The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-01
NOTES.
-, Prof. W. A. Withers has re.
turned from Cornell University.

~ Prof w. a. liners mas TO
turned from Cornell University.
The free coinage silver bill
passed by the United States Senate
has been defeated in the House, and
a conference has been ordered.
Mrs. Grady, widow Of the late
Henry W, Grady, of Georgia, and her
daughter, are sojourning a. the Green
brier White Sulphur Springs.
- Edward K, Valentine, the Re-
publican nominee, has been elected
Sergeant at Arms of the United States
Senate, vice Col. W. P. Canady, of
this Safe, resigned.
The grape growers of this vi
entity evidently expect to ship grapes
the coming season, the Grape Grow
ers' Assoc alton having placed an
order for twenty-five thousand
baskets.
- The absence of the associate
editor will account for any imperfec
tions in this issue of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER. Mr.. Ramsey is attending his
brother, in Iredell county, who is
critically i'll.
- The rumor that the cooks of
this city have decided upon a general
strike for higher wages, on the fourth
of July, is not believed, and the re-
ported "sensation" has entirely disaD.
peared, if it ever existed.
= 1t is said that DR. Calling, the
inventor of the Calling gun--who, by
the way, is a native Carolinian-is at
work on a new artificial ice machine
which he believes will make ice at
tenth the present cost
= Bro. Demming, of PennsyI
~vania, says the bre hren of that State
have adopted the inspiring motto.
"Look up and go up" And from
the progress of the order in tia At S ate,
they are living up to the motto.
A Saratoga, N. Y, telegram
says: The Court of Appeals decision
in the sugar case, handel do vn yes
terday, is strongly against the trus..
The judgments of the lower court dis
solving the trust are fully affirmed
- Upon a request from the Cour
Ter Journal, supervisor of the Census,
Porter, has allo we'd Supervisor Spen
Ger to give an approximation OF the
population of Louisville. In round
numbers Spencer makes it 10000.
The Greensboro Patriot reports
that one entire township in Guiltord
county was overlooked by the census
takers. If half that is said about this
recent census taking is true, the thing
is a great fraud and failure, so far as
this State is concerned.
~ The next meeting of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union will be held the first Tues
day in December, 1890. The place
of meeting was changed from Jack.
sonville to Ocala, Fla, by the Execu
tive Board, (which met in Washington
City on the Goth ult.
- The Chamber Of Commerce of
the city of Winston has decided to in
vite the North Carolina Press Asso.
citation to hold its meeting next year
in that place. Winston is a live,
vigorous little city, and, should the
brethren of the press accept the invi
~tatiOn, they may expect a royal recep
ton.
Rev. R. G. Pearson, the evan
gelist, so we'll known in this State,
has had the degree of D. D.. conferred
upon him by the umberland Univer-
sity of Tennessee. This good man is
not troubled by triaes, and in the
future as in the past, will doubtless
be the same grand expounder of the
truth.
~ Mr.. N. H. D. Wilson, formerly
associate editor Of the ChrGstln Advo-
cate, of this city, returned to his home
in Greensboro on Tuesday last, from
Vanderbilt University at Nashville,
Tenn. Mr.. Wilson graduated with
distinction, receiving the highest hon
ors Of his class and winning the Van
derbllt medal for best scholarship, and
a scholarship for the next term.
An item to the effect that Mr..
w. Thomas Henderson, of Dallas, N.
c., who was ABOUT to die from the loss
of blood, caused by several lung
hemorrhages, was saved last week by
the TRANSMISSION of a quart of lambs
blood into his veins, is going the
rounds of the State press. 1t is said
that immediate improvement followed
the TRANSMISSION and that the patient
was soon out OF danger.
~ A dispatch received in this city
on Saturday last stated that there was
great excitement in the city of At
lanta over a telegram received from