The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-09-25

polntments for q joint canvass between
Messrs. Fowle and Dockery.
In the .oyerfowed districts of the
Roanoke river, in portions of Halifax, the
water stands fifteen feet above the tops of
the corn; AN such corn is a total loss.
The tax list of Wake having been
turned over to Sheriff Rogers, he notifies
the tax-payers7to" come forward and pay
the same athis office in.the city of Raleigh.
A human subject without collarbones
has been met with ina St. Louis dissectr
ing room. This structure is. that.of most
of the, vertebrates such as lions, bears,setc.
"A remarkable photo-engraved chart
Of thei Pleiades, showing 2,326 stars from
the third to the seventeenth magnitude has
been produced at the Paris Observatory.
The latest political fad = Is a Cleve-
land hat with portraits of Cleveland and
Thurman printed on a miniature bandana
inside the hat So says the Wilmington
Sar.Ia4Ea MAQtoWaH~, !.
Miss Laura Cook, of Chicago, was
struck by lightning while.on the summit
Of, Pixies Peak, and knocked senseless.
She was seriously though not dangerously
injured. nj .axAlsat 1sgc
! Mr. earson's meeting is in progress
in Winston, and the Tsoin City Daily
says: "There is no doubt that Mr.. Pear
son is making q deepiimpression upon our
people," So
Gov, Scales has been invited to open
the Durham Exposition, and Capt. S. B.
Alexander, of Mecklenburg, has been in
vited to deliver. an address appropriate
to the occasion. hos. cdr ZH,Et.I~
The Oxford Female. Seminary, Ok
ford, N. c., has the best opening of its
history and Pres. Hobgood expects an en-
rollment Of one hundred and fifty during
the school year, ,,,i.rya 81 .s
Whats in. a name I'm the city of
Wilmington last week true bills Of indict-
ment were found against Thomas Jefer-
son, Walter Scott and Jos. E. Johnson,
charged with larceny. t..
On Wednesday last, the United States
Senate, at the instance of Mr.. Edmonds
of Vermont, adopted q joint resolution
appropriating 100000 for ths relief of
the yellow fever sufferers. !;
The Weldon Fair will be held this
year on the 3Oth and 3lst of October and
the LIST and I'd of November. The
premium list is ont and the prospects for
q good fair are very bright, 800
On Monday night, the 18th inst. the
First Baptist Church of this city, in con-
ference assembled, tendereda unanimous
call to Rev. DR.. J. M. Frost, Of Selma,
Ala, to become their pastor.
Somebody in New York City who
contributed IL, 1000 to the Jacksonville
sufferers, created a great sensation by re-
fusing to give his lame for publication.
Everybody asks tHWho ishe."
1Since the breaking out of Yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, less than six
weeks ago, it is said that 10000 people
have left that unfortunate city, and sought
in higher regions of country.
Coal is now found in about thirty
different States of the Union and seven
Territories. In 1887 the little State of
Rhode Island supplied 5000 tons out Of
the total product Of 123, ee5,255 tons.
An old man in Caswen, who had
been married twice, is 3reported to have
run away last week with his brothers
sixteen-year-old daughter, and left five
children behind. He was 60 OF 70 years
old. IS III -
Thirty years ago there were less than
5000, 900 ons of coal a year taken out of
the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania;
last year the output was 100000 tons,
an average increase of over 1000, 900 a
year.
R. D. johnson was convicted of
in Robson county and sentenced
to five years in the ~penitentiary. He
to having fifteen wives and said
it was cheaper to marry than to move a
G...l, u 5ezi4I -
The Chatham Home says The finest
onion we ever saw WA brought to our
office a few days ago. 1t was beautifully
shaped, was Is inches IN circumference |
md weighed one pound eleven and a half