The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-17
GENERAL NEWS TEMs.

Strawberry plon
viii give a partial crop the next season.
T. is said that Paris, when full, can &C
oommodate nearly four millions of people
Wood pavement lasts about sever
oors in streets where the traffic is neaVy'
; Tinted Confederate Veterans have
covernor John B. Gordon, Cen
eral.
About %, 900, 900 letters pass yearly
moon the United Kingdom and North
America.
o;r Edwin Arnold, it is said, will sue
coed Lord Tennyson as poet laureate u
England.
movement to establish a German
American holiday has originated a. mli
waukee, Wis.
T. axe according to the Record, 3OO,-
ooo COOS each day to supply the city OF
Philadelphia.
Stuffed rats and mice are SAID 10 DC
Of the fashions as ornaments IN Oonne''
and hats for 1890.
Stylish girls nov fill the front OF tneir
bodices with scarf-pins belonging 10 Ineir
gentlemen friends. 1
Buffalo Bill is spending considerable
money in making a collection OF french
uo, oe vn1nn
Christine Nilsson writes to Figaro to
gov that she is not suffering from deafness
or loss of memory.
Maud S., .2.O8 3-4 never trotted faster
than 2,l3l-2 in a race. Her best triais
were against time.
The widowed Crown Princess Stephan'e
IS about to receive the golden rose this
wear from the Pope.
David E. Wemyss has been appointed
postmaster at Fayetteville, N. T., vice j.
B. Smith, removed.
A serious contest has grown out OF the
recent elections among the ChickasaWs IN
the Indian I0rrlUOry.
Steve Brodie made affidavit at New
York on the 9th that he went over Niagara
Falls in his rubber suit.
Samuel Graves, editor of the Standard
and Times, died of blood poisoning at
Lebanon, KY, recently.
"Cheesine," the most recent American
product, is said to be composed OF skim
milk, alkali, and hog fats.
Mr.. Carlisle thinks that Mckinley, of
Ohio, will be the next Speaker Of the
House of Representatives.
The two favorite pursuits of Princess
Beatrice are riding and trying over new
music in the form of duets.
Prepare the ground for grape vines in
the fall, but do not plant until spring.
Dig deep and plant shallow.
1t is estimated that the amount of gold
and silver coin in the bottom of the At
lantic ocean is about $5,OOO,O00.
A Hellertown, Pa, woman eloped with
a picnic acquaintance, but she took her
eight-months-old baby with her.
Wilson Mirror: Capt. Calvin Barnes
has been offered thirty-three cents a
pound for his whole tobacco crop.
Senator Vance has accepted an invita-
ton to deliver an address at Murfreesboro
Female Institute on November 9th.
There are $4,000 benefit and burial
clubs registered in England Wales, with
funds which amount to Ell, O00, 600.
The thirty-ninth anniversary of the ad-
mission of California into the Union was
celebrated on Monday the 9th in that
State.
Upwards of twenty-eight large bales of
human hair were brought to France in
the last steamer that arrived from the
Orient.
At Bellefonte a swindler has been tax
ing orders for cleaning tombstones. The
cleanser he uses ruins the stones after a
few days.
A charter was granted at Harrisburg
on the 10th to the SchuylkiIl Water Com
pany, of Philadelphia, with a capital of
100000.
A swarm of bees alighted on the head
of George Tarrow, of Snvdertown 90 ba
was blowing, and George is now laid up
for repairs.
Mrs. Ellen M. Clifford has died at New
Haven, Conn, leaving an estate of $780,
600 to local charitable and educational
institutions.
At a temperance barbecue in Levy
county, Fla, ]. A. Williams killed Wright
B. Ellis. Williams was shot and is not
expected to live.