The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-30

who We're travelling when the Ashtabula
disaster took place used it to "play dead
on their wives and skip.out to some other
part of the country. r
There is a beautiful young lady in
Keokuk, Iowa, aged just seventeen, who
is six feet eleven inches in height, and a
local paper. refers to her as "willowy and
exceedingly graceful"
The Statesville Landmark says "You
may be as wise as Solomon and as
strong as Sampson, but you will find o.
the 9Th Of November that If you aren't
registered you can't vote"
An Ohio farmer found his bees get
ting ready to swarm and he .sweetened q;
gallon of whisky and put it out in pans.
The bees got drunk and he had no trouble
in, handling seventeen swarms.
In consequence of the illness of Col.
Julian Allen, coupled with the destruction
of crops by the freshets, ithas been de-
cided by the Iredell County Agricultural
Association to hold no fair this year. +,
We call the attention of our readers
to the advertisement Of Mr.. W. D. Sly
ron, of Norfolk, Va, who offers oyster
shell lime in bulk and sacked. It is yalu-
able, very cheap and readily obtained.
~ The corn crop of the United States
this year, according to the agricultural
reports from Washington City, is nor
mous-the largest, perhaps, ever raised.
This will help against the wheat trust.
Referring to the sensational story
about a subterranean river near White
vile, which has been on it's journalistic
travels several weeks, the Record pro-
unce it " false from beginning to end"
The California State Board of Horti-
culture offers prizes for essays on the best
methods of crystalizing fruits. The insipid
flavor of most crystalized fruit is the OBJ
lection. When this is overcome, the sales
will largely increase.
Judge Sawyer in the United States
Circuit Court has affirmed the constitu-
.tionality of the recent Chinese exclusion
act, and held that all Chinese now in the
harbor, as we'll as those on the way from
China, must be sent back.
An radish, measuring
twenth-eight inches in length and twenty
six inches in circumference, and weighing
twenty-three pounds, is on exhibition at
Naperville, III. The radish was grown in
the garden of Mr.. J. F. Benjamin of that
place.
Up TO Monday, October 22d, there
had been, all told, severe and light, $3.50
cases of yellow fever at Jacksonville, and
1872 deaths. If there has been a death in
hat town within the last three months
from any other cause than the fever it
has not been stated. ,.
An e~xcentric London preacher plac-
arded the city with notices that he would
preach in Surgeons tabernacle on the
subject: ",-;-:-?-L." There was a large
congregation, to whom.he announced the
text: "Stand thou still awhile" and then
said that his subject was "The Pauses of
life" "
Robert Lesson Porter, Scott Partin's
double, has at last taken his departure
for his home in Ireland. The Mews- Oh
server says he expressed his intention of
instituting legal proceedings if necessary
to get possession Of his property when
he arrives there. He seems to think he
will have difficulty in getting his posses
sions. 81. ., ar-s.
The level-headed editor of the South
erm Yeomdn says, with flour going up
and cotton tending down, it behooves the
Southern farmers to look more to raising
all they can at home, for home consump-
ton, and cotton only as a surplus" This
is good reasoning, and is certainly a safe
course for the farmer to pursue the conn.,
ing year. Put in plenty of grain in order
that there may be no scarcity of bread
and meat for home consumption.
So. 4..g+plrEfEaa 90 Is ~ - ~ : stEts# FL .
The match game Of football which
took place at the State Fair two weeks
ago, was between the State University
Club and q club from Wake Forest Col
lege, the latter winning the game. The
game was hetly contested and more or
less exciting; in fact there was an exhibit
ton of such e,robust athletics" as to
cause a good old Baptist brother to re-