The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-14


Twelve prisoners in the Laredo, Mexico,
Jail, made a break Tuesday, and escaped
to the American side of the river.
A Presbyte e, ian church was blown
down in Brooklyn, n. Y, on the 8th
The walls fell on a dwelling near by and
five people were killed.
Hon. Jas. G. Harper, an ex- member Of
Congress and a prominent citizen of
Western North Carolina, died at his home
near Patterson on the 8th inst.
1t is reported that the Alabama Sta,e
Alliance Exchange is about the busiest
place in Montgomery, the business now
being transacted amounting to from s.
900 to $4,000 per day.
The board of county commissioners
have accepted the bond of Mr.. w. G.
| McMackin as supervisor Of roads for
Raleigh township. He will begin at nce
to gather the force and proceed with and
press to completion s~ohneamuch needed
road improvement.
Three thousand dollars for two hours is
what Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt paid re-
| Gently for the privilege of having the
great musicians, Sarasate and d'Albert,
play for her guests. The sum was paid
to their managers, who claim that $4,000
is what they would receive at a concert.
A banquet was given in L~esvenworth,
Kas., Monday night, to Judge Brewer,
recently appointed to the United States
supreme court bench. The banquet com.
mittee had arranged to provide the guests
with milk punch, but the police officers
informed them that in that case the ban-
quet would be suppressed, and there was
no punch. - d
Our special representative, while in
Henderson, learns that John ". Purefoy,
of Henderson, has been given the agency
in his section for the famous. Dunn's 81
plows and castings and Wetmore's shoes
and horse collars. His store is headquar-
tiers for Alliance men, where he will be
glad to welcome the farmers. His motto
lis, q good article for a fair price, and fair
dealing.
The industrial number of the Public
Ledger, published at Oxford, was a fine
paper. 1t was well written, and the illus
t~rations of the principal streets, business
houses, warehouses and private residences,
were finely executed. 1t was a credit to
the proprietors, the town and to Granville
county. Mr.. T. H. Collins announces
that he has sold his interest in the Ledger
to Mr.. j. T. Britt. We wish Bro. Collins
success in whatever business he may go
into.
Mr.. S. T.. Grassland hiss a letter from a
friend at Warrenton telling of the good
results made from a few acres planted in
tobacco. On the 18th inst. this fortunate
farmer sold 3,431 pounds of tobacco for
$1,785.87, being an average of nearly 50
cents a pound. This tobacco. was made
on 5 IL acres of ground, and was not all
that was made on the 5,I-2 acres. This
farmer said hisanet profits from the 5 IL
acres would be at least $1,000. Our
farmers should study tobacco culture
RInston Free Press.
D. /. Stoneman sold three steers the
other day for forty-one dollars-two
dollars less than he paid for two just such
steers a year ago. Was this depreciation
in price due to overproduction? If so,
Mr.. stoneman ought not to have pro-
dpced 50 much IT served him right for
being so industrious. The fellow that
got the extra steer, lives in Massachusetts,
and the Boston Chronicle says Mr.. Stone
man and his neighbors ase very shiftless
in their methods of farming and advises
them to be more economic l-Yum YUM
The Alliance Tribune.
Under the caption, "The Bitter Trans
%ition," Henry Blount, of the Mirror, re-
fers to his holiday season in the following
characteristic style: Having been sip
ping for the past ten days the delicious
and rubiest wines of enjoyment and
recreation and freedom from all editorial
duties, we feel this morning, upon our
Remittance into the sanctum, that dull,
heavy, thrpbbing headache of repugnance
to work that always follows a season of
festivity and delight But, hard as it is,
the thing must be did," and so we
knuckle down to another hard, hard year
of hard, hard work"
The government is now run on the
plan of saving the money-kings-the
bankers-frOm any trouble, inconven-
fence, OF losses. The United States
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