The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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chine will be erected in Greensboro in a
short time. 'l}|
The Wilmington Messenger proposes,
hereafter, to publish a, weekly edition
dated at Goldsboro. SIS SIS ~,
Two powerful electric lights will be
pat into each Of the Legislative Halls
during the present week.
: 1t is feared that the ice crop will be
a failure. No ice worth speaking of has
thus far been gathered North.
Gov. Fowle will attend the New
Berne Fair on the 10Th inst. 1t is prob
able that the Legislature will also attend in
a body. e..-.t ,.
Our good neighbor of the Greensboro
North State, made the mistake of putting
the subscription price of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER at $500. 1t should have said l.25.
The High Point Enterprise is credited
with being the originator of the scheme of
erecting a new county out of portions of
Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford and Randolph.
The resignation of Capt. E. R. Stamps,
as president Of the board of directors of
the penitentiary, does not take effect till
March Sd, when his successor viii be an
nOunced.
The High Point Enterprise says
t~wenty-four car loads of steel rails were
unloaded there last week for the High
Point, Randleman, Asheboro & Southern
Railroad Company.
Mr.: j. M. Forshee, of Wilmington,
N. c., thinks he has found a sure remedy
for hog cholera, and offers to send it to
anyone free who desires to try it. Ad-
dress him at Wilmington.
The commissioners appointed by the
North Carolina Presbyterian Synod to
arrange for the founding of an Orphans
Home, will meet in the town of Green's
boro on the 21st of this month.
The Asheville Citizen speaks of four
visitors now in that city, worth in the
aggregate, one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars; and it hasn't been an extra
good season for ~millionaires, either.
Farmers who wish to buy the latest
improved, cheapest and best Cane Mills
and ~evaporators can do so by correspond
ing with G. P. Edwards, Earpsboro, N. G.
See advertisement in another column.
"A Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic, as unreasonable as 1t may seem,
has been organized in North Carolina, at
H~endersonville, with 80 members. It is
known as Phil Sheridan Post, No. IS.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
Farmers Alliance movement in North
Carolina may be had by glancing over
the table pubiishedrin to-day's issue CIV
ing the number of Alliances in each
county.
1t gives US pleasure to learn that
Senator Vance does not suffer a great
col VI pain 11OII1 GA1C ACSChO AOSo VI lis
eye, and that he expects to resume his
place in the Senate by the middle of this
month.
President Benjamin Harrison will find
in the postofice at Scrub Oak, Virginia, a
postmaster appointed by President William
Henry Harrison. He is ninety-three years
old, and it is proposed to retire him on a
pension.
Salisbury is seriously contemplating
a proposition to issue bonds to the amount
of 500, 900 to improve the town by put
ting in an electric light plant, paving the
streets, and introducing a system of
sewerage.
Mr.. R. 3. Raney, proprietor of the
Marlboro House, had on exhibition at Met
ropolitan market last week one of the
heaviest hogs ever seen in this city. It
was raised at his farm near here, and
weighed 813 pounds.
"A young man about 25 years of age
was arrested in Wilmington 26th inst, on
the charge of forgery. He registered at
the hotel as Allen B. Custer, but it is
claimed his real name is Devin L.. Barnes.
He was wanted at Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, daughter of the
late President Grant, who was married
during her fathers last term of Office, to
Algernon Sartoris, an English dude, has
arrived in New York unaccompanied by