The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-07-17
NEWS ITEMS.

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Florida promises to become a large
producer of opium. rf.
Mr.. Gladstone will be 80 years old
at his next birth day.
The press convention meets at More
head City on July Is.
Sheep shearing is generally very
backward this season.
At Shelby, a horse kicked a boy to
death, on Monday last.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia,
has had his life insured for $1,000, 600. 4
"A young lady, near Concord, became
deathly sick last week and vomited a
frog. 1,E H'-
We regret to learn that Judge Gil
mer is threatened with something like
paralysis.
Gen. Diaz has been reelected Presi-
dent of Mexico, by the electoral college
on the 9th inst.
Mrs. Annie II. I%mboden, wife of
Gen. John -D.e%Imboden, died in Rich
mond, Thursday. -. ... ~.
-Blaine's return to America on July
9th, will be celebrated in New York.
Railroads will give half rates.
Jupiter is evening star in the south
eastern sky in the early evening, and
presents a brilliant appearance. .
The Charlotte Chronicle says there
are eight candidates for the nomination
for Sheriff in Mecklenburg county.
"A young man died at Fairfield, s. c.,
Monday last from hydrophobia, resulting
from the bite of a cat nine months age.
"A very dangerous counterfeit $500
note has been discovered in New York.
It is a five dollar silver certificate of the
new issue.
The sales of tobacco in Lynchburg
since October 1st, aggregate co. 900
pounds compared with same months pre-
vious year. . a..
The price paid by the Chicago Stable
for Wheeler T., the three-year-old that
ran a mile in l:1411 at Louisville, is an
nounced as $4,000.
1t is when a man has been mentioned
in the newspapers as one of our most
prominent citizens that he begins to
stay out late nights.
The opera house in Ell Paso, Texas,a
beautiful building, tumbled to the ground
on Saturday night. 1t is a complete
wreck. Nobody hurt.
-Warrenton Gazette: The wife of q.
S. Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, ishere
for health. She is accompanied by her
daughter, Miss Courtner.
Thus far over 80, 900 bushel crates of
huckleberries have been shipped from
Warsaw, Duplin county, and the season
is not more than half over.
w. K. Vanderbilt, who has bought
one thousand acres of land near Asheville,
expects to build a residence on the land
anu occupy IL next summer.
With the last issue of the Charlotte
Democrat that paper entered upon it's 37th
volume-is thirty-seven years of age,--and
was never better than at present.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the
World, is blind. He has sailed for Europe
in the hope of having his eyesight re-
stored by rest and expert treatment.
Good manners is the art of making
those people easy with whom we 0 n
verse. Whoever makes the fewest per-
sons uneasy, is the best bred in the COM
pany.
The damage to the Presbyterian
church at Blowing Rock by lightning,
has been repaired, except the cupola.
Additional funds are required to COM
plete the cupola.
information throughout Catawba,
Caldwell. Burke, Mcdowell and Cleve-
land counties, point to splendid crop
prospects. Tobacco is yet small, but
growing rapidly.
Mr.. Turner King, of Winston, COM
mitted suicide on the 5th by taking laud-
anum. Adversely had overtaken hiro.
He was As years old and leaves a wife
and six children.
Mr.. Wesley D. Cole, of Chatham
county, committed suicide last week by