The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
NEWS ITEMS.

LIuSIs ss~Es &fGs4
A Russian Prince has bought the
yacht Trek.
The cotton crop OF Texas is the largest
ever known.
Edison talks of q long trip to Egypt
and the East.
One farmer In AroostoOk. Me-, Guilt
Yates 1000 acres in potatoes.
On an average two bodies per day are
found in the JohnstoWn valley.
To the flea: In old age drink hop
tea, and you will still be lively.
The lord mayor of London has invited
American artisans to a banquet.
Coke operators Will ask $t.25 per ton
on and after the first of September.
One man in Western Australia owns
and controls nearly 1000, 900 acres Of
land.
The University Of Oxford has appli-
ances for printing in $50 different Ian
guages.
Governor Hill is the guest of ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland at Saranac, in the Adj
rondacks.
Amelia B. Edwards will deliver sixty
lectures in America selected from 800
applications.
Over twenty million acres. of land in
the new State of Washington has never
been surveyed. q
There is q Russian giantess in Paris.
six feet and six inches high, and only
eleven years old.
-Four thousand tubs of butter are on
the way from the West for cold storage
at st. Adams, Vt.
The cigarmakers' strike at jackson
vile, Fla. is practically ended by the
hands resnming work.
The Vanderbilt family have bought
a controlling interest in the Beach Greek
Railroad in Pennsylvania.
DIR. Brown-Sequard was during 1858
q lecturer on ~vivisection at the South
Carolina Medical College.
Tanner placed a large portrait of him
self, framed in brass, on his Office wall
yesterday.-BoSton Herald.
The Telegraph Club of New York will
give a great dinner in honor of Edison
on his return from Europe.
The market for beans is dull and de-
pressed. Foreign beans are arriving
freely in New York at low prices.
Leavenworth people will unveil 9
Grant monument on September IA
Senator Ingalls, is to be the orator.
The land of Central Park. New York.
which originally cost the city $6,0O0.'
600, is now valued at 800, 600, 600. i
costs to keep it up $500, 900 a year.
New York dairymen think Canadian
buyers are assisting in maintaining the
price of cheese in our local markets.
In Omaha the stealing of an umbrella
on a rainy day is justifable on Che
ground that it was done in self defence
Large land owners in Scotland art
importing reindeer from Norway, in the
hope that they may become acclimatized
and increase.
The exiled Legitime is off for France
which reminds people that the exiled
Boulanger might as we'll be off fol
Hayti.-RecOrd.
The printers employed by three lead
ing London firms struck on Tuesday
and the number of strikers in LondoE
now is 1900
Jas. E. Campbell, of Hamilton, wa
yesterday nominated for Governor 0
Ohio by the State Democratic Conven
ton held at Dayton.
A pious old lady of Toronto devote'
the profits accruing from the sale of al
the eggs laid by her hens on Sunday Il
the missionary cause.
The Buffalo Commercial Adrer4iise,. oh
; jectszto the sun1ower as the gnatiena
flower, because it is .sa mere seedy pan
cake in yellow frills:p aezt
Farm and harvesting machinery a
Alliance prices. Read the advertisement
and write under seal of the Alliance K
box 1876, Raleigh, NC.
Statistics just published show tina
the total number of paupers in England
and Wales is 762.s53 which allows 26.
for every 1000 of the population.
Two more bodies were taken out o
the sand at Johnstown, Penn. On,
was identified as that of Alex. Hamil
ton, Jr., a prominent resident of tn,
town.
Governor Hill, of New York, is op
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