,
originally of Shelby, N. c., has received
a call to the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church of New York City.
1t is said that Sir Julian Pauncefote
of the Foreign Office, has been appointed
British Minister to the United States, to
succeed Lord Sackville West, recalled.
Congressman Brewers bill to appro-
pirate $4,000 to enlarge the government
building at Greensboro has been favor
ably reported by the committee on appro-
priations.
"A very intelligent gentleman writes
US that "The Buried River" is intensely
interesting and is written in admirable
style. 1t will add greatly to your already
popular paper"
"A bronze statue, heroic size of Stone
wall Jackson, to cost $4,000, has been
ordered by the Jackson Memorial Asso-
citation Of Lexington, Va. 1t will be
completed in three years.
The Bank of Durham, which went
down in the late crash at that place, has
declared a dividend to its depositors OF
20 per cent, and the Plant still believes
it viii pay dollar for dollar.
The Eastman, Ga, Journal, says that
the. idea of teaching every girl to thump
a piano, and every boy to besa book
keeper, viii make potatoes 81 a bushel
Unless than twenty years.
The Greensboro North State says
MansilPs Almanac places the storm
periods for February on 2 to 5, IA to 16,
and "a to q, with temperature of month
above the mean of the season.
The New York World says Mr.. Chan
Ter, husband of Amelia Rives is still in
Paris, while his wife remains at Castle
Hill, Va. Mr.. Chanler is probably look