The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21

but as it is already about filed an assess,
ment will be made at once to double it.
present capacity.
A business college has been established
in Raleigh recently by Prof. G. Millman
President, aided by a corps of excellent
teachers. Instruction will be given il
bookkeeping, shorthand and telegraphy
and other branches.
The Scotland Neck Democrat says that
the farmers of Halifax county are going
to plant a good deal of rice on the low
lands. Some Of these have tried it and
think it pays. Certainly, diversified farm
ing will pay anywhere.
The Charlotte News says that Mr.. Harry
Watts was seriously kicked on the head
by a horse last Tuesday: He was out
riding in a dog cart, near McAdehsville,
when in response to a tap from the whip
the horse kicked violently.
The Charlotte Chronicle says thusly
With a blizzard in New Mexico and to-
matoes ripening in the garden in Charlotte.
yesterday, there is large room for specula-
ton why any young men should go west
and freeze up with the country.
Information was received in Raleigh on
the 18th that Rev. c. L. Powell, the Afri-
can Missionary who became insane and
kills his daughter a short time ago., had
died in an Algerian asylum, where he had
been placed since he became insane.
The Maxtcn Union says: 1--WE heard
a guano drummer say a few days since,
ifhe had his way he would abolish Sunday,
Would he really get a corner on time and
deprive the poor workingman of his only
rest day? Oh, these monopolsts!"
The Daily News learns that a train will
soon be put on the Richmond and Dan
Vile Road that will run from Atlanta to
New York in twenty-five hours. Only
three stops will be made in this State.
Charlotte, Salisbury and Greensboro.
The cries OF editors having delinquent
subscribers are pitiful to hear. The Land
mark says: "Col. Sharpe has put in a
new pair of stairs for III and delinquent
subscribers and those wanting to renew
will find them easier to climb than ever"
From the Landmark we learn that DR..
J. J. Mott has secured the services of an
English da'ryman and put him in charge
of his fine herd Of cattle. He has about
Sc head, the majority full-blood Jerseys.
His herd is perhaps unequalled in the
State.
The meanest, stingiest man living, it is
said, is the one that uses a wart on the
back of his neck for a collar button,
but we think a man that will read a
newspaper for two years and then refuse
to pay for it is equally as mean. So say
you all.
We learn from the Baltimore San that
J. Stewart, Knight & Co., of Philadel-
phia, have bought of the Browning Man
ufacturing Company, of Edenton, co.
OOO, 1000 feet of manufactured timber for
$1,000 900. The timber to be delivered
in three years.
The Raleigh cotton mill Will be COM
pleted in a short time. 1t is strange that
while nearly every county has one or
more factories, that Raleigh, a city with
$4,000 population, is just now building
her first cotton mill. Doubtless more will
be built soon.
We learn from the Windsor, Bertie
county,, Ledger that the store Of Messrs.
J.. and L. Lipsitz, Of that town, was
burned a few days ago. Loss, about
Mr.. Greenthal and a Mr.. Miller
were seriously burned while trying to
stay the flames.
The Landmarks learns hat while Nj.
J.. G. Siceloff, Of DIN, was out hunting
with a party on Christmas day, a bird
rose up between him and another one of
hunters, who blazed away at it. MI.
received a part of the load of shot,
but was not much hurt. :
Mr.. A. B. Rowe, representing the
Washington Masonic Memorial Temple,
Of Fredericksburg, Va, made an appeal to
the Grand Lodge in session here last
week, for aid in the erection of a memo
,ial temple in that city, in honor of the
memory of George Washington.
The Goldsboro Headlight addresses de-
inquent subscribers as follows: "Dear,
delinquent Our precious sub
in arrears! When you see a red
.ross-mark before your name this week,
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