The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-24

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through toe rapids of the Niagara gorge
below.the falls.
A news agency in London has received
a letter from jack the Ripper" in which
he promises another Whitechapel horror
in about a week.
When applied to for his autograph,
Carlyle once forwarded a card with the
single word Don't" followed by his
name and address.
Last years crop of peanuts is about
consumed, and this years crop is a fail
ure. Hence, Barnum will exhibit in
Europe next year.
ALaporte Qnd.) man obtained his sixth
divorce, on Saturday and was at once re-
married to a young girl of sweet Is The
man is Is years old.
Prince George of Wales is the only
member of the English royal family who
speaks the language of his country with
out a foreign accent.
The recent trip over Niagara Falls in
a barrel is generally referred to as "a
public disaster" The occupant of the
barrel came out alive.
The Interstate Exposition opened last
week in Chicago for its seventeenth
season with a fair attendance, though
diminished by the rain.
Hon. Jefferson Davis paper in the
| October Beyord's, "Does the Majority
Rule? ?" will be looked for with interest
by a large class of readers.
The Republican State Convention of
New Jersey met Tuesday at Trenton and
nominated Gen. E. Burd Grubb for Gov
ernor on the second ballot.
The United States steamship Iroquois,
which has recently been repaired at Mare
Island Navy-yard, sailed from San Fran
cisco, for Honolulu Sunday r..
Chapel Hill has been stirred from CEN
ire to circumference by the recent revival
in the Methodist Church. There were
over n hundred conversions.
NJ. Corvillain, the proprietor of the
cartridge factory, the explosion of which
caused such a frightful series of disasters
in Antwerp, has been arrested.
The Car is occasionally a generous
patron Of the arts. He has just paid the
painter, Semirdski, six thousand pounds
for a colossal picture of Phryne.
Seven new houses in a row of eight
on South Walnut street, West'C Chester,
Pa41ave been taken by newly married
couples or prospective b~ridegrooms.
Mrs Michael Shilling, of Hamburg,
Pa, is a raving maniac from having
brooded over the discoveries and predic-
tons Of an itinerant fortune teller.
"A man calling himself Harry Lacy, and
claiming TO be the advance agent of Fore
paughs show, has been arrested.at Wheel
ing, w. Va, on the charge of ~swindling.
Captain Wissman, at Zanzibar, has
offered a reward of $4,000 for the head
of Chief Bushiri, who threatened to de-
stroy the mission stations in the interior.
1t is absolutely essential that every
Maid of Honor employed in the British
Royal Family should be a good horse
woman and a correct reader of music at
sight.
If strawberries are to be set out this
month, the bed should be we'll prepared
and care be taken in setting out the
plants, to insure a good thrifty growth
this fall.
MI. Gladstone told the Rev. Theodore
Cuyler, when the latter visited him, that
he considered plutocracy and loose divorce
laws the worst evils of American c~iviliza-
ton. T@le 4
The German Court dress is to be re-
modelled on an ancient contume which
comprised knee-breeches, buckle shoes,
a sword, t-hree-cornered hat, and also a
periwig. .
M. Adolph Paques is an aged Partisan
barber who was a great man years ago.
He lad among his clients Chateubriand,
Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Mile. Mars and
Malibran. -
Claus Spreckels wants to present a
new White House made from sugar to
the government. Some one says this
looks like offering tafy to the Executive
of the nation.
A Storage passenger named Edward
Walsh on the incoming liner Servia from
New York to Liverpool committed sui
eide in mid-ocean last Monday by jump
ing overheard.
The Earl of Zetland, the newly ap-
~ainfod V1oo-1-zp T-11o~5 ill &o1-o &ho