The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-08-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

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1t is said the rate of mortality among
the Indians increases about ten per cent. a
year.
Remember the big Alliance picnic at
Auburn the 29th inst, and be sure to take
your basket. :
Mr.. Walter A. Thompson of Orange
county, al old Mexican veteran, died last
Monday, aged IS years.
Greensboro Female College opened
It's fall SESSION on Wednesday last, with
very fattering prospects.
The Senate passed the bill imposing
more severe penalties for the sending of
obscene matter through the mails.
The Presidential election will take
place just ten weeks from yesterday.
Vote very early, and ave the nation.
Dinner gloves are now worn, and the
responsibility for their introduction is
laid at the door of Mrs. Frances Cleve-
land.
-Dunn's Weekly Circular reports a gen.
eral revival in all kinds of business
throughout the country during the past
week.
In Onslow county Sunday, Susie
Thompson, two years old, was scalded to
death in her fathers house. She turned
over a kettle of boiling water. ~
1t is expected that the wheat crop in
India will reach 10000 bushels of 60
pounds each. This will insure a good in
crease in the quantity exported.
An immense distillery will be built
at St. Louis by a corporation of whole
sale liquor dealers formed to fight the
recently organized whisky trust.
-Guilford College, at New Garden
has opened its first session with excellent
prospects, ia students having been en-
rolled, with a number yet to come.
Since the beginning of the session,
the United States Senate has passed sixty
six public building bills, carrying a ag-
gregate appropriation of 50, 723, 600.
~ The publication of the Presidents
letter of acceptance may be delayed until
after the adjournment of Congress, though
no reason is given why it should be.
A newspaper published in Florence
Italy, says that" during President Blaine's
E,,ronoon visit Co1rroccnon C1ova1apI
has been in charge of the White House."
The Oxford and Durham Railroad
was opened for travel on Tuesday last,
August 21st. It passes through a fine
country which it will very materially aid
in developing.
Three girls assaulted a man on a
Chicago street and attempted to rob him.
They seriously injured him. His cries
brought an officer, and two Of the girls
were captured.
The price of iron has advanced since
the passage of the Mills bill. This is a
sad stroke to the prophecy Of the protec-
%tionists, who predicted a depression Of
the iron market.
Some unknown miscreant lighted a
heavily charged bomb and left it in the
midst Of 500 people at a Prohibition camp
meeting near Lancaster, Pa. Fortunately
it failed to explode.
Thirty young women of Walla-Walla,
Pa, have gone to the beech for a camp
ing season. They are well armed, and it
is certain death for a man to come within
200 yards of their Tents
The Car has sent his portrait to
Emperor William, together with an auto
graph letter, in which he requests the ac-
ceptance Of the gift as a souvenir of "the
beautiful days of Peterhof."
At Morganton, N. c., a joint stock
company has just been organized to build
a sixty room hotel, to have all the modern
conveniences. 1t will be located one
mile northwest of Catawba river.
The sessions of the State Farmers
Alliance were graced by the presence of
two charming young ladies, Miss Ina E.
Ivey, of Seven Springs, and Miss Sallie
Herring, of Kinston, Lenoir county.
We omitted the name of Vance's |
representative in the list of delegates to |
the State Alliance. No county in the
State had a truer or more active repre-
sentative than Vance, in the person Of
Mr.. J. III. Dunn. |
Seth Green, the noted p~isciculturist,