The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-08

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a Oh Ain dangling from its neck, recently
ran across the Herkness farm. 1t was
chased by two colored men and a young
lady named Harrison. After a run of
about three mics the lady captured the
animal, catching the chain as it dragged
along the ground.
A Nationalist Club, whose aim will be
to propagate the principles laid down in
Bellamy's Looking Backward" has been
formed at No. 1920 Chest mt street. a.
J. Loos was elected President; DR., J. J..
Taylor, Secretary, and Mrs. E. E. Curtis
and Paul J. Rosenthal, Vice Presidents
Philadelphia Record.
Miss Lottie Fisher, a Philadelphia girl
who has been employed in an insurance
Office in London the past year as a stem
ographer and typewriter, has received an
offer from some of the noble English
families, headed by Lord and Lady
Churchill, to instruct a class of young
girls in her "specialties."
DR.. E. Monk, a Swedish physician,
aided at the autopsy upon John Gorouson,
who lately killed himself at McKeesport,
Pa. Some blood from the corpse got
under the doctors finger-nail. The finger
wa used in scratching his foot afterward.
Poisoning resulted, and amputation of the
leg has been decided on at a Pittsburg
hospital.
It costs in Deland, Florida, S. a day
for a colored woman to shoot a preacher.
The woman's chickens were being chased
by a snake a few days ago when she up
with a gun, shot at the snake but hit the
preacher 800 yards away where he was
writing a sermon. Had she shot him
while writing a billet-doux it might nave
cost her her life.
1t is stated that many rich New York
ers are privately favoring St. Louis as
the site Of the worlds fair, primarily be-
cause they do not like Chicago and
secondly because of their investments in
St. Louis property, se~lf-interest with
them being stronger than home patriot
ism. The Commercial Club of Nashville
passed resolutions favoring Chicago.
The Wyoming Constitutional Conven-
ton has fixed a limit for the tax levy for
State purposes at 4 mills on the dollar,
except in cases of school, public cha tiles
and payment on State debts. County
taxes are limited to II mills, and cities
and towns to 8 mills. Public moneys
must be deposited in national banks, and
the interest goes to the State.
In a congregational church near AL
toona, recently, just as the choir had
finished the first verse Of a hymn, a sud-
den gust blew in at the open window, ex-
tinguishing every light. The lamps were
relighted, and the dominic turned purple
with a suppressed smile as he gave out
the second verse: "Come, light sereneI
and still our utmost bosoms FILL"
San Bernardino county, California, says
the Courier, has furnished eighteen in
mates to the State insane asylums since
the first of last January, and adds
"There can be no doubt that the present
year of grace has been a dark-letter one
so far. Floods, fires, catastrophes, cata-
clysms, Corporal Tanner-surely it is a
year of affection, of horrors upon horrors,
piled.
A mathematic an has estimated that a
couple waltzing six times around a
moderate sized ball room travel eighty
yards each time, or 48O yards during the
dance. Allowing one turn to each yard,
this gives the distance travelled during a
waltz as three-quarters of a mile. This
is fourteen miles in eighteen waltzes.
Who will presume now to say that Ameri-
cans do not exercise.
A party of hunters went out recently
to hunt in the neighborhood of Rantowle's.
One large buck was killed, a fine animal,
but he was peculiar in the respect that he
only had three legs. He was evidently a
veteran who had stood fire before. The
huntsman who shot him did not think
there wa any difference between the
speed of a three-legged deer and a four
legged deer.-News- Courier.
The other day in Wisconsin a woman
walked into court and reiterated the old,
old story of love, trouble, etc., and asked
to be released from the partnership she
had entered into, with a reasonable
amount of alimony. The brutal husband
answered by producing his wife's former
husband, alive and undivorced. The court
cut all the bonds and sent the trio out
into the world to begin again.
The Stanley Observer says: "Last year