The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-10

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Thomas Fitzpatrick, employed as a
nurseain the StsLnke',s Episcopal Hospi-
tai New York city, fell through the
elevat r shaft Saturday night and was in
stantly killed.
Aneagle measuring seven feet from
tip 10 tip was saot on. Tuesday at Eagle
Lake by Roswell p. Flower, of New
York: Mr.. Flower intends to present the
eagle to- Tammany Hall.
Up; to Saturday. evening, 31st ult., no
settlement of the great strike in London
had been made. The dock companies ex-
press a willingness to concede further
proposals from theamen.
The remains of Pascal Di PaoIi, the
famous Corsican patriot, who died in
exile near London in 1907, have been ex-
humed from st. Pancras Church burying-
ground and shipped to Corsica.
The wise young man copies his feryent
loye-letters before he sends them to his
darling. Then by simply changing the
names he can make them do for several
successive girls wilson Messenger.
Edith, a sixteen-year-old daughter Of
Henry NJ. Elliott, Of Chambersburg, Pa,
had her arms and hands badly burned
Friday night by the explosion of a can of
kerosene. She used it to start q fire.
The Rutherford Banner asks: Who is
there more noble, more free and intelli-
gent than the farmer who owns his
homestead, stocked with horses, cattle,
sheep, pigs, poultry, fruit trees, vines, and
shrubs?
The Smithfeld Herald says: SO far
we don't think a yard of jute bagging has
been shipped to this market. The farmers
say they are not going toause it, and the
merchants will supply them with other
bagging. e
The Department of State has been in
formed Of the recent gift by the King of
Siam, for the use of the American Pres
byterian Mission, sofsthe royal palaces, to-
gether with the extensive grounds and
buildings. .ns.4 r
The persons boarding with Mrs. Med
smin3at Chattanooga, Tenn.,: were made
seriously ill the other day after eating
meat which she had purchased for dinner.
Mrs, Medmin's husband and child were
also poisoned.
Rocky Mount PLAIN Dealer Nearly
all of the tobacco in this section has been
cured, and we have yet to hear of a single
bad cure. We suppose the crop this year,
as far as color goes, is the finest ever
raised in this section.
The Sultan Of Zanzabar has signed a
concession giving to the British East
Africa Company the Lamu Island and the
Benagir coast-line from Kipini north
ward, including Kismayu, Bravo, Merka,
Magadish and Uruti.
I On September 1st The Household Com
pan6om, New York, was enlarged to six
lteenpages and a guaranteed circulation
of 1000 copies each month. October,
November and December numbers will
of 100000 each.
Russell Harrison says when he dined
with Queen Victoria he had, four kinds
sof pie He loves pie, and royal die, such
as Queen Victoria builds, he fairly reyels
in. He may be a dude but he is piously
Inclined wilson Mirror.
The New Berne Journal says, it is re-
ported that a large rattlesnake lives under
the Old school building on the Academy
Green. He has been seen coming out, to
the pump on the corner, where he regales
himself on fresh water and frogs.
Schools should not teach a mass of
knowledge, but how to acquire knowl-
edge. School machinery is not for the.
purpose of exhibiting its beauty or per-
'fection, but t. train pupils to become
men and women.-WSlson Messenger.
John Dudas and VIM. Pagan, two Of
the victims of Fridays accident at tee
Homestead Pa., Steel Works, died Sat
.urday making four deaths so far. Two
more-Isaac Lane and Joseph Durkes-
will probably die. Two others will re-
cover.
The people of this country must. ami
ihilate the monopolies and trusts-the
whole brood Of them, big and little. If
they do not, it is only question of time
when the monopolies and trusts wilde
people. 10
At Valley City, D. T., the office of the
Ismes-Record was completely demolished
by a whisky mob Tuesday night. The
editor issa pronounced prohibitionist, and
has used his infuencein local affairs and
in the recent State convention. He has
been warned frequently. r,
The latest scientific within is a surgical
operatlonffor the benefit of pfano-players
clipping a cord between the third and
fourth fingers. What a l~ong-sufering
public demands of science is something
that will benefit the entire neighborhood
wherein the player resides.
A branch of the Wilmington & Well
don Railroad has been completed to
Greenville. The passage of the first train
was the occasion of much rejoicing among
the citizens on the I'D ult. It is stated
that the number of miles of railroad in
North Carolina has doubled since 1880.
Another apprentice boy on the United
States ship New Hampshire, at Newport,
R. L, has died of typhoid fever. An IN