The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-16
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1SA atatedt6as ahsngmknE have
been. made to push the extension of the
Roanoke and Southern Railroad from
WalHutsC Cove, Stokes county, to Martins
vile. Va p-aast II trDcG Iat5 !
So75AAnelie Rives win get s 5000 1000 cash
and lQQ. cents per volume sold on her new
W9rk "TAe Witness of the Sum" Etis
said to be a great contrast in tone to 1.-THE
Quick or the Dead" I.,: +.
Mr.. Tyre Glenn, the newly appointed.
marshal for the western district of North.
Carolina, is a brother of Mrs. Judge Set:
tie apd>a son-in-law of Postmaster Greg
DRY, Of Greensboro.
1.-The Nash county gold mines are
yielding well. The output from the
Mann-Arrington mine, for example, is
said to be worth 5000 a day, and the net.
profit is 500 a day; -
The latest from the National Capital.
mregard to the Office of Public Printer
says the question has been narrowed
down between Osborne, Of California,
and Nichols, of North Carolina.
john Bright is said to have preferred
interment in the graveyard of the Friends
Meeting House at Rochdale, with the
simple ceremonies of that persuasion, to
the glory of Westminster Abbey.
Voters should remember that If they
have changed their residence from one
ward to another, since the last election,
they will be required to register before
they can vote at the May election -"
Nh. J.-R. Wichard, editor of the Sails
bury Herald, was married on Tuesday, the
9th inst, to. Miss Ella Robert, of Albany,
Cal I'VE, welcome our. brother to the
" benedictine' circle and. wish him much
joy. u 8. - g4@|- j., s.. 81. @.
The Patriot says A: Tickle, who lives
six miles from Greensboro, had a colt
foaIed on his farm last week without a
sign Of a tail" In all other respects the
animal is in good condition and is doing
WE'LL. rar ..- :~s
1T is said that Mr.. John Laws, OF
Orange county, is probably the Oldest Off
cial,,in point of consecutive years of ser
vice, in the State. He is Register Of
Deeds OF the county and has served fifty
five years.
Matthew White, Superintendent Of
races at Avoca Sporting Resort, Apri
23d to 28th, 1889, promises that amuse.
ments under his department will be second
to no Ftrotting course IN the South. They
have some very fine horses.
The Knights of Labor, as well as
many workingmen not in that order, says
the Greensboro Patriot, are raising great
row over the establishment of a shoe fac.
tory at the penitentiary by a firm which
now,has its factory in Raleigh A
Gen. Boulanger who fed from France
to. Belgium to escape arrest, was last weel
expelled from the latter, and took refuge
in England. Notwithstanding the Gen
erals absence, his trial will proceed in
Paris, just as though he were in court.
The G~oldsboro argus says that mum
beers of letters from the recent exodusters
who went off to find the land of milk
and honey, are being sent back to theil
old employers, saying: "For the Lords
sake send me some money to get back
home"
Good! The Souheraer says that the
Edgecombe Agricultural Fair will be helc
at Tarboro, November 18th, 9th, 9TH ant
9Th. Now let everyma and woman ii
that grand old county resolve to make il
a fair worthy of the. county and it
people. l..:x
Bryant Carroll, a white fisherman
was arrested last week in Brunswick
county, charged with the murder of hi
wife by poisoning. 1T is alleged that he
gave her a drink Of wine out of a bottle
and that she died within, an hour. Car
roll isfn :iail. 3 ,zdt 81
IT is announced that an officer Of the
National "a qas Ordnance. Department 2wRoouullo
soon go to Wrightsyille to erect batterife'
of ten-inch guns and mortars there at th'
site of the permanent encampment of thu
State Guard. The batteries will be il
place by July 1st. = 1~.:E.- wa
Col. VIM. johnson, of Charlotte, wA'
started on-a trip to Mexico some day
ago, has been. detained at San Antonio
Texas, on account of the illness of hi
son, and, it is SAID, he has abandoned th !!
trip and will return to Charlotte 50 ssooool
as his son is able to- travel. - =