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

Henry Winford, only twelve years old,
is to be hanged in Salisbury on October
25th.
Up to the 31st of August 1,4OO, 900
tickets had been sold at the Paris Expo
sition.
A large number of colored people will
leave Johnston county about tie 1st of
October.
The demand for novelties in foot-gear
is puzzling the ingenuity of shoe manu-
facturers.
One Mcdonald, Of Beloit, Neb,, gives
his age as 1O3, and says hat his father
lived to be III.
Boston University has graduated 478
doctors of medicine, nearly one-half of
whom are women.
The fund for the erection of, the Wash
ington Memorial Arch in New York City
has reachei $50. 600.
James Punny, of Boston, is 1O2 years
old aud in the full possession of all his
faculties. He was born in Ireland.
Two-thirds of the oxygen absorbed in
tw~enty-four hours is absorbed during the
night hours-from six p. m. to six a. m.
A man respires sixteen to twenty times
a minute, or 10000 times a day; a child
twenty-five to thirty-6ve times a minute.
Unsuccessful attempts were made by
burglars to rob the country residence of
Vice-President Morton at Ellerslie, N. Y.
Maearoni croquettes, served with to-
mato sauce, need no Italian training to
find appreciation at u bon-ton caterers.
The public schools of Marion, Ind,
have been ordered to be closed for one
week on account of the prevalence of
diphtheria.
1t is said that the eloquent Daniel
Dougherty will probably success the late
S. S. Cox as Representative in Congress
from his drict.
Suicide among German officers increases
shockingly. During May twenty-three
shot themselves, and the number for June
was larger still.
Mr.. C~orvellaine, the proprietor of the
cartridge factory at Antwerp in which
the recent disastrous explosion occurred,
has been arrested.
The New York Graphic, which has
for some time past maintained a futter-
ing existence under financial difficulties,
has ceased to exist.
How strong a current is used to send
a message over an Atlantic cable2 Thirty
cells of battery only, equal to thirty
volts. Now you know.
Of the 300, 900 qualified voters in the
city of New York, $4,000 pay taxes on
property and 100000 pay rents to those
who own the property.
A Washington correspondent of the
Utica Observer says that there probably
never were so many women seeking
Office as there are this year."
A society has been formed in London
to promote the development of the science
of mesmerism and of the application of
hypnotism to practical medicine.
A skeleton, supposed to be that of John
Bartlett, a wealthy eccentric who disap-
peared m~ysteriously nineteen years ago,
has been found at Norwich, Vt.
Attention is called to the advertisement,
in this issue, of Mr.. II. G. Long, who will
offer for sale at the State Fair a fine Ken
lucky Jack and an elegant stallion.
Australia is as cosmopolitan as the
United States. At a hotel in Sidney the
other week there were thirteen different
n~ationalities represented at one table.
Chakir Pasha, the Governor of Crete,
has issued a fresh proclamation to the
C~retans, threatening with severe punish
ment any one assisting the insurgents.
The maximum power generated by an
electric motor is seventy FIVE horsepower,
but experiments indicate that one hum
dred horsepower will soon be reached.
English dockyard laborers and their
friends had a grand demonstration at
Hyde Park, London, on the 18th to cele-
brate the successful ending IF the strike.
Troylus Cooper, a native of Long
Branch, who has lived at New York for
three or four years, is said to have won
$4,000 this season betting on horse
racing.
The returns of a recent school election
in Kansas, show that so, 900 women voted
on school matters and that a large proper
ton of school officers this year are to be
women.