The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-08-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Hon. Thomas L. clingman is 70 years

Is .Cherokee Indians support over 100
common schools.
A child with four legs was horn in
Indiana recently.
The King, Alexandria of Servia, is
only ID years old.
Salem is looking forward to street
cars and electric lights. -
Street-car drivers are being discharged
in Brooklyn for flirting.
IT'S said hat Robert Garrett has re-
covered his mind entirely.
Sioux City, Iowa, is to have its annual
corn festival in November.
One man in Georgia had eight hun
dred acres in watermelons.
Overlooking rivers have done 2, 200, 600
worth of damage in Texas.
An exchange says there are men who
never foot a bill without kicking.
Insist on a careful straining of the
milk Immediately after it is drawn
The surest way to please is to forget
ones self and to think only of others. /,
An effort is on foot to organize a trust
to control the Florida orange and lemon
crop. 3t > I
The French Senate Court has found
General Boulanger guilty of conspi-
racy.
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Keep a sharp lookout for the thief who
stole, Bro. Gains, mule. Read bis, adver-
tisement. ys-. a..
The white lead works OF the country
have succumbed to the Standard Oil
Company. !.
Lewis Brothers & Co., a dry goods
firm of. Philadelphia, have failed for
$4,000, 900.
A fatal disease, unknown to the med
ical fraternity, is causing widespread
death in Ohio.
There was frost on the low lands near
Galena, ILL, Aug. LIST, which did con-
siderable damage.
The first bale of cotton in the Mont
gomery market was received there on
the I'd of August.
A petrifed tree was recently unearth-
ed at Pennington, N. j., sixteen feet
below the surface.
Queen Victoria is said to have expend-
ed nearly So, 600, 900 on memorials to
the Prince Consort.
Let friendship gently creep to a
height; if it rush to it, it may soon run
itself out of breath.
The forest fires in Montana for a week
or more have destroyed property to the
amount of $4,000
W. F. johnson & Co., leather dealers
of Boston, failed last week with llabili-
ties of about $40, OOO.
Nearly %, 600, 900 acres of our land
are owned by men who owe allegiance
to other governments.
Nearly 3d. 600, 600 acres of our land
are owned by men who W allegiance
TO oCner governments" i
A woman was made insane in Garrett
county, Nd, by reading stories of the
Johnstown, Pa, food.
cleveland, Ohio, is said to have sixty
m~illionaires, and one of them, an annual
income of So, 600, 900.
It is reported that foreign scientists
have discovered minute damon dis in
meteorites found in Siberia.
The annual production of chemicals
in France Is said to have reached the
great value of $500, 100000.
Of 5000 horses that started in trot-
ting races last year, only forty Of the
list won seven or more races.
The Milton Advertiser says the corn
on low grounds looks just as it would a
few days after a killing frost.
A pressure of one pound per square
foot is caused by a wind of a little more
than seventeen miles an hour.
Boston University has graduated 478
doctors of medicine and surgery, nearly
one-half of whom are m
The forest fires in Montana for a week
or more have destroyed property to the
amount of half a million dollars.
The Petaluma (Cal.) Courier says: We
note the fact that the Earl of Fife has
gone off on his wedding foot, ira, la, la.
The Chicago San declares that "the
progress made in some Southern towns
reads more like a fairy tale than facts"
The Prince of Wales goes to Hamburg
next week and return Emperor Will
liam's call before he returns to Eng
land.
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