The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-22

JutO 0SStA C-uSG Is LnrOLLeu at
last. A Cabarrus man came to town
Wednesday with his bale of cotton wrap
ped IN a bed quilt Concord Times.
A Baltimore dog has been trained to
carry out plumber secured by thieves in
private houses. He was arrested Sept. 1s
in the act of carrying away bundles.
The Southern Yellow Pine Lumber
Association met at. Birmingham, Ala, on
the 10th inst, and decided to advance the
price of lumber one dollar per thousand
feet. 41
The Randolph Society of the First
Presbyterian church supports two chill
dren in China and contributes toward
Mrs. Randolph's school in Japan.-C Char
lotte Democ' at.
Cotton returns of the first of October
to the Department of Agriculture make
the general percentage 81.4 per cent. of
a full crop prospect, compartd with 78.9
per cent. last October.
A colored boy, twelve years old, wa
playing at Suffolk. on some freight cars,
when he fell of, was caught between the
bumpers and so seriously injured that he
died in q few minutes.
Failing to find the other twenty-four
men to subscribe 800, 600 to the Worlds
Fair, Mr.. Pulitzer, Of the. New York
World, has come to the front with an
unconditional $685. OO.e
Julian Sterling, of Bridgeport, Ct,
lately had his eyebaIl removed by a doc
tor to get at a cinder, and while It lay on
his cheek insensate to pain from. cocaine,
he could see his ear with it. 4,
The Greenville Reflector sayes the lar
gest grape it aver saw was shown by Mr..
Warren, Of Riverside Nursery, last Thurs
day. It was of the James variety and
measured 4 1-8 in circumference.
The attempt made to poison Rev. Father
Kelly, of Oneida, is causing much excite
ment in that place. The case is surrounded
by mystery, as there is as yet no clue to
the person who put the arsenic in the
sacramental wine.
Near Deep Greek, Norfolk county, on
Friday, a farmer named Matthews forgot
where he set his bear trap his feet be-
came entangled in the string, which
caused the gun to explode and empty the
contents into his body.
1t is thought that over 2 10000 Indians
will be voters at the next Presidential
election by virtue of a recent law of Con-
gress which gives the right of suffrage to
every Indian who will receive n allott-
ment of land in severalty.
The Bey of Tunis has sent an expedi-
ton comprising 300 soldiers to Sax,
where = large body of native insurgents
are encamped, who defy the bey's au-
thority and refuse to lay down their
arms. A desperate fight is expected.
The reader will doubtless be delighted
to learn that, "among the hydrangeas there
are some species that might be termed
perfectly hardy; these are radiata arbor-
~escens, paniculata and its variety grandi-
fora and vestita and vesta pubescens.
The cd toll-bridge between Hartford
and East Hartford, Conn. dating from 1911,
became free September 18th. The bridge
company was paid $21O, OOO-$85,O 900 by
the State and $l25,OO o by FIVE towns. A
public celebration was held on the 18th.
An old fellow named Roach in Tona-
wanda, N. Y, wagered he could drink a
quart of bug-jiice and did it in two and a
half minutes. He called for another pint
but before he got the pint down the quart
got him down and they buried him next
day.
A seven-year-old son of. Mrs. lack
Kloutz, of Union county, was drowned
in q spring last week. The spring was
fitted up with a hollow gum sunk into
the ground. 1t Is supposed the little boy
leaned over the spring to get a drink,
when he slipped and fell into the water,
where his body was found tightly wedged
in the gum.
An electric car, with fifty people run
ming to the top of Mission Ridge, Chat
tanooga, Tenn, lost its electricity when
near the top recently and started back,
the breakes failing to hold. One passen-
ger was killed and ten seriously hurt by
jumping off; those who remained were
unhurt, as the car was stopped before reach
ing the bottom.
Is not a FLY a FLY? Is not a colt a colt2
What, then let me ask, are we to under
stand by a "~flly-colt?" Will not some
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