The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-09-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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phone.
The Cape Fear river arose fifteen feet
on Tuesday last.
According to last accounts the yellow
fever was spreading rapidly at Jackson.
Vile, Fla.
is soul-stirring music that kind
which compels people to applaud with
their, feet?
The ordinary English summer is said
to consist of "tthree fine days and a thun-
der Storm" Sd ~ :.
An interesting revival meeting is in
progress in the Methodist Church at
Newton, N. g. !
The cotton crop has been greatly
damaged by the excessive rains of the
past two weeks: - - ~ a5l. 50.
The Indian government is teaching
the natives that agricultural. Implements
are not evil spirits, -
1t is estimated that the total number
of books in all the American public
libraries is 81, 600, 900. T. z q
-Cabarrus has a new postofice in the
northwestern part of the county called
Rimer's. It was much needed. .
The Cabarrus County Fair opens at
Concord on the 9th of October. An in
teresting occasion is anticipated.
The Chinese Government has refused
to ratify the treaty recently negotiated
between this country and China. ;,
The recent rains seem to have been
general, and it is probable that every Sec
ton of the State has been visited.
Minister Jarvis will resign the
Brazilian mission and return to North
Carolina about the end of the year. So
says rumor. (
ALI of the North Carolina Colleges,
including the University, have opened this
fall with a larger number of students than
ever before. .t-
There will be a grand rally and flag
raising at Pittsboro, on Friday the 18th
of this month. An immense crowd will
be present, of course.
The Newton Enterprise says this has
peer a fine season for preparing wheat
land. Farmers say there will be a great
crop planted this fall.
Both House and Senate pension COM
mittees have reduced the amount of pen
sion proposed for Mrs. Gen. Sheridan
from $4,000 to $4,000.
1t is reported on the street that Rev.
Thos. Dixon, of Boston, late of this State,
has joined the Third Party. The report
lacks confirmation, however.
"A milk-white gopher snake, II feet
6 inches long, and having a part of his
tail cut off, at that, has just been slain
down in Glynn county, Ga. IFS
Rev. DIR. F. M. Hubbard, a venerable
minister of the E~piscopalian Church died
in this city, at the residence of Col. T. M.
Argo, on Saturday, September 1st. !.
AT a meeting of the County and Sub
Business Agents in Raleigh on last Satur-
day, they decided to use Dundee bagging,
which weighs about II pounds per yard.
Don't fret. 1t only adds to your
burden. To work hard is very well; but
to work hard and worry, too, is more
than human nature can stand.-Dr. Bliss:
"A barber at Suez, Arizona, while
shaving a customer last week, was seized
with an attack of hornicidal mania and
cut the customer throat from ear to ear.
The Chatham Record learns that Mr..
Manly Durham, of Hadley township, at
tempted to hang himself on last Saturday,
but was seen and, cut down in time to be
saved. zsry.-g -.., g3.a4 $40
The people of the United States are
using annually not far from 100000
barrels of salt, and there has been a steady
increase of pounds per capita for the last
decade. 20 #-.
The annual Fair of the Catawba In
oustrlaI ASSOCIATION will be held at Hlck-
DRY, Sep. 18th to 2lst, inclusive. On the
first day OF opening, an immense crowd is
expected. G. u.s. 81.
The latest thing in the way of a COM
bine is the Banana Trust" a corner
having been made which is to control the
handling of all bananas shipped to the
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