The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-29
NEWS ITEMS.

Iue II I'll Nhdy.
Col. Chas. r. Jones will soon revive
the Charlotte Observer as an evening
paper.
There will be $40 delegates in the
Democratic National Convention at St.
Greensboro is moving for a telephone
exchange, which is said to be much
needed.
The defalcation of Tate, the abscond-
ing treasurer of Kentucky, now foots up
s247, 900.
"A French paper speaks of "Mr.
Powderhorn, President of the American
Knights of Labor"
Delegates to the Democratic State
Convention will be passed over the various
railroads at excursion rates.
Col. John A. Fagg, of Asheville,
aged 81 years, died suddenly May 23d.
He was an officer in the Mexican war.
-Dutchville Alliance in Granville was
organized the I'd of March with six men,
bers and it now numbers 100 members.
The County Alliance of Davidson
will be organized by DR.. D. R. Parker,
Deputy organizer, on the 22d day of June.
The State Democratic Nominating
Convention which meets in this city to-
morrow will be composed of 961 dele
gates.
The citizens of Salisbury will take a
census of the population of their town.
The list takers give their services free OF
cost to the town.
Rev. F. L. Reid, of the Caristian
Advocate, will fill the unexplred term of
the late DR.. n. Fl. D. Wilson, Presiding
Elder of this destrict.
-Powderly is more or less discomposed
because Congress has disregarded the pc
titions of the Knights of Labor for a Gov
eminent Telegraph line.
The free delivery of mail matter at
the residences of people desiring it is re-
ouired by law in every place containing
not less than 20, 900 inhabitants.
-Chas. T. Caldwell, at Parkersburg,
West Virginia, a lawyer and well known
as a strong infdel, has protested religion
and become a minister Of the Gospel.
The London Lice Stock Journal says
that on March 18th a eve in Shubshlre
gave birth to six lambs, each of usual size,
but that only two of them lived.
The bar steward of n of the Euro
pean steamers reports that on n trip
from the United States last summer his
receipts were $4,000 in seyen days.
President Cleveland was born IN
Caldwell, Essex county, N. D., on March
10Th. 1887, so that he is now IN the
neighborhood of ffty-one years OF age
The States of Guanajuato, Michoacar
and Guerrero in Mexico, have suppressed
bull fighting and other Mexican States
are expected soon to follow their ex'
ample.
Roscoe Conkling disposed of S2OO,OO(
worth of property in a will of seven lines
An exchange well a y there. will be nc
fat pickings for lawyers in a contest O.
that document.
Mr. Samuel Leary, of Colerine, Der
tie county, N. c., committed suicide a
that place Friday Morning May 10Th by
.u Io,don1m He was a married man
Cause unknown.
1t is stated in Washington. upol
what is considered good authority, tina
Judge Fullers' appointment to be Chic
Justice of the Supreme Court wilabe con
irmed at an early day.
Among the new doctors licensed tt
practice medicine at Fayetteville recentl
there is one white lady and two negr
men. The two men were prepared a
Shaw University, this city.
Eight hundred and thirty Farmers
Alliances had been organized up to Fri
day night last. The work is going o.
more rapidly now than at any Time sine
! the movement commenced in the State.
IL "A recent cyclone in Indiana over
threw and scattered to the four winds a
extensive brewery, ato which, it is sale
the temperance people of the State re
sponded with Almost hearty "Ah-men"
John Grogan, aged l6, and Nanpi
var,on good IL Of .ReidSyille. eloped t