The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-09
NEWS ITEMS,

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
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-The Far promises to be 9 grand Of
fair. as S-. F.
Keep your fingers. from among the
cotton-gin knives.
Garlic has been administered in ny;
drophoJia with good results. i
SENATOR Vance will speak at the War,
renton Fair to.sffnnorrow-Wednesday.
The number of students at Wake.
Forest College, up to this date, is 1913.
Snow Tell in Charlotte on Tuesday
morning last, according to the Chronicle.
The appropriations for postal Service
for the year 1889 are about S61, 900, 1000!
Last year 24esAmericah Baptist min
istersdiedatTheir averagesage w~assixty-
hve:years. < "
~ 1t cost sthe Emperor. of Austria
100000 to entertain the Czarof: Russia
three y go td2uo1r *
Some. Georgia sfarneEs have. found
that this years watermelon crop. will pay
them 500 per acre. -s.. at.,~
When you come to the Fair next.
week, do not forget to subscribe for The.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER. - '|%
1t is proposed to build a cinder path
p - - e 49, = - e -
three-feet wide, between New York and
New Haven for bicycles. f'N
Rev. R. 6. Pearson was to have COM
menced a series of religious meetings in
Goldsboro ON Sunday last. -.
"A military company of young ladies
at Charleston, West Virginia, to the num-
Der of thirty-fve, has been organized.
"A French electrician claims that he
will soon be able, to produce a thunder
storm whenever and wherever desired.
We are rejoiced to note that the yell
low fever scourage has about run Its
course and is rapidly abating at all points.
"A Massachusetts, couple were married
in the basket of a balloon just before its
ascension and took their wedding tour in
the air.
1T is anomalous, says the Tarboro
Southcrner, but true, that the best cotton
is on the land which received the least
work this year.
The bronze statue of the poet Long
fellow, erected by, his fellow-townsmen
of Portland, Me-, was unveiled Saturday,
September 29th. ~..,.r-
AT Durham warehouses there will be
no sales of tobacco this week, on account
of the Exposition, except for the sale of
premium tobacco.
Wheat has advanced enormously
within the last ten days, and the indica-
tons point to a considerable rise in the
price of ~breadstuffs generally.
-Lida Pratt, Nebraska girl, chose for
her graduating essay the subject: "Pos-
sibilities of, the Broom" and in three
weeks received an offer of marriage.
Professor Corlew, formerly of Char
lotte, and a Graded school superintendent,
is now a waiter in a New York restaurant.
He deserted his wife and went to the bad.
The rapidity with which cotton is
opening is unprecedented, and hundreds
of bales are pouring into the city daily.
but thus far not a stran of jute bagging
has been associated with it. 3!
The Greensboro gun club has offered
a reward of ten dollars for evidence sufh-
Gent to convict anycitizenI of that town
of violating the game law by killing part
ridges before October 10Th. 1aet4 aslf.
Let the people of the State give Dur
ham a rousing crowd at the approaching
Exposition. She has F" put the big pot in
the little one" and all who attend may
expect a pleasant occasion.
Cherokee county has voted $4,000
to aid in building a road from Chatta-
nooga to Murphy, and this, it is said, in
sures its construction. 1t will open up
one of the finest countries in the world
Sam Small, the Georgia sensational
ist, who was a candidate for the State
Senate in the Atlanta district, was de-
feated by Rice, the regular Democratic
candidate, Riee's majority being 1882.
The youngest millionaire in Chicago
is Cyrus 81. McCormic, who is only 20
and is at the head Of the extensive reaper