The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-19
ga GIRDLE ROUND THE WORLD
Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole.

Brief Items Picked UP Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole.
We learn that Bob Carter, a negro,
killed James Burch in a saloon at
Brennan, Texas, and started for the
jail to surrender. Later his body was
found riddled with bullets and buck
shot, lying about 100 yards back of the
Jail. A mob OF unknown persons had
persued and killed him.
At the Connecticut town elections
last week, the constitutional amend
ment providing that all voters must be
able to read in the English language
any article OF the Constitution or any
section OF the statutes of the State, was
overwhelmingly adopted. So far as
heard from, every city and town in the
State voted in it's favor.
TheDismal Swemp, VirginiR's famous
jungle, is in danger of destruction. The
swamp has been burning for more than
a week. Hunters are supposed TO have
fred the woods, and the fire must burn
itself out, as there is no way to stop it.
Many deer, bear, foxes and other game
have been driven out of the swamp,
and hunters on the hills are having
great sport killing them Elk.
Some newspaper men are terrible
liars. In writing of a cyclone out West
one of them said it turned a we'll wrong
side out, a cellar upside down, moved
a township line, blew all the slaves out
of g whiskey barrel and left nothing
but a buDghoIe, changed the day of the
week, blew the hair eff a bald headed
man, blew mortgages off farms, blew
ell the cracks out of a fence and took
all the wind out OF a politician.-Ex
The new North German Lloyd
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, has
broken all previous records and brought
the time of passage across the Atlantic
to the English channel very near the
much talked of five days. A sister
ship to this Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
is now in urs of construction and
her builders and wner predict that
che will prove to be even faster than
this much talked of record BREAKER
Peoples Party Paper.
Precipitation from a healthy man,
when injected into a dog, will kill him
IN from one to three days. The dose is
Is cubic centimeters to each kilogram
of dog. The effect is also fatal on rab
bits, though they require a larger dose
-25 cubic centimeters Sweat secreted
during sever muscular labor is from
one-fourth to one third poisonous. Such
are the results of experiments by M
Arloing, communicated to the Paris
Academy of Sciences. -Ex.
CHENILLE, w. V, Oct. IA Gov.
Atkinson made a long statement to-
day about his wife's trial. He said the
prosecution was ectuated by malice
and hatred and in his opinion all the
testimony on which the al hinged
was given by witnesses who were in
duced to testify for a consideration.
He also said that cfers were made to
others Of money to testify against his
wife. The G. 1vernor ascribes the whole
prosecution to spite engendered by a
family quarrel. He expresses the be
lief that his wife is innocent of the
crime.
The time is drawing near, remarks
the Youths Companion, for the return
of the great swarm of meteors that
caused the celebrated ''star shower" OF
1888 when, for several hours, On the
night of November 13 h, the heavens
we're filed with flying sparks as thick
as falling snowhakes. These meteOre
encounter the earth in it's orbit once in
about every thirty three years, and
they returned in 1866, although the
display was not as we'll seen then as in
1888. They are due again in 1899, but
for several years before and after the
arrival OF the principal swarm many
meteors are usually visible, and one OF
these forerunning showers is expected
to make it's appearance the present
year. According to the opinion of Mr..
Denning, the English authority on
meseors, the ''falIing stars" should be
looked for in this country just before
sunrise on November II b, and watch
should also be kept for them on the
mornings of the Is b and 16 h.
The severe drouth of last week gave
prairie and forest fires a start in many
parts Of the West. In Chicago, Oct. 5,
the thermometer reached Sc degrees,
the highest point registered in October
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