The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Keeper of. Weights and Measures.
--Hhe new President reserves Mondays
70 himself. and onathat. day sees only
those with whom he has engagements,
The State of New Hampshire, two
weeks ago, voted against a proposed pro
hibition amendment to the State Constr
tuition.
1t is thought that the crop of Irish
notatoes on the farms along the Dismal
SWAMP Canal, are entirely destroyed by
water. ,.
The Philadelphia Times says if Presi-
don't Harrison doesn't work that axe faster
there is going to be a famine in the army
of the outs. ~"
The eity of Damascus, the Oldest IN
the world, has one hundred and fifty
thousand inhabitants, but has neither gas
or street cars.
The other day while Mr.. Steel of,
Caldwell county, was driving his COW, she
turned. ran under his horse, which fell on
him and killed him.
The highest value placed upon all the
minerals mined in the United States IN
any one year is five hundred and fifty
eight million dollars
Bishop w. w. Duncan, of the Medth-
odist Church, will deliver the Baccalaureate
sermon before the graduating class of
Chapel Hill on the 3lst of May.
Mr.. J. W. Watson, for years a lead
ing photographer of this city, died at his
residence on Fayetteville street, on the
night of the 1st inst, aged 81 years.
We suspect that the man who got off
the following struck pretty near the truth:
aft YOU want enemies, excel others; If
YOU want friends, let others excel you"
The Wilmington Star is twenty-one
and a half years old, and its circulation, it
is said, is larger than ever before. 1t is
worthy of its great success and popularity.
Queen Victoria cabled a message of
sympathy to President Harrison for the
loss of life aboard our warships in Samoa
and the President sent an appropriate
reply. q
The failures for the first quarter of
1889, as reported by R. G. Dunn & Co.'S
mercantile agency, number 1924, as
against 2,949 for the corresponding three
months of 1888. -
This item is going the rounds: "a
San Antonio banker has sent President
Harrison a chair valued at 81, 500 made of
horns of Texas cattle. The horns are
riveted with gold.
Mr.. E G. Beddingield a member of
the Legislature from Wake county, we re-
gret to learn, has been confined to his
home with a severe attack of fever, for
the past two weeks.
The NeUs, of Oxford, sizes it up in
this way: Nothing tends so surely to
build up a community as the establish
ment of small manufactures judiciously
managed by practical men,"
The Republican caucus has allowed
Senator Vance a clerk for the entire time,
and not only during the session of the
Senate; a bit of generosity which, is highly
appreciated by North Carolina.
will you have to buy cane mills, cot
ton gins, cotton presses or any machinery
in this line, the coming season? If so,
write to the E. Van Wrinkle Co. Atlanta,
Ga, and get their catalogue and prices.
The latest contribution to the Baptist
Orphanage, at Thomasville is a cage of
huge rattlesnakes. Don't get excited.
They have had their fangs extracted, and
are to be added to the Orphanage Museum.
During the year 1888 five persons
! died in Great Britain who left estates
valued at more than $4,000, 600. The
largest was that of Baron de Stern, of
London, who left a fortune of ST., 724,89O.
On Wednesday last the Governor
appointed, the following gentlemen as
members of the State Board OF. Health:
DR.. John II. Tucker, Henderson; J. L.
Ludlow, Winston; F. P. yenable, Chapel
Hill. - : 81 4j&&.
The Governor has appointed the f6F
lowing medical gentlemen as members of
the State Board of Health: John. H
Tucker, of Henderson; !. L. Ludlow, Of
Winston, and T. P. Venable, of Chapel
Hill. - - st.. !
Mr.. J. H, Tucker, of franklin county,
put q acres. of land in tobacco last year
upon which he realized the handsome sum
of four hundred and four dollars and ten
cents, but it is not every farmer. who can
do it. @..-