The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-19

A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal, re-
ports the arrest there of Frank J.Lee, on
a charge of stealing, a quantity of railroad
tickets. Lee, it is said, was secretary OF
Rev. Sam Jones while Mr.. Jones was in
California. ar-@EJ-1 ~ 81
The Wilmington Star does not believe
that the white tax payers of North Caro-
lima are in favor. of any material increase
in school taxation, so long as the money
is appropriated as it now is, between the
whites and negroes. az
Four millions of New England dollars
have recently been invested in the New
Alabama town of Fort Payne. Many
other Southern towns and sections have
also been greatly aided by the moving in
of Northern and Eastern capitalists.
About ten and a half millions of eggs
were cooked in Chicago Monday evening.
The occasion was the burning of the
| upper floors of the Western Refrigerating
Company's coal storage warehouse on the
southern corner of State and Michigan
streets.
Thursday afternoon the Old Dominion
steamship "Wyanoke," landed at Nor
folk, Va, one hundred and twenty-five
European Mormon proselytes, in charge
of several elders of that faith. The party
took a special immigrant train for Utah,
leaving in the afternoon.
A Westchester, Pa, young man is now
awaiting9a penalty of one years impris-
onment and a fine of $1,000 for playfully
pointing a gun which he didn't think was
"loaded I" at a young woman. The gun
went off and so did the young woman
with a big loadnof shot in her body.
Attic Bayard wedding Mrs. Cleveland
wore a gown Of t~an-color camel's hair
cloth with wife figures interviewer. Deep
Vandyke points of lace extended down
from the throat, while similar shorter
points of lace extended upward from the
belt and fastened in t ! side seams efn-
ing the bust.
That fierce Apache, Geronimo, who is
confnedto Mt. Vernon barracks, Alabama,
and whom the Secretary of War proposes
20 bring to this State, has learned to play
the banjo. The Columbus (Ga) Enquirer
says: ellis guard has less trouble in
preventing his running away than to keep
him from getting drunk"
This weeks Wilkesboro. Chronicle re-
ports the discovery in Wilkes county of
coal, or what it calls coal stone, which
upon being put in the fire burned freely.
This is the first discovery of anything re-
sembling coal in that county. It seems
hat the discovery was made in uprooting
q tree under which the coal was found.
A dispatch to the NeOs from Des
MONIES, Iowa, says there are evidently
going to be lively times in the legislature.
The republican majority is so small that
every effort will be brought to bear for
defeat of Senator Allison, and the enact
ment of a high license law. Whether
either of these can be accomplished re-
mains to be seen.
The General Committee of the Worlds
Fair took a wise step last week in decid-
ing to exclude Central Park from the pro-
posed site. 1t is possible that the Park
would not have been injured by the Fair
in any way, but that fact did not alter the
situation at all. Public sentiment on the
subject was so strong that there was no
other course for the commitee.-M y
Star.
Having been declared criminal con-
spiracies in New York, the Philadelphia
Record says, the Trusts cannot expect to
fare better at the hands of the Judiciary
in other States. 1t is probable that they
will all make what haste they can to find
shelter under the provisions of law gov
erning corporations, and that they will
not stand upon the order of their move
ment.
The value of property in the business
portions of New York may be estimated
from the sale a few days ago of two old
Office buildings in Liberty sire ct, which
with only a frontage of forty-fve feet on
the street, sod for two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. The Liberty street
blocks are nc Nowhere deeper than a hundred
feet from front to rear, and in most in
stances less.
Boston capitalists have made prepa-
rations for sinking test wells on the south
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