The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-18

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mense industry in the invention of high
Explosives, and there are now more
than 800 varieties. A dynamite cart
ridge one foot in length takes only 1-24;
600 of a second to explode.
One young man saved from a life of
folly and Incidence will bring such an
amount of wealth to the, community in
which he lives as will amply pay for
his judicious training. A neglect of it
viii bring untold misery to himself and
expense to the public.
The Mobile Register sounds the fol-
lowing warning: ""Anne Reeve, thenew
poetess of passion, should not be-con-
founded with Amelie Rives Chanler.
This is said in justice to Mrs. Chanler.
Miss Reeve is a young lady whose
poems r models of improperly"
A Piano-tuner says that pianos fre-
quently deteriorate because they are al
lowed to become too dry. To counter
act this he advises keeping a growing
plant in the room. Another way Is to
keep a large vase or urn, with q sopping
wet sponge in it under or near the
piano.
Capt. A. ]. Ellington was wired Sat-
urday evening of the illness of Miss
Jennie, n of his daughters, who is on
o visit to Mrs. James Bethel, at Sharps.
He went at once and carried DIR. Courts,
the family physician, with him. We
are pleased to learn later she is better.
ReidsciNe ReUieU.
Leonard SWEET, one of the old resi-
dents of Chicago, who for years has
been a prominent member of the Hi
nois bar, died Saturday. He made the
nominating speech for Abraham Lin
coin for President in 1860 and for Judge
Walter Q. Gresham in 1888.
It is reported that the Prospect Brew
ing Company, of Philadelphia, has OBJ
tanned an option on Camden IN. j.
property, to which the brewery will be
removed if the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania should affirm the right of the
Philadelphia court to refuse the brew.
ing company a license.
At Boone, N. c., which is situated in
a valley in the mountains, from the
heavy rains the water ran four feet deep
through the streets, bearing on its bo-
som logs 25 inches in diameter and
doing great damage to the streets and
sidewalks. Many hogs and sheep were
drowned.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
North Carolina Dental Association will
be held in the city of Greensboro on the
Goth, Goth and 9th insts. The meeting
will be- held in the Benbow House, and
reduced rates on all railroads in the
State have been secured.
Col. Charles G.. Langdon, secretary
of State of Alabama, died Saturday, af-
ter a protracted illness. He was born
in Southington, Conn.,, August 5, 1906,
and at the age of twenty went to Ala
bama, and has served in the legislature,
constitutional convention and as mayor
of Mobile.
We are pleased to learn hat Miss
Annie DeRosset, so well known and so
heartily admired here, has accepted an
engagement to sing at the musical and
literary entertainment to be held at
Lexington, Kentucky, early in July.
She will return home about the 10th of
July, leaving Washington City, where
she now is, on or about the Oath inst
Wilmington Re0iew.
Thursday afternoon seven school
children at Sand Lake, Rennselear
county, N. Y, went into the woods to
gather winter green's. They found a
root resembling sweet flag and ate of it.
tives has determined to reduce railway
fares, and has passed a bill fixing the
fares over lines in that State at 2 cents
a mile.
The famous old-time fashionable sum-
mer resort of Bay st. Louis, has begun
another season That promises much
gayety and pleasure. A correspondent
writing from there says: Many houses
have been rented and many more spoken
for. A number of wealthy planters
from Louisiana are expected here for
the season. They come to get ride of
chills and fever, and that most dread
full of all fevers, the malarial.
The Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima rendered a decision not long ago,
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