The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The telephone wire between Portland,
Maine, and Buffalo, N. Y, is $50 miles
long. Communication is daily.
They are having a delightfulseason of
Indian summer in Europe; but over there
they call it "St Martins summer.
John L. Sullivan asks $4,000 as his
price for lighting a colored man. For that
sum, he says, he will fight Peter Jackson,
colored. - $3.50
The great bridge between New York
and Brooklyn was crossed in October by
3,5O7, 6O8 persons, 1l3, AS average per
day or 10000, 900 ayear., )
It is said that a large hotel is to be es-
tablished on the first platform of the
Eiffels Tower. with concert and ball rooms
and a restaurant open to the public.
Mr.. Gladstone has written a letter on
the subject ST local option. He says: ~
regard the principle of local option with
much favor, and wish to see it promptly
tried"
In the recent Franch elections three
ladies ran for election to the French
Chamber-Mme- Potonie, Nine. Saint
Helaire and Nine. Astie de Valseyre.
They were all defeated, however.
A Mount Vernon, ILL.,, exchange says
American workingmen may read "Look-
ing Backward from motives of curiosity,
but they are not likely to adopt it as a
text book on industrial economics.
The country having the largest proper
ton of cultivated land is Denmark, Russia
having the smallest. The United King
dom has twenty-n nine per cent. of land
TILED, against seventy-one untitled.
5 Cardinal Manning's. habits of life, are
said to be conducted with "a regularity
that rivals the exactness of<a railway
timetable. His chief meal is in the mid
die. Of the day, when he takes n chop.
The market is heavily supplied with
ordinary grades of hay, with prices in
buyers favor. At present but little of
the hay coming forward grades choice,
and prices on all grades have fallen off 81
per ton.
The National Silver Convention is in
session in Colorado. A resolution has
been offered providing that congress be
recommended to provide that in silver
bullion the full authorized sum of$4,OOO,-
600 be issued.
A correspondent sayes the wife of
Secretary Noble will doubtless be a lead
ing figure in Washington society this
winter. II love a crowd" she says,
"and the more people I have about me
the better pleased 1 am"
One of the most important events to
occur this month was the Chicago Fat
Stock Show, held under the direction of
the Illinois State Board of Agriculture.
1t closed on Thursday last, and was a
grand success in every respect.
The opening of Congress will witness
the biggest kind Of a triangular fight be-
tween New York, Chicago and ST. Louis
for the Worlds Fair in 1892. They have
of money, are ambitious, and be
sides, it is a prize worth struggling for
Fayetteville Observer.
Col. w. J. Martin, of the Davidson
College faculty, has been selected by the
North Carolina University faculty to de-
liver an address on the late DR.. Charles
Phillips. The time has not been definitely
set, but will be some time during the
present collegiate year.
1t is thought by many wise-headed
business men that the time is not far dis
tant when the French Broad River will
be used extensively for transportation
purposes, especially that portion of it
south of Asheville. It is now used for
logs down the river to the saw
mills.
Advices show the shortage in the wheat
crop and the consequent increase in the
price OF -four, caused by the cost of i'm
portatlon, has begun to be felt. The
bakers ave agreed to reduce the weight
OF all their standard loaves one and one-
half ounces per loaf. The fall potato crop
OF England is also short fully one-third,
and prices are beginning to advance.
There is already some muttering among
the poor, and many thoughtful persons
fear the winter will be remarkable for
labor troubles and social agitations.