The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-25
NEWS ITEMS.

Guthrie, Oklahoma. !.
The American silver dollar first made
it's appearance in 1874.
Ex-senator Riddleberger is banker
ing after Gov. Lees place.
It IS said a $780, 900 hotel is to be
built at Inman Park, near Atlanta.
The Vance Guards are drilling regu-
larly now for. the State Encampment.
The German schooIship Nike sailed
from Hampton roads for Halifax Satur-
day
School district libraries were first es-
.tablished in the State of New York in
1887. I-
The cab drivers strike at Paris is
ended, and the cabs are running as
usual.
George Washington's name is found
twelve times in the New York city .di-
rectory.
The month of May in England in
1889 will probably take rank as the wet
test on record.
There will be an immense yield of
grapes all over the State, say the agri-
cultural report.
The Cherokee Mining Company are
developing their mineral lands in West
ern North Carolina. , ~
The gamblers of Louisiana have offer
ed to pay the State debt-$12, 600, 600
for a fifty year license. s'
One million dollars has been sub
scribed for laying a cable between Hon
olulu and San Francisco.
Ship building was begun at Salem,
Mass. about 1910. So began the ship
building industry in this country.
Evangelist Pearson had 400 CONVEX
sions at Greensboro and raised about
$1,000 for the Y. M. @. A. building.
Kerosene is unexcelled in starch to
give polish, also to polish glass; it will
make your windows shine like silver.
The United States Navy Department
has determined to equip each of its YES
sells with a complete diving apparatus.
Acomparison with former years shows
a large percentage of increase of small
vessels in commission in foreign navies.
The editor of the GAINESVILLE (Va.)
Clipper wants to know if the people of
that town take him and his paperto be
a lemon.
The New Jersey man who hit upon
the idea of attaching a rubber erasing
tip to the end of lead pencils is worth
$500, 600.
Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York, en-
joys an income of So, 900 a day, and her
total yearly expenses are said to be less
than So, 1000.
Signorita Gabrielle Salvini, daugh-
ter of the illustrious italian tragedian,
has distinguished herself as a clever
amateur actress.
The sweet girl graduate is now at
home and in all probability is swinging
on the front gate flirting with a dude,
says the Gold Leaf.
Oil Of peppermint is a strong disin-
fectant and germicide; and it is said
that one part in a hundred thousand of
water kills reaches.
1t is said that John Bright's papers
will be treated as Lord Beaconsfield's
have been, withheld from publication
during the life of the Queen.
At the International Exhibition of
Botany, to be held in Antwerp in 1890,
will be celebrated the three-hundredth
anniversary of the microscope.
Goldsboro argus: Bishop J. G.
Cranberry was in the city yesterday en-
romte from the District Conference at
Morehead City to his home in st. Louis.
A number of reindeer have been i'm
ported from Norway and turned out on
a forest in the north of Scotland, in the
hope that they may become acclima-
ted.
Ground for the new contagious hos
pital at Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y,
which is to cost $50, 600, was broken
yesterday by city works commissioner
Adams.
A rain and wind storm swept away
a small town in Kansas on Saturday
last and drowned a number of people;
at other points much damage is also re-
ported.
Twenty factories, with the aggregate
capital of ST., 500, 600, have been estab-
lished in Florence, Ala, a town of some
800 DeoDle. during the seven months