The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-04-03
NEWS ITEMS.

cartridges and other game went into
effect on Sunday last, April LIST.
United States Treasurer Hyatt has
adopted a new seal for U. S. notes and
certificates as an additional safeguard
against counterfeiters.
Who would not be a banker,
And with the banker stand,
With the safe-key in his pocket,
And his 'g1ip-sack in his hand?
Mrs. SessumS, wife OF a commercial
traveller, accuses her husband, with whom
she did not live, of poisoning their five
children, Sunday, at Houston, Texas.
Mr.. Fred Stowe, of Guilford county,
who was bitten by a mad dog last week,
sent to Charlotte for a maidstone and ap-
piled it to the wound with satisfactory
results.
We desire to state that The Pro-
cREss1yE FARMER nor it's editor has ever
had any business relations with j. L..
Stone, of this city, except to advertise his
furniture house.
Until a Chief Justice shall be ap-
pointed, Justice Miller will be acting
Chief, and his official title is Senior Asso-
ciate Justice. All writs and other papers
are thus signed by HIM. ...
1t is said that a man in st. Paul, who
owns a fish pond, has tanned a large trout
so that it comes at his call, eats from his
hand and shows it's delight by turning
somersaults out of the water.
Col. A. B. Andrews visited the town
of Winston, on Thursday of last week,
and paid to it's citizens as much as $4,000
in cash for right of way out OF town for
the Wilksboro railrord extension.
An explosion occurred in mine No. e,
at Rich Hill, NO., at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon of the 29th of March. One
hundred miners were buried. Forty dead
bodies have already been taken out.
-"Foreign Fun" is the title OF a lee
ture to be delivered in Greensboro, on
April 18th, by Rev. Edmund Hez Sven,
of Washington. D. c., for the benefit OF
the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasvllle.
N. G.
Congress adjourned on "Wednesday
last. the 29th of March, or account OF the
funeral services of the late Chief Justice
Waite, which occurred on that day in the
hall of the House of Representatives, be-
ginning at noon.
A steel steamboat, to cost $4,000, is
being constructed to run on the upper
Mississippi, the expectation being that II
will make the trip from St. Louis to st
Paul in half the time required by the OK
listing wooden craft.
The House Committee on the revis-
ion of the laws has agreed to report
joint resolution providing the election OF
United State Senators by a direct vote OF
the people, the same as the members OF
the House of Representatives.
The annual Commencement of 1ad-
kin College High School is announced fol
Thursday, the 23d day of May. Rev. W
A. Burch, of the Davidson Circuit, NJ. P
Church, will preach the annual sermon or
the Sunday preceding commencement
day.
1t is said that the Bank of New Yorl
has a check yellowed by fire which wa
drawn by Aaron Burr Aug. IA, 1874, ant
also another check drawn by Talleyrant
and Gulian Verplanck. 1t is now nearl!
los years since the bank was established
Charles E. Daily, lately employed by
a sewing machine company in Troy, fel
heir, three weeks ago, to an estate valued
at 100000 through the death of hi
father in Queen Anne county, Md. HI
started to attend his fathers funeral, bu
was taken ill and died Thursday, 18th ult
The amount of gold, silver am
United States and National bank note
in the treasury March 18th was $3.50,
AIS, O44; certificates outstanding, gold
$e4,27O,5s1; silver, 3d. $3.50, 795; cur
rency, S1O,225, 900; internal revenue re
ceipts, $255, 1913; customs, $155,266.
-Four trunks containing opiumto tn
value of SIG, 600 were stopped by tn
customs officers at Windsor, Mich, o.
Thursday, March 10Th. They wer
checked from British Columbia and wer
claimed by a Hebrew who had then
shipped back to the Canadian interior.