The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-09-04
NEWS ITEMS.
The. eettorf picking season is on.

Inc summer Is enUeu. Ilo" youi
accounts? t -
The verdict of the appointed Judges
is that British grown tobacco cannot be
made to pay. ia
The Charlotte Cotton Compress was
burned last week. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance $780, 0O.
-Four men at. Gainesville, Fla, in
twenty days killed 600 alligators for their
hides and teeth. esq ". pi.# "@f
1t is reported that Is, OOo, 600 cotton
wood trees have been planted in South
west Kansas this year.
California expects a wine crop of
25,OOO,O 900 gallons this year, an increase
of 5000, 900 overilast year. '> !.
The ship st. Francis, which arrived
at Tocoma, w. T., last week from Japan,
brought over $4,000 bricks.
Five hundred dollars per acre has
been, paid in some cases in. England this
year for cherries on the trees. '-asb ~
IA NewtYork correspondent counted
fourteen millionaires in a groupe on the
piazza Of a Saratoga hotel.
Serious trouble prevails in Louisiana
between the blacks and whites, and a
tragic result is not unlikely. .sc2asavru
One of the old Yale buildings-the
pre-Revolutionary laboratory on the cam
pus-was burned last Tuesday.
According to a conclusion of the
recent international Medical Congress in
Paris: Don't kiss a oonsumptive. 81
r The man who pays s23 for a suit of
wooden clothes, gets SO worth of protec-
ton and S14 worth of clothes. Fact
The editor of the Clinton Caucasian
says he saw in that town on Tuesday last
a stalk of rice seven feet. and six inches
high. ...,a: Is EI-... ,f"- - & Tns
The Civil Service Commission finds
itself without any money for printing
purposes, the appropriation having been
exhausted.
1t is probable that the meeting of
our National Alliance will be heldin
Nashville, Tenn, instead of Meridian,
Mississippi. ,'a ." ..'
With sunset of Wednesday, Septem-
Der 5th, the Jews, the world over, will
celebrate the eve of their New Years
Day of the year 5.649. ..#T
Mrs. Eli. Cartwright was fatally in
jured and her baby killed Monday night
23d ult., at Norfolk, Va, by the explo-
sion of a kerosene lamp ..~0.it- '''.
The Elizabeth City Fair will be held
in that city on the 18th, 18th and 18th of
October. The exhibit of stock is expected
to be unusually fine this year. a-.a-
The monument erected to the MEM
DRY of the late Capt. RandolphA. Shot
we'll will be unveiled at Oakwoed Gene
terry on Wednesday. October Sd.
The Warren countyAgricultural So
ciety holds its first annual fair October
+ 10th and 18th. The secretary says that
$1,000 will be offered in cash premiums.
Mr.. Daniel Finger, of Catawbacounty,
has a patch of corn which is hard to beat
for years. Some stalks have FIVE, some
four, and but few have less than three
ears. - -,a+r r - .t-,. 4>ii s:I-
The Princess Henrietta, aunt of EN-
perorl William of Germany arrived in
New York Saturday with her husband,
Prof. Won lEsmark, the famous German
surgeon. 49, : 121
Mr.. G. R. Lee, Ticket Agent of the
N. c. Railroad in this city, having ten
dered his resignation, our genial friend P.
G. Hardie, Esq, has been appointed to
succeed him. Lob OIL Hr'1'-a H'f ~
The very able article which appeared
in these columns last week under the cap
ton, "The Trust Banditti," should have
been credited to the Pacific Rural Press,
of San Francisco. s.., ---,
Several of the State papers arescaH-
ing upon the farmers to plant more large
ly OF Irish potatoes, because "they are
scarce always and must be brought into
the State from abroad"
Yellow fever has held Jacksonville,
n of Florida's prettiest towns, in it's
deadly clutches for the past five weeks,
during which time, out of LAG cases, there
has been a total Of 81 deaths. F7Ras -