The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15


Gen. Boulanger will spend the winter
ia Eg> pit He will start for Africa as
soon as the cold weather sets in.
The cnaracterS III t1e novel viii IN Mr.:
O'Brien, the Irish Home-Ruler,
is writing, are all drawn from ife.s
Instead of going to the theatre as she
said, a Pitt<burg girl took a train for
G nclnnati, where she was married.
The supreme court Of Iowa has rendered
a decision affirming the constitutionality
of the prohibition law of that state.
Nearly %, 100000 acres Of land in the
United States are owned by men who
owe allegiance to other governments
Theophile Landreau, the DISCOVERIES of
the immence beds of guano in Peru, is
living in comparative poverty in Lima.
Sam Small, the Georgia evangelist, is
turning an honest penny or W. by can-
wasting Ohio for the prohibition ticket.
An Oregon girl wrote to Anna Dick
inson once, asking chow to get a hus-
band?' and Anna replied "by the hair"
David Brown, a miser, was found dead
at Bath, N. Y, on Friday, with bank GER
t~iicates a~ggregating 81, 900 in his pockets.
The new rifles adopted by the Swiss
government have been exhaustively and
successfully tested with smokeless pow
der. @.92s
While charging a soda fountain in
Washington, P. E. Bryant had his head
blown open by the explosion of the foun-
tain .-- . y /.
"Baby Mckee" fairy lamps are the
latest. They are of delicate china, with
hand-painted wild roses on shade and
globe.
Mr.. N. W. Craft, of Yadkin county, ex-
hibited some of his wines at the Paris
Exposition and they were awarded a
medal.
The drug S ore of DIE. L. Palmer, gro
Gerry of J.. D. Nichols and the Masonic
hall at Noble, ILL.,, were destroyed by fire
Sunday.
Miss Louise Theron, of Boston, was
married at Lenox, Mass, Oct. Sd to Will
liam G.. Endicott, Jr., son of ex-Secretary
Endicott.
Allen Brown, colored, one of the Mari
on, Mo-, rioters, has been found guilty of
murder and sentenced to be hanged No
vember l8.
Lewis and Cyrus Golf, brothers, quar-
relied over a game of chance at Winchester,
KY, and the former cut the ~latter's throat,
killing him.
I'm the third race at Latonia, Saturday,
three horses fell, and Jockeys Magee,
Brown and Mailing were seriously injured.
Magee may die.
The Goldsboro Rifles are going to the
Fayetteville Centennial in their full dress
"Gray," especially to do honor to Hon.
Jefferson Davis.
7. F. Albright, of Sandy Grove, writes
that he made 539 gallons of excellent
sprup from the cane which grew on one
fourth of an acre. =
A well-appointed dinner table is not
complete unless the napery has the dam
ask finish, which makes it look as though
fresh from the loom.
When a man tells you anything that
is derogatory to your neighbor, ask him
to go with you at once to that neighbor
and tell him about it.
The Tarboro Fair will not have mar
shals, but a corps of mounted police in
stead. There seems t. be something
practical in the change.
The establishment of the Federal
Court of which John Jay was the first
chief justice will be celebrated in New
York in February next.
J. Thomas Jarman, a brakemon on the
Chesapeake & Ohio road, was killed in a
wreck at Goshen, station about two
o'clock Monday morning.
Charles s. Pratt has confessed embez-
cling $4,000 from the b. Wales Lines
Company, of Meriden,. Conn.,, of which
he wa Secretary-C Cashier.
The school board of Baltimore has
adopted a resolution declaring that if a
female teacher marries, she will be con-
sidered as having resigned.
"A new and cheap musical instrument
in the toy stores is the "ocarina." It is
made OF clay, is sweet potato shaped, and
its tone is somewhat futey.
The New Berne Journal says: /" 1T is
positively shocking some times to hear
the frank wav In which tho saoo;da o;-l