The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-16

A railroad ACCIDENT In re-
suited in the ditching of an engine and
five cars, aud the injury of about a
dozen passengers, but none seriously.
In one or tw" stone sarcophagi, found
at Rome in thA Pratt del CASTILLO, tue
skeleton OF a girl was found along with
a wooden doll with jointed arms and
legs.
Our country is not altogether defence
less on land. The Centennial demon
strated that 10000 militiamen cain be
assembled in New York Within fifteen
hours.
The farmers and shepherds of the
English moors declare that more
grouse are killed annually in England
by the telegraph wires than by all the
sportsmen. =, o.
Col. George T. Balch. who says he
has made a careful study of the mixed
population in New York, estimates that
two-thirds of the people in that city
in tenements.
A negro was lynched near Tunnel
Hill, Georgia, Wednesday, for an at
tempted outrage on q young white
girl the crime and the lynching were
close together.
Attention has been attracted to a
spring on the land of Col. Julian Allen,
near town, which is believed to contain
mineral properties of great value. By
accident, it's efficacy in a case of kidney
trouble was discovered, and it has since
been used in another case of the same
character with equal success. -States-
UiUe Landmark.
Charlotte has contracted to double
the present number of electric lights
she now has; and to have trebled the
number would not have been e~xtrava-
gance.- Chronicle.
A Mississippi sheriff went to New
Orleans on the 10th for the purpose of
arresting the prize fighters, while they
were getting out of the way as fast as
steam could carry them.
James S. Irwin, of Buffalo, N. Y,
claims to be the oldest Odd Fellow in
the world. He has been an active
member of his lodge for forty-ive
years.
The Swiss Government has Inaugural
ted a movement intended to bring
about a universal reduction of hours of
labor for workers in factories and on
farms.
Miss Kate Fields vigorous advocacy
of matrimony as a social question is re-
garded by the Washington Star as eds
counted just a trife by the prefix to her
name"
Mrs. Thayer created a sensational
scene in a Chicago public school by
kidnapping her own child, which had
been in the custody of her divorced
husband.
A Latisville ga man was trying to
chase a black snake out of his chicken
yard, when the reptile suddenly turned
upon him and pursued him for over
half a mile.
Mr.. Geo. L. Merrill, of Fork Church,
was on last Sunday ordained to the
ministry of the Baptist church at the
Union Meeting held in Salisbury
Da0ie Times.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, a son of Gen.
W. T. Sherman, was recently ordained
to the Roman Catholic priesthood in
Philadelphia. He belongs to the Soci-
ETY. of Jesuits.
The latest imported novelty is an arti
fetal sausage casing of paper which,
when tailor-made and closely fitted to a
plump "Frankfurter," is said to be
very becoming.
About 30, 1000 people a day go up the
Eiffel tower. Of these between 5000
and 1000 go to the top. On an average
a person has to wait about an hour to
go up in the lift.
An English firm have manufactured
an enormous bottle, measuring ten feet
high by four feet in diameter, which is
to be filed with scent and exhibited at
the Paris Exposition.
The Wilmington Star will have a full
corps of special reporters at Wrights-
vile during the Encampment. They
will wear red Star badges on the left
lapel of the coat.
In the Matchmaking districts in
Clerkenwell, London, the dial painters
earn 500 a week. The work is SO bad
for the eyes that twenty per cent. of the
dialpainters become blind.
II. r. Kennedy. of Rochelle. Fla