The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-30
NEWS ITEMS.

C0IlD6I OUQ.
The Argonaut is the name of a new
Democratic paper just started at Nashville,
N. G. rtz.
Wild geese have been seen flying
South in great focks. Look out for
squalls. 49,.
Josh Billings remarks that silence is
never more golden than when the silent
partner has the Doodle. IT,, !
d. The Prince of Wales won s15,O 900.
and broke the roulette game during his
recent visit to Hamburg. $50, a.
The North State remarks that the
longest session of Congress ever heldter-
minated on the 10th inst
The Rocky Mount Agricultural and
Mechanical Association will be held on
November 14th, 18th and 10th. ,iaI
On the 21st inst. there was a heavy
snow storm in Northern Minnesota. At
Tower if fell to a depth OF, Is inches.
Miss Eva Ingersoll, the charming
daughter of Col. "Bob," is known at
Saratoga as "The Grecian Goddess"
United States Commissioner, Thos.
R. Purnell, of this city, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect November lst
The London poetess and novelist
Miss Mary Robinson, after her marriage,
with Prof. James Darmaster will live in
Paris.
"A newspaper man in luck. G. c..
Brown, a Duluth editor, patented a safety
car truck and sold a two-third interest for
100000.
William Dabney and wife of Garden
City, Kansas, have gone to England to
get 500, 0OO, 900 and a title, left them by
relatives. '-
Statistics of the cost of public educa-
ton in Prussia has just been published.
They show that the cost is fifteen cents
per head.
A syndicate has been formed by citi-
zens of Statesville for the purpose of de-
~veloping a valuable corundum find near
the town. .. ,-
ALI the prisoners have made their
escape from Jail at Troy, Montgomery
county, by cutting through the walls of
the building.
On the 22d inst. the Supreme Court
of the United States sustained the con
stutionality of the prohibition law of the
State of Iowa..
Rev. Sam Jones is conducting a
series of revival meetings in a tobacco
warehouse in Durham, and vast crowds
flock to hear him.
The largest china vase in the world is
eleven feet high, is valued at $4,000,
and it took eight years to make it-at
Hanley, England.
Miss Nina Lee Hardee, of Lenoir
county, will accept our thanks for a very
interesting letter which appears in this
issue of our paper.
The New Orleans Picayume gets off
this bit of smartness: "There are four
kinds of tobacco-the long cut, short cut,
fine cut and Connecticut.
John L. Porter, who designed and
constructed the Merrimac, the first IRON
clad ever built, is welding a broadax in
the navy yard at Norfolk.
How true this is. An exchange says:
"The typewriter has banished much bad
handwriting, but it can't overcome bad
grammar and bad spelling.
The Weldon Fair will be held Octo-
Der Both to November I'd. Rocky Mount
Fair, November 18th to 18th. Cumber-
land County Fair, November 18th to 18th.
j. M. Currin, of Granville, took the
highest premium On new wrappers at the
Richmond Exposition; ]. d. Cooper, of
Vance the first premium on new cutters.
Maj. Dowd, who is winding up the
affairs of the old State National Bank,
hopes to be able to declare another divi-
dend of 20 per cent. by the LIST of January
next.
Pauline Mccoy, a negro girl aged
19, was hanged at Union Springs, Ala,
Friday, for the murder of Annie Jordan,
a fourteen-year-old white girl, last Feb
ruary. :, -.
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During the first eight months, ending
September l, 1887, there were 362, s3s
immigrants landed in the Tinted States