The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05

in three Baltimore churches Sunday.
The tallest chimney in the world has
just be completed at Fall River. 1t is Of
brick, 80 feet in diameter at the base and
300 feet high above the granite founda-
ton.
At a meeting. of the Minneapolis Union.
League, Tuesday night, a resolution was
adopted placing Minneapolis in the field
for the republican national convention in
1882.
A Washington lady recently purchased
in Winchester a mahogany sideboardoVer
one hundred years old, and shipped it to
the wife of ex-President Cleveland as a
present.
For laying hens there is nothing better
than a liberal supply of milk, A pan OF
warm milk every morning during cold
weather is one of the best egg-foods on
the list.
Two Northern saw mill men have
purchased $4,000 acres of pine land in
Moore and adjoining counties and will
establish saw mills and planning mills on
this land.
. New York has raised about $65O,OOO
for the Worlds Fair, to insure its being
held in that city. Chicago has raised
So, 600, 900 to insure the holding of the
fair There. .." 80
The Roanoke and Southern Railroad
will be finished to Madison by February.
An iron bridge will be built over the Dan
river near Ladd's ford where the road
crosses the river. -
A man came near being buried alive
near Montreal, Canada. When the coffin
was being lowered a groan was heard and
the coffin was at once burst open, and the
man found to be alive with hopes Of re-
covery.
George Grouchy, a Lawrence, Mass,
salesman who saved q drowning merchant
at Nantasket Beach last summer, has re-
ceived from the merchant a checkfor 500
and a note for $4,000, due when he shall
become of age.
An order has been issued from the In
ternal Revenue Bureau at Washington
holdinglup the collection of some of the
assessments for back taxes which have
been made against distillers in this dis
trict.-StatesviUe Landmark.
The parties owning the Flat Rock will
90 to work in earnest this winter. We
learn that not less than 800 hands will be
employed by Mr.. Thomas Woodrofe and
his associates. This rock business will
make things lively in Mt. Airy, if those
who inform us are eorrect.-M. Airy
NewS.
The Protestant Episcopal General Con-
vention in New York, which adjourned
last week, postponed until 1892 the con-
sideration of the question of marriage and
divorce. The Southern Bishops were en-
tertained at dinner by the Southern So
ciety. %
Some unknown miscreant attempted to
wreck st. Peters Roman Catholic Church
at Baltimore on Saturday night All the
gas jets were turned on, and but for the
timely discovery the accumulated gas
would have been exploded by the altar
lights.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill doubling the length of the school
term and increasing the appropriation ac-
cordingly. This is another indication OF
Georgia sprosperity, as well as the growth.
of a healthy public opinion. 1t will be
money we'll invested.
Rev. Sam Jones closed his meetings in
Lynchburg,. Va, Tuesday, and left for
Greenville, Miss. There were nearly one
thousand conversions. The $4,000 debt
of the Y. NJ. G. A. was paid off, as a re-
suit of the meeting, and about $4,000 was
raised for him and his associates.
The man Grubb, who was suspected as
an accessory in the murder of Mrs. Walser,
for which the principal, Berrier, was
lynched, was taken back to Lexington
from Goldsboro Jail, where he had been
held for safety against a party who were
suspected of a design to lynch him
Greensboro WOrknom.
Miss Addie Hamilton, just appointed
q notary public in Washington by the
President, it is said, is the second of her
sex ever appointed to a similar position
in Washington, the other being Miss
Emma Gilletty. The appointment of a
lady as a notary public is of common &C.
currence in New York and in many
Western cities.
1t is said that preparations for the mar
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