The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-13
NEWS ITEMS.

Hon. JOhn wentworth, better known
as "Long John" died IN Chicago recently.
:-Fifty-one government distilleries are
said to be running at present in Yadkln
county. :: II a. 1:
England and France have agreed to
assist Germany in putting down the East
| African slave trade.
j. A. Swain, ex-treasurer of Knox
vile, Tenn, is charged with being short
in his accounts $4,000.
The Grant family have given "Gen."
Baden ten thousand dollars to "stop his
brother about alleged services.
| Nelson Lee, who was recently killed
in ;Charlestown, W. Va, was found to
have his heart ON the right side of his
body.
Puck says his experience teaches
him that the livery horse is not so much
| of a charger as the fellow who runs the
stable.
The Carolina, Georgia and Northern
| Railroad has been completed from Monroe
as far as Chester, S. c., and is now open
for traffic.
The Prince of Wales has seventeen
brothers-in-law, sixteen %uncles, fifty
seven cousins, and ffty-eight nephews
and nieces. -.
Read in another place in this paper
what is said of the chewing gum habit. 1t,
like whiskey, straight, seems to be an un-
| mixed evil. -
Goldsmith struck near the centre
when he said, Ceremonies are different
in every country but true politeness is
everywhere the same"
Reports of the International Sunday
| school Union show that there are 1904
613 Sunday-school teachers in the world
and II, 8O,267 scholars.
Grace Greenwood, something of an
authority, says that all Partisan women
are not frivolous, any more than all Bos-
ton women are profound.
There is said to be madness in the
royal family of Germany. The mother
of the present Empress2is now an inmate
of an asylum for the insane.
Miss Carrie Miller, of Newberry
county, S. c., died Oct. 9th, from the
effects of concentrated. lye which she
drank by mistake a year ago.
The latest advices from Africa in re-
gard to the safety of the explorer Stanly
are more encouraging. 1t is now consid-
cred certain he is still in the flesh.
The North State the re-
election of Brewer to Congress and gives
him this admonition: "Now, John, don't
know Mr.. Mills if you meet him in the
road"
Rev. S. II. Thompson, pastor of the
Third Baptist Church of this city, has
received a call from the church at South
Boston, Va, and it is thought he will
accept.
The News and Observer, says that on
the night of the election, Mr.. CD. Green,
of Durham, was threatened by a mob of
negroes, and that his house was set on fire
and burned up.
The Commercial Bulletin remarks that
Queen Victoria has not been cruising
around Cowes for nothing. The old lady
- - 49, -a.Jo Droc.Ioo< of Tho Pouo1
Agricultural Society.
The potato crop Of the year is esti-
mated at 21O, OO0, 900 bushels, or about
85.7 bushels per acre. Last year there
were 4O3, 879 bushels exported and $685.
93S bushels imported. K 44-
Mrs.. Carrie Turner'S teacher in the
Little Rock University, committed suicide
by drowning herself in the Arkansas
River October 28th. Unfortunate mar
rage and separation the cause.
Indiana farmers in the vicinity of
Peru are not starving. At a recent politi-
cal demonstration at that place when
Judge Thurman spoke, sixty beeves were
furnished by the farmers for a barbecue.
Exciting times in Chatham. The
Record says, GA little four-year old girl
in this county called a two-year old boy a
radical, which so insulted him that he be-
gan fighting her." No troops were called
for.
We regret to learn that the mills of
Messrs. Renfrow, Phillips & F~underburk,