The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-07-17

General in the United States Army, still
has seven years before him.. General
Terry has three, General Howard six, and
General Crook four. ag- .5-.
The Southern Baseball League now
consists. of New. Orleans, Charleston, Bir-
minghamj Dallas, and Galveston clubs.
This combination preserves the league in
its reserve privileges. .sa =.
The original estimate of the cost of
the Congressional Library building at
Washington was So, 100000, but under
present plans an expenditure of 81, 100000
will be required to finish it.
The building committee appointed to
let out the contract for the erection of the
$4,000 hotel at Piedmont Springs met in
Winston last Wednesday and awarded
the contract, work to commence at once.
AT a recent meeting of the American
Bee-keepers' Association, several men,
bers of experience gave the cost of pro-
ducing honey. The general average of
the estimates was about ten cents a pound.
-Parnell has decided to ask that a
Parliamentary committee be appointed to
inquire into the charges made by the
Times against himself and other leaders Of
the NATIONAL party in the House of Com
mons.
"A conspicuous figure in a front seat
at the wedding of the daughter of Gov
ernor Gordon, Of Georgia, was the old
colored nurse of the bride, who has cared
for no less than four generations of the
family.
Blind Tom is living in retirement in
an old-fashioned house in St. Marks
Place, New York City. He is Suffering
from a nervous complaint that renders a
repetition Of his stage performances i'm
possible.
The Wilson Ad0ance says a Pitt
county farmer raised 103 barrels of Irish
potatoes from a single acre. The first
fifty barrels he shipped were sold at 81
per UdIIcl anu Ie ClcdlcO SAoO 1IOuI Vic
one acre. .
David Clark and his wife hanged
themselves in a corn crib near Sandwich,
Ind. They left a paper signed by each,
saying they died for each other. Clark
was 80 years old and had been married
two years.
The attention of farmers and plant
ers is called to the "German or Crimson
Clover" as advertised in this issue of
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER. Write to T.
w. Wood & Son, Seedsmen, Richmond,
Va. See 9Th page. ..
The New Bern Journal says parties
from Pamlico county reports that there is
a child near Grantsboro ten months old
with a head twice as large as an ordinary
mans head, and that it is healthy and
growing rapidly.
Those in need of granite and marble
tombstones will do well to call upon Mr..
Geo. B. Hiss, agent, and leave your
orders. Just now he is turning out very
handsome work and is giving entire salts
faction to his customers.
p. D. Armour, Jr., is a member Of
"Book and Snake the secret society of
the Yale Sheffield Scientific School that
has just erected an elegant society and
dormitory building called the "Cloister,'
and costing about $4,000.
"A terrible accident is reported from
Water Valley, Miss; a grand stand, on
the 4th fell to the ground with over four
hundred people, throwing them all into a
confused mass; a large number were
badly injured, but no one was killed.
Sable Island, not far from Nova
Scotia, is rapidly disappearing. Year by
year it lessons in extent, threatening soon
to be submerged, and it's existence at no
distant day promises to be as great a
mystery as the location of the mythical
Atlantis. II
Mr.. Mackenzie has arrived in London
from Berlin. He will prepare a profess
ional report on the case of the late En-
peror. He denies several statements at
tributed to him, and states that he will
maintain strict silence respecting the late
Emperor's illness and German politics.
The celebrated "Blue Bills" of
| Sampson have turned out to be q COM