The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23

New York is agitating the proposition
to establish free kindergarten schools t.
take the place of her present primary
system of instruction.
There is a Kansas City, Mo-, anc
there is a.Kansas City, Kan, each, il
it's own estimation, the most important
town in it's OWL State.
It is reported that the Bank of Paris
is deeply involved in the copper troub
les, and is not expected to pay a divi
dend for the past year.
The News and Observer says: "Clearly
the new Raleigh paper has The Call on
all of us. First blood. Patent applied
for. All rights reserved" >ur.
The sugar crop of Cuba this year
shows a decrease of between 45 and Is
per cent. The falling off is attributed
the cyclone of September.
Mr.. James NJ. Currie, formerly Of
Florida, a we'll known Washington
newspaper correspondent, died in that
city last Sunday evening.
The New York World says: Politics
at Washington continues to be nothing
but oMce-seeking, and government
nothing but ofice-flling."
It was resolved by a joint meeting OF
those interested, held at Winston last
week, to survey the road from High
Point to Winston, via Kernersville.
Mr.. William Cannon, of Mountain
Island neighborhood, is the proud pos
SCISSOR of q chicken which has two heads,
two tails, four wings and three legs.
The Boston Herald remarks that the
death of the head of the great distillery
at Cognac, France, removes a famous
man, but his spirit is still with us? I'll
The North Carolina Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran church will meet
at st. Johns, Cabarrus county, on Fri.
day before the first Sunday in May.
The Winchester Times says a Virgin
ian by the name of Appel has married
Miss Green. The offspring will probab-
ly go by the name of Green Appels.
A disguised Georgian, who has been
there, says, with a mustard plaster
and two green flies he can reproduce
the climate of fowery Florida, at will.
If, says the Houston Post, Mr.. Webb
Hayes wants to go abroad as a member
of the diplomatic corps, nobody can
twit him with being an ex-President's
son..
Her Majesty, Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain and Empress of India, is said to
weigh 189 pounds, down weight, and.
stands 5 feet 2 inches in her stocking
feet.
An entire family, numbering seven
persons, at East Pembroke, N. z, have
died of malignant typhoid pneumonia,
caused by decayed vegetation in the
cellar.
The Agricultural Leagues Federation
of Brussels has unanimously adopted q
resolution favor1ng the imposition of an
import duty upon all agricultural pro-
ducts.
Revenue collections to the amount
of $50, 7O8.1 IA we're raked into
the U. S. Treasury through the Win
ston branch Office during the month of
March.
A German government detective
named Wichman has been sentenced to
two years Imprisonment at Altoona for
falsely accusing two men of being an
archists.
Mr.. Bonitz, having bought out the
interest of the other stockholders, is
now sole proprietor of the Wilmington
Messenger, and will go it alone for the
future.
Congress has set apart Tuesday, April
Both, as a legal holiday throughout the
United States, in honor of the inaugu-
ration OF Washington, one hundred
years ago.
The New York Star asks, and answers
this conundrum: Why was Pharoh's
daughter like a merchant in Wall street?
She found a little prophet in the rushes
the bank.
John A. Lyman, a negro man origi-
nally from Warrenton, N. c., has been
appointed night Waterman at the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington, at
a salary of $50.
Daniel N. Lockwood, of Buffalo, who
nominated Mr.. Cleveland for every Of
fee he has held, resigns his Office of
United States District attorney, and
down and out.