The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-02

OAlo, o1en recently. In his last mo-
he explained the mysterious dis
appearance of bis brother Samuel six
teen years ago. Josephus sail he killed
his Brother in a qnarrel and threw the
body into an old we'll.
Lieutenant Joseph Losinger, brother
1nlaW of Prince Alexander, of Batten-
burg Is about to marry Louise Kopek.
daughter of the head game-keeper of
the Dagnaiska forest in Hungary. By
this means the English royal family will
be allied to a game-keeper.
Gov. Bulkely,so of Connecticut, has in
his hands a higholicense bill for the bet
ter regulation of the liquor traffic. He
viii not sign it because a prohibition
amendment to the constitution has been
submitted to the people, and will be
voted on at the next election.
William Gilmore, an American, now
confined in jail at Pembroke, Canada,
is a patriot who has some claims to
consideration. He fought under Jack
son in the war of 1912, Yves married
seven times and had thirty-seven chill
dren, of whom thirty-one were sons.
The prize fighter John l.. Sullivan
sayes if broken down business men
would diet themselves, their blood would
soon get in good condition and their
health become robust. He thinks the
average business man eats and drinks
too much for the sedentary life he leads.
A Mrs. Shores, of jackson county,
Tenn, received a few days ago a legacy
of 800, 600 from her father, whom she
had not seen for many years. He did
not live with her mother, but had been
in business in Massachusetts. The girl
was washing clothes for Is cents a day
when apprised Of her good fortune.
Under a huge tent on the green at
Meeting House Hill, Dorchester, Mass,
Saturday afternoon was celebrated the
two hundred and fftieth anniversary of
the establishment of the public school
in the United States sustained by a di.
rect tax on the people. The tent was
crowded, and some of the most learned
men of the country were present.
The Gold Leaf at Henderson, N. c.,
with the entire Office, effects and good
will, is for sale. It is a splendid paper
and in a good section. Bro. Manning
says persons who haze the money and
mean business, he would be glad to hear
from, but he will entertain propositions
from no others. It is his purpose to 60
to,a distant State to accept a position.
Charlotte Chronicle: The religious
awakening at Maxton continues with in
creasing interest. There were 81 con
fessions of Christ last night and about
a hundred inquirers after the way of
life. Laymen Fife and Prior, of Fay
etteville, are doing active work. The
meetings are under the control of Rev.
DR.. Hill and Messrs. Hales and Moore.
The Greensboro Workman refers to a
heavy shipment of fruit from Winston.
1t consisted of one thousand seventy
one crates of peaches, the aggregate
weight of which was th1rty-thousand
pounds. They went north. The same
paper remarks upon the inferiority in
favor of early peaches this season and
says it is probably due to regular rains
which have fallen.
The first of the new industries in the
Sing Sing prison with convict labor has
been begun. The warden of the prison
has taken a contract to sort rags for
Bernard Dreyfus, of Duane street, New
York. Thirty-ive convicts were put to
work sorting and boiling the rags. The
lot sent to the prison consists of fifteen
tons of waste rags, of all colors and ma
terials. If this test proves satisfactory
rag sorting will become one of the new
industries of the prison, as provided by
the Fassett Prison Labor bill, just signed
by Gov. Hill.
Extensive preparations are making
forRthe annual meeting of the Army of
the Cumberland at Chattanooga, Tenn,
in September next. A reunion of Con-
federate veterans will be held at the
same time. The programme viii in
clude brigade, regimental and other re-
unions, excursions to battle-felds, a
banquet of the Society of the Army of
the Cumberland, an Grafton by Col.
William McMichael, of Philadelphia.
and q reunion of the blue and gray
veterans and barbecue on the Chicka-
manga battlefield.
While the limited express was pass
ing through New Brunswick, n. j., the
other evening on it's way West, Herbert