The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-07-31
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There are $4,000 Chinese in Aus
@tralia, in a total population of a little over
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An old fashioned Methodist camp
August 9TH.
Mrs. Cleveland celebrated her twenty
fourth birthday on Friday, the Goth inst
at Oak View.
Attorney Gen. Garland, who is. in
poor health, is summering at one of the
Virginia springs.
Indications are that Hon. T. G. Skinner
will receive the nomination for Congress
in the First Congressional District.
The list of New York "society,"
people who now write for the press or
the magazines, foots up thirty-two.
The Boston Courier says: "The re-
tired pianist, the retired pugilist and the
retired minister are all expounders."
We are glad that Secretary Saunders
has so far recovered his health as to be
able to resume the oversight of his office.
The small boy and a cigarette de-
stroyed seven bales of cotton on the plat
form at the depot in Charlotte a few days
ago.
On Wednesday last, one hundred and
twenty-seven private pension bills were
taken from the calendar and passed in less
than one hour.
"A bill appropriating $4,000 for the
erection of a government building at
Statesville, N. c., passed the Senate or
Wednesday last.
deep regret, the resignation of Hon. G. V.
N. Lathrop, U. S. Minister to Russia. III
health the cause.
On Tuesday last Cross gave his ten
thousand dollar bail bond, his father, T.
E. Cross, T. B. Wiley and R. G. B. Cooper
becoming his s~ureties.
Read in this issue the wonderful &C
count of the cure of Cancer by the use of
Mrs. Joe Persons Remedy. Send to her
at Kittrells, for printed list of testimonials,
prices, &c. .
The Tobacco Association of North
Carolina composed of all tobacco planters,
manufacturers and dealers, will meet at
Morehead in annual convention, Au-
gust 2Sth.
DIR. Mott, of Statesville publishes a
card in which he denies that he was the
man who was thrown across the commit
tee room in Chicago, during the Chicago
Convention.
There were eleven hundred of the
State Guard in camp at Wrightsville be-
low Wilmington. The Star describes
them as a fine body of men, who are a
credit to their state.
The thirty-fourth annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Atlantic and North
Carolina Railroad Company will be held
at Morehead City, N. c., on Thursday,
the second day of August, 1888.
Judge Fowle and Col. Dockery nave
agreed that their joint canvass of the
State shall begin on the Oath Of August.
Uutil then they will separately continue
to fill appointments already made.
The actress, Fanny Davenport, was
granted an absolute divorce from her
husband, Edward 81. Price, in New York
City, the decree being filed in the county
court clerks office on the 18th of July.
We failed to witness it %ourself, but
are gratifed to note with what unanimity
the press of the State agree in saying the
eclipse of the moon, on Sunday night,
July 22d, came promptly and successfully
to hand. u.s.
In the United States Senate, on
Thursday last, Judge NJ. w. Fuller, Presi-
dent Cleaveland's appointee, was con-
frmed Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States by a large
majority.
1t is said that So, 900 tons Of Irvine
are annually used in this country by self
binding harvesters. This would be a
string long enough, at FIVE pounds to the
mile, to reach more than six times around
the earth. p.
The Omaha World gets off the fol-
lowing, which it calls, Glove in a pal