The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-16

Mr.. w. T.. Hines, OF GOldSborO, who
owns a fish pound in Lenoir county, sold
the othefiday to Mr..H. =. Ham a pair of
German carp for SIC.
The total number of cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville is said to have been
about 2, 500 from first to last. The death
have reached nearly 800.
Here is n mans experience. He
says: az got more eggs last year from
twelve pure Leghorns, than I did from
eighteet common hens"
-Thos. Edison, the great inventor,
thinks he has an antidote for yellow fever.
He has been experimenting with gasoline,
exhigoline anda solution of caustic soda.
a university is said to have. been
founded at Bologna by Theodosius about
;4333, but the real date of the establishment
of the University of B~oulogne was 111e.s,
Quite a number of the brethren have
entered the lists and will strive for the
splendid premiums offered by The Pro
eREss1vE FARMER. Who will get them?
From interviews with leading bakers.
of Chicago, Il was asecaertained that in their
opinion -four will advance until a pound
loaf oflbread will costa cent more than
now. 1i 55z- * .~.. a..
little may nothave knownit, but Sena-
tor Vance delighted the Alliance men at
Durham on last Friday with one of the
finest Alliance speeches they had ever
heard. -,
Mrs. M. T. Yates, widow of the late
great Missionary, has sent a gift of $4,000
to the Students Aid Fund of Wake Forest
College, of which College the Doctor was
a graduate.
The hunters may now chase and
harrass the birds, squirrels, and such like,
to their hearts content, the spring and
summer prohibition having expired on
Monday last.
1t is said that two hundred persons
were converted at Nh. Pearson's meeting
in Winston. Meeting lasted about three
weeks. Mr.. Pearson was presented with
a check for 81, OO2.
The custom house officers at Philadel-
phia seized ninety-one bales of wool, i'm
ported by a merchant of that city the
other day and found a pair of fine English
blankets in each one.
The upper Iowa Methodist Confer
ence which adjourned recently, protested
against the Third Party and resolved to
maintain a strictly non-partizan relation
to all political parties.
Charity and Children says: "Wher-
ever we 60, every dwelling looks like a
school house-so many childrenl Where
is the need of importing foreigners? Go
home, Capt. Patrick"
An English war-ship has arrived off
the coast of Massachusetts,, but, says the
Chicago Stockman, "the time has passed
for two such nations as England and
America to engage in war;"
Melville Demon, a Dakota man is
said. to be the ugliest man in the United
States. He possesses a fortune of SIS, O0O,-
900, however, which goes a long way in
toning down his appearance.
"A meeting of the State Board of
Pharmacy will be held in this city on
Tuesday and Wednesday of (this) Fair
week, for the purpose of examining can
didates to practice pharmacy.
Wilson Mirror on sleep: "Sleep is
that softened couch lon which cares are
hushed and stilled, until the mind can be,
refreshed and strengthened for another
with the trials of life"
Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York
World, is at Homburg. His eyes are
better, but his. o~culists have ordered
him not to touch a pen, or even attempt
to read, for at least six months to come.
Pitcher, the ~defaulting teller of the
Union Bank of Providence. R. l., was
sentenced at Montreal to seven years i'm
on a charge of bringing stolen
money into Canada. Let the good work
continue.
of the 10000, 900 feet of lumber in
,luded in the Connecticut River Lumber
J~ompany's last drive of logs, which have
'ecently passed over Bellows Falls, 7,0OO,-
100 feet stopped at Bellows Falls to be-
come paper.