The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-19

matter of goober peas and adjournment
rhetoric, but the one just adjourned broke
the record in the matter of gold-headed
canes.".
1t is ~u3nored that a lumber trust has
been formed in Elizabeth City by the
principal and heaviest dealers in pine
lumber in Virginia and North Carolina, to
handle all the output of the mills in that
section.
Farmers, farmers sons, farmers wives
and farmers daughters; there is something
in this paper written specially for you. 1t
is the advertisement of that Mammoth
House, W. 81. & R. S. Tucker. Read it
and try them.
The Twin City Daily says it is re-
ported in Greensboro that Mr.. Richard
Reeves, Of Sloan, Surry county, has been
appointed United States Marshal for the
Western On. c. district to succeed Mr..
David Settle.
The Lincoln Courier says a move
ment is on foot towards building another
factory near town. cit is proposed to
build on this side the river, opposite the
laboratory Cotton Mills. The object is to
manufacture jeans, etc.
The case Of Messrs. Cross and White,
of this city came before the Supreme
Court of the United States in Washington
City yesterday. The argument was heard
by the whole. bench, Attorney General
Davidson representing the State. =
-Rumor has it. that the Chinese at
Chin Klang have nsulted two flags, that
they have burned the British consulate
and looted the American building, the
wife of the American representative, with
her children, narrowly escaped death.
,-Apropos of the season, the Whining
ton Star illustrates as follows: "Al who
want the p~ostofice let them hold up their
hands:
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Mrs. Harrison is fascinated by Mrs.
Cleveland. A Washington gossip says she
remarked a few days ago, "Mrs. Cleve-
land is positively the loveliest creature I
eve saw. I almost feel guilty in depriv-
ing her Of a position that she adorns so
we'll"
The Philadelphia Times remarks that
the growth of the Grant monument fund
is SO slow as scarcely to be a growth at
all. Fitful contributions of a few dollars
are received now and then, but practically
the collection of funds for this purpose
has ceased.
The Guilford Battle Ground Company
have already commenced making arrange
ments for their grand celebration, which
Is to take place on the battle grounds
Monday, May 9th next 1t is expected
that Senator Vance will be the orator on
the occasion.
The WeaUs and Observer Of Friday
morning remarked: "Some Of the Legis-
lative visitors to Asheville came back on
the return train and seem to have about
them a vague air of disappointment"
Sad; and yet life is largely made up of
just such experiences.
j.. The Concord Times says parties were
last week prospecting with a view to
starting a bleaching factory in that town.
This factory, if established, will employ
one hundred hands, all men. If sufficient
water power can be secured the factory,
we think, is a certainty.
The Fayetteville Observer says: Mr..
John M. Ross and daughter, Miss Annie,
had the misfortune to be thrown from a
buggy on Saturday evening, the 9th, by a
runaway horse, from which they sustained
quite painful injuries, though we hope
they will not prove serious.
The New Berne Journal gets off this
rough one: "Two gay lads, W. G. White
and Fl. G. Starkey, of Lexington, Va,
became offended because the music of one
was offensive to the other, and decided to
the affair with pistols. Forty-two
shots were fred without getting a feather"
The pension which North Carolina
will hereafter pay her disabled Exon
federate soldiers will cost every voter
nine cents a year, and property will pay
three cents on the one hundred dollars
No one will ever feel the tax and
poor cripples will be greatly relieved.
The Federal Government will expend
large sums of money in North Carolina
the approaching summer in the
erection of public buildings in Charlotte,
.sheville, Statesville and New Berne and
Huhf houSo off Hattorac coast These