The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-02


South Carolina, dropped dead at his
home in Columbia on Friday afternoon
last, of heart disease.
A canal bank at Holyoke, Mass,
gave way undermining the foundation
of the Cabot Mills, which collapsed,
causing q loss of 800, 600.
The tdherents of Boulanger have mr.
ranged to hold a conference in London
tomorrow when it is expected some de-
cisive action will take place.
Professor Huxley's third daughter,
Mrs. Albert Eckersly, has come over
to Mexico to live, her husband being
engaged in railroad building there.
An unusual fatility occurred recently
in Wichita, Kansas, where Colonel
James B. Lawrence dropped dead while
in the act of taking a Masonic degree.
The next session of the University of
North, Carolina will open the first Thurs
dayuin September, the trustees having
ordered the change at their recent meet
ing. ST. -
VIM. Walter Phillips, n of the Ameri-
can Commissioners to the Samoan Con-
ference, arrived in Washington on Tues
day last, bringing with him a copy Of the
Samoan treaty.
Miss Henrietta Frazier and Mr.. Jacob
Rogers, both Of Wake county, were
united in marriage at the residence of the
brides mother on June 10Th, Esquire n.
W. Pool officiating.
A species of hives has broken out
among the people of Johnstown. The
account of the hot weather the suffer-
ing is said to be intense.
The Fayetteville Observer says sub
scription books have been opened for
contribution to the Fayetteville and
Albemarle railroad from Fayetteville to
Albemarle in Stanley county.
The Manufacturers Record comes to us
this week crowded, as usual, with most
valuable matter pertaining to the indus
trial progress and development of the
South. 1t is doing a grand work.
The property of the Postal Telegraph
Company in Maryland has been con-
veyed to the Southern Atlantic Tele-
graph Company, which is forming an
o~noe,ASoo live 70 4bo Woc+o1,p TTnion
We have received the catalogue Of
Trinity College, containing so pages, and
is the most elaborate we have ever seen
of any college in our State. Address
Prof. w. H. Pegram, Trinity College, N.
c., for a copy.
America publishes more newspapers
than all the rest of the world combined.
Last year its II, 10Y periodicals printed
the number of 2, $50, SOC, 500
enough to supply every soul on earth
with two newspapers.
Judge r. T. Bennett, after a four
weeks ~soiourn at Hot Springs, Ark,
has returned to his home in Wadesboro.
His many friends throughout the State
will be glad to know that his health
has greatly improved.
George Burden, Is years old, arrived
at Chatham, Me-, on Thursday, from
Albion, Mich. He has walked all the
way, with q wheelbarrow and his trunk,
weighing $50 pounds. He has been
eight weeks on the road.
Kate Rynback tried to pour gasoline
into the tank of a lighted gasoline stove,
being used by herself and Kate Ryn-
SOFA while ironing at the Gross Hotel
in st. Paul, MINI. Both girls are ter
ribly and probably fatally injured.
A young man named Joseph Smith
threw a stone at the cars as they were
passing Weyer's Cave Station, on the
Shenandoah Valley road, at high speed.
1t struck the cars, and rebounding it
struck Smith on the head, killing him
instantly.
By. the breaking of a dam the main
quarry of the Virginia State Granite
company, in Chesterfield, has been
flooded, throwing $50 men out of en-
ployment. Loss, $40, 600. Other quar-
ries have also been more or less dam
aged.
Master Harry Prempert. son of Mr.
Arthur Prempert, aged about six years,
while playing On a pile of lumber where
the new Hemenway sc~hool-house is in
process of erection, yesterday morning,
fell and broke his left arm between the
elbow and wrist.
Mrs. Lizzie Lind, of Kansas City,
quarreled with her husband because he
retnrned homo SO late SATURDAY. nirht