The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-04-24
GENER AL NEWS ITEMS.

There are traitors in our camp. !
-S15,O 900 belonging to the State Peni-i
tertiary fund went under with the State
Bank.
Our best information is that Wake
county will stand proudly in the Alexan-
der column. =
"A man of 81 and a girl of l6 were
recently married atf Mouth of Buffalo,
Ashe county.
The U. S. Government now has sos
600, 900 deposited in the various National
Banks of the country.
Lieut.. J.. w. D~anenhower, .. S. N,
of the Jeanette Arctic expedition, died
at Annapolis, Nd, recently.
The shad catch in the Cape Fear is
thirty-three and a third per cent. larger
this season than it ever was.
The records show that there lave
been less than forty deaths in Goldsboro
during the last twelve months.
The conference to settle the dispute
between the United States and Morocco
will meet in Madrid on May LIST.
The German Emperor is reported to
be in a very precarious condition, and his
death may occur at any moment.
DR.. Rondthaler rendered his ~resigna-
ton on Tuesday last as Principal of Salem
Female Academy to 60 into effect May 1st.
The rumoa that Secretary Bayard is
about to become Father-ni-law to the
President is emphatically denied from
Washington.
On Wednesday and Thursday last
good rains fell in several localities in the
State where it was much needed, and, no
doubt, did much good.
The returns this season from shad
fishing in the Cape Fear is unprecedented;
so, 600 have been taken from this stream
alone up to April 10th.
Senator Reagan, of Texas, is n of
the most economical lunchers in WASH
ington, often satisfying his midday APP
petite with pie and milk.
Bob Lincoln, the son of his father
Abraham, is now luxuriating amid the
balmy zephyrs of Cardinals mountains
in the vicinity Of Asheville.
The venerable George Bancroft, aged
some Sc or more, and eminent as an his
torian, has "gone and got married" to a
stately woman of middle age.
"A moonshiner in Stokes county man
ufactured recently forty gallons of
whiskey from four bushels of corn and
ten boxes of concentrated lye.
1t is said that a ton of rope made
from the hair of the women Of Japan is
being used in building the three million
dollar Buddhist temple at Kioto.
The Summerville Journal says when
we get the ocean telephone in practical
operation we may be able to learn at last
what the wild waves are saying.
-"Death on tap in the streets, death
strung on poles" are the readiness in
the New York papers describing the lat
est overhead electric wire murder.
During the first three months of this
year 5000 more migrants arrived at New
York than in the same time last year.
There were %, 945 arrival" in March.
Rev. R. G.. Pearson's great meeting
in Wilmington has closed. During the
meeting there were 1000 conversions.
The old town was never so stirred before.
The Evangelist Pearson was paid
ST. 300 for his three weeks services in
Wilmington. Wouldn't such pay have
astonished old Bro. Paul, the tent maker?
Louisiana went Democratic by at least
80, 900 majority. The overwhelming ma
iority is as great a surprise to the Demo-
Gratis themselves as it is to their oppon-
ents.
Mr.. A. S. Abel, the founder of the
Baltimore San, died at his residence in
that city shortly after 8 o'clock, a. m. on
Thursday morning last, in the sd year of
his age.
"A daily paper suggests that the
great trusts of the country plant mahog-
any as their sacred tree on Arbor Day, on
the ground that they mahogany scheme
to get ahead of them. -
Trusts seem to be organized monopo-