The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-05

aScerLalnoQ WQ6Lner or not the Lnro0 nun
dred million pounds of sugar used in the
State each year may not be produced at
home"
The young Emperor of Germany,
although receiving an annual salary of
Is, 1000 marks besides immense sums
from rentals and landed estates, has po-
litely struck for an increase of salary, and
an addition of 3, $500, 900 marks have been
agreed to. How many of his needy sub
jects would this support? Is such ex-
travagance homes?
The Jonesboro Leader says: "Our
cotton mill is hereI ALL the cars are
being unloaded and the machinery
is being rapidly set up. MI. Webb
states that he will have it spinning
cotton inside of thirty days. The shut
tie block shop will start up with a stock
of timber of so good a quality as to sur
prise its projectors.
"A few days ago, in the. city of Man
chester, Eng, Mr.: E. J. Hale, Of Fayette-
vile, who is now o. S. Consul stationed
at the former city, was banqueted in
magnificent style, Lord Edgerton, of the
British peerage, presiding. We doubt
not the urbane and accomplished Caro-
linian was equal to the exigeneies of the
occasion in all respects. !.
The Lincoln Courier is responsible
for the following remarkable statement:
Gone day last week a negro boy of this
place was eating out of a pot, when
another negro told him to lick it like a
dog He did so, but got his head fast
ened in the pot, and could not get it out.
He ran all about following and crying,
and at last the pot had to be broken be-
fore his head could be unfastened."
THE Daily San is the name of a new
paper just started at Durham, by MI. Jas.
A. Robinson, formerly of the Winston
Leader, the Charlotte Chronicle, and the
Durham Recorder. The paper is nicely
printed, contains more matter than ought
to be expected, for the price charged, is
edited with Mr.. Rs usual ability, and
Durham will stand very much in its own
light if it fails to give it a liberal support.
Evangelist Pearson will commence
his Greensboro meeting May next, under
a tent. The tent idea has never taken we'll
in the South. 1t is too suggestive Of "a
circus and nearly all such attempts have
been failures in consequence of the damper
thrown over them by the surroundings.
1t would, indeed, seem that eve in the
matter of revival meetings there should
be some regard for the eternal fitness of
things"
The editor of the New York Graphic,
who laughsat the king, or whomsoever else
he pleases, and whenever he pleases, asks,
" What's in an executive name? :" and
then proceeds to say: "The Governor of
Illinois is a Fifer; of California a Water
man of Arkansas, an Eagle; of Colorado,
a Booper, and New Jersey has a Green
executive. A Fowle cackles over North
Carolina, and a Beaver works for PENN
~sylvania." @I'
The " Baptist Year Book" says that
twelve years ago the Modoc Indians were
uncivilized heathens. Now they are a
community of industrious farmers, with
half their number protesting Christians.
It cost the United States Government
$1,848,0 600 to care for 1900 Dakota In
dams seven years, while they were saw
ages. After they were Christianized it
cost for seven years $4,000, a saving of
81, $4,000.
The distinguished platform orator,
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Of the city of Boston,
a former pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle
of this city, will deliver a lecture in Met
ropolitan Hall on the nigh of the 7th inst,
on the subject of Backbone" Just what
he will say on this suggestive subject, and
his manner of saying it, is exciting the
curiosity of the average RaIeighite, and he
will have a packed audience. Go early,
in order to get a good seat.
The "stoek-law" question is agitat-
ing the people of Stokes. The Danbury
Reporter says: eve learn that it is a say
ing among some of the more savage half
civilized, lawless children of the devil, that
if the stock law fence is built at certain
places, their stock injured in honest mems
| enclosures ate that tho UPod Nox, - u,;1I
be turned loose, meaning by that that the
fire brand, or torch, will be applied to lick
up fences, buildings, or anything else that
may furnish food for flames
State Librarian, J. G. Birdsong's
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