The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-11

rose a little over twenty-six feet at
Rocket wharves, two and a half feet
higher than the unprecedented food
Of 1887.
Queen Victoria, who travelled to
France as countess of Balmoral. took
her own bed and bedding with her, a
custom which her majesty never breaks,
even if invited to stay in a royal palace,
Alamance GIeGnaer thinks it would be
hard to find a Drawer man than he, of
Newlin's township, who, a few days
ago, caught a mad dog, tied n rope
aaound his heck and hanged him to a
limb till be was dead.
The Potomac waters overlooked the
! government fish pond ut Washington
and the carp so carefully nurtured there
in were scattered. A boy caught one in
the ladies' waiting room of the Ball-
more and Potomac depot.
More than a third of the board school
mistresses in London get salaries of
over 81, 200 a year, and there are al
together about ], 1000 in the metropolis
and the provinces together who receive
$3.50 or upward.
San Francisco, with it's one criminal
to every twenty-three citizens, one Ii
quor saloon to every sixteen voters, four
thousand grog shops, and ten Thousand
women of i'll repute, is q sorry adver-
tisement of the wine and liquor business.
A negro who had committed burglary
near Columbia, La, was captured.
While the sheriff was returning to Co
lumbia with the prisoner q party met
them. and taking the prisoner from the
sheriff hanged him to the nearest tree.
Tobacco farmers, read the advertise
ment of T.. N. Jones & Co., Gen1 Agents
for the Standard Thermometer, and write
them in regard to it. This valuable in
strument has the endorsement of the
q. S. Government and is therefore reliable.
Write them.
Captain Murrell, of the steamer Mis-
souri,, which rescued the passengers
and crew of the Danmark, paid a visit
Saturday to Colchester, his native place,
and was given a most enthusiastic re-
ception by the citizens. In the evening
a banquet was given in his honor.
The Charleston IS. CO. World says:
'tFrom a private source, the World
learned that Mr.. III. Fl. Flagler, the
| Standard Oil en.millionaire, will short
ly make preparations for building and
equipping, in this city, a p~alatial hotel,
to cost not less than $500, 600.
Nearly all the crowd of 5000 people
in YOUNGSTOWN on Sunday were strang-
ers. There were so few natives that
| Identification of the dead was possible
only in a few instances. This indicates
that by far the larger proportion of the
towns population and that of the entire
valley are lost.
Here is a marriage notice clipped
from an Ohio paper: 'In Guilford, Me-
dina county, Ohio, on the I'd inst, by
S. Wilson, Esq, Mr.. Samuel D. Curtis
to Miss Sally Murphy, after a tedious
courtship of fifteen years, which was
borne with christian fortitude and pa
thence"
Mountain hunters of Pennsylvania
are said to use indigo instead of whiskey
to cure rattlesnake bites. An incision
is make in the wound and a piece of
indigo the size of a pea inserted. A
generous dose of sweet oil is given as
soon after as possible. The result is
said to be entirely satisfactory.
Maxton Union: Capt E. j. Hale,
Consul at Manchester, England, has
been relieved by VIM. F. Grinnell, q
brother-in-law of Vice-President Nor
ton. Grinnell has been Consul at Brad
ford. Capt. Hale is a very cultured
gentleman and reflected much credit ON
this government, as it's representative.
Mrs. Carter Marks, an aged white
woman, was run over by a shifting en-
CINE of the Petersburg Railroad Com
pany, while crossing Washington street,
Petersburg, Va, Monday night. Her
right leg was cut off about the middle
of the thigh, and she died from the
shock about al hour after receiving the
injury.
Mr.: Randolph Buck, of Vicksburg, a
1~9-year-old student at Suwanee, Tenn,
has contracted a runaway marriage with
a daughter of a professor in the Suwa,
ee school, Gen. John Kirby Smith.
Miss Smith is Is years old, and it is