The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-08-21
NEWS ITEMS.

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The State Fruit Fair was an immense
success as an exhibition. -1ts
The interest onlthe- national debt the
past year was s44,7B,oeE @n:E
Congressman Springer has introduced
a bill to tax the product of all rusts forty
per cent. 2-3. - :
There will be a total eclipse of the
sun January LIST, 1889, visible in the
United States. @5a>21 7r1] @1E.r
Gen. Schofeld has been placed in.
command of the army, with headquarters
at Washington City rrr.,~ fr, yraT /
-hHope is like the sun, which, asewe
journey towards it, casts the shadow of
our burden behind u.s." 81 ~ .~a3~ ,
According to the Baltimore Critic,
about 46 per cent. Of the children of that
city do not attend any school. !
We are glad to note that Rev. G. w.
Sanderlin is rapidly convalescing. He
spoke at Graham on the 18th inst. - =
yellow fever has broken out at Jack
s~onville, Florida. There had been 80
cases and several deaths up to Saturday
night. .es
The Royal Agricultural Society of
England holds it's fair this year in the
great lace manufacturing town at Not
tingham. g,
A. J.. Chambers, of Fl. Worth, Texas,
cut from three and a half acres of millet
grow on his farm near the city, fourteen
tons of millet hay. --
The seventeen months old child of
Mr.. J. E. Taylor of Caswell county,
strayed from home last week, fell into a
river and was drowned.
Wilmington on August 10th, declared
a quarantine against persons from Jack
%sonville and other towns in Florida, on
account of yellow fever.
The sales of public lands by the gen.
eral government during the past fiscal
year amounted to $1l, 900, 900, against
$4,000, 900 the previous year.
The Senate has passed the Hoar
resolution appointing a committee to re-
port upon commercial relations between
the United States and Canada.
There is nothing better calculated to
preserve brotherly love among neighbors
than a fence that COWS can't jump over or
pigs crawl under, says an exchange.
Bear in mind that the Interstate
Farmers Association will hold it's second
annual meeting beginning in this city to-
day. Tuesday, the 21st day of August.
The report that a case of yellow fever
had appeared within three miles of Colds
boro, N. c., has been contradicted, but a
case similar to "yellow jack" was found.
The new Fayetteville Cotton Factory
is being rapidly pushed to completion, and
the Journal says, ere long the hum of the
spindles and the clatter of the looms will
be heard.
"A white man was run over and cut
to pieces by a train, near Taylorsville. 1t
is belle yed that the ~man-whose name
was Calvin Boger-was drunk and asleep
on the track.
The daily newspapers announce that
the Emperor of Germany, Emperor of
Russia, and Emperor of Austria, will
meet at some point on the Austrian from
tier, i'm autumn. --4 a. -
/. Frank Guise, a colored man at Eden,
Miss, July 9th, insulted a member of
Mr.. Ogert's family. Ogert shot Guise
dead, and two of Guise's friends chopped
Ogert's head of.
The Warren county Agricultural So
ciety will hold its first Agricultural Fair
October 10th and I1th. Mr.. H.. A. Foote,
Secretary, says that $1,000 will be offered
in cash premiums.
Mr.. Sol Haas, General Traffic Man.
ager of the Associated Railroads Of the
Carolinas, has resigned the position to
accept a like position on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad.
"A MI. Weathers, who resides in the
suburbs Of the city, has laid upon our
table a mammoth, tomato of the Trophy
variety, which weighs n and a half
pounds, down weight.
Misses Maria and Viretta Reeves,
two maiden ladies, near Parkersburg,
West Va, were awakened on the night
of .Inlu S0th 70 Hnd furo h11rnlarS in the