The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01

u scleLIe Ior natcn1ng partrldgeS Ior
stocking Montgomery county, Pa, is to
be put in operation by the Game Protec-
tive Association of that county. The
eggs will be bought in large qnan tiles
and Latched in artificial incubators.
When Jacob Foss, of Green Bay, Wis,
died few weeks ago, eight different men
presented bills to his widow, but she had
a receipt for each one in full. Her hus-
band had filed away a matter of 1000 of
them, saying they might come handy some
day.
The portraits Of Generals Grant and
Sheridan, which were painted by order
of George W. Childs for the United States
Military Academy, will be formally pre-
sented to that institution October Sd.
General Horace Porter will make the ad-
dress.
The New Orleans Times Democrat,
taking the data afforded by reports from
several of the States, estimates that very
nearly half of the cotton is now raised by
white labor, whereas thirty years ago not
over 100000 bales, or one-tenth of the
crop, was raised by the whites.
According to the latest statistics, near.y
80 per cent of the railway system of the
German Empire is owned by the govern
ment, yielding a net revenue of $685.
100000 per annum Out of a total mileage
of 1890 miles, there are only $500
miles owned by private corporations.
About one hundred and fifty persons
saw the lash applied at New Castle, Del,
recently. There were but two victims,
VIM. Thomas and VIM. Jones, both col
ored, who took five and ten lashes re-
spectively without fiching, for petty lar
ceny. Alfred Crane, convicted of aggra-
waited assault and battery, stood one hour
in the pillory.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided
that bicyclists cannot be made liable for
damages resulting from horses becoming
frightened at their wheels if such runa
ways occur while the bicyclists are riding
upon the highway and are doing nothing
which shows a lack Of regard for the
rights of others.
John Wolinski, a Polander, aged 16,
was drawing water from a well As feet
deep, at Miners Mills, Pa, recently when
the windlaSs hit him on the back of the
neck and flung him down the well. A
man was lowered to him and he was
hauled to the surface. Half an hour later
he was drinking "~polinky" with con
graduating friends.
During the absence of the cashier al
the theatre the Iron Exchange Bank al
Hurley, Wis, was robbed recently Of
$50, 1895. The money was to pay off the
employees of the Ashland and Germanis
Iron Mining Company. It was received
at the bank too late to be placed in the
safe, which was closed by a time lock, sc
it was left inside the vault.
A curious theft is reported from Prague
A burglar having gained access to the
cabinet of a well-known collector, broke
open a small but richly chased Golfer fort
of antique workmanship, and, having
taken out its contents (about $3.50 in
Austrian currency, obligingly left the
casket, the worth of which, at a moderate
computation, is said to be $1,25O.
The Emperor of Germany recently
sent a specimen rife to the Emperor Of
Austria, the barrel of which does not
grow hot. After a hundred shots had
been fired the barrel was merely warmed.
The magazine Of this rife is in the
stock, and the "load" consists Of twenty
cartridges. It can be reloaded in five
seconds, and is supposed to fire sixty
shots a minute.
The first bale of new cotton from this
section was brought to the city on the
10th, raised by Mr.. VIM. Strickland, SOL
of our good friend Levi Strickland, and
was rated as the best first bale Of new
cotton ever brought here. It was sold al
auction and was bid off at Is cents by
Messrs. Smith & Yelverton, after g
spirited contest. It weighed 498 pounds
= Goldsboro Argus.
The Toledo Commercial claims that q
young lady of Athens, Ga, has invented
a lamp that will cease to burn exactly al
10 o'clock. The average Georgia lover
has no fault to find with the lamp; in
fact, he would be better satisfied if il
would go out as soon as he came in. Il
the young lady wants to make a real ten
strike she should invent a father who will
go to bed at 9 o'clock.
DR.. Seward Webb, one of the Wander