The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-17
GENERAL NEWS

psv, D. Harding, pastor OF the Pres
church at Graham, has accepted
VI to the church at FarmVille,V Va.
estimated cotton crop of Texas for
is 1887, 900 bales, which is only
aoo.' 90 less than the whole crop OF
India.
driver of the New York ice cart
elected to Congress by 500 majority:
w. BOSTON Post says his opponent was
frozen out,
a., Tuesday the National Treasury De-
-.rtment purchased 217,OoO ounces Cor
% seq4 pounds of silver for the Phila-
delphia mint e .
colored man, while drinking on the
- at midnight, was killed near Pike
vile Saturday night, by a north bound
passenger train.
CIV Jackson, of Maryland, had a con-
a..rce with Gov. Lee, of Virginia, in
Warrington on Tuesday concerning the
Hog Island matter. Result not known.
With a view of preventing the spread
,irbtheria in the townof Marlboro, Mass;
II the schools there have been closed.
rventv cases have already been reported.
In China, when a court astrologer don't
hit # in his weather predictions they chop
his head of. In this country, most of
the weather prophets haven't got any
heads to chop off. te.... So
There are $4,000 persons employed un 9
dor the classified civil service of the
United States. These $4,000 persons re-
ceiye the compensation paid to all other
government employees. =
Robert Bonner has on his farm at larry
town, and in his city stables, in New
York, nearly sixty of the notable turf per-
formers of their day, and for which he
has paid nearly 100000.
In 1854 there were four men of national
p~rominence upon the Presidential tickets
Abraham Lincoln, George B. Mcclellan,
Andrew Johnson, and George FL. Pendle-
ton. The last of these four has just died.
Four negroes have been arrested at
Wheeling, West Virginia, charged with
uouring alcohol over the body of 8 sleep
ing negro and then setting it on fire. The
o -a, oououoifkod WodpaS-
day morning last.
A. Sioux indian named Henry Hokixina
Lyman, % years old, has entered the Yale
law school, and intends to practice among
his tribe when he has graduated. He
entered on the recomme ndation of the
Indian college at Hampton, Va.
Messrs. Rothschilds, the London bank
ers, have consented to a request of the
provisional government of Brazil to con-
tinue their financial support on condition
that the union be preserved and that order
be maintained throughout the republic.
In a recent lecture, Father Ryan said:
"The world came from a protoplasm, say
the learned atheists A protoplasm in
plain English is a first, primitive, essential
element. Who made the %protoplasm 2
dbl make itself2 Answer them for
ever.
The Kentucky people are DESTROYS that
Mr.. Davis shall be buried in Cave Hill
cemetery, Louisville, in a lot formally set
apart for Gen. Zachary Taylor, but never
used Mr.. Davis was anative of Kentucky,
and 1t is proposed to raise fund of $780,
600 for his family.
A stalk Of cotton on the Eagle Bend
plantation, on the Yazoo river in Missis-
sippi, reached ten feet in height, was two
inches in diameter and had 206 bolls on
it. The longest limb was seven and one
half feet. The ground has been in cult
Vation nearly fifty years.
At South Paris, Me-, recently, Robert
tray, 81 years old, harnessed his horse
Dick, "a years old, and accompanied by
his Robert's) wife, IS years old, drove to
North Paris, meeting while there Mrs.
Edward Andrews, Sc years old, who had
Just returned from Europe, and Mr.. Pottle,
% years old.
Jay Gould subscribed $4,000 to the
guarantee Worlds Fair fund for New
York and 100000 for St. Louis. Most
OF the Eastern railroad magnates are in
iavor Of holding the fair in some Western
city. This is quite natural. European
visitors can get to New York without
p~atronizing the railroads.
There was another murder in Wavne
county Saturday night. One negro killed