The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01

A party of men in Sparta, Illinois, made
preparations to lynch a man who had
killed a con table, hut the sheriff car led
the prisoner off before the lynchers could
get in their work.
Fieas took possession of Public School
No. 8, at Troy, N. Y, and the officials
were compelled to suspend the sessions
until a dozen women had secured the life
out Of the vermin.
The largest draw bridge in the world
is the new bridge ove the Thames, re-
Gently opened by the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad, the draw
being SOP feet long.
1t is likely that Congress will be asked
to consider New Mexico's Constitution,
and give New Mexico an enabling act be-
fore the people of the Territory have an
opportunity to pass upon it.
The human race is increasing at the
rate of 100000 a year. 1t is an ancient,
but none the less absurd, belief that a
complete change in the body Of every
man occurs every seven years.
A Huntington paper says: There are
villages in this county Of 200 or 300 in
habitants where it would be impossible to
find a soul astir on Sunday afternoon. It
is a universal custom to "nap."
Samuel Wildrick, of Stoddartsville, Pa,
aged 81 years, walked to Wilkesbarre,
over 20 miles, to visit a man. Mr.. Wild
rick is the father of % children, two
weeks ago he cut two new teeth.
Some idea of the Shah's travelling ex-
penses may be formed from the state
ment that Cooks charge for what rail
road and hotel expenses he had disbursed
on the Shah's account was 925, 600.
A morning costume announced as a
f~avorite by a fashion magazine gives a
girl a clerical appearance. 1t is of black,
with a large soft white collar and loose
bishop sleeles of the same white material.
At the Capitol Alliance Warehouse on
Friday, Sept. 9th, the farmers were all
pleased. On October LIST the new man
ager, w. G. Moore, will take charge and
on Friday will have a grand opening day.
A brutal prize fight between two young
men is reported from st. Louis, which
resulted in the death of one of them; it
was a regular slugging fight, and was one
of the most desperate eve witnessed in
the ring.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange has re-
jected the resolutions adopted by the
New Orleans convention fixing a tare of
"a pounds and 16 pounds on bales COW
cred with jute and cotton 5agging, re-
spectively.
The three-masted schooner Phineas w.
Sprague, of Thomastown, Me-, from
Philadelphia for Boston with coal, was
wrecked at Pollock Slip, Mass. The
crew were saved by Captain Gould's life
saving crew.
Miss Viola Adams, daughter of a
wealthy resident of Chicago, who was
disowned by her father twenty years ago
for clipping with a man named Andrews,
is now the heiress of $4,000, left by her
grandfather.
E. II. Pfatt aud John Allen, of New
York City, have completed their long
horseback ride across the continent. They
reached San Francisco four months and
about four days from the time they left
New York.
Fannie Bryant, the mulatto woman
who was the accomplice of Dick Halves
in the murder Of his wife and children
last December, was convicted of murder
in the first degree and sentenced to life
Imprisonment.
An offensive trunk raised an excitement
in the depot at New Oxford, Adams
county, Pa, the other day. On being
opened it was found to hold ladies' wear
ing apparel well stocked with naphthaline
to keep off moths.
A Waterloo veteran began his 101st
year lately in the province Of Parona,
Brazil. The Germans in the neighbor-
hood assembled to do him honor and put
a crown of laurels on his head, which, by
the way, is not yet bald.
Mr.. Basil B. Gordon, Chairman of the
Virginia Democratic Executive Commit
tee, who has been under medical treat
ment at Atlantic City, is convalescing,
and expects to leave for headquarters, at
Alexandria, Saturday next.
Prosecuting Attorney Mullowney, at
Washington, d.. G., recently stated that
he thought the charge against Mrs. Anna
M. Rowland, formerly of Philadelphia, of