The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19

MIR. VIM. l.. Young, OF wilson, WI
add a clothing factory to Fayetteville
new industries. Part of the machinery
has arrived, says the Fayetteville Observer.
Two hundred new Oranges were or
ganized during the past year, and the
membership to-day exceeds half a million
including the female portion of the order.
-Thos. E. Richards, of Brevard county,
Texas, with the help of his boys has set
out 100000 pine apple plants this season,
and viii put in SOC, 900 on a $50 acre farm.
The Nebraska Legislature has voted
to submit the question of prohibition or
high license to the people of the State.
That is a good way to test public senti-
ment.
-Hidei Fukuoka and Toyoshiro Tora-
shima, sons of two distinguished officers
of the japanese government, are now en-
tered as students in Roanoke College,
Virginia. r.
The West Virginia Legislators were
still balloting for U. S. Senator up to the
14th inst. The last vote stood, Golf ~,
Kenna Al, balance scattering. 1t re-
puires A to elect.
Wilmington has subscribed Sl50,0O0
to the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail
road. Large shipments of railroad iron
are on4the way to Fayetteville for con-
struction purposes.
The Clinton Caucasian is authority
for saying that there are four generations
of a family now represented in the Samp-
son county poor house, to-wit: great
grandmother, grandmother, mother and
child. o.
Mr.. Samuel Gompers, President of
the American Federation of Labor favors
the working of convicts in chain gangs on
the public roads as the best and most
available means of providing for their
welfare.
The estimated raisin crop of the State
of California for the year 1888 is nearly
9OO,O 900 boxes or 18,OOO,O 900 pounds. An
average vineyard yields about two tons of
grapes per acre, and are estimated at net
profit of 500 to $125.
1t is stated that all the wheat and
corn this country sells to other countries
does not pay our sugar bill. Last year we
prid $135, 9OO,O 900 for sugar imported,
while the wheat and corr brought back
only about Sill, 100000.
The House, on the 18th inst, passed
Senate bill to allow 5000 a year for an
annual encampment of the State Guard.
The people of Wilmington have presented
the grounds, and the National Govern
ment has given the battery.
The failure of the last issue of The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER to reach its readers
on the accustomed day was due to the
failure Of some of our new material tt
reach usin time. The delay was Incidental
upon our enlargement and unavoidable.
WIN. Tate, a wealthy farmer of Ham
blen county, Tenn, has given $4,000 out
of his private fortune to be distributed
among disabled Confederate soldiers of the
First and Second Congressional districts.
He was a private in the Confederate army.
Mr.. N. P. Clark writes us enclosing
the sum of fifty cents contributed by
Gross Creek Alliance, of Cumberland
county, to the William Andrews fund.
Fishing Creek Alliance, No. sol, also
sends so cents for the William Andrews
fund. {.
"A spring wash for apple and pear
trees is made of country soap ,dissolvedin
water and applied with swab or rag or
brush. Make it strong and apply freely.
The old scales of bark will clean off and
leave the trunk nice and smooth and
thrifty.
Mr.. ]. R. Webster, of the Reidsville
Weekly, was in the city last week to
secure a charter for a railroad from Reds
vile to Winston via Yanceyville to con-
meet with the Atlantic and Danyille Bail
road at some suitableepoint. His friends
are glad to see him.
On Thursday night last, Mrs. M. G..
Toms, wife of Senator Toms, of Hay
wood, died at the Marlboro House, in this
city. Mrs. Toms was a daughter of Mr..
Geo. R. French, a prominent merchant of
Wilmington. Her remains were taken to
the latter city for interment-
Judge Barrett appointed Henry Win
throp Gray receiver of the North River
Sugar Refining Company, New York,
whose charter was recently revoked for
becoming a party to the sugar trust. The
property is to be converted into money,
to be distributed among persons lawfully