The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

agitated,
A. sparkling letter from our Michigan
correspondent, wolverine" IN our ne1t
issue.
Senator Ransom is to be the orator
at The Alumni celebration OF the Uni
versity on the 9Th of June.
The international convention OF
Young Mems Christian Associations Sc
lected Kansas City as the next meeting
place.
The Great Council Improved Order
Red Men of Virginia, in session at WIN
chester, selected Petersburg as the next
place of meeting.
Out of the 100000 ap~portioned by
Congress to be allotted among the States
for the equipment of State militia, North
Carolina gets $lO,44l. .
Stern Parent Ito a young applicant Tor
his daughters hand)-Young man, can
YOU support a family? Young Man
(meekly)-I only wanted Sarah.
The New York Herald is of the opinion
that Fitz Hugh Lee was by all means the
most distinguished looking governor that
appeared in the military parade.
Three big lager beer breweries in New
ark, one in New York and n in Albany,
have combined in a big brewing corpora
ton, with a capital of 81, 100000.
"There is only one thing that makes
me doubt the truth of the Gospel" said
Col. Mooney. "What is that?" The
apostles were nearly all fishermen"
Sir William Jenner, Queen Victoria's
physician, says that he is surprised to see
his patient looking so much better than
when she left his care some weeks ago.
Col. Asa T. Matthews, of Illinois, the
new First Comptroller of the Treasury,
was sworn in on Monday morning, and
Immediately assumed the duties OF the
Office.
The resignation of William II. Denison,
United States Attorney for the northern
and middle district of Alabama, has been
accepted by the President, to take effect
June LIST.
At Danville, Va, last Thursday, a fiat
car loaded with iron, at the Atlantic R. R.,
Jumped the track and crushed several men
under it, killing n instantly and serl-
ously injuring others.
By recent examinations in Scotland
certain biologists have become convln-
ced that the earth lay in a liquid state
for $50, 900 years. Kentucky is not
fairly dry yet.-PiOneer Press.
Antonio Bregazzi, who has just died
in Washington, was n of the six men
who assisted to remove President Lin
coin from the theatre on the night of
the Assassination in April 1866.
A Paris paper reports the recent ar
rival of a distinguished American from
the West, whose outfit was five hun
dred thousand francs, a red necktie
and a pair of Dottle-green gloves.
An Illinois Democratic postmaster has
been removed from Office because he
owes $500 to a Pennsylvania merchant,
and has owed it a good while, and the
Pennsylvania is unable to collect"
The battle monument at Bennington,
Vt, has reached the height of 129 feet,
and work is just being renewed or it.
The contractor expects to have it COM
pleted before the close of this year.
A sensatson has been caused at The
Hague, by the socialists who on Sunday
J night hauled down the royal standard
from the tower and replaced it with a
socialist flag. The affair is being inquired
into.
An exchange says the New York idea
of having a three days h~oliday-one
day to get drunk in, n day to be
y drunk in, and another day to sober off
in-has some strong points to recon-
mend it.
The next session of the animal confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, of this State will be held at
Greensboro, beginning November 9th,
Bishop R. K. Hargrove, of Tennessee,
presiding.
The Rev. Mr.. Slemmers, a bachelor
minister of Mercer, Penn, says that
when his congregation unanimously
picks out a young lady willing to be
his wife he will take her 'for better,
for worse"
The Wilmington papers speak in
glowing terms of the Memorial exercises
held in that city on the 10th inst. Gen.
Cox's address was pronounced very fine
and will probably be printed in pamph-
let form for distribution.