The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-06
NEWS ITEMS.


Miss Braddon is just 80 years old and
has written just so stories.
The Charlotte Democrat will continue
to be published as a weekly.
A mining company in St. Louis is
composed entirely of women.
The Methodist Conference meets in
New Berne on November 20th.
Minneapolis bakers nave fixed the
price of bread at seven cents a loaf.
The Lenoir and Blowing Rock Tele-
graph Company completed their line.
Ladies of stately build have been in
the majority at Saratoga this summer.
The Baptist State Convention will
meet in Greensboro November 18th 1888.
AT the Richmond Exposition a hogs
head of premium Burley tobacco sold for
over $4,000. .-
The Sultan of Turkey has ordered a
number of type-writers for the ladies
of his harem.
Miss Harriet Hosmer is at Bar Har-
Dor, and is said to be writing a psyche
logical novel.
There is now no lumber in the Cana
dian market. All of next seasons cut
has been sold.
Mr.. Lowrie has retired from the Mt.
Airy Neaos, and Rev. o. w. Haywood
takes charge of the paper.
The amount of loss to creditors in
England and Wales through bankruptcy
last year was $35, ,525.
The Woman's Equal Rights Party
have nominated a 26 year old girl for
Governor of Massachusetts,. f.
New Bedford, Mass, was visited on
the night of October 2Sth, with two we'll
defined earthquake shocks.
Great restitution prevails in Dakota
because of the failure of the wheat crop,
and an appeal is made for aid.
"A Durham man, named J. T. Will
kins, got a Vermont wife through an adj
fCIUlSCIlCuGl l. q Id luIOLldi pdpCl.
"A st. Louis veterinary surgeon, who
was formerly a dentist, is doing quite a
business filling decayed teeth in horses.
There are $4O2, 900, 900 in mortgages
on lands, lots and chattels in Illinois, of
which $142, OOO. 600 are in farm mortgages.
Cornell University has put up a new
building which will be devoted to the
scientific breeding of bugs and other in
sects.
The New York Bureau of Encum-
brances has removed 2ll telegraph poles
and 269, 727 feet of wire from the streets
of that city.
The peanut trust with headquarters
in Norfolk, Va, which controlled ninety
per cent. of the peanut trade of the coun-
try has dissolved.
Americans have captured fifteen
diplomas, twenty-six gold, six silver and
three bronze medals, at the Brussels In
ternational Exposition.
"A San Francisco jury estimates a
mans legs at $4,000, at least that is the
verdict gwen George Smith, whose legs
were paralyzed by an n injury.
AS a result of the Sam Jones meet
ings in Durham, the Plant says, about $50
persons have connected themselves with
the various churches of the city.
1t is given out that President Cleve-
land will not vote this year, while it is
said Senator Thurman declares it to be
his purpose to vote at all hazards.
The Cherokee Indians, about 1900
in number, who have a home in western
North Carolina, will remove to their reser-
walton in the Indian territory this month.
-Four little negro children were burned
to death on Thursday, October 25th at
Winston. Their father, Walter Porter,
shut them up in the house and went off
to pick cotton.
The State Grange of North Carolina
Patrons of Husbandry, will meet this year
in annual session in Kinston, Lenior
county, beginning on the second Tuesday,
the 18th of December.
The National Exposition at Augusta,
Ca, opens Nov. 9Th and closes Dec. 18th.
Excursion tickets will be sold every
Tuesday and Thursday good for ten days,
to return On any train. rn i
- L.