The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-09-04

same n viii commune III as an uncOm-
promising Democratic journal. ftr
Cracks in stoves and stove-pipes are
readily closed by a paste made of ashes
and salt with water. Iron turnings or
filings, sal ammoniac and water make a
harder and more durable cement.
Frank and Elam Hall attacked Jacob
Parvey, aged sixty-fve, at Nashville, Ind.
Parvey seized an IKE and split Franks
skull open, killing him instantly, and then
struck Elam MORALLY wounding him.
There is a ,speck of wal in the Euro
pean news, growing out of the relations
between France and Italy regarding the
seizure of Massewah, with Germany and
Austria in league with the latter power.
Attention is directed to the new ad-
-vertisement Of Messrs. Yancey and Stron-
ach which appears in to-days issue of THE
PRoGREss1vE Farmer. These gentlemen
are square dealers and thoroughly reliable.
g AT Vienna last year, a63 jews be-
came Christians, and another paper says
that "at nc period since the first century
have conversions from Judaism to Chris
tianity been so frequent as they are at
present" M ,"'' J." E..' @
DO you want any Sheet Music, or
small Musical instruments or Organs or
Pianos? If so read the advertisement of
Hume, Minor & Co., of Richmond Va, in
our paper, and write them. Send for
catalogue. .t"#5 *a# n H-
observer Lyons, reported the occur
renee of "killingg frost" for the FIRST time
this season at. ST.. Vincent, Minnesota,
where the temperature fell to 80 degrees
before sunrise on the morning of the 18th
of August. 81 .~ .ss,.a va.ni
q in London dressmakers and others
are fined heavily for allowing their girls
to work owe hours in the shops. Jay,
the great mourning storeman, was re-
Gently up in the police, court on a charge
Of this sort. -,
From the Alamance Gleamerrwe learn
that on the 2lst of August, near Belle
mont William, the IL year old son of A:J
Capps, fell under a wagon and n of the
wheels run over his head peeling off
almost the entire scalp.
The, establishment of the Raleigh
Chamber of Industry is a movement in
the right direction and augurs well for
the future of the City of Oaks. A city to
be permanently prosperous must become
q manufacturing centre. fa u*Iei
1t is stated as a positive fact that the
tobacco suit of McElwell VS.. the W. T.
Blackwell Tobacco Company has once
more been decided in favor of Blackwell
time at Salisbury. 1t is to be hoped
this settles it finally. te.- .lfv
, The San Francisco Chronicle puts it
very nicely as follows: "When you
know all about a thing it loses all interest.
1t is the imagination playing upon a sus-
that gives it all those beautiful
colors which gossip delights in"
lit is said that the late j. L. Stone
of ttiscity had his life insured in
three companies, for the benefit of his
wife and children, to the amount of
twenty thousand dollars. We are glad to
hear this and hope it is entirely true.
The declarations of the Alliances and
Oranges. against the use Of gunny bag
ging, says the Tarboro Southerner, are
the merchants more concern than
they are willing to admit, but they are
not buying ove stocks of bagging, just
the same. tp~lin5ASfE-t L.<@ g.
The island of Foula, one of the Shet-
lands, is for sale. It is three miles long
by two broad, and it is famed for it's
rocky coasts and abundant wild fowl, and
one of the few spots in Great Britain
in. which the great skua, O very rare bird,
still lives. :. aya5g sraqa .t--d"
The State Of Arkansas held her State
yesterday; Vermont will vote to-
day; Maine, September 10th, and Geor-
gia, October Sd. These are all the State
elections which will occur until Noyem-
Der 9th, when the Presidential election
place. . al
1t is said that Rev. DR.. j. s. Watkins.
of the First Presbyterian Church
IF this city, was a passenger on his way
lome from an extended tour of Europe,
IN the German steamer "Thingvalla,"