The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-25

0NG~NA 1880 VII -
day next at a dinner. No persons or ad-
IN nisfrations will be criticized or com
pared.
The Royal Geographical Society of
England have invited Thomas Stevens,
the African traveller, to send a paper to
be read before the society describing how
he reached Henry N. Stanly in Eastern
Africa. )
The Grand Gross Of the Lion of the
Netherlands has been conferred upon
Prince Henry of Prussia, now with the
German squadron, by Mr.. Ringer, Presi-
dent of the TransYaal, or South African
Republic.
Nj. Davis introduced a bill in Congress
providing for the pensioning at the rate
of $25 month of all women who were
army nurses during the late war and who
rendered six months service in camp or
general hospitals.
Mrs. Mary Olson took possession of
Justice Rusehe's office in Hoboken and
prayed all night in German, Swedish and
English for the salvation Of the clerk, who
dared not leave her alone and could not
persuade her to depart.
The King of Italy has sent Mayor Hart,
of Boston, a communication thanking the
board of police of Boston and Capt. Cain
and his officers, who risked their lives in
r~escuing the Italian people at the recent
North,street fire in that city
DR.. Miguel has been personally pressed
by the Emperor of Germany to accept the
governorship of the Rhine provinces. made
vacant by the appointment of Won Ber-
lepsch to be minister of commerce, but he
persists in his decision not to accept the
place. -
A fire broke out in the asylum for the
insane, neal Little Rock, Ark, on the
18th. The building was damaged to the
amount of $4,000. There was 500
patients in the building at the time and
they were all moved down to the lower
floor.
A North Dakota senatorial commission
is investigating charges of bribery In con-
nection with the scheme to remove the
Louisiana State lottery to North Dakota.
1t is rumored that Governor Miller was
offered $4,000 if he would agree to sign
the bill.
A number .of Boston and New York
people have formed a gigantic land com
pany in the South, with a capital stock OF
one million dollars; Gov. Campbell is
president, with such men as John 81
Inman and John G. Calhoun and others
as directors.
Miss Eleanor R. Calhoun, who achieved
wonderful success in London inner acting,
has now gone to Paris, where she is
playing in French with Coquelin. The
talented American promises to become
the rage in the French as she was in the
British metropolis
Judge Lacome, in the United States
circuit court for New York, on Friday,
granted an injunction in restraining the
Cotton Oil Trust from selling OF disposing
of their property, and commanding them
to show cause before him why a receiver
should not be appointed.
A horrible double murder is reported
from Arkansas. The body of a young
woman was found riddled with buck
shot, and near by the decapitated remains
of a young man were found; the affair is
a mystery, but is supposed to have
originated from family troubles.
Charles Wars, aged %, fatally shot
himself at Leeds, Nd. Wars was about
to take a shot at a hawk, and, seizing the
gun, the hammer struck against a stick
of wood, discharging both loads into his
left breast above the heart. The shot
passed entirely through his body.
Green Brown, a negro at Chester s. c.,
was Jealous of his wife and another negro.
One night last week he was watching
and carried a gun. Mr.. Jno. Hood, a
white man 70 years old passed him, and
in the darkness, Brown mistook him for
his enemy and fred a load of buckshot
info him killing him instantly.
The bill creating a board of excise COM
missioners to regulate the granting of
liquor licenses has passed the Virginia
House of Delegates by a large majority.
1t is designed;to prevent the payment of
licenses in coupons-Preparations have
already commenced for the unwilling of
the Lee statue in Richmond in May
next.
Saturday while the train on the DAN
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