The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-08-25

welcome it and wish it a long and pros
porous career.
Forest fires have destroyed immense
tracts of timber in Northern Wisconsin
and in the border counties of Michigan.
The houses of many farmers have also
been destroyed and their harvested crops
with them
The Roanoke Patron says if farmers are
really DESTROYS of reform in politics, and
to be represented in national and State
legislative bodies, as they should be, they
should attend conventions and see the
right kind of men nominated. This is
eminently level-headed advice.
az like THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
very much and appreciate most highly
your efforts to advance the farminginter-
ests. ! fully endorse your views on the
convict labor question" So writes n
of the most intelligent and progressive
farmers of Rockingham county.
The crops are booming and "hard
times will come again no more in a
twelvemonth. Corn, cotton, tobacco,
and the grasses have improved wonder
fully within the past month and our
farmers all through the State are hope
full and cheerful.
We regret to learn that the contin-
ued i'll health of Mr.. p. NJ. Hale will pre-
vent him from resuming publication of
the Raleigh Register. He stood in the
front rank of the able editors of the
South, and his absence from the sanctum
will be felt not only by the press of the
State, but by the State itself, for whose pro-
'gress and welfare he was a faithful and
jealous worker.
"A terrific. storm swept along the
coast of Texas on the Goth inst. A con-
siderable portion of Galveston was sub
merged by the waves driven in by the
wind, and much damage was done to
property. The little town of Indianola
was almost wrecked. In the midst of
Tx - " IL OIOhS ouS "lISl1 Z
stroyed every building but two on the
main street, and several lives were lost.
Other places suffered more or less.
Seven of the Anarchists, tried in
Chicago for murder in throwing a dyna-
mite bomb which killed and manned a
number of policemen in a riot some
months ago., were convicted of murder
in the first degree, and the penalty fixed
at death. In Illinois the death penalty
is at the discretion of the jury. The
penalty of the eighth was fixed at fifteen
years in the penitentiary. They took an
appeal, which will not be heard till Sep
TENDER.
1t seems that going over the Niagara
cataract has become a mania among the
fools. A rival of Graham went over a
few days ago in a boat constructed by
him for that purpose, successfully. On
the Goth inst. Graham made a second
successful attempt with bis head pro-
truding from the barrel, but a fisherman
who attempted on the same day to swim
the whirlpool in a cork suit was killed.
Mr.. B. F. Dixon, superintendent
of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, requests
us to call attention to the fact hat the
Asylum is in need of funds to meet the
current expenses of the institution and
to complete the industrial building,
which is O in process of erection.
There are now two hundred children in
the Asylum, and money is needed to
board, clothe, and educate them. The
good people of North Carolina have here
tofore responded cheerfully to the call of
the orphans, and it is confidently hoped
that this appeal will not be made in vain.
There was considerable excitement
in Texas and other portions of the coun-
try last week, over the case of one Cut
ting, a newspaper editor, living on the
Texas border, who had been seized and
in Mexico for slandering a citizen
of Mexico in his paper. Our govern
ment, on the presentation of the facts,
as alleged, demanded his release, which
was not complied with, Cutting
been tried in the meantime, con-
and sentenced to imprisonment
for year and a fine of 5000. His coun-
sci appealed, denying the jurisdiction of
Court to try him. The Mexicans
were very mad, and the Americans in
Texas and Mexico were very mad, and