The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-08

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applied to the Canadian Parliament for a
charter for a railroad from the Canadian
500 to HUI, son Bay.
The Rev. Father Joseph P. Boles, heal
of ST. Mary's parish, Chicago, was found
de4 I'D in his chair at his parsonage. He
died of heart disease.
1t is expected that the Gear and Czarina
and their family will leave Fredericksburg
on the 10th inst. for Berlin, where they
will remain two days
FIfty-four commercial travellers of
Richmond, Va, have signed a call for a
meeting to form an organization to aid in
he defeat of Malone.
Ex-Congressman O'Neill, of. St. Louis,
refused to buy his son a squirrel, and was
told: We'll, I've got to have something
TO crack your chestnuts."
Small gossamer bags are made to fit
around the forehead, and when thus
applied and filled with cracked ice are
said to be a cure for insomnia.
Fletcher Winant, son of a wealthy
shopping merchant of New York, com
mitted suicide on the night of the 9Th by
shooting himself in the mouth.
Twenty thousand Germans will parade
in st. Louis on October 6, in celebration
of the two-hundredth anniversary of the
landing of Germans in America.
John Brennan, an inmate of the coun-
ty poorhouse at Shamokin, Pa, has fallen
heir to $4,000, 600, left him by his sister,
Mrs. John Carson, of California.
The Brumfield-Hall feud in Lincoln
county, W. Va, is still on, the latest vic
tim being Harris Brumfield, who was
pierced by ten shots a few days ago.
Police guard the people injured by
Tuesday nights railroad accident at
Chicago, to prevent railroad representa-
tives having communication with them.
At Youngstown, O., Michael Welch,
a painter, while intoxicated, walked out
of his room,> and, falling down a stairway,
was killed. He has five daughters living
in Cleveland.
The Presbyterian church in PhiladeI-
phia, which the Rev. Madison G.. Peters
left, will try thirty Gle gymen and then
take a vote to see which one of the thirty
shall be called.
The Durham Sun, which, heretofore,
has been a morning luminary, now
shines for all" in the afternoon, exclu-
sively. Nothing like an eclipse has oc-
Cured, however.
One school district in the town of
Monson, Maine, is reported in ar unfor-
tunate predicament. They can have no
school this fall, because nobody will
board the teacher.
A Yankee has set up a school in Paris,
and advertises that he will "teach any
Frenchman to speak the only sensible
language in the world in six weeks, and
at a cost of only $25."
Henry Russell, composer of "Cheer
Boys, Cheer" has been honored in his
old age by the adoption of his song, GA
Life on the Ocean Wave" as the march
of the Royal Marines"
Sixteen pretty girls, in red, white and
blue uniforms, with wooden muskets on
their shoulders, formed a feature of the
recent reunion of the Ninth Regiment
Volunteers at Toms River.
The Republic says it is stated on good
authority that there will be a gathering
of anti-Powderly Knights in St. Louis
next week on the occasion of the visit of
Mr.. Powderly to that city.
A tarpon, called in these waters, the
king of shad," was caught at Messrs. W.
E. Davis & Sons fishery, near the mouth
of the river, recently. 1t was a"out four
feet long Wilmington Star.
Old Fuller or DR.. South, or some one
else, said shell was paved with good in
te~ations." The american Agricwzturist
thinks county roads are paved with the
same material Wilmington Star.
Thirteen thousand gallons of water per
minute are being flung down the shaft of
the Delaware and Hudson River Canal
blazing colliery at ELEPHANT,
has been on fire for some days.
John L. Sullivan pronounces the letter
in which he was announced as a candidate
for Congress a "put up job" and init
mates that on his next visit to New York
the head of the Sun will get punched.
Eben E. Rexford, writer of "Silver
Threads Among the Cold" who begins