The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

Congress having established a De-
partment of Agriculture, the President
has appointed Commissioner Colman to
the Secretaryship of the Department,
which now makes him a member OF the
Presidents Cabinet.
The London Times is authority FOR
the statement that there are still twenty
three islands in the Pacific Ocean to which
no nation has set up a claim The editor
| advises the British Government to APP
propriate them at once.
The Philadelphia Times says the en-
tire Samoan export trade, which con-
sists of cocoa meal, used in soapmaking,
is only $780, 600, at which the Germans
handle 100000. It is hardly worth
while to go to war about the other $50, 900.
1t is a curious fact that grass will not
grow under certain trees, notably the
beech, fir, chestnut, and aspen. This
latter tree, so the story goes, furnished
the wood for u Saviour's cross, and its
leaves were doomed to tremble till the
end of the world. ~
On Thursday night last Raleigh was
visited by an unusually heavy snow storm.
The leecy flakes began falling about 2
o'clock p. M, and continued with more
or less regularity during the whole night.
The snow reached a depth of about ten
inches on level ground.
Mr.. Sturgeon, the celebrated Baptist
preacher, is unable to take exercise at
Mentone because Of the swelling of his
feet, 1t was frequently his custom, or
rather his necessity, to preach to his Lon
don congregation with on leg restingfor.
support on a pulpit chair. .g.Ra'.
1t is said that men who work the
ore that comes from the Martin White
mine at Ward, New, undergo a curious
change of appearance. Their faces be-
come sunken and pallid and their whis-
kers, eyebrows and hair slowly change to
a permanent green color.
BY a recent act of Congress, and the
signing of the anne by the President,
four new States are admitted to the
American Union. They are to be known
as the States of Washington, Montana,
North Dakota and South Dakota. New
Mexico will have to wait until more Re
publicans move into the Territory.
Gen. Gilman Marston has accepted
the appointment of United States Senator,
from the Governor of the State of New
Hampshire to succeed Senator Chandler.
He will occupy the seat from March 4th
until the Legislature in June next elects a
senator for the mex six years term.
Mrs. Frelinghuysen, the widow of
Frederick I. Frelinghuysen, Arthur's Sec
rotary of State, died at Newark on Sun
day. She was the daughter of George
Griswold, an old Boston merchant who
acquired a fortune in the China trade.
She had been i'll since the death of her
husband in 1885.
B. F. Stevens, who has been engaged
for years copying manuscripts in Europe
that bear upon American history, pro-
poses to print the most important of his
discoveries. The price of the set will be
$500. A small government a%ppropria-
ton would place these documents within
the reach of every library in the land.
A correspondent writing from the
neighborhood of Rock Spring, Franklin
county, informs US that, owing the raw
ages of hog cholera, very few of the peo-
pie raised enough meat to supply their
wants until next hog-killing time. "Some
lost all the hogs they had to fatten, and
the disease is still rading."
Am exchange says: ASA success you
are a failure, and as a failure you are a
success" said the merchant to the farmer,
whom he had "carried" during the
season. "Ditto" echoed numerous con-
.stituencies to their representatives at Raj
eigh, who had taken a run home to feel
the pulse of their constituents on the
Senatorship, and the Railroad Commits
sion bill.
The Farm and FSreside says this is an
active period of antitrust Legislation, both
State and National In many of the
State Legislatures antitrust bills have
been introduced and are being carefully
considered. The excessive profits of
trusts come, in the end, off the farmers
and the great body of unorganized wage
earners, and they demand laws that can
be evaded.
The tastily discriminating editor of
the Wilmington Star says: "John Ruskin
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