The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-14

Bro. Charles Cook, Corresponding
Secretary of Wheel No. 81, Salem, KY,
whose parents left this State when he
was a child, wants to hear from some of
his relatives. We presume from his state
ment that he went from Cherokee county.
A committee of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church at Rockford has
recommended the expulsion of Mrs.
Kinnahan for herssy, she having ex-
pressed belief that Christ has reappeared
on earth in the person of Schweinfurth.
The tent for the Pearson meetings in
Greensboro has arrived and will be erected
on Washington street, opposite the Bap-
fist Church, in that city, this week. The
area inclosed will be 100 by 12O feet, and
the tent will comfortably seat 5000 peo-
pie.
A recent census shows that the city
of Charlotte, within the corporate linn
its, has a population of 1850, includ-
ing the suburbs, IL, $40 In the city
there are 1925 white males and 1866
females; colored, 2, 1873 males. females,
2,641.
Three bales of cotton were sold to the
highest bidder on the cotton exchange
in New York for the benefit of the Ma.
tional Confederate Soldiers Home at
Austin, Texas, The cotton came from
Galveston. It averaged 49, cents a
pound.
Mrs. D. G. NJ. Pierce. "the big
woman of Dover, N. H., vas buried
Thursday. It required eight persons
to put the body in the casket, and all
the trimmings had to be removed to al
low the casket to pass between the
doors.
Elk President Cleveland has leased
the cottage of Rev. Percy Browne. at
Marion, Mass, for the coming season.
The house is located on Bartlett's Hill,
next north of the summer home of r.
W. Glider, the editor of the Century
Magazine.
A new barrel has been introduced to
be used in shipping Southern vegeta-
bles. It is made on the same plan as a
peach basket, which allows better ven
tiIation than other barrels, but it does
not seem to be looked upon favorably
by receivers.
The seventy-third annual convention of
the Diocese of North Carolina will meet
in the Church of the Holy Innocents,
Henderson, N. O., on the 18th of May,
1888. Reduced rates for clergy and dele
gates have been applied for on all the
railroads in the State.
The Swiss watchmakers have invented
a watch for the blind. A small peg is
set in the middle of each figure. When
the hour hand is moving towards a
given hour, the peg for that hour drops.
The person finds the peg is down, and
then counts back to twelve.
The flies which annoy horses so much
may be kept from the animals by
sprinkling the litter with a solution OF
two ounces of carbolic acid in a pailful
of water and by sponging the horse
with a little of the solution mixed with
an equal quantity of kerosene oil.
The Winston Daily says: J. e.. Mills,
superintendent of the Baptist orphan,
age, made two excellent addresses in
our town on Sunday, n in the First
Baptist church at IL a. m. and in the
Broad Street church at 8 p. m. The
collections taken amounted to $40.
The commencement of Catawba Col
lege will take place May 10Th to the
23d. The Baccalaureate sermon will
be preached Sunday evening, May 10th,
by the President, Rev. J. G. Clapp, D.
D., and the Literary Address will be
delivered by Rev. John A. Murphy, D..
D., of Kansas City, Mo.
Carter Colquitt, o of VIM. q. Col
quit, of Atlanta, Ga, died in Utica, N.
Y, Tuesday, where he had been taken
to a hospital for treatment. He gradu-
ated at Emory College last fall and was
a brilliant young He developed
brain fever which his physician in At
lanta attributed to excessive cigarette
smoking.
A young farmer, at a church party
held recently in a rural town of New
York, where forty young ladies were
put up and sold to the highest bidder,
put up all his cash, $7.49, on the pref
tiest lady, and it took a considerable
amount of explaining to convince him
that he could not take his purchase
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