The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-20
"a GIRDLR ROUND The WORLD"


The first sample of the new crop of
cotton has already arrived in New
York.
Are men marrying lessF" In re-
ply to the question, a Louisville paper
says: ''Some Of them are. The late
Shah Of Persia had 1920 wives, but his
successor has only sixty.
Frank Burton returned here Friday
from a trip around the world made in
q wager of S.. 900 by two local sporting
men under the terms Of which Burton
was to start without q cent and make
the journey without borrowing, beg
ging or stealing. Burton returned with
So. 900 earned during his travels, and
with documents attesting that he had
fulfilled the terms Of the wager, signed
by city officials and others in various
parts of the world, says a recent tele
gram from New York.
-Dun's review reports 2, 9S1 failures
for the last three months, while Brad
street reports 1924 since January 1.
1897. There were rs failures among
banks and brokers since April 1. Five
cotton mills failed at Nav Bedford.
Orders have decreased. In some iron
and cotton works wages have been re
duced, owing to low prices, one cotton
mill in Virginia closing because reduc-
tion was not accepted. Dun says rail
road building only 622 miles in the
half year, was smaller than in any
previous year since 1875 except in the
first half of 1894 Eek,
The efficacy of prayer is to be tried
by the Women's Christian Temperance
Union in the matter of raising the
$3.50, 900 necessary to clear the Wo-
mems Temple from debt. The union
has set aside Monday next as the
special day of prayer. Should the
debt not be paid before January next
the building at Monroe and La Sale
Streets will pass into the hands Of Mar
shall Field. The amount owed is about
$500, 900. Marshall Field has promised
to give $50, 600 if payment is made be-
fore the first of the year, says a dis
patch from Chicago July 13.
Prof. Lucien Blake, IAN exchange
remarks" aspires to be the Benjamin
Franklin Of Kansas. He has made an
analysis of cyclones, and, On the
hypothesis that a cyclone is a matter
of hot revolving atmosphere, he con,
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counter agitation. This the professor
says, can be done by breaking up the
cyclone before the cyclone has a chance
to break up the section at which it
aims. To carry out the professors
remedy each own or community must
have q cannon, well loaded, and when
the cyclone appears the gun is to be
fired point blank. If the aim is straight
the professor warrants the cyclone will
go to pieces"
"A dispatch from Griffin, Ga July
II, says: The two thousand weary and
footsore men who for two days and a
half have been chasing Oscar Williams,
the negro assailant Of the six year old
daughter of Senator Campbell, are still
scattered through the woods to the
west of this place, beating the bushes
for the fugitive, but apparently no
nearer catching him than they were
when they began. The bloodhounds
which have been guiding them fire.
qIently have thrown them eff the
trail, and today the dogs were ordered
back into their kennels. The mob
caught a Colored man by the name Of
William Werner, who was known to
have accompanied Williams IN his
flight, and came near lynching him,
but wiser counsel prevailed, and he
was put in all.
"A negro boy, 10 years of age, was
hung at Decatur, Ga on Friday for
murder. He attributed his fate to the
unlucky number Is He was the
youngest Of a family of thirteen, was
born on or about the 18Th of the month
and shot another negro while hunting
one day just after having shot his
thirteenth rabbit for that day, and all
this happened On the 1871 of the month.
The condemned murderer really felt
that he was hoodooed and claimed to
believe that for that reason he was In
no way to blame for his crime. With
this consolation to bear him up he
found no difficulty while standing be
meath the moose in seeing the green
slopes of the river Jordan waving in
sweet scented breez9s before and he
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