The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-06

giving Day.
The marketable wheat crop of Great
Britain and Ireland will not be likely to
exceed $500, 600. quarters, as against
9,529,0O0 last year, and allowing for a
consumption of 81 bushels per head Of the
mean population for. the cereal year end
ing August 81 ult., England will be ne
cessitated to import>1 Is, 500, 900 quarters to
feed her people.
We have enquiry as to the National
Farmers Congress to be held in Topeka
Kansas at an early date. We know that
it originated in the State of New York
several years ago. 1t is composed of per-
sons appointed by the Governors of the
several States, who may choose to 60.
We cannot answer as to rates on the
railroads, for the delegates.
Lord Sackville West, the British
Minister to the United States, having in
Cured the displeasure of our government
at Washington by his unseemly interior
ence in it's political affairs, Secretary of
State Bayard has written a lengthy letter,
reviewing the subject, to her Majesty's
government, in which he says Sackville is
no longer acceptable to this government.
His recall is asked for.
We direct the. attention of our read
ers to the advertisement of Mr.. H. Nah
Ter, practical Jeweler~ and Silversmith.
Besides Keeping constantly on hand a full
line of the articles usually found in a first
class jewelry store, the manufacture Of
Society Seals, Emblems, &C., is his
speciality. Alliance Seals made and fur
nished at short notice, at Alliance prices,
$40 delivered.
The biggest city in area in the United
States is New Orleans, with $4,000 acres.
Its population is only $4,000. New York
with more than six times that population,
has only l6,4Ol acres. After New Or
leans, in geographical size, comes Phila-
delphia, 2,sO6 acres; st. Louis, 10000;
San Francisco, 1885,; New York, 26,4Ol;
Boston, %, 7O3; Chicago, 23,O4o; Cincin-
natl, 1880; Baltimore, 1865.
November the 18th has been set apart
for a National Agricultural Convention to
be held in the main hall of the great Au-
gusta Exposition, which will be in pro-
gress at that time. "These frequent meet
ings of the farmers will result in great
good, but we think their capacity for good
is very much impaired by being called at
a place and time, when they cannot be
the chief attraction and the chief matter
of interests. "-Farmer.
We learn from the Greensboro Work.
man that the beautiful town of Shelby
was visited on the night of October goth
with a disastrous fire, which consumed a
fine block of four brick stores valued at
S1O,O 600, and stocks of merchandise, etc.,
valued at $4,000. Total loss $4,000, In
surance, less than $4,000. The Auroro
newspaper and a large Wholesale and re-
tail printers establishment was among the
losers, while the Southern Express Com
pany also was burnt out.
The United States Supreme Court on
the 29th ult., revised the judgment Of the
Texas Court of Appeals in the case of
Asher against the State of Texas. This
was the well known drummer's case, in
which Asher resisted the State law tax
ing commercial travellers. The State
Court sustained the State law, but the
United States Supreme Court reversed
this decision, and orders the release Of
Asher, who has been in custody of the
sheriff for over 1--WE years.
-"Jute Mills Closed" is the startling
head line of a telegraphic dispatch, pub
lished in the daily newspapers, dated New
York, October 26th, which reads as fol-
"a dispatch from Salem says that
the jute industry there has been abolished,
and in consequence five hundred employees
will be thrown out of work. This action
is due to the success of the bagging in
dustry recently introduced in the South"
Our only regret is that 500 innocent per-
sons are made to suffer with the villains
in this case.
Rev. Herbert D. Ward son of the
of the New York Independent,
and Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps author
of "Gates Ajar," the "Old Maids Para
and other works, have been mar
ried in Massachusetts,. He is thirty-ive