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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-09

There were 2,5l1 suicides in the
United States last year, of whom 497
were women.
John Kelly, the we'll known chief OF
the Tammany organization in New York,
died on the LIST inst.
Brazil is an immense empire, a little
larger than the United States, with the
Territory of Alaska left out.
The American N~urserymen's Con
vention this year will be held in Wash
ington from June 10th to 18th inclusive.
Farmers in Illinois are forming CO.
operative companies to purchase twine
binders and other costly machinery, and
thus save considerable money.
President Cleveland's marriage was
the ninth wedding that has taken place
i'm the White House, but the first in
which a President has played the leading
role.
The name of the Presidents bride
was Frank Folsom; but when she went
to school Frank got her mixed up with
the boys and they called her Frances, or
frankie.
Her Johannes Most, the New York
imported Anarchist, has been sentenced
the penitentiary for one year and to pay
a fine of $500. Twelve months exercise
with a sledge hammer might do him
some good.
Maxwell, the murderer of Preller in
the Southern hotel at ST. Louis, which
case has attracted so much attention, was
convicted last Saturday of murder in
the first degree.
-"Corn and Tobacco" is the title of a
new paper to be started by a stock ON
pany at Walnut Cove and Stokesburg, in
about three weeks, with n. M. Pepper
as business manager.
There is a colony of 500 Southerners
in Brazil, 400 miles from Rio Janeiro,
where they have a tract of land about Is
miles square. They are prospecting. But
few of them have become citizens of
Brazil by naturalization.
We commend the last discussion at
Trinity Farmers Club and Cedar Grove
Club, published in this issue, to our
readers. The remarks of the speakers
are full of sound sense. "Patent medi-
cine for a feeble SOIL" as Mr.. Andrews
calls commercial fertilizers, is good.
They say that the diplomatic corps
in Washington were very much disgrun-
tied because President Cleveland didn't
send them cards of invitation to his
wedding, and held a little meeting to
vent their indignation.
Now that President Cleveland is
married and done for, Gov. Hill, of New
York, who was Lieutenant-Governo
with Gov. Cleveland, is reported to be
desperately IN love with an interesting
young widow. It's catching.
Mr.. Cleveland's marriage in the
White House last Wednesday was a very
plain, simple affair, and while it was
handsomely performed there was no
fuss nor feathers about it. There were
but few witnesses present but members
OF h Cabinet and a few personal
friends. After the ceremony the Presi-
dent and bride started on a special train
Tor a weeks stay at Deer Park, in West
virginia, at the summer residence of
ex-senator Davis.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-09

The Asheville Citizen says that
steps have been taken to erect sew
eral new tobacco factories in that
city
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-09

A cyclone swept through a por-
ton OF Cartarett and Onslow coun-
ties last Saturday week, doing much
damage to houses, barns and grow
ing crops.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-09

Rates from Other points correspond
with these.
The Agricultural Department will
make an exhibit similar to that of
1884. The outlook for the fair is
promising, and with good crops and
fair weather it promises to be very
successful.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-09
Winston, N. G., June 9, 1886.

This paper entered as second class matter at the
Post Office in Winston, ". CT
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-09
THE STATE FAIR.

The State Fair at Raleigh takes
place this year a couple of weeks Ia,
terthan usual, beginning on Tuesday
October Goth. The change was madea
at the suggestion of stockraisers who
object to carrying fine stock to Raj.
eigh while the weather is so warm
A letter from Secretary Nichols in.
forms us that better rates have been
secured from the railroads than
heretofore. AS a matter of Interest
we give the rates from the following
points for round trip tickets, Good
from Saturday, 23rd, till Monday,
November Oath, 1886: .
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Efreots of a Fish Diet.
lArctic Traveler,s Note.Book.l


After leaving D'lardlowran our diet
had consisted entirely of frozen or
boiled fish, which is the universal arti-
Gle of food in this section Of the coun-
try. In the notebook which kept on
this journey find the following record
on the subject, which l give verbatim:
every day as | advance meet more
and more intelligent-looking people, but
it is very rare to meet any one who can
read and write. was much surprised
to find this pitiful lack of education
among such intelligent and well-man-
nered people, and wondered how they
acquired this intelligence, until finally
l remembered the fish diet, which ex-
plains all. Fish, fish, fish in every form
at every one of the five or six meals a
day. Why, begin to feel somewhat
intelligent myself, but don't believe |
look so. Indeed, | caught a glimpse o.
my face in a mirror to-day and came to
the conclusion that it must require con-
siderable confidence in human nature to
accept me as an American officer travel
ing under orders or for anything else
respectable. A forlorn and stubbed
beard upon face sunken and haggard,
with hair struggling all over a not pre-
possessing face. The tip of the nose,
cheeks, forehead and chin raw from
frost bites altogether the most dismal
object have yet seen. y
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15

There is defect of eyesight common
among the natives Of India known as
''ratandhi' or might blindness" Per-
sons affected with this have either or
binary powers of vision by daylight or
else powers so little less affected than
ordinary as to feel no inconvenience, so
that usually no defect is noticeable
while in feeble twilight their sight fails
in the most extraordinary way, and in
the dusk they become Tin bad cases.
practically blind. OF course there are
all degrees of this affection, but the
strongly marked cases alone are likely
to attract attention.
BY medical men in India this affec-
ton is said to occur mostly among men
living on low diet Chiefly of cereals,
and the palliative treatment is to pre-
scribe meat diet This affection is
rarely noticeable among Europeans in
India, though have sometimes noticed
marked differences in clearness of sight
among them also, amounting to slight
night blindness.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Food for the Royal Bengal.
ATLANTA Constitutional

According to a recent writer Lord
Napier calculated that in India the
tigers devour an average of 1000 farm
laborers in year One tigress drove
away the inhabitants of thirteen vii
lagos, who left uncultivated space of
$50 square miles. In lower Bengal, ac-
cording to Capt. Rogers, 13,4OO persons
we're killed by tigers in six years. In
1869 single tigress destroyed 1877 vic
tins and stopped the travel along that
route; another tiger in three years
killed 108 persons. The mischief done
by serpents in many hot countries may
be compared to that attributed to tigers
serpents in India killed IA, $50 persons
in 1865, and DR.. Fayrer maintains that
if the statistics were well kept they
would show yearly average of 10000
victim
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15

to his mother: 81 am sorry 10 report
that my elbows show rent, not in the
patches, but one side. "
Don't you worry. saw 1t was Civ
ing way when / put the patches on, but
| couldn't mend it then. I'll slip q
needle through it in jiffy. Let nc
take it now"
what shall put onl"
ooh -oh-throw on my sack, IL you
can't do better. You needn't be
ashamed of it. It's paid for" said the
debt -hating mother.
Good evening"
1t was a mans voice. In astonish-
ment Dave and Mother Baldwin looked
up.
Excuse me. You did not seem to
hear my rap at the front door, and as it
was open thought would step in and
rap here-but excuse mt"
Its Toppleton" whispered Dave.
''Dear me- Dear mel Let me get be.
hind youl No, / won'tp' Then Dave
came forward, boldly and manfully,
arrayed in his mother sack.
Mother, this is Mr.. Toppleton. Elk
cuse my looks. IL"
Fact is, Mr.. Toppleton, I was just
mending his coat, and he-he-"
ooh, no apologies, madam" said Mr.
Toppleton, grinning and rubbing his
hands. II couldn't help hearing YOU
say it was paid for, and that is not 6
bad motto to follow-to pay for what
you buy as soon as possible | wish one
of my clerks had followed that rule
but | suppose you know about it, and
won't say anything more on that point
came to say that I thought young
David was a.trusty boy, and | would
like to promote him. There is an oper
place in higher department, and he il
welcome to il"
The next day Dave took his new posi-
ton in the store. Various Splanation
were given by his fellow-clerks.
There" said Jim Blake, II can ex
Eplain it all. 1t is owing to the fac
that Toppleton heard our talk in tn
store about patched elbows l meal
to put patch on mine right off"
| He did not by any means, but tn
next week bought an expensive sui
which, at the end of two years, he ha
not paid for.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Ceief Poundmaker's wit.
Toronto Globe.1

DR.. Mattress talks highly of Pound
naker's ability as speaker, and seems
to think that he held his own against
Gen. Middleton in the war of words be-
tween the two. Poundmakers descrip-
ton of the Calling gun-that it is loaded
on Saturday and shoots all the week
is worth remembering, as also his re-
ioinder to Gen. Middleton, who, ex-
pressing his annoyance at the numerous
calculations of one of the chiefs wives
at the ference, said that in the coun,
ellis of The whites women had no place,
was asked if it was not true that all Eng
lishmen were ruled by woman.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Wealth Of the Congo Region.


The forests on the banksof the Congo
are filled with precious redwood, lignum
vita, mahogany, and fragrant gum
trees. At their base may be found in.
exhaustible quantities of fossil gum
(copaD, with which the carriages and
furniture of civilized countries are
vanished; their boles exude myrrh and
frankincense; their foliage is draped
with orchetta weed, useful for dye. The
redwood, when cut down, Clipped and
rasped, produces a deep crimson pow
der, giving a valuable coloring; the
creepers which hang in festoons from
tree to tree are generally those from
which india rubber is produced; the
nuts of the oil palm give forth butter,
o staple article of commerce; while the
fibers Of Others will make the best
cordage. Among the wild shrubs are
frequently found the coffee plant
In its plains, jungle and swamp luxu-
rate the elephants whose teeth furnish
ivory worth from s to II shillings per
pound; its waters TEEN with number
less herds of hippopotamus, whose tusKs
are also valuable; furs of the lion, leop-
ard, monkey, otter, hides of antelope,
buffalo, goat, cattle, ETC., may also be
obtained. But what is of far more
value, it possesses over 100000 600 of
moderately industrious and workable
people, which the red Indians never
were.
And if we speak of prospective adj
vantages and benefits to be derived,
they are not much inferior in number
or value to those of the we'll developed
Mississippi valley. The copper of Lake
Superior is rivaled by that of the Kwilu-
Nirdi valley and of Bembe. Rice, cot
ton, tobacco, maize, coffee, sugar ant
wheat would thrive equally well on thu
broad plains of the Congo. / have
heard Of gold and silver, but this re
quires corroboration. For climate TIM
Mississippi valley is superior, but ;
large portion of the Congo basin, q
present inaccessible to the immigrant
is blessed with a temperature unde
which Europeans may thrive and mul
tiply.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Southern Writers Appreciated In the
North.
Wilmington IN. c. Start

Wilmington IN. CD Start
There is one thing in which the north
ern people are not hidebound or selfish
They will read southern books, buy and
praise them. 1t is perhaps not too
much to say that southern writers of
genius are more accurately and more
highly appreciated in tho educated
north, and, more particularly in its
cultured circles, than they are in the
south. This is so with every poet and
novelist that the south has produced,
unless we are to make an exception in
Poe. Owing to the very caustic way
in which he went for northern and,
particularly, New England writers, and
especially Longfellow, Poe has not been
as popular as he would have been in re-
fined and scholarly northern circles.
After Europe began to give Poe great
prominence, and French and English
critics wrote of him as the greatest
American poet, the south began to speak
more confidently of his merits.
Probably Uncle Remus" has really
more thorough appreciation in the north
than in the south. We have no doubt
of it. Mr.. Craddook Miss Murfree}
finds her surest way to fame and money
through northern channels. We sus-
pect that Sidney Lanier has ten real ad-
mirers in the north to one in the south,
and Paul Ii. Hayne has possibly more
readers of his volume of poems in New
England than in any five southern
states. We suppose that Christian
Reid" and John Eaton Cooke and others
are much more indebted to the north
than to North Carolina, the native state
of the one, and to Virginia, the native
state of the other.
We do not stop to consider why it is
that the south fails to appreciate its
best writer's The fact remains that the
criticisms in the leading southern papers
are much less cordial, and, in the main
much less acute and just, than the crit
icisms in northern papers and period.
calls of the best class, even when south.
ern authors are under consideration.
Sidney Lanier was a man Of genuine
genius He reflected credit upon oul
country His poems and prose writings
are warmly eulogile cd in the cultured
centers in the north Able men, think
ers and scholars are his heartiest ad
| ,nirerS
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Endorsed by The tlarksvlle Tobacco Board si Grade,

10 1OhOm 1t mag Concern:
The Tobacco Board of Trade of GAINESVILLE takes pleasure
giving its full endorsement and strong recommendation of Mr.
b. Ross of Montgomery county Tenn the manufactures Of the
Twist gentleman of sterling integrity whose every
regard the goods he may offer for sale be relied upon
strictly correct every particular These brands put up with
from selected Tobaccos from this market and their increasing
popularity evidence of their purity of material and
facue and Mr. Ross seeks widen the of their dis
buton cheerfy give expression opinion of the
and Of his grades of manufactured Tobacco to recommend
them to other sections of the country. M. H. CLARK;
Secretary Tobacco Board of Trade.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Four Thousand Daily Papers.

The Chicago Inter Ocean counts up
over 1000 daily papers published in
the world. OF this number the United
States has 1900, Great Britain, 2O2;
France, 500, and the German empire
1856; British America has 81; Mexico,
As; Brazil, IS; Chilli, "a; Peru, Is, and
Ecuador, 2. OF the $4,000 weekly
papers in the world the United States
has over 10000. This tremendous
American preponderance in journalism
will naturally shape that profession and
give it distinctive character and tone.
Making the worlds newspapers, we may
expect in time to make the worlds laws,
ideas and tastes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Alaskan MusQuitoes.
EXCHANGE

Sportsmen who have allowed their
thoughts to run toward Alaska with
fond anticipations of some day visiting
land without mosquitoes, may as well
give up decamping. The musquito
seems to be everywhere. A traveller
says the peskiest, largest, most poison
Gus, and persistent mosquitoes he ever
saw are in Alaska.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
No Money in Arctic Books.
[Chicago Herald

Arctic expeditions do not pay, and
well known book dealer says that money
was lost on all the Arctic books pub
lished about the Greedy expedition. He
says the newspapers furnish so much in
formation about Greedy and his I'M
fortunate expedition that there was no
demand for anything further in the
shaEa of books.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
Russia's "NihIIIst Gallery"
New York SUM-

According to the new university's
rules every Russian student is required
to furnish to the university authorities
two Photographic pictures of himself
with his signature. Henceforth the
students, who constitute 80 PER cent of
the Nihilists, can be easily identified.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
A Rainbow in silk Threads.
[Harper's Magazine

The range of tint in colored silks is
remarkable, and the variety of shade
required from year to year by fashion
makes a curious pictorial history of the
times. One dealer at the centennial
showed rainbow in silk threads.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
An Encouraging Sort Of Voice.
Boston Beacon.l

Miss Amanda had just had quiet
tete-a-tete with Lieut. Eligible, and was
asked by her guardian how she liked
his conversation. '0h, immensely.
There's ring in mis- voice"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-15
BLOCH BROTHERS.

Are showing this the attractive complete
exhibited by them And extend cordial Invitation to the public tc
call and convince themselves of this fact.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-01-15
RENOVATiNG SECO1O-HAND CORKS.
The Pioneer of the ;suSiness Tells How 1t
l. Done.

New 0rk SUM-
! In a queer little room in a queer old
/ house at the end of an old fashioned
brick pa,c.l allie, way. a snowy bearded
man. tuobins over with good nature,
sat at 4 low bench yesterday, clipping
! cOrks with Il carving knife rs keen as
! ia or y little wooden sign over the al
/ lcyway had the single word -, orks'
painted on it. ''Corks" was scrawlcd
with chalk on the door of the room III
/ which the busy man sat, and he, him
self WAS enthroned on an old stool
among great mounds of corks OF all
! kinds and sizes. They were scattered i'll
heaps ON the bench, stored in great pa
per Tags at his feet. and piled high i'll
wooden boxes behind him. He stropped
the keen blade of the knife against the
edge of the bench every little while and
clipp d the corks ieforc him with the
regularity o, machinery, while he chat
ted with isltor about the odd indus
| try of making new corks out of old ones
| lie Was Old OPP Maxim, the pion CT o.
the trade of rcnOvatlny ScconI hand
cOrkS
There are more people at the bust
ness now" he said, Ethan ANYBODY
would dream of They 30 around buy
ing up ill the secondhand corks they
can get at s. a barrel. a barrel will
hold from twenty seven to twenty-nine
gross of corks. They get the old corls
from retail liquor stores, and then sort
them out according to size. Then
they're dumped into big tub of cold
water and soaked till the dirt is all
rnSed out. After that they're tossed
into roller of hot water and stamped
The steaminy is done by ooyerny the
boiler tightly with a piece of heavy car
pet. 1T Keeps tie steam Imprisoned
and drives it through the corr. The
corhS are iii al. -oi,S of curious shapes
when they are Put in the steam BATH,
but 10 matter how they have Leen
crushed in by the neck of the bottle or
by the wire ;,n,! Irvine fa>truinsS and
SOME o. them are tou.l, loo"ning corh>,
too they come out of the hath per
fc,tly shaped again. After the bath
rhe corks are allowed TO dry, and then
We triE them with sharp knife, and
they are just as good us new
- ut how" the visitor asked "can
you hide the damage where cork
screw has been bored tn rough a cork
Easy enough" the old man re-
spondcd with ii laugh, us he picked out
a perfect little cork; that trick WAS
done with a cutting machine. The fact
is, that Il corkscrcw only damages, as Il
rule, the top and bottom of a cork. The
damaged cork is sent through IL cutting
machine, and pared down until the
damaged par. is all cut away. :omc-
times it has to 90 through the machine
two or three times before it is perfect,
hut after th"t it is as good as any cork
that was ever made. Corks cut that
way are called accommodation corkS
and are sold in great quantities to dis
tilleries where they want corkS to ram
tightly into all sorts of bottles"
How many corks can man prepare
daily
1t depends upon the corks but an
industrious man can sort, wash, steam,
and trim about fifty gross of corks.
They are sold by the gross again. ONE
times the profit is only 81 a barrel,
| sometimes more
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-01-15

TN one occasion lentlenllnly look
i'm person called and c>r~; S,rl a fear
that he had incloSci ~, lttcrs in
wrong envelopes, and thai ali his pros
poets in life depended or h.> wing his
letters back and correcting the mistake.
inaSmuch a, they r'Ncs,h"! % rs viii n
he had adopted to save two m,r a.,tlle
houses in the Sanlc line q; bllsin :
whose Interests c'aSh"i at every roint.
4 similar lund,r orcur.. | II "a more
dellcat, affair, wlI,n IA young lady Wa,
most urgent to have ~. ictlerS re
turned Is she had accepted the wron-
offer of marriage The local postmaster
wa, unable to resist her earnest en-
treaties. and thus prevented Il painful
catastroi he.
l'ut a whole romance might H. written
on the following Incl lent \ Young
lady who hid been "u AGED 20 Il pros
porous young manufactures. WAS IN
formed, few days h ore the marriage
was fixed for. that the firm vas nsoivcnt.
Not moment was TO le lost, and a let
ter Was written and posted, breaking
the engagement; wien, within two
hours, 1t was discovered that IIe report
was entirely unfoand"d. The report
continues: The daugh or, with her
parents, rushed to the po>to zee, and no
words can deScrih" the scene the an
pe..lo, the tears, TIE wrn leg OF hands.
the united entrcit!eS o. the family, to
have the fatal letter Restore but alas
all was vain, the rulc admitted of no
exception
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-01-15
killing Sparrows.


A lively trade in sling-shot rubber
has sprung up in certain small towns o.:
Pennsylvania, and the monotonoas cX.
istenoe of the country storekeepcr has
been changed to one of diversified
misery by the demand for soft pine 10 <
tops from which the boys in and ont of
school manufacture those interc,tin
weapons with which many municipalities
have vainly wrestled. The revival of
the sling->hot means the determination
of the sparrow. Counties have lee;
offered for the heads of the ch;rpn
little English immigrants and already
young America is exhibiting numbers 0
them strung together like beads on Il
string
How different do the sparrows fare in
rance, in Paris even, where Mr.. Bauer.
peace to his ashes, made it his habit 10
feed them every day in the garden OF
the Tu lcrics. Tic birds knew him liy
sight, and us soon as he appeared would
cluster around him as thickly as bees
ri out lump of sugar They would
perch upon him, allow him to catch AMI
handle them, and follow him from plac,
to place.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-01-15

Clallam counties 81 al constitute the
nineteenth district aid shall elect
one member.
SEC I All acts and parts of acts
in conflict with tho provisions of this
act are he,e5v repealed, aud the sew
ersl memb ers OF the Legislative As
semjlv Shall be elected in the sew
eral districts a. hereinabove provit.-
ed.
Sc ). This act shall take . Il t
and he in force from and after its
passage and approval.