The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-09

The first car OF new wheat sold In the
United States wa bought by the Geo.
P. Plant Milling Company on the st.
Louis market, and brought at auction
$1,O4 per bushel. They are manufac-
turers of the celebrated hours, Sweet
Home and Pilgrim.
The. Wake County Alliance Institute
will hold its next regular meeting at
Auburn ON Tuesday. July 23d, begin
ming at 10 a.. m. Bro. Harry Tracy, the
National Farmers Alliance Lecturer,
will deliver an address. The public are
cordially invited to attend.
Mail ad7ices from west Africa con
firms the previous reports of the shock
ing privations TO which Stanley has been
subjected. It is stated that his hair has
turned snow white; that his clothes are
rags, and that he is without shoes. being
| obliged to use skins to cover his feet.
Pugilist John L. Sullivan grimly de-
clares that he will never allow his forth.
coming battle with Kilrain to end like
what he styles "the Chantilly fuke."
81 vas in no condition then" he says,
"but the man who docs me now will
have tt be twice the man that Mitchell
ever vas" !,
Queen Victoria will not entertertain
the Shah of Persia at her own expense.
The taxpayers of England will have that
privilege. Victoria would not al
low the Shah to occupy Balmoral, but
decreed that he must go to Bucking-
ham palace, thus throwing the expense
of his visit upon the people.
B! F. Num-, Esq, of Kinston, has on
exhibition at Meadows drug store a
potato barrel. It is the invention of
Mr.. Ashford, of Kinston, who has al
ready succeeded with several valuable
inventions. It will be we'll for all pota-
to growers to examine this barrel. It
strikes US as a decided improvement
over the -four barrel.
The Wilmington Star will render and
account for the following statement:
"While Israel Stops, of Los Angeles,
CAL, lay on his deathbed he said to his
wife: when my soul leaves my body
and enters the other world I will let
you know by crossing my hands on my
breast He kept his word and died
Immediately after giving the sign.
Tarboro Somhevmer: The good
people of Hamilton are mad as hornets
now. It is reported John B. Hooker, a
white man who voted at the last cleo
ton the straight Democratic ticket, but
soon thereafter turned Republican or
said he did, has been appointed post
master. The objection to him is very
pronounced even in his own party.
AS Marsh Montgomery, a young man,
was working in a field near Birming-
ham, Ala, on Saturday evening, a big
cloud arose, and he mounted his mule
to go home. While yet in the field, he
and the mule were both struck by light
ming and instantly killed. The only
trace left by the electric fluid was the
burning of one shirt sleeve on the
young mans arm.
The colored emigration agents, sent
by the negroes of several Texas counties
to Mexico, to make arrangements for
the establishment Of a colony of their
race in that country, were in the city of
Mexico last week, to confer with the au-
thorities in regard to a land grant. They
say thousands of negro families will go
/ euo~o Tovoo nn1 T.nric1ooo - &hn- noo
secure a suitable grant.
The Chicago Herald is responsible
for the statement that there is a lady in
Irwin county, Ga, who has a novel way
of making her hens set. Whenever she
gets ready to set a hen, it matters not
whether the hen is ready to set or not,
she catches them, breaks one leg, puts
eggs and hen in a box and nails them
up. She says there is nothing like
breaking one leg to make them set.
By the time the hen matches, the leg is
we'll and she is ready to care for the
chicks.
Chatham steps to the front with a
dog of remarkable sagacity. It belongs
to Mr.. Samuel Thomas, who lives four
miles northwest of this place, and car
| ries letters and other mail matters with
safety and celebrity back and forth be-
tween the residence of Mr.. Thomas and
that of his Bon-in-law, MI. CASTOR
Campbell. This is the only mail route
that we know of, that is not supported
by the government, and where the route
agent has not been removed by Wana-
maker!-Pittsboro Record.
A game old man, two-thirds devil:
A dispatch from Clifton. Texas, says:
H.. D. Alison, who lived with. his SON.
in-law on a farm a few miles from here,
made a sacrifice of himself Thursday
night. He was abusing his daughter
when her husband ordered the quarrel
to be stopped. The old man procured
a shot gun, chased the family out of
the houso and Then sak fire tn the