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

s'Things still continue to look rather,
black in Hayti," says the Boston Herald.
yufcanized 'asphaitnm pavement is
being introduced in the City of Mexico.
The Florida Legislature has passed:
bill for the prevention of cruelty to.
animals. 1
The food in the Potomac has infict-
ed great damage in Washington city
and Georgetown:
w. A.. Sanders, of Hartwell, Ga, has
shipped $115 dollars worth of bees
north this season.
The Yale seniors have voted Mrs
Grover Cleveland the handsomest wo-
man in the country.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature looking TO making
education a matter of compulsion.
A 125-ton iron furnace and a large
number of coke ovens will be built at
Careyville, Tennessee, at once.
Help, of a substantial character, is
being rendered from many quarters to
the Pennsylvania flood sufferers.
The sheriff of Troy, N. Y, put a pris-
oner in charge of his trotting horse, and
the prisoner naturally trotted off with
the animal.
The proprietor of the Adelphi Club
in the city of London was fined $4,000
for keeping a gambling resort, and the
secretary was fined 81, 200. -
A gentleman living at HartweI, near
Savannah, who is 81 years of age, has
never had the toothache nor had a tooth
extracted. Every tooth is as sound as
q silver dollar. q
G. E.. Booth, of Monroe, is the pos
SCISSOR of a razor " years old, and at
present shaves better than most OF the
modern razors. Mr.. Booths father
bought it in 1921.
Grand preparations are being made
at the Salem Academy, by a chorus of
100 voices, for the rendition of the Ora
torio st. Paul at the commencement
exercises next week.
A Western paper m to the de-
fence of the ward politician. It says:
"He is the most open-handed man on
earth" Palms up?
The New Orleans Produce Exchange
have transferred all of their property
to the New Orleans Board of Trade,
limited, for $4,000.
A Nevada miner hurled a brother
miner down a shaft 100 feet deep be-
cause he persisted in singing 1.-THE
Sweet Bye-and-Bye."
Albany, Ga, has a ~122-year-old
darkey, who says he used to see George
Washington often, and ''hist my hat
and say howdy to him."
Eifel is said to have gained the first
idea of the tower which bears his name
from sitting behind an American woman
in an American theatre.
Rev. J. G. Meyers, of State Line, Ill,
was struck senseless by lightning in his
pulpit on Sunday, and may lose his
eyesight permanently.
The American Congregational As
ISOLATION, at the thirty-sixth meeting,
in Boston, reports its original debt of
$3.50, 600 reduced to $181,0 O0.
A widow woman, with two children,
in Wichita, Kansas, has been sentenced
to three months in jail and to pay fine
of $500 for selling three glasses of beer.
Mr.. J. S. Spencer, has been removed
from the position of disbursing agent
of the Charlotte public building be
cause he q stakeholder in the Charlotte
Chronicle, which makes him Ineligible.
W. A. Mason, of Hartwell, Ca, shot
at a covey of birds recently and killed
ten out of twelve at n shot and after
wards bagged the other two.
Recent discoveries made by the use
of the spectroscope show that all the
heavenly bodies appear to be composed
of the same chemical elements.
The fruit crop this year, says the
Rocky Mount Phenir will be the larg-
est that we have had for many years.
It is a great pity that we haven't got a
canning factory here to utilize it.
The American Match company, OF
Gainesville, Ga, has been running OF
un time for the whole winter and
spring with no dearth of orders.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Mss Lille Scott and Edwin Canister.
on Tuesday evening, June 4, at the
First Presbyterian Church, in the c;tv
Of Charlotte.