The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23

President Harrison will ocenpy4the
cottage at the Soldiers Home at Wash
ington set aside for the President of the
United States. It was first occupied
by Buchanan; and Lincoln. Hayes and
Arthur spent their summers there.
The New York Herald says: One OF
the most curious things about the side
door of a saloon is that while to the po-
Iiceman. on duty it is absolutely invisi-
BILE he las no difficulty whatever in
finding it when he goes off duty.
On the 21st of November, 1889 North
Carolina, through her representatives
in the town of Fayetteville, ratified the
Federal Constitution. That good old
town proposes to celebrate the anniver-
sary of that event in glorious style.
A rumor comes from Washington
city to the effect that the Presidents
great self-reliance, and his disregard OF
the views OF the Secretary of State, have
so disguised Mr.. Blaine that his resigna-
tion is looked for at an early day (?).
A young nan in Harlem who bought
a watch on the installment plan thinks
he has got the best of the agent. His
new watch makes twenty five hours a
day, and he therefore gets one more
hour than he paid for-and time is
money.
The A. & N. G. r. R., has just had
completed at Morehead City one of the
handsomest stations in the State. It is
a two-story building of native pine,
trimmings, mahogany color, hard wood
finish, comfortable seats, water closets,
ETC., etc. .
In prohibition towns they now use
an automatic bartender, with five, ten
and twenty-five cent slots which set out
the chosen liquor in response to the
dropped-in coin. They are owned and
shipped loaded" by parties outside
the STATE.
It is said that the Rio Grande del
Norte, which forms the boundary line
between the United States and Mexico
is q tortuous stream, the changes in
whose channel will sometimes add acres
of land to the domain of one nation or
the other in a single night.
Last Sunday morning, heal the town
of Tarboro, on the road leading to Nc
Nair's Crossing, a small negro boy
found the body of a negro nan lying
stiff and cold in death. The coroner
come to the conclusion that death was
caused from whiskey and exposure.
Mrs. Amelie Rives-C hanler and her
husband have been the recipients of
many social attentions during their visit
in Virginia. The authoress is said to be
much prettier than she was in the days
of her maidennood, and the local papers
go into raptures in describing her
beauty.
The convention in Durham to nomi-
nato candidates for Mayor and commits
presented the following: For
Mayor, Capt, j. F. Freeland; for Com
m~issioners, Messrs. w. Fl. Muse, ". H.
Proctor, Q. E. Rawls, w. j. Duke, l..
NJ. Reams, J. Y. Whitfield and W III.
Workman.
A brother writes us on a matter of
business, from Wolf Pond, n, c., but
fails to give his name. Another brother.
wrote Bro. Darden last week, ordering
ten tons of guano to be shipped to him
diately, but failed to give his name.
Brethren, we can't attend to your wishes
unless we have your name.
New York Sun: "Ah," sighed De-
the clerk on ten dollars per
week. 81 gave up my love early IN
because she was so passion
ately fond of sleigh-riding and I knew
[ couldn't afford it, and now there hasn't
been enough snow to go out, once oil
Twas ever thus" - Esd
During 1888 the town of Roanoke, Va,
expended $3.50 for public. school
building, $25, $50 for sewerage $25, 600
or street improvement, and SIG, 900 for
miscellaneous public works. The towns
the South, to keep pace with the
progress of the times, must spend money
or improvements.
It seems that the Stanly Freehold
Gold Mining Company are making pre-
1arations for vigorous sluice mining on
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