The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-12-11

versity, was stricken with paralysis in one
side while in attendance upon Conference
at New Berne.
1t is now reported on good authority
that President and Mrs. Cleveland will
take a our through the old world next
spring and summer.
The venerable and much beloved
Jefferson Davis is in very feble health and
it is feared that his end is near at hand.
A grand old martyr.
The Washington Star says the next
House is Republican. There are four
candidates for Speaker-Reed, Mckinley,
Cannon and Burrows.
The terms of rs Presidential post
masters expire before March 18th, and will
doubtless be filled by Democrats. Among
the number is Concord. n. @.
The Pittsboro Record makes this in
teresting announcement: "Our highly
esteemed young Mayor has just passed
safely through an attack of mumps.'
1t is rumored that Mr.. Thos. P. Dew
ereux, Of this city, is to be the next
United States District Attorney for the
Eastern district Of North Carolina.
Bishop Lyman, of this city, is now in
the city Of Rome, Italy, and probably
occupied the pulpit Of the American (Epis-
copaD Church on the first Sunday in this
month.
See the mammoth advertisement of
Messrs. Hume, Minor & Co., and the
liberal. offer contained therin, on the Sth
page of this issue of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The government has given directions
relative to the destruction and disinfec-
ton Of bedding, clothing, etc., in Jockson-
vile, subject to an ordinance of the city
council.
"A call was issued for a constitutional
convention to be held at Jamestown, Da-
kota Territory, December 9Th, to further
the early admission of the Dakotas into
the Union.
Mr.. L. 0. Lougee, treasurer-elect of
Wake county, has declined the position
owing to a mistake in the returns, in his
favor, which he is unwilling to take ad-
vantage of.
The Danbury Reporter suggests to
farmers to try the experiment of raising
rice for their table use, if not for market.
New ground is considered the best adapt
ed for this crop.
The Wilson Mirror says that when
"clothes-pins are selling for a cent a
dozen there is no good reason why a man
should snore in church, and keep his other
brethren from sleeping."
The New York World is disguised
over the constantly recurring pedestrian
displays, and asks if it "is not about time
to substitute something novel for the
idiotic walking-matches.'
There were twenty-three candidates
for admission as ministers at the present
session of the North Carolina Annual
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, at New Berne.
London is again greatly excited over
the attempted murder of a disreputable
woman in Whitechaprl. The woman was
struck once IN the throat with a knife, but
she struggled and freed herself from the
mans grasp. No arrest has been made.
The honor of being the oldest voter
at the recent election is now claimed for
Judge Zephaniah w. Bunce, of Port
Huron township, St. Clair county, Mich.
He was born at Hartford, Conn.,, Nov. IA,
1887, and consequently, will be 1O1 years
old to-day.
The following figures show the per-
centage of increase of the population of
American cities as is shown by the Presl-
dental vote: Baltimore, SO; Chicago, 48;
Buffalo, 40; Brooklyn, 39- San Francisco,
SO; Cleveland, IS; New York, 81; Boston,
81; Cincinnati, 10; Philadelphia, 10; St.
Louis, Is.
1t affords us pleasure to be able to
present to the brotherhood, through the
columns of THE Progressive FARMER to-
day, a life-like picture of our grllant
leader, Capt. Sid. B. Alexander. The like
ness is perfect and we doubt not will be
priced and preserved by all who are so
fortunate as to receive a copy.
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