The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Tie furniture factory turned ont their
first. work last week High Point E"-
terprise. 81
The crops in Beaufort, Hyde and
Martin counties are literally drowned
out, it is reported.
The foundation has been excaVated
at Wilmington for a large handsome
Methodist church.
The famous botanical gardens at Ed
inburg, Scotland, have Just been opened
to the public on Sundays.
II is estimated that the damage to
property from the Johnstown food will
reach about $11, 600, 900.
No lives were lost by the Seattle wv.
TIL fire. The financial loss is estimated
at from 81, 600, 900 to $4,000, 900.
Rev. r. G. Pearson is to begin q meet
ing soon at Rock Hill, S. c. A tent is
to be rented for two weeks for $75.
Master label Bailey, Of Fitchville,
Conn.,, has broken SIX sheep to harness,
and be drives them about the city daily.
Senator Ransom has accepted the in
y~itation to deliver the centennial address
at Fayetteville Ola the 21st of November
next,
The Legislature of Massachusetts, ap-
propriated $4,000 and the legislature
of Connecticut $25, 900 for the food
suffers. asa.
buffalo Bil," who~is now showing
in Paris, will give one days receipts to
the fund fer the relief of the Pennsyl-
yania food sufferers.
The president has appointed Col.
John G. Kelton to be Adjutant General
of the Army vice Richard G Drum
retired.
The completion of the bridge at Mont
eomery practically opens the Pennsyl-
vania Main line, which was INSTRUCTED
for eight days by the great flood.
On Saturday night of last week an
unknown man, about 40 years old, was
run over by a train near Morganton
and killed.
A subscription of $1,673.35 has been
raised in Durham toward building a
Methodist church in North Durham. 1t
is proposed to raise 50, 800.
The Supreme Commander of the
Knights of the Mystic Chain has issued
a call upon that order for aid for the
Johnstown sufferers.
Bishop Quintard's beautiful residence
at Sewanee, Tenn, was burned Satur-
day night. The Bishops valuable col
lection of cnriosities was totally de-
stroyed.
Mr.. Thad r. Manning, President of
the North Carolina Press Association
has called the annual convention for
July 18th, 1889. No place has yet been
fixed.
Edwin Harris, late deputy collector
of New Orleans, has been indicted by
the grand jury on ten counts for the
embezzlement of sums a~ggregating
nearly $4,000.
Reports 20 the Augusta Exchange
show that the stand of cotton in Geor-
gia and portions of South Carolina is
not good on account of the prevalence
of cool nights.
State Entcmologist Lintner, of New
York, says the destruction of vegetation
by insects was not so great before the
introduction of the English sparrow az
it is now.
Bay City, Mich, will have a match
factory in operation in two weeks, and
it is expected 100 boxes of matches will
be made and boxed up every second in
in its operation.
King Kalakaua was expected to arrive
at San Francisco Saturday night on the
steamship Zealandia. The King, how
ever, was unwell, and failed to take
passage,
/.
Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago
Tribune, and Miss Medin will sail from
New York on the City of Paris next
Wednesday, and will remain a few
months in Europe.
A writer in the Richmond Dispatch
warmly and forcibly urges the claims
of Maj. W. T. Sutherlin, of Danville,
as the Democratic candidate for next
Governor of Virginia.
Theright of way of the Wilmington,
Onslow and East Carolina Railroad has
been cleared for about five miles, and
the roadway has been graded for two