The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-07
GENERAL NEWS.

Hon. James G. Blaine is at Bar Har-
Dor, and is in bad health.
Levi & Joseph Strauss, of Baltimore,
assigned June %. Liabilities, $500, 600.
Ex-senator Joseph E. Mcdonald, of
Indiana, died June 21st, in the led year
of his age.
All the effects of the Panama Canal
Co., in Paris, have been seized by the
legal authorities.
British officials appointed to look into
the matter, report slave trading in
East Africa on its last legs.
Jas. COrcOran swallowed his false
teeth, from the effects of which he died
in a Boston hospital June 3Oth.
Cuba exported $500 tons of sugar
in the last ten years, % per cent. of
which came to the United States.
If you have any business with the
President for the next five or six
weeks, you'll find him at Cape May.
VIM. f. Simonds, of Connecticut,
has been appointed commissioner CT
patents, vice Chas. E. Mitchell re
signed.
The fool killer vas saved a job by
Pat MUlrony, a juggler, who killed
himself at Columbus, O., by trying to
swallow a fiddle bow.
The University of Georgia gets the
first and second installments, amount
ing to,$31, 900, under Agricultural Col
lege Act Of August 30th, 1890.
Gen. Michenor, of Indiana, II of
the Presidents conidentials, says that
if the next Congress passes a free coin
age bill, the President will veto it.
Dr.. Stevenson, who had charge of
the A~ndersonville prison during the
war, has just died at Halifax, N. S.,
where he went at the close of the war.
The Richmond Dispatch has learned
from interviews with some of theablest
men in Virginia that the nomination
Of Cleveland will be a dangerous if not
fatal mistake.
Thirteen Of the fourteen glass fac
tories at FindIay, Ohio, have put their
fires out and shut down for the sum
mer, giving 1900 employees two
months vacation.
Ex-City Treasurer John Bardsly, of
Philadelphia, was sentenced July ? to
is years confinement in the Eastern
penitentiary and fined a sum equal to
that of which he pleaded guilty.
The New York Life Insurance Co.
has instructed w. B. HOrnblOwer, the
attorney for the Company, to bring
suit against the New York Times for
81, 600, 900 for libel.
The ladies of the Christian Church
at Brushton, N. Y, gave an ice cream
social June 2Sth. FOrty-three persons
were poisoned. The pastor Of the
church and two ladies have died and
the others were in a critical condition
l~ast'report.
Judge Barnard, of New York, on
July LIST granted an injunction re
strainiug payments Of dividends on
the stock Of the sugar refiners COM
pany, This created a ripple in the
wave, and stock went down from So to
81, but went back to 92!.
There was a net decrease in circulat-
ing medium in June of 81, 21O, 9S5, and
a decrease in the L. S. treasury of
81, 036, 504 in money bullion in the
same time. while the decrease in the
holding of gold coin was $I7, 40, 452,
according to the T~reasurer's statement.
\ delegation of colored politicians
from Virginia waited on the President
to insist upon the appointment of Jno.
NJ. Langston, colOred, as Circuit Judge
of Virginia. The President told them
that if he appointed Langston it would
be on account of his fitness and not
his color.
The remains of Gen A. P. Hill we're
removed July 1st from lakewood
Cemetery at Richmond, where they
have rested since the war, and placed
at the base of a monument being
erected to his memory in Henrico
county, Va. The removal was done
under the auspices of Pegram's Bat
Italian Association.