The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-14
NEWS ITEMS.

Jno. L. French, boot and shoe dealer
in Durham, assigned Monday.
White ink, for writing upon gray
paper, is the latest thing in stationery.
Fifteen cubic foot of gas will give as
much heat as one pound of bituminous
coal.
The death of King John, of Abysin-
MIA, in battle with the Dervishes, in
confirmed.
Gen. Boulanger has summoned a
council of his supports to meet in Lon
don May 16.
We build barriers against the food
tide, we should place some restraints to
all prosperity.
The Guilford heroes could have had no
better eulogist han the heroic Vance
VA. Messenger.
The trustees of the Bank of Durham
have declared a second dividend of
twenty per cent.
Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, re-
Gently delivered sermon of 5000 words
/ in fifteen minutes.
The sixth session of the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly will open at More
head City June 18th. "
Hon. Kemp P. Battle will deliver the
literary address at the closing exercises
of Greenville Institute.
White Gaps, on Friday night of last
week, severely chastised a wife-beater,
within a mile of Cincinnati.
A bridge on the Aroya Railroad, in
Peru, valued at $500, 600, has been
swept away by a cloud-burst.
Robert S. Houston, newly appointed
postmaster at Birmingham, Ala, is a
native of Iredell county, N. G.
Mrs. Mary Goodwin, of Atlanta, Ga,
is thirty-eight years of age and the
mother of twenty-seven children.
The earnings of the Richmond and
Danville system for the third week of
April shows an increase of $27,460.
Mr.. Rufus Proctor, who lived about
two miles south of Marion, dropped
dead last week while planting corn.
Maj. L. G. Heilig. of Mt. Pleasant,
died last Saturday in the 59th year of
his age. He was buried on Sunday.
Fruit stains on white goods can be
removed hy pouring boiling water di-
rectlv from the kettle over the spots.
The Franklin Press says a man was
killed in a neighbours corr crib in Jack
son county one night week before last.
Alamance county, N. c., has now
seventeen cotton factories in full opera
ton, and arrangements are on foot for
another.
A Belfast paper says the English gov
eminent is using battering rams as a
civilizing influence on the Irish tenant
families.
The Vatican at Rome has employed
Monsignor Persico almost exclusively
in watching the condition of affairs in
Ireland.
Hon. Fleming du Bignon has been
selected az commencement orator by the
Phi Kappa Society of the University
at Athens. :
At the municipal election in Hickory,
n. c., Mr.. j. G. Hall was elected by a
majority of five over his competitor, MI.
L. R. Whitener. .
Hive syrup is good for Group or in
fammation of the lungs. It must be
kept in a cool place, for if it sours it is
very poisonous.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is about to place its usual spring order
for so locomotives, $50 passenger and
1000 freight cars. .rg
The body of Mrs. Stahl, of Chicago,
who was supposed to be in a cataleptie
state, shows no sign of decay, but is be-
coming mummified.
The County Commissioners of Edge
comb have contributed to the Supreme
Court Library a set of Iredell's revisal
of the Colonial laws. Z
The President has set down on appoint
ing any. more cofored postmasters in
North Carolina, because those already ap-
nointed can't oivo bonds
John W. Brooke, ex-postmaster of
Mount Carmel, Penn, has been arrested
on the charge of issuing about 81, 600 of
fraudulent money orders.
The Southern Tobacco Journal SAYS that
out of the thirty odd tobacco enterprises
started in all Southern States last year,