The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Bruges in 1902.
Strawberries are selling at l24 cents
a quart in Fayetteville.
"A canning factory has been i~ncorpo-
rated at Tarboro with $4,000 capital.
The New Berne Journal says the
original F. F. VS.. were the Five Foolish
Virgins.
"A Cooperative Industrial Canning
Company was organized in Wilmington
recently.
Rev. DR.. Deems, of New York, will
deliver the address at Chapel Hill Com
mencement.
"A ten-year-old lad in Grove City,
Pa, hanged himself because his mother
whipped him.
The Western Carolina Savings Bank,
at Asheville, opened for business Mon
day, April 3Oth.
A movement is on foot among the
farmers to hold an agricultural fair in
Asheville this fall.
1.-THE United States are" is correct.
The founders of the Union used the plu-
raj, says an exchange.
Treasury department reports the net
increase in circulation during April to
nave Deer s3,26O,52
A Welsh "scholar" informs the
World that Llewellyn is pronounced
"fthyiluthlin in Welsh.
Thus far, $12,5OO has been secured
for the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton building in Wilmington.
-Amanuensis was the name given to
a slave among the Romans who was en-
ployed in writing for his master.
Read Mr.. John Van Lindley's letter
in this issue on the fruit crop prospect.
He is high authority in such matters.
Over one million of names were
signed to the petition circulated by the
Knights of Labor in favor of a postal tel
egraph.
The 25th annual meeting of the Medi-
cal Society of the State of North Carolina
will be held in Fayetteville on Tuesday,
May 9Th, 1888.
The exquisitely beautiful and charm
ingly refined daughters of Col. Bob Inger-
sol are said to be even stronger atheists
than their father.
A mountain rat, ten inches high, and
about a foot long, captured on the island
Park On. " menagerie.
Governor Scales has issued a procla-
nation offering a reward of 5000 for the
arrest of James Chavis, charged with the
murder of Angus Prevatt.
"A Buffalo photographer mixed up
the photographs of twenty different babies
and asked their mothers to pick them
out. Only four mothers hit it right.
-Asheville will nave an election on the
local option question On the LIST Monday
in June next, in Difference to the decision
of Judge McRae in the mandamus case.
The Iowa House of Representatives,
by a vote of sixty-six to twenty-five, has
adopted a constitutional amendment con-
ferring upon women the right of suffrage
in all State elections.
-w7 Vance county hell its conven-
ton Saturday. A dispatch to THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER from j. II. Dunn, c.. A.
Raney and Samuel Watkins says: "Vance
goes solid FOR Alexander"
The city of Baltimore has adopted an
ordinance making it unlawful for any per-
son or corporation to erect a building
with four or more rooms unless such
house shall have a bath tub. The penalty
is 500 for every offense.
The Prince of Wales has been named
honorary colonel of the twelfth regiment
of hussars by the Emperor Francis JOS
eph. Since the death Of Wellington, no
Austrian regiment has had an English
man for honorary colonel.
Rev. w. T. Derieux, of S~partanburg,
S. c., will preach the annual sermon to
the Shelby Female College on Sunday,
June 10th, and Rev. J. L. White formerly
of this city, will deliver the annual adj
dress On Tuesday, June 18th.
"A pneumatic tube company that pro-
poses to blow passengers under the ocean
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