The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-19
NEWS E

Concord is to have a street railway.
The town of Wilson wants electric
lights.
Corn in Florida is up seven or eight
inches high.
of the twenty-three Presidents of the
United States, fourteen were lawyers.
1t is said that President Harrison has
an exceedingly discouraging "way" with
office seekers.
"A fine portrait of Mrs. Cleveland has
lately been placed in the Corcoran Gallery
at Washington. .
The New York business mems din
ner to Mr.. Cleveland will take place on
the 25th instant.
-"Too Many of We" a neat little
poem on our fifth page, will probably
moisten your eye.
The Edgecombe darkies to a man re-
fused to "exodust," whereat the South
erner smiles blandly.
An old joker says President Harrison
should send the hungriest ofice-seekers he
can find to the Sandwich Islands.
-Louisburg's last sensation was caused
by the mad antics of a mule suffering
from hy~drophobia. He wa shot.
The Transcript and Messenger is again
published at Goldsboro, and the people of
Wayne are greatly rejoiced thereat.
-Kinston is talking of trying the CO
operative assessment plan of establishing
some local manufacturing industries.
Col. John N. Staples, of Greensboro,
will be the orator at the Davidson College
commencement. He is a fine speaker.
The editor of Harper's Bazaar is dead.
She was a woman, a most diligent, useful
and accomplished one, Miss MaryL. Booth,
Distinct earthquake shocks were felt
in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland
on the 9Th inst, without any serious re-
Suits.
Are you on the lookout for bargains?
Read>the prices quoted by Woollcott &
Sons. A little cash will go a long way in
that house.
Herr Krupp, the gun-maker, of
Essen, has an income of 81, 500, 900 a year,
larger than the income of the richest
Rothschild.
AT Graball, a suburb of Tarboro, a
negro woman makes from a dollar to two
dollars a day "telling fortunes" at five
cents a fortune.
1t is said that the session of Congress
just ended appropriated the colossal sum
of ten millions of dollars to construct and
improve public buildings.
The cool weather and late spring
causes the prediction that this will be a
good fruit year. The farmers say the
buds have not yet commenced to swell.
On Monday of last week fire broke
out among 100 bales of cotton in the
city of Charlotte and before it could be
e~xting>ished 400 bales were destroyed.
We are deeply panied to learn Of the
death of Mr.. Jno. j.. Battle. of Edgecombe,
county which occurred on the 18th inst.
He was truly zone of earth's noblemen."
The Mobile Weekly Register says that
Florida raises two-thirds of the worlds
supply of sea island cotton "from which
all the finer sewing threads are manufact-
ured."
A Western exchange is authority for
saying: "Nothing is so clean as dry dirt
sprinkled on the floors of poultry houses
and in the stalls of the stables and cattle
sheds"
The Waterman says a Rowan man
exhibited in Salisbury, some days ago,
three carp, weighing 10 pounds, which he
had caught with hook and line in the
Yadkin river.
The lighthouse to be built on or near
Diamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, is to
cost $500, O00-that sum having been ap-
propriated for the purpose by the last
Congress.
h The Northern papers announce that
Fred Gebhard has at last married the
Itdivorced Lilly Langtry. While the mar
riage was not secret, it was very quiet
and without any display. a~.
The Tarboro Souhermer says "%since
September the Tarboro and Hamilton
railroad has carried from this place s, 1OO
bales Of cotton. The entire line has hauled
between $4,000 and $4,000 bales. d
CHARLES Phelps, postof6ce clerk at
Norwood, N. Y, locked up Cashier F. L.
Smith in the vault of the Norwood bank
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