The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-24
IN MEMORIAM.

A number of cases of cholera are re-
ported in Athens, Greece. -
! Cotton picking is the order of the day
throughout the cotton belt. ~. aug.
The forests of QPentelicus are on fire,
and q, 900 trees have been destroyed
1t is denied that Corporal Tanner has
been invited to stump the State of In
olana. ~I4aa J .EG.T-.. III
Mr.. Edison is salde to receive no less
than 1900 letters daily since his arrival
in Paris. q
Cholera has made its appearance in
Bagdad and the disease is spreading in
western Persia.
Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has de-
clared in favor of the mountain laurel as
the national flower.
The widowed Crown Princess Stephanie
is about to receive the golden rose this
year from the Pope.
Prof. Mangum has sufficiently recoy-
cred il health to resume his college duties,
though he is still feeble.
Allerton, the famous trotter, wentlame
Tuesday of last week in a race on the
fair grounds at Des Moines.
The Diamond Street Tutti-Frutti Club
is arranging for a private chewing gum
contest.-PhAadephia Record.
A dispatch from Santa Anna, California,
says a preceptible shock of earthquake
was felt there Tuesday afternoon. 81
An old man in Tennessee took his first
ride on a railroad the other day and died
from the excitement caused by it.
Secretary Tracy has sold his house in
Brooklyn for $4,000 to a tailor, who
will have his hop on the first floor.
The New Berne Journal says the corn
planted on land where Irish potatoes
were raised last spring is doing well.
Rev. J. W. Blincoe, q prominent min
lister of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, died ia Ashland, Va, Sunday.
His mouth was full of dirty oaths, be-
yond repair was his new fall clothes, to
subdue his feelings he vainly strove, he
vas putting up the parlor stove.
One shape of fall neckwear for gentle
men is a one-sided scarf which has the
appearance of a double-breasted coat.
Senator voorhees, is reported i'll at his
home at Washington. He had a severe
congestive chill Thursday of last week.
Mrs. George Coons, of Little Sandusky,
Ohio, died last week of what physicians
pronounced to be genuine Asiatic cholera.
Mrs. Susa Young Gates, daughter Of
Brigham Young, is to be editor of a
young ladies' magazine at Salt Lake City.
Ex-President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleve-.
land are going to Lenox soon to be the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Whitney.
The Arson Baptist Association will
meet with the church at Wadesboro
Thursday before the 4th Sunday in Oc-
tober.
Sir Charles Dixie has gone to Frieder-
ichsruhe as the guest of Prince Bismarck.
1t is predicted that he will o re-enter
public life.
Ex-Congressman Amos J. Cummings is
to lecture in Cincinnati, Indianapolis and
ST.. Louis for the benefit of the Greeley
Statue fund.
Lord Salisbury dresses plainly, is of
medium height and inclined to be stout,
with hair and beard plentifully sprinkled
with gray.
A destructive fire occurred in Louisville
Sunday night, causing a loss of $1,263,-
900; a number of fremen were killed by
falling walls.
A scheme is announced for the con-
struction of a ship canal between Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, The capital is placed
at Ct, 900 1000.
A vessel has arrived at Lewes. Del,
which picked up a number of shipwrecked
sailors, and reports seeing several aban-
doned vessels.