The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-15

is a practical farmer, n so is Mr.. Richz
ardson, the Democratic candidate Hr
Governor of South Carolina.
There is a scope of territory infexas
thirty-five miles wide and five hundred
miles long where there has been no rain
for twelve months, and wherS there are
10000 families who require relief:
The US. Department of Agriculture
in it's September report places the prob
able corn crop of the country at l,6OO,-
100000 bushels. An average for the
area planted of about twenty-one bushels
per acre.
1t has been suggested that Jay
Gould, Vanderbilt, Hunt and few other
railroad magnates form a syndicate to
rebuild Charleston. This would be put
ting their money to good use and doing
a clever thing besides.
Prof. Hammond, an Oregon weather
prophet, comes to the front with a pre-
diction of terrific cyclones, tornadoes,
earthquakes, &C., Goth, 9th and 28th
inst. He leads off with some little
cyclones on 18th and 18th. |.tt 'EH
The Wilmington Review speaks very
encourageingly of the prospects of the
farmers along the line of the Wilmington
& Weldon railroad. 1t says that all along
the line from Wilmington to Goldsboro
there are evidences of substantial thrift.
The water in the artesian wells in
Charleston was not discolored or other
wise affected by the earthquake disturb
ances, from which the News and Courier
concludes that the disturbance must
have been at a less depth than the wells.
"A Dakota farmer feeling somewhat
blue over the wheat prospect in the
early summer, told his wife he would
give her all over 1900 bushels. When
his crop was threshed and measured out
$500 bushels he wanted to compromise
but there was no compromise in her.
Geronimo, the Apache Chief, who
has for several years been a terror to the
inhabitants of Arizona and New Mexico,
has at last surrendered. He will be
tried by court martial and his followers
who surrendered with him will be sent
to Florida.
Some rattle-brain started a story
last Saturday hat the President had
been shot, and thereupon dozens of
kilograms flew over the wires to Prospect
Park making inquiries as to the Presi-
dents condition. He was jam up but
was very much puzzled to know how
that story got ahoat.
Mr.. Caleb B. Green, proprietor and
editor of the Durham Tobacco Plant, has
sold that paper to MI. Julian s. Carr,
under whose management the paper will
henceforth be conducted. The Plant
was established in 1872, and Mr.. Green,
as it's editor, labored ~zealously for the
upbuilding of Durham.
Mr.. David Jenkins, of CASTOR coun-
ty, died after an illness of several weeks,
at his home in Gastonia last Friday. He
is well known in the State, having been
State Treasurer during the Administra-
ton of Governor Holden, and for some
years later, a position which he filled
with credit to himself.
The Presidents wife started the
Machinery at the Industrial Exposition
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 23d of
August. She was a thousand miles
away, at the Prospect House in the State
of New York, but continuous connection
was made by telegraph. She touched
a button and the electric current imme-
diately set the machinery to running.
Crater Lake, in Oregon, where a
party emf out by the geological survey
has recently made soundings, is thought
to be the largest body of fresh water on
the continent. Its depth was found to
be from 800 to 1900 feet. Portions of
its shores have never been explored by
white men.
The date for the farmers meeting
at Oak Ridge, Guilford county, to which
we referred last week has been fixed
for October the I'd, the first Saturday,
when the indications are there will
be a large gathering of the progress
sive farmers of that vicinity. The editor
of The Progressive FARMER has accepted
a cordial invitation to be present. s,t