The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

will be past for using Capt. b. 1. VIII
liamson's Peterkin cotton seed. We saw
q field Of this cotton last fall, belonging to
Mr., Wyatt, of this city. and it certainly
was beautiful. E-,
Capt. B. A. Newland, of AsheYillei
told a Citizen reporter a few days, ago
that he had sold two hundred and forty
five emigrant tickets during the day TO
parties bound for points in Texas, Arkan-
sas and Mississippi.
The New York Supreme Court has
decided that pool-selling is gambling; that
a contract of that kind cannot be enforced,
and that damages resulting from failure
in any such contract, or a mistake, even,
cannot be recovered in court. -
The Philadelphia Record says: The
surplus of ofice-seekers is vastly in ex-
cess of the surplus offices. No hen can
"set" upon a thousand eggs, and Har-
rison can't stretch his wings an inch
further than the feathers reach.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is pleased 10
learn from the Winston papers that Rev.
! W. H. Bobbitt, who had a stroke of
paralysis some time ago, is steadily i'm
proving and that strong hopes are enter
tanned of his permanent recovery.
The Wilmington Star wants Col.
Paul Cameron. to endow the State Univer-
bsity. with $50, 900, and the North State
saws it has no doubt that the old gentle
man will send in his check for the amount
as soon as the suggestion reaches him.
News was received in this city last
week that Spencer Weaver, an idiotic
fellow living in Granville county, killed
his sister-in-law, Mrs. NJ. Longwise, by
striking her on the back of the neck with
a piece of wood. Weaver was jailed.
The New York World remarks, in
cidently: One of the flowers that bloom
this spring is J. Warren Keifer, of Ohio.
He is mentioned" as a successor to the
late Justice Matthews. He would make
a very poor exhibition at q Bench Show.
The tinfoil so common, used to wrap
Neufchatel cheese, chewing gum, various
kinds of candy, and all kinds of chewing
tobacco, is said to be dangerous on &C
count of the lead in it. It's use for wrap
ping articles of food has been forbidden in
France.
Hon. Walter L. Steele has consented
to deliver the annual address before the
societies of Oak Ridge Institute at the
approaching commencement. This splen-
did school and its distinguished speaker,
are both to be congratulated, for each will
be pleased.
Ladies, if you want the largest and
handsomest illustrated fashion catalogue
published in this country, send 25c. to
Lichtenstein, Grand, Forsyth and Edridge
streets, New York City. Their spring
and summer issue has 16O pages, splen-
didly illustrated.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, John Hunting
ton, one of the original members of the
Standard Oil Company, conveyed by deed
of trust, to a board of seven citizens $780,
900 worth of gilt-edged 6per cent stock,
the interest of which is to be used for
charitable purposes.
The dwelling house and most of the
furniture of jeremiah Moore, of Mont
gomery county, were ddsss tHf0oyed by fire last
week. The Troy Times says Mr.. Moore
walked $4,000 miles carrying the U. S..
mail to earn money to buy the land upon
which the house stood.
The census of 1880 puts the cotton
crop of North Carolina at $50, 598 bales
of which POI, 667 bales or 6,868 bales
more han half of! the whole crop is
credited to twelve counties. What boy
under sixteen years of age can give us the
names of these twelve c~ounties2
Owing to a failure of the pastors and
leading Christians to cooperate with
Evangelist Pearson, his meeting in, Column
bia, s. C., was a failure. He closed the
meeting suddenly and returned to, Ashe-
vile where he win rest a few days. He.
will be in Greensboro on May 18th. III.
We learn that the secretary'sd the
State Teachers Assembly has arranged;
with the boatnaen of MoHshaad City to
give a complimentary sail to thelAssemblyf
on opening day, June 18th. Applications
for membership are now.in hand from ten
of our sister States, ever as far South has az
Mississippi. u x
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Benjamin Braswell died in Morgan.
county, Ga, 70 years ago. In his will he
left the income from his money to educate
the orphan children of his county. AN
exchange says, there is no way to spend
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