The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

assemblymen and a State Senator in St.
Louis.
A theft of 5000 in printed treasury
notes was discovered in Washington a
few days ago.
Mrs. Josephine Poe, sister of Edgar
Allen roe's wife, died in Baltimore a few
days ago at the age Of eighty-one.
"A movement is IN foot to organize.
all the railroad employees in the United
States into a Federation with a member
ship of about 100000.
, An exchange, which has probably had
a chance of peering, in says: "Way down.
in the depths of the campaign barrel there
is u look of loneliness"
Senior Piediahite, an electrician of b.
gotta, has patented a telegraphic device
which works without batteries. He claims
that it will revolutionize telegraphy.
Special cable dispatches received at
New York state that the British govern
ment has received letters from Henry NJ.
Stanly and that there is now no doubt of
his safety. ,
An India rubber horseshoe, consist
ing of a rubber bottom fitting over or
around frog and hoof, with a projecting
rim, is a recent invention for which i'm
portant advantages are claimed.
Almost any child, boy or girl, can
earn money by picking up bones and
selling them to the North Carolina Phos-
plate Co., Raleigh, N. G.. Read their
advertisement in PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
"A call has been issued for a Sanitary
Convention to meet in this city on Wed
nesday the 9th day of February next. The
movement is a laudable one and we trust
that the Convention will be largely at
tended.
The editor of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, has accepted an invitation from
President Lee and the faculty of the Mis-
sissippi Agricultural College, to deliver
the annual address on Commencement,
June 10Th, 1889.
The Democratic members of the Leg
~islature will hold a caucus tomorrow
night for the purpose of selecting a Pub
lie Printer to serve the State for the next
two years. AS is usually the case, "the
longest pole will get the persimmon."
Attention is directed to the adver-
tisement in this issue of the Big Racket
Store, Raleigh, N. G. Read what these
gentlemen have to say to-day and see
what they offer. The ad. is changed
weekly and the same notice does not ap-
pear twice.
"A French jeweler, of New York, says
he has just finished a pair of buckles to be
used on a fashionable lady's "elastics,"
which cost her just $500. He refers to
the fact as an illustration of the extent to
which the rage for personal decoration has
gone among women.
Mrs. Cleveland's reconciliation of the
hustle, has made itself felt on the trade.
The Taylor hustle department, in Warner
Bros. corset factory, has shut down for
three weeks. The tide of fashion having
turned the other way, has seriously affect
ed the hustle business.
The Rev. R. G.. Pearson, the evange-
list, so well known in this State, is now
preaching in Greenville, s. c., to immense
congregations. The meetings are con-
Quoted under the auspices of all the Pro-
testant churches and are exciting great
interest and enthusiasm.
AT the end of President Cleveland's
term the Democrats will have held the
Presidency just ffty-two years, beginning
with Jefferson, and at the end of Harri-
sons term in 1892 the various parties OPP
posed to the Democrats will have had the
Presidency ffty-two years.
The funeral of Mrs. Jay Gould, the
wife of Americas greatest millionaire,
took place from the family residence, No.
$40, Fifth Avenue, New York, on the
10th inst. The services were of the SIM
plest character and were attended only by
the personal friends of the family.
On January 18th, about midnight, at
the foot of Ben's Knob, in South Noun
tains, near the boundary of Cleveland and
Burke counties, q. S. Deputy Marshal
Means and a posse were fred upon from