The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-22
NEWS ITEMS.

at Salisbury tomorrow.
Farmers in Blue Ridge section report
the wheat crop as in fine condition.
The worlds annual consumption of
wheat is. estimated at 2,165, OOO, 900
bushels. ~
Dan Rice, the old Snowman, owns
$50, 900 acres of'land in Texas and New
Mexico.
Lowest. temperature reached here
during the Goodness. in May was, 40
degrees. Is
Read the very interesting notes from
various Alliances which appear in this
issue of our paper.
One who seems to know says there
are 172 species of creatures that are to-
tally bfind-in addition to lovers. ;,
The Texas Business Exchange ex-
poets to do a business of $4,000, 900 this
year for the brethren of that State.
A Catskill young lady who had a
sutton whom she considered a great bore,
gave him the name of "Hoosac Tunnel"
The 18th annual meeting of the
North Carolina Dental Society will be
held in this city, June 18th to 18th in
elusive.
The Cape Fear River got on the ram
page last week and rose thirty feet in 48
hours and foated away a large quantity
of timber. -t
Owing to an unprecedented rise in
the Mississippi river, vast tracts of
country are inundated and the loss of life
and property is immense.
Gov. Robt. L. Taylor, of Tennessee,
was nominated on the. 10th ballot as
Democratic candidate for Governor. The
convention was in session seven days.
The cash balance in the United States
Treasury on April 3Oth was $110,244,969,
as shown by the Treasurer's statement, an
increase of SIS, $780, 600 during the month.
Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of
the poet has been spending some time
with her friend, Miss Rose Chamber
land, at the Bryn Mawr College for
women. a..
Emperor Francis Joseph opened the
Industrial Exhibition on the 18th inst. at
Vienna in the presence Of the imperial
family, the court officials and the Austrian
and Hungarian Ministers.
Charles Dickens nurse, Mary Weller
Gibson, has just been buried. She was
the prototype of the pretty housemaid in
"Pickwick Papers," and furnished him
with the name of Weller.
The editor of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER has accepted an invitation to lect-
ure before the faculty and students of
Trinity College on the Future of Agri-
culture in North Carolina"
Fayetteville military will celebrate
the goth of May-the anniversary OF the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
on Monday the 21st, by a target prac-
tice and a competitive drill.
There were forty applications before
the examining board of the State Medical
Society, in session at Fayetteville recently,
for license to practice medicine, and of
that number one was a lady.
The Northern Methodist preachers
have memoralized the General Conference
to so change the discipline that a Bishop
may continue a preacher in the same
charge for three successive years.
His Royal Highness, the King of
Spain, who is a new beginner-oniy a lit
tie more than a year old-is able to walk
just a little by following a chair which he
manages to push in front of himself.
The Mississippi river is OVERLOOKING
it's banks and millions of grain, stock and
other property is being destroyed. The
entire town of Alexander, Missouri, is in
undated and five feet of water covers the
streets. n
The "cool spell in May" came later,
has lasted longer and been cooler this
year than ever before, within the recol-
lection of the oldest inhabitant. On sew
eral occasions fire was absolutely neces-
sary for comfort
The Goth of June has been fixed as
the day for the celebration of the compile
ton of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railway to the town of Mt. Airy. A
grand sauer-kraut whirl, or a German"