The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-16

Right or wrong, senator 1nBaIIS WAS
very funny when he said, Everybody
in Kansas is satisfied with prohibitions
because the prohibitlonists have their
law and the boys have their whiskey."
Statisticians estimate that there are
over 5000, 900 m in this country
who are engaged in work which. is not
domestic. Of this number 275 are
ministers and seventy-ive are lawyers.
A bill recently introduced into the
New York Legislature offers a bounty
of u half cent per pound for strip from
sorghum grown in that State. The
strip must weigh II pounds to the gal
lon.
A society has been organized to huild
cotton seed mills throughout the south
in opposition to the Cotton Oil trust
and with a view to assisting planters to
get reasonable prices for their cotton
seed. Il
A great railroad and wagon bridge,
similar to the one at st. Louis, is now
in process of construction across the
Mississippi river at Memphis. Two
hundred and fifty men are employed in
the work.
The Utah wool output for 1889 will
be nearly twelve million pounds, at
prices ranging from fourteen to nine
teen cents, with an average of seven
teen and a half cents. The quality is
excellent, owing to the fine feed Sc
cured by May rains. The exports of
mutton have been very brisk, SO that
scarcity has been occasioned and prices
will be stiff all summer.
In England and France many women
dress in mems clothes all the time.
They claim that when they pass them
selves off for men they get better wages
and suffer less annoyance.
The Boston Post wants Wanamaker,
if he desires to change the style and
color of the two-cent stamps to have it
in the form and color of a miniature
flag. This is certainly patriotic, if not
practical.
There has been a falling off of nearly
81 per cent in the emigration to this
country in the last six months. The
decrease was not from any particular
nation, but from the whole European
continent.
MI. W. Fl. Graham, who was in town
last Saturday, says his crop is the best
he has ever seen on the place. Unless
crops we're greatly injured by the recent
rains they will be fine. -Lumberton
RO6eSomian.
A typographical error in the last issue
of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER made Mr..
T. F. Eaton say a sulky pillow was of
fered for sale zeal the town of Salisbury
for $40, when he wrote and intended to
say ten dollars.
Gas has been struck at a depth of
seventy feet in California. It has also
been struck in Chicago. We always
thought there must be a pretty large
gas reservoir under Chicago.-Wil-
mington Star.
A bill has passed both houses of the
Michigan legislature which provides
that a wife may have separate mainten-
ance when her husband has been guilty
of an offense which would entitle the
wife To a divorce
In Arkansas assisting another to COM
nit suicide is murder. In California
aiding, advising or encouraging n to
do so is a felony. In Kansas 1t is man
slaughter in the first degree. In Mas
sachusetts it is murder.
The directors Of the Farmers Oil
Mills, Shiloh, met Friday in special
meeting. They will negotiate for a
steamer to ply on the the upper Tar.
They will either charter or build being
governed by cheapnes5.
John W. Bardsley, the man who
brought the English sparrow to this
country, was buried in Philadelphia on
Friday, the Ssth ult. Upon which the
Wilmington Star remarks that "the
sparrow was not buried, but is very
much alive"
A new cotton compress in Whining
ton is of power sufficient to compress a
bale of cottonto a thickness Tor a thin
ness) of only five inches. The weight
of the press is said TO be 100 tons. or
800, 900 pounds, and it took eight cars
to get it there.
From Paris comes the report that Ed
ison has invented a clock-phonograph
which strikes 1 O'Clock, and then calls
out, "Dinner-time 10 o'clock, "Bed-