The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-08-27
NEWS ITEMS.

twisted gold without q stone.
Human sacrifices are still quite COM
mon on the East African Coast.
In Chicago /, S24. 900 hogs were packed
this year against /, So, 900 in 1886
Four more bodies were found in cell
lars in Johnstown, Pa, on the 14th.
The Spanish Minister of the Colonies
has announced that Cuba is not for sale.
Workmen ~excavating for a sewer in
Philadelphia unearthed 800 skeletons.
Growing and shipping oysters is be-
coming a lively business at Pensacola,
Fla:
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to
minors. .ss
When the small boy gets a new pair
OF shoes there is something new under
the ON. :
Advices from Bosnia report that severe
shocks of earthquake have been felt in
Jablonica.
Crop indications throughout the coun-
try point to the largest yield of oats ever
reported.
MI. Parnell has a surplus of 500, 900
after paying his legal expenses before
the Commission.
A sweet potato trust has materialized
in Baltimore. This would seem to be
the, end Of trusts. J4%@&
The new French army law extends
the age of liability to service from forty
five years to fifty.
Iced watermelon, favored with claret,
is refreshing, says the aesthetic editor of
the Weldon NearS.
A British syndicate is said to have
paid S. 600, 900 for an American patent
medicine business.
The Mexican Government has refused
point blank to grant concessions for
negro immigration.
Mr.. Parnell has a surplus of $780,
600 after paying his legal expenses be-
fore the commission.
Blue and white are the most popular
colors at the mountains, with red and
white at the seashore.
The little prayer, beginning, CHOW I
lay me down to Sleep" was written by
H. Do~o-c Aha ~or&-r
The letter carriers of Portsmouth, N.
H., have refused to resign at the de
mand of Postmaster Sides.
We exported last year more petroleum
than ever before, 612, 600, 900 gallons, of
the estimated value of $49. 470,8
Rev. DR.. Jarvis Buxton has resigned
the passionate of Trinity Church, Ashe-
vile, having held it for forty years. 3
During the last year 3 1850, 615 cotton
handkerchiefs, besides many linen and
silk ones, were imported into japan.
Money, matrimony and alimony, says
the San Francisco Alta, make nearly all
the business for the courts of justice.
A London physician of eminence
maintains,t that the most potent cause of
the dissemination of disease is kissing.
Four Whitecaps have been placed in
the Jail at Marion, Ind, for brutality
beating Mrs. Street and her daughter.
The condition of the King of Bavaria
grows contir ually worse. All nourish-
ment is administered to him artifcially.
A Rochester scientist advocates drown
ing as the most humane form of capital
punishment to which criminals can be
subjected.
Mr.. Hutchinson was nominated for
governor of Iowa on the twenty-fourth
ballot by the Republicans in session at
Des Moines.
Clark's Solar Iron works, Pittsburg,
will no longer use non-union muck iron,
and as a consequence the men have re-
turned to work.
Acting Postmaster General Clarkson
says buhb 1OSOUV rs hOOuI Inc AuH1D0E VI
the changes he has made in fourth
class post Offices.
Mrs. Schaefer, wife of Jacob Schaefer,
the billiard expert, is dead. The lady
has been sick for some time past. She
was in her 32d year. ~
Rev. Mr.. Crosett, an independent
missionary in China, whose life was
grand in self sacrifices, died recently in
that country.
By the explosion of a threshing ma
chine boiler near Aberdeen, Oak, three
men were killed and two badly injured.
Cause, lack of water.
A distillery firm within three miles of