The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-01

ENAEOLS oppitCN AOA lIl0
places of three Office DO 5 at the Rotel
de Vile.
At tnarleston, S.. c., June the oath,
Napoleon Lowell, who killed his wife and
nearly murdered her uncle, February 18th,
was convicted of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to be hanged Sep
ember 9Th.
Princeton College This wear conferred
the degree Of IL. D. on two PEI soas-
on Hon. Daniel 6. Fowlc, class OF 1857,
Governor Of North Carolina; the ether
Francis a. Snow, Cha ceilor If he Uni
versity Of Kansas.
the European syndicate that was
formed. with an almost fabulous capital.
to control the African diamo1 d market
anG stay an impending preci ltation in
prices, it is reported, has nat with a La ge
measure of success.
4 scheme 5or a ral'road from Bismarck,
No III Dakota, to Galveston, Texas, is be.
ing worked up with a fair prospect Of
success. If this road is quilt, Galveston
will becom the shipping point for the
gran produ3 Of tie D-kotas.
And now it is gravely limited that the
widely read Looking Backward " is not
original with Bethany, the auth +. 1t is
said to be plAgiarized from one BebeI an
| cid a. n n .1,tbnr W ~ ,,. " -.-.l -.
the same lines, entitled Women, Pres
ent and Future
Flagler, the MILL: ire, was the son of
i poor farmer, aHd the ambition of his
boyhood was to be a hotel keeper. He
Is now worth 500 90, coo, and his mag
uidcent hotel at St. Augustine, Fla
,hows that he has carried out the de sire
Of his youth in grand style.
Amanda NJ. Douglas, the popular novel
list, Is one of the few living writers who
knew Edgar A. Poe personally. She
SAP II him: His voice was low, but
eXquisItely modu!atel, he never laughed
and seldom smiled, and when he did his
smile was sweet but melancholy"
Tne South, says the Asheville Citizen,
lea IS the Union in the matter of railroad
conltru ton, and North Carolina stands
second to b t one State-Georgia. Be
tween January LIST and May LIST, one hun
dred aud tbirty-ive mile Of railroad were
laid in this 5 ate. II Georgia there were
100
In a prehistoric GENET ry lately I'M
covered near Montpelier, in the south of
France, among the things found and re-
ported to the Paris Academy were two
skulls, evidsn,!y belonging to the Aryan
race, and some human bones that, judged
from their proportions, must have be-
longed to a man at least ten feet in
height.
An English scientist says that if we
were to visit the moon we should find
the days and nights a fortnight n len 9Th,
and if We - survived the scorching dur
ing the day, we should certainly be frozen
to death during the ensuing night" That
!, settles it. We shall not visit the moon.
The climate is entirely different from any
Of the forty sever varieties We some
times experience here during twenty-f four
6 hours, and it wouldn't agree with us.
6 The English scientist does well to tell the
truth about it, instead of trying to boom
town lots on the moon orr5Sto1On
= Herald.
A gossipy paper, called Chatter, has the
following, which, doubtless, should be
taken with several grains of allowance
"Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt is said to
have the most imposing bed in New
York. 1t r~evives the ancient style of
posts and canop:es, and it stands en-
, throned, as it were, on a raised platform,
two steps high in the centre of her room,
! which has four windows looking out,
: two on Fifth avenue and two on Fifty
i second street. The bedstead is of rose
wood and the canopy used to be lined
Win oil euOIuIOuS pldCo SLdSS hIIIoIJ 81
that the sleeper could see her face and
figure as long as she kept awake, but this
vulgar thing has been removed and il
n now replaced by the more conventions
panel of old-rose satin"
:, The United States is, without a doubt
= a nation of coffee drinkers. The import!
L from South America amount to ovel
$4,000, 900 pounds annually, of which
90 per cent. comes from Brazil. The
q sec md largest shipper to this market is
I { enezue'a, II per cent. The first cost in
0 this country averages 10 c nts and a frac-
Q ton a pound, aggregate z $56,347, 600
The first record Of production in Brazi