The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-07-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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"A shower of honey is the latest and
rarest thing in Monroe. d.
The Durham p~ostoflce has been
raised to a s~econd-class Office. %t
Lee. Aderholt, Of CASTOR, was shot
and killed on June 3oth, by Bill or Dan
Thornburg.
There are laws against using p~rofane
language by telephone in all States except
Connecticut.
If it takes a very dry June to pro-
duce a very good crop, we may look for
an abundance.
The shipping of huckleberries from
Clinton, Sampson county, has amounted
to as much as $500 per day.
The Madison Leader tells of a shower
of frogs which fell in the Douglas neigh
borhood, Rockingham county.
Greensboro is making extensive pre-
parations for a Firemans Grand Tourna-
ment September 18th and 18th.
"A lily, jet black in color, and glossy,
is a new thing among florists of Califor-
MIA. 1t emits an unsavory odor.
Abbot Leo Haid has been conse-
Grated Bishop Of Messenia and appointed
Vicar Apostolic Of North Carolina.
The handsome and spacious Battery
Park Hotel at Asheville is being enlarged
by a wing, which is to cost $4,000.
The Merrimon Church has purchased
10000 acres of land in the State Of
~Chehuahua, Mexico, for colonization.
w. NJ. Dye of Jesup, Ga, has a hair
less cow. He says she sheds off every
spring and takes it cool through the sum-
mer.
Mrs. Mary Nantz has a farm of 200
acres in Butte county, Cal. The wheat on
it will give her a profit Of 50, ZOO this
year. . - f- ...~
The Womans Bicycle Club at Wash
ington City, has upwards of seventy
members, ages ranging from 16 to 80
years.
OF the 5,4OO, 900 foreign emigrants
who have come to this country within the
last fourteen years, 1891 400 had no call
ing or trade. t4...
The height of Interpretation: A
man in Akron, Ohio, burst a blood vessel
the other evening while laughing at n
of his own jokes.
The Messenger accomplished its first
year in Wilmington with the 18th issue
of June. 1t has done well, and we wish
it may more years.
The National Temperance Hospital
of Chicago, founded two years ago, has
treated successfully seven hundred pa
tients without alcohol.
"A white robin settled at Fryeburg,
Me-, this spring. He is entirely white
except his head and a stripe down the
top Of each wing, which are black.
The latest thing in envelopes is an
article which will turn black, blue and
red when any inquisitive person attempts
to open it by the use of steam or water.
The hu%ckleberries shipped from Gin
ton last week brought back into the place
upon an average of $500 per day, and
this was not the half of that shipped from
the county.
One of F~orepaugh's elephants, the
other day in New Jersey, had his back
covered with a mustard plaster to ease
his pains, and it took % pounds of mus
tard to do it.
Some brother wrote US a hurried let
ter on the 9Th inst. from Huntly, N. c.,
asking for answer by telegraph, but omit
ted to give us his name, and of course we
could not answer.
There is a couple in Wilkes county,
Georgia, who have been married about
forty years, and during that time the wife
has never asked the husband for any
money except ten cents.
Bro. Lindsay, of the Keenersville
News, has finally decided to accept the
position rendered him by authorities of
the Staunton Deaf and Dumb institution,
and will dispose of his paper.
"A new post office has been estab-
lished at Mr.. D. Men. McKays in Harnett
county. It is called Dickinson, and is on
the route from Dunn to Ellington. Mr..
D. Men. Mckay, Post Master.