The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-04
NEWS ITEMS.

The Citizen says Society's gay and
giddy whirl will soon begin in Asheville.
A northern syndicate has purchased
co. 900 acres of farming lands in North
Carolina. .
Ex-Governor Jarvis was elected alder
man of the town of Greenville at the
last election.
A gold nugget has been found in
Wilkes county, this State, weighing
over two pounds. :
A fire at Rens, Nevada, Sunday after
noon, destroyed property valued at
$3.50, 900 to $500, coo.
Henri Matthew, 1O1 years old, n of
Napoleon's veterans, died in a squalid
New York tenement Tuesday.
Algernon Charles Swinburne has been
asked to write a poem on the Prince
Henry of Battenberg's latest baby.
The Hon. Thomas F. Bayard is in
office again as a commissioner to settle
the Delaware-M Maryland boundary ques-
ton.
On the night of the 23d inst. there
was a slight frost in portions of Chat
ham county-unusually late for that
section.
f. Jacksonville, Fla, had an incendiary
fire a few days ago. which destroyed
several buildings, including two
churches.
Mr.. Pulver, of Vineland, n. J., has
eaten an egg every day for the last half
century. Up to date he has pulverized
1921 dozen. s>zA
Mr.. W. 81. Chadbourn has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the building
to be erected in Wilmington by the U.
S. government.
Two noted desperadoes in Texas were
captured Friday night; they are charged
with murder and the robbery of a large
amount of money.
Princess Beatrice, Queen Victorias'
youngest daughter, the wife of Prince
Henry of Battenburg, has been safely
delivered of a son.
Among the bills introduced in the
New York Legislature, Governor Hill
intimates, the 500 one we're the favor
tie toward the close.
The king of Spain, a diminutive spec
linen of human1ty-not mor than
eighteen inches in length-has gone to
the Paris exposition.
The Puritan, which for years has been
a monitor only in name, will soon be
transformed into a vessel of modern
type and great power.
In Lawrence county, Ohio, two young
women quarreled about a young man,
and in a fight with knives which ensued,
both were seriously cut.
The liquor license court of Philadel-
phia, which has just finished its labors,
granted 1,203 retail licenses and 375
wholesale and bottlers' license.
Another cashier has gone wrong.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has been defrauded out of ten
thousand dollars by a Bostonian.
The good old gentleman who is Is or
20 years behind the times usually has a
son who is rapid enough to make the
average about right.-Merchdnt Tfauel-
Ter.
A company of Cinnamon, styled the
Imperial Chinese Dramatic Company, of
San Francisco, is playing at a Chicago
theatre. The play produced is said to
be 5000 years old.
Queen Victoria sat for an hour or two
in Hyde Park one day last week, and a
correspondent who saw her says she
looks red, small, profusely wrinkled,
and not at all amiable. ~
A telegram from Forest City, Ark,
says that D. NJ. Wilson, sheriff of st.
Francis county, Frank Foible, city
marshal, and Thomas Parham, were
killed in a street fight.
The North Carolina Press Associa-
ton will meet the 18th of July. The
Pittsboro Record says it ought to meet
q week later, so as not to conflict with
the State Guard encampment.
The celebrated Carter divorce case in
Chicago was concluded on the 22d inst.
by a verdict finding the wife guilty and
the husband not guilty of the charges
made by each against the other.
Montreal, Canada, has thirty boot
and shoe manufactures. Four thou
persons, all over fourteen years of age,
are employed. Wages average $12 per