The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23
65assENEiRALN NEWS ITEMS.

They say BoulanGer is seriously az
dicted to the morphine habit. ..j-ae 81.
A $4,000 synagogue is to be erected
this summer at ST.. Augustine.
The N. G. State Dental Association
will meet in Greensboro, June %.
The German government has issued a
White Book on the Samoan affair.
DIR. ]. L. NJ. Curry has decided to
make Washington City his home.
Rev. J. S. Purefoy, ~bequeathed in his
will ST. O to Wake Forest College.
Charlotte is preparing for some excel
lent h~orse-racing on the 25th OF May.
Mr.. Rosewater, a newspaper man of
Omaha, wants to be scent as Consul to
Cologne. .'" -;
An exchange says: A tramp killed
by an engine at Venice, Ill, had on
twelve shirts.
The Pennsylvania Legislators will at
tend the Washington inaugural centen-
NAL in a body.
One thousand carpenters at Buffalo,
and two thousand at st. Louis, are on
a grand strike.
J. Fl. King, Wooster, Ohio, gets 500
and 60 days at Albany for selling ob-
seem pictures. &
Messrs. Venable and Paschall have
sold the Meiss Of Oxford to Messrs. T.
81. Collins & Co.
The "cool spell" in April is beginning
to excite fear that the fruit crop will be
nipped in the bud. .
On the 10th of the next month the
Southern Baptist Convention will meet
at Memphis, Tenn.
The profit of the Charlotte Building
and Loan Association is said to be 10
per cent. per annum.
Twelve thousand Immigrants sailed
for the United States last week from the
port of Liverpool.
The Sultan's reply to England's
regarding the cable and other
matters are daily expected.
April the 18th and 10th were the an
niversafy days of the assassination and
death ofAbraham Lincoln.
Two Hungarian Deputies fought a
bloodless duel. Political differences
was the cause of the trouble.
The village of Milton, in Bracken
Kentucky, was destroyed by
fire, loss estimated at $1,000.
Mrs. Palmer, wife of the new minister
to Spain, is worth s., 900, 900, while her
husband is rated at 81, 600. 600.
Rev. J. l.. White spent Saturday
night in Greensboro, with his family
on the way to Cleveland Springs.
The Danville Grays, a fine military
company, will attend the Guilford Bat
lie Ground celebration in May next.
IT'S the Ratchet in the hands of the
nnmethodical youngster that causes the
'hue and cry" exclaims the Troy Post.
Experiments in France make it APP
pear that the safest and easiest way to
and store milk is IN a frozen state.
The hunt for Tascott, the alleged
murderer of millionaire Smell, of Chica-
go, has cost up to date 500, 600, it is
The General Assembly of the Presby.
Church South will meet on the
10Th of next month at Chattanooga,
Tenn. 49,. l.. -c~
The Marine Times Register has an
Illustrated edition of Mcdowell county.
It notes the find of a remarkable gold
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the
Luthor of F'Uncle Toms Cabin" is 79
ears old but has not lost her mind, as
eported.
A lecture in a church Sunday-school
DOM defending Wall Street and it's
rays is one of the latest things in New
,ork city.
It is now said that Mr.. John White,
old appointee, instead of Mrs.
hos. Settle, will get the Greensboro
'ostofice.
The Omaha Herald says: Just to
coop Nose M. Bique we beg leave to
xtend to Henry M. Stanley our Congo
atulations.
A fellow in North Dakota sold his
My daughter to another fellow for $50,
nd the purchaser said he "got his dear
cry cheap"
The Goldsboro Daily Argus, in COM
1emoratlon OF its fourth anniversary,
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