The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-26


a good slanderer, and at the end of ten
years break down and become a physical
wreck"
The Raleigh municipal election will
be held Monday, May 9th, and the books
of registration for all the wards of the city
viii be opened at the Mayors Office on
Tuesday, March 26th, and close on Tues
day, April 25th. Those who have not
changed wards since the last election will
not be required to register. Every elector
who has been a citizen of North Carolina
for one year and has resided in the ward
for which he applies to register 80 days
previous to the day O. 'election will be en-
titled to register and vote.
-Ex-Mayor Hewitt and Edward
Cooper, of New York, have just finished
a tour of the South. Result: They will
at once begin the removal of the New
Jersey Steel and Iron Works from Tren-
ton, N. j., to Chattanooga, Tenn. They
employ 1900 men, who are paid $780,
600 per year. The same causes that
operate to bring this class of manufactur-
ing South will inevitably bring the spin
dies and looms of the North here. The
day is not distant when the hum of cot
ton machinery will blend with the in
spiriting chorus of the negro cotton
pickers.
We learn that the penitentiary au-
thorities will, in a-few days, resume work
on the Governors Palace and press it to-
completion, or to the extent of the amount
of money available. If the fund at COM
mand shall prove adequate, the building
"a be furnished and made ready for
occupancy by the first Of February, 1890.
In this connection the Asheville Citizen.
is authority for the statement hat Gov.
Fowle will revive the pleasant old ante.
bellum custom of holding monthly recep-
tions at the mansion. Thus rehabilitated,
cold Rip" will be himself again.
We learn that on the 18th inst, in
Wake Forest township, this county, Mr..
John Fowler, over whose head have
passed the now of twenty-three frosty
winters, and Miss Julia Massingill, who
has basked in the glowing sunshine of
ffty-eight summers, were united in the
holy bonds Of wedlock, Esquire j.. D.
Allen, the efficient County Alliance Bust
ness Agent, officiating. The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER tenders its most hearty congratu-
l~ations, and begs the privilege Of express
ing the hope that all the Joy, gladness and
felicity of the nuptial tie will be vouch-
safed unto them.
The Weekly Journal of Atlanta, Ca,
recommends that every Southern farmer,
who is also a fruit grower, resolve to give
more attention this year to dried fruit for
market, and says "California is making a
big stride in this direction and her dried
fruit crops now exceed the green fruit
product. North Carolina appears to be
the only Southern State in which dried
fruit, berries and herbs have become
prominent in commercial circles. This
branch of business opens up a pleasant and
profitable industry for our women and
children, and the Journal hopes to see it
properly developed" .
The Wilmington Messenger regrets
that the foolish practice prevails in some
portions of North Carolina of sending out
White Cap" warnings to obnoxious per-
sons in certain communities wherein
alleged evil practices provoked local re-
sentiment, and solemnly warns the peo-
pie to desist and drop it, at once, lest it
draw upon the State all the horrors and
terrorism that succeeded the alleged Ku-
Klux outrages of 1860, 20 and II. The
D." White Caps" are Of yankee origin and
will hardly take deep root in the South,
and yet the Messengers warning is timely
and we trust it may be needed.
The following reference to Lent is
from the New York Sun: "The amount
of s~eltzer, soda water, sarsaparilla, and
other soft stuff called for and consumed
nowadays in the popular bar-rooms fire.
quented by politicians would appall a
Kentuckian and delight a Prohibitionist.
Seven local statesmen stood before a bar
last night, and the order was four sarsapa-
rillas, one settler, one beer, and n whis-
KEY. Yet there were several steady
whiskey men in the party. The n who
took his whiskey was astonished, and
asked what was the matter. You ought to
know was the answer, that it is Lent
Mrs. Alice W. Coke, whose success
full suit for divorce from young Frank
Coke in New York about a year ago,
filed columns of the dailies with rare
reading, was married in Charlotte, Thurs
day evening last at her mothers home, to
Amos ]. Walker, Of New York city. The
marriage was unexpected. The surprise
was all the greater because of Mrs. Coxe's