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

Gen. D. 81. Hill, whom all C~arolinians
love, is in very poor health in Arkan-
sas.
The spinning mills at Cornwall, On
tario, we're burned Thursday. Loss,
$40. 600.
MI. J. b. Sheets was shot and killed
in Norfolk, Va, a few days. ago by D. c.
Foreman. .
The saleis reported of a piece of prop
erty in Chicago at the rate of $lr30 a
square inch. : -, .
Nobody was ever as much attached
to the old farm as the mortgage.-Bmr
hmgton Free Press.
The Burlington Free Press wisely re-
marks that it takes a man of push to
run a wheelbarrow.
AZ the recent commencement at
| South Carolina University there we're
thirty-five graduates.
Ceremonies are different in every
every country; but true pollteness is
everywhere the same.
Randolph Macon College, Va, had
1914 students the last year. It has cele-
brated its ffty-fourth year.
Charlotte Patti, the we'll known
singer, and a sister to Adelina Patti,
died in Paris on June 29th.
It is estimated that there is enough
work at Johnstown, Pa, for TO- 900 la
borers and 5000 carpenters.
The American Cotton-seed Oil Com
pany of New Jersey has purchased ten
of the cotton mills in Texas.
Statistics just published show that
there are 2,272 soldiers six feet or over
in height in the British army.
A Little Rock dispatch tells of a food
in Arkansas which drowned eight per
sons out of a family of eleven.
Seventy miners are entoombed in q pit
In New South Wales, and it is doubtful
whether they can be rescued alive.
Miss Mary Anderson, the Southern,
or Kentucky actress, on account of
poor health, will not play the next sea
son.
Eugene Emery is still held in Medina,
N. Y, for killing his 13-year old sweet
heart, because she would not marry
him.
Thomas Clement, a suicidalearpenter
of New York, left a letter in which he
desired to be buried with his gold watch
and chain on.
@. W. Martin, a farmer of Wayne, Ill,
while boring for water on his farm
struck a vein of natural gas which
burned for hours.
Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper,
jumped over Passaic Falls, and escaped
without injury. This is where Sam
Patch lost his life.
Bishop Lyman, of this city, who is
soiourning at Wrightsville, is character
lied by a correspondent as the ''boss
surf bather there"
The Danville and East Tennessee
railroad company organized at Danville,
Va. They will build a line from that
city to Bristol, Tenn.
Prices for great violins have reached
the highest mark of their history. A
Stradivarius is advertised for the IN
heard-of sum of 95, ZOO.
Nh. W. W. Goldberg, who recently
graduated at Davidson College, has
been added to the reportorial staff of
the Charlotte Chronicle.
Mrs. A. Davies was arrested while
walking in her sleep, dishabille, in New
York, a few nights ago. Her appearance
created quite a sensation.
Aman who had murdered a woman
at Elgin, Nebraska, was taken from the
sheriff by a mob and hanged to a bridge
near the scene of the crime.
Lucius Preston, a colored employee
in the shops here, found a catfish IS
inches long in an engine tender last
Notwithstanding Exchange.
A company have contracted to under
take the salvage of Fl. N. s. Sultan for
the sum of $3.50, 600, or forty per cent.
on the value of the articles saved.
Remarkable frmness prevails in the
English wheat market, and prices are
so low that farmers fear no further de-
preston resulting from retaining their
grain.
|, The next meeting of the Plaid Manu-
facturers' Association is to be held in
Charlotte on July 18th. All the lead
ing plaid makers of the South will be
there.