The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15

OrQer, n RulIdeQ SCAT peHuiHS from q
short chain, on his manly breast.
Justice Field, of the United States Su
preme Court, in his movements, is accom-
panic by Deputy Marshal Nagle, who is
still under orders to travel with him.
1t may afford Corporal Tanner sati sfac-
ton to note that he left that seat in the
Pension Bureau so hot that no n seems
10 want to sit down on it.-&. Paul
Globe.
Cyrus II. Mccormick invented the
reaper, but Jim Blaine's son, Emmons,
reaped about So, 500, 900 of the old mans
assets in marrying his little daughter
Anita.
DIR. Won RieGel, Bavarian minister of
inarce, that during the fiscal
year of his administration, just ended he
has saved the government %, 900, 600
marks. II"
This ideal time for star gazing opened
with this month. The atmosphere will
clear as the temperature falls and the
planets will shine with enlarged dis
inctnesS.
Young James G. Blaine's deserted wife
will enter suit for a limited divorce.
"Keep my body from the Blaines," was
her constant cry when she. thought she
was dying. J. ~ ao5sa
The Cardinal Maria Parocchi, Vicar
General Of the Holy Sea; and, after the
Pope, the. highest prelate of the Roman
Church, is threatened with bankruptcy
pl o~ceedings.
The Wilmington &arsays; A pear tree
and a plum tree, growing on the premises
of Mr.. Ulrich, Front and Castle streets,
after bearing fruit the past summer are
again in blossom.
Scotland Neck resolved that a new
hotel was needed. The citizens held a
meeting, organized a company to build a
$4,000 hotel, of this amount So, 500 was
subscribed at once.
Greensboro North State: Beat this beet
who can. John P. Starr, who lives near
Mt. Hope church, has given us a beet
which wheighs ten pounds and measures
% inches in circumference.
Gen. E. M. Law, of South Carolina,
has been selected to deliver the annual
address before the Association of the
Army of Northern Virginia, to meet on
the first of December next.
One of Sag Harbor's old citizens has
quit the use of tobacco. He says he has
smoked Is 900 cigars during the past
ffty-two years, and did not begin until
he was twenty-four, years old. ,a,z-
Prince Bismarck in receiving the presi-
dent of the" Wood-workers' Congress,
declared that the foreign situation was of
a hos peaceful character, and that the
maintenance of peace is secured.
Mrs. Eva Ray Hamilton, sentenced to
two years Imprisonment for assault upon
"'Nurse" Donnelly at Atlantic City some
weeks ago, was placed in the new jersey
State prison Saturday afternoon.
Washington City was gaily decorated
for the reception of the Knight Templars
from all quarters of the country, who
met in that city on Tuesday last. The
gathering was an unusually large one.
E. A. Burke, ex-State Treasurer of
Louisiana, sailed from Liverpool for New
York on the steamer Teutonic, but upon
the arrival of the vessel at Queenstown
he disembarked and returned to London.
Girls in New Brunswick have organized
aud passed resolutions declaring that
they will allow nc young man to escort
them home from church or a party or a
supper who has not accompanied them
there.
Surgeon General Hamilton of Marine
Hospital Service has been authorized by
the President to keep open quarantine
stations at Delaware Breakwater, Tortu-
gas Keys, Sapelo Sound and Cape
| Charles.
Herr Krupp, the great cannon-makel
of Essen, was present in Hanover during
the late manoeuvers of the German army
and was an interested observer at the
experiments made with the new smoke
less powder.
The Financial Chronicles report gives
Georgia Ler old position at the head OF
the cotton industry in the South, the con-
sumption of her mills last year being
1000 bales in excess of the mills OF
South Carolina.
"Who in thunder is Benjamin McKee?''
asks the Savannah MeaOs. The real ques-
ton, however, in view of the power of
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