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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-13

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celebrated trotting horse Jay Eye See,
began life as a blacksmith shd is now
the owner of a large threshing machine
factory in Illinois and worth $5,ODO,OOO.
The State of New York spends
annually on her militia $3OO,0Oq Penn
~sylvania 100000, Massachusetts $l44,-
600, a number of the othef States
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000 North
Carolina spends $3.50.
Mr.. Columbus Brown has an oppor-
tunity to become temporarily famous as
did Cutting, of brief notoriety. He has
been kidnapped and carried across the
Rio Grande by Mexicans.
Ten or fifteen thousand pork packers
employed in the packing houses of Chic
ago are on a strike, refusing to comply with
the demands Of their employers to work
ten instead of eight hours "a day. In
consequence of this the price of pork
has advanced.
President Cleveland has received
invitations to attend the State Fairs at
Richmond, Va, and Montgomery, Ala,
and the impression is that he will do so.
Mr.. Cleveland should visit Ithe South
and learn something of it's condition by
personal observation. He has never been
in the South.
The Carolina Fair Association will
hold it's Annual Fair in Charlotte, Nov.
3, 4, 5 and g.. Excursion rates on all
railroads. 5000 will be paid in Premi-
ums. The Charlotte papers say that the
prospect is most encouraging for the
best fair hat the Association has ever
held.
Successful attempts have been made
at growing tobacco in England, on a
farm in Kent, where the leaves have
attained the size of twenty-seven inches
long by thirteen broad, and said to be
Of fine quality. Half a century ago con
siderable tobacco was raised in Ireland
until the industry was crushed out by
legislation.
You cannot make good rich butter
ron poor food, any more han you can
make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
The milk and butter of Ole good COW kept
a warm clean stall during the winter
and kindly cared for, is worth more than
the product of a half a dozen that are
forced to ramble through old fields and
pastures in all kinds of weather
20 secure a miserable living.
Buy your fruit trees and vines only
rom Nurserymen of established repula-
ion for honesty and fair dealing. 1t is
to buy from those of our w
Now is the time to begin to make
Up your mind as to the number and
Kinds of fruits you want. Don't plant
more than you can properly attend to.
to some of our leading Nursery
men and get catalogues and prices of
heir fruits and their opinions as to the
kinds best adapted to your soils, but do
lot buy more than you can attend to
properly. Write to those who are adver-
Using in our paper and get their cata-
Ogues.
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fHE STATE FAfR-THE NOKlH
LERN SETTLERS CONVENTION.

We hope to see our section wei
represented at the State fair when
begins on the Goth inst. We learn
that all articles for exhibition will
be transported free of charge and
that the fares on the various Rail
Roads are cheaper than ever before.
Extra effort has been put forth by
the officers Of the Society to make
the Fair the very best that has ever
been held in the State, and we hope
it will be.
These annual exhibitions at u
State Capital, if properly supported
and patronized by our industrial
classes, are Of incalculable value to
the various industries of the State.
They bring together the products of
the skill and labor of our most pro-
gressive people and thus all sections
of the state, may compare and inter
change the ideas and developments,
which mark the progress of each.
But another and very important
feature will be the convention of
Northern settlers which will be
held during the week. This con-
vention, we learn, will be attended
by about two hundred Northern
editors who will report what they
see and hear to the thousands of
Northern people who may be look
ing for homes. A call has been
issued, by two hundred residents of
our State, of Northern birth, to all
people living in the State, who have
settled among us, to meet them on
thu; t occasion and tell to those
Northern visitors what they think
of our State. If the energetic, indus
trious New Highlander can be
induced to come to North Carolina,
we are sure that the Piedmont Sec
ton can present inducements to
him that cannot be excelled in the
State.
We would be pleased to see that
convention conducted on business
principles. The men who are com
ing to it want no gushing speeches
over the dead past, no sentimental
stereotyped cant over the graves of
slain brethren, no rainbow arches
over our beautiful waterfalls, no
rhetorical flights over our glorious
history, no spread-eagle oratory over
our magnificent resources and all to
eliminate in a grand climax of
bewildering "dinings and winnings
They don't come here for that.
They want to be shown where they
can have health and make monet. |
Let them hear speeches-yes, a
hundred speeches, short and pointed.
Tell them about the soil, what it
will produce and how much, about
the timbers water, stock, facilities
:or reaching markets, schools,
churches, mills; in short show them
by plain brief statements, what are
the inducements offered by each
section and county, that they may
have an intelligent idea Of them.
The average Yankee is not much on
gush and sentiment, but he will give
you a patient hearing when you
talk of the chances of making
money and a living. Do not infict
upon that convention any of the
laundering eloquence Of prolific
political oratory, but let the plain,
practical men talk to these people
in their practical way and it will do
good.
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Mr.. w. A. Brown, Of Davidson
College, yesterday sent to tins cry
a remarkably fine specimen OF lru,'
in the shape of a pear, of the Du,n
ess variety, which weighed o4e
pound and three-quarters.-Cn"/'0'
Observer.
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delaney, a thirteen-year-old SOD
of Dr.! R.. K. Gregory, of Greensboro
fatally shot himself with an air gun
last Thursday. He was crossing d
fence when the gun wasaccidentaliy
discharged, the ball penetrating MS
heart.
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Read our advertisements. And
you will do us a great favor when
you speak or write of them, to men
ton The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
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EXTRAORDINARY YIELD.-We learn
that Col. R. T. Roper, of Laurinburg, n.
e., produced this season, on one acre of
land, LOG bushels Of corn. Will the Colo
mel tell us about it and how he did it?
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been able to reach, are subject to whatever dis
position Congress may be pleased to order
LoOKING FOR LEADERS.

Hoosier Democrats Hunting for Congress
sionaI Candidates for the Next Election;
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov 2S.-A1ready there is
good deal of talk among Indiana Democrats as
sembling here as to who shall lead their van in
the vanquished districts in 1888. Colonel DENLY
the minister to China, and Mr. Kleiner, the
present incumbent are spoken of for the con
gressional race in the First district since Me
Cullough and Menzies have been laid away or
their political cooling boards. If Mr.. KleineR
had not partly identified himself with Dakota
by investing in lands there and announcing in a
kind of semi-offcial way that he intended to live
there, he would be the standard bearer as he is
acknowledged by even the aspirants to be the
strongest man the party has in the district and
it is limited that he will draw in his emigrating
horns and await the turn of the wheel for an
other tilt.
Colonel Mclean, Deputy Commissioner of
Pensions, is receiving boom for Congress in
the Terre Haute district, since Lamb has been
slaughtered The Colonel is said to be the most
popular Democrat in the bailiwick. and his races
for the Legislature are pointed out to demon
strate his skill as politician.
James K. Marsh, S. NJ. Stockslaeer, Samuel
Voyles and Mr.. Howard are spoken of in the past
tense when the New Albany district is men,
toned, and the names of Chas L. Jewett and
Jason B. Brown come up. There is a big fight
anticipated in this district, in 1888 as these are
pretty live retired statesmen, and it is stated
that each does not expect TO permit the other to
have any voice in the nomination, and that all of
their names will come up for the race Judge
News name is also frequently mentioned in this
district and he is said TO be an aspirant already.
Judge Lowry is a dead duck in the pond, so
far as politics in the Twelfth district is con-
cerned. His name is stencil in Democratic
nostrils, and it is not probable that he could get
the nomination for county Office much less
district one. He is now conceded te be weak in
every quarter.
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THROUGH NIAGARA'S WHIRLPOOL.
A YOUng Man and His Best Girl Make the Trip
in TOrpedo-Shaped Barrel.

NIAGARA FALLS, n Y. Nov. 2s--George Haz-
lette and Miss Sadie Allen, of Buffalo, went
through the rapids and the whirlpool this after
~noon in the torpedo-shaped barrel used by Haz-
lette and Potts last summer. They were in the
rapids and whirlpool FIVE minutes, and were
taken out of the eddy on the Canadian side, just
below the whirlpool. three quarters of an hour
iatcr, in good condition. Miss Allen is re-
speetable girl eighteen years old. a petite bru-
nette and rather pretty. The start was made
from the Maid of the Mist landing,
on the Canada side. When the bar
rel reached the Maels.rom it shot right
-4ato the center of the pool, making two or three
turns Leaving the pool, the barrel followed
the current out toward the Canadian shore and
down to the outlet of the pool where it got into
. large eddy. and bobbed around for half an
hour. Friends near by shouted to the occu.
pants OF the barrel, when Hazlett opened q
small door on top of the barrel, and Frank Law
son threw a rope from the shore, which Hazlett
secured, and the barrel was towed ashore
After coming out of the barrel. Hazlett and
Miss Allen had a tramp of a mile and
half through brush and over powders be-
fore reaching the top of the precipice.
Mics Allen, when she appeared at the
ferry ready TO enter upon the perlous journey,
wore y neat walking dress Taking off her hat
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a REMARKABLE SUIT.
A Land Case Involving Many Distinguished
Men and Their Immediate Heirs.

MILWAUKEE,, Nov. 28. 8.-Papers have been
served ir a suit involving 160 acres in the heart
of Superior City, Wis. The land is valued at
100000, and is covered with costly improve
ments. The suit is a remarkable one in that
the defendants number many men of national
repute CT their heirs. The title in dispute dates
back to 1855, when spectators pre-empted the
lands byusing half-breed Chippewas as dun
my" residents to obtain title from the govern
ment. These men conveyed the property twice.
the second purchaser, however. recording his
conveyance first. The present litigation is to
determine the strength of these respective
titles. In those early days when white men
and halfbreed allies were driving their sharp
practices.a syndicate was formed, dividing their
estate actual and prospective, into twenty-six
shares, md the heirs of the members of
this syndicate are now involved in the litigation.
Among the share holders are Stephen A. Doug
las and Jthn z. Breckenridge. who ran against
Lincoln for the presidency: r. NJ. T. Hunter, a
member f Jefferson Davis's Cabinet; Robert j.
Walker, Secretary of State under Polk; Jesse D.
Bright G-Unlted States Senator from Indiana;
Congressman II. NJ. Rice, of ST. Paul; Congress-
man w. A. Richardson, of Illinois, Judge R.
Nelson, If ST. Paul, and q number of others. In
additlonto these men, or their heirs, there are
involvedin the litigation Senator Beck, of Ken
lucky; Rthel College, of Logan, KY; H. Haupt
w. X. Marshall John Harrington and others, of
St Paula number of New York, Kansas City,
Washington, Louisville and Superior City par
ties, in III comprising eighty-six defendants
The actin is brought by twelve plaintiffs nearly
al OK whom reside at Superior City.
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WHEN INDICATIONS.
MOyDAY-Light rain or snow, followed
by fair weather; colder.
.B0SH AND The TRUTH !!

Everybody knows the value OF the talk about
one dealer being able to sell q suit of clothes
for So that another can't sell for less than $40.
Everybody knows that there is general
market price for goods and that reputable
dealers buy on it; and, if they do solvent
business, have to sell for about the same ad-
vance.
The factory asks certain price, wholesale,
and the dealers have to sell at certain price,
retail to cover this and make living.
There is the whole story about that
THE WHEN is factory. Its stores in
different cities are simply Delivery Depots
where the factory, instead of selling at whole
sale rates to dealers, as all factories must
sells at wholesale rates to the people.
There is the whole story about that.
So in the regular routine of business, THE
WHEN saves you one profit. Being a fact
ory, it can sell you suit for the same price
that other dealers have to pay wholesale.
We will demonstrate this for you if you will
give US a call.
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A THRILLING RIDE TO RESCUE.

The Trip Made by Life-Savers to Rescue the
Crew of Two Wrecked Vessels.
Washington Special.
A magnificent story of daring and skill has
come to the Washington Office of the Lifesaving
Service The story is in meager scraps of the
driest kind, but in these routine statements
there is the basis for thrilling story. Several
days ago two propellers were wrecked off the
port of Marquette. in Lake Superior. In saw.
age storm they were driven on the rocks. over
which the breakers pounded furiously There
we're no passengers on board, but they were
manned by a crew of twelve men each. They
were making their last trips Of the season. The
vessels were wrecked early in the day. There
is no life-saving station at Marquette, the near
est being Portage City, ll0 miles away. The
people of Marquette turned out in great excite
ment when they saw these vessels driven
upon the rocks within three miles of the
town. The propellers did not break
up at after they had become lodged, but,
from the fury of the waves and the storm it was
eyident that they could last but short time
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FATAL COLLISION.
An Engineer Throws His Two Children from
His Locomotive and Dies at His Post.

CINc1NNATI Nov pa fatal collision at
tended by dramatic circumstances, occurred at
Andersons station, on the Cincinnati Southern
railroad, eight miles below here, shortly
after o'clock this afternoon. An
engine making trial trip was or
dered to leave here not earlier than las
P. NJ. 1t was in charge of Edward Drohan an
old and experienced engineer. At Anderson's it
coilided with a north-bound freight Drohan had
in the cab his two sons, five and seven years DID,
and also John Mahey, aged fve Perceiving
danger ahead he threw his two children through
the car window. and stayed at his post. sacrifc-
ing his life for the boys. John Mahey was also
killed, and Frank Lockwood, engineer of the
north-bound freight, badly injured. No one else
was hurt
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THE APACHE SURRENDER.

There Will Be No Investigation, and the
Matter VIII Be Left in It's Present Shape
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov 2S.-There is no more talk
about the once threatened congressional investi-
CATION into the terms upon which Geronimo, the
Apache chief, surrendered. The presence of
General Miles in the city and his verbal as we'll
as written explanation OF the surrender seems
to put at rest all question about private or ir-
regular understanding between the murderous
Indian and the commander of the United States
troops who received him. 1t is stated as the be-
lief of General Miles that there would have been
no complaint about the manner in which the
trouble on the Southwestern border was brought
TO an end had it not been discovered. when the
end finally came, that the Indians had no rsal
backing aud the trouble was practically at an
end, because the hostiles were few and starving.
AT no time before the surrender were the rep
resentatiyes os the government able to ascer-
tain the power of the Indians, their number or
their source of supplies. At tim es it seemed that
they We're very formidable, and 1T was believed
they had allies across the border In Mexico.
When, finally they threw down their arms and
came in, under promise that they should not be
killed outright. it was learned that they were
few and weak, and that they had lived by plum
der and their warfare was modelled after that of
the long-to-be remembered Modocs. IL was seen
that they could have been readily exterminated
had they been surrounded and brought to bay,
and General Miles was criticised most severely
because he did not receive their dead bodies in
stead of their pestiferous lives. He says he is
satisfied that they would have stood out and con.
tinued their guerrilla work for many years yet,
had he not crowded them to make move TO sur
render. He believes, furthermore, that the old
manner of fighting would not have won. and that
it is enough that they in the prison in Flor
ida and can be tried for their crimes.
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HALTER AND FURRIER.

and jacket, and throwing shawl over her head,
she stepped lightly into the barrel, through the
manhole, tucking her garments closely about
her, and laughingly remarking, Come, George,
lump in. I'm all fixed" Soon after Hazett
stepped into the craft, fastening himself in the
opposite end to that occupied by Miss Allen.
just thirty minutes from the time the barrel was
towed out into the river reached the whirlpool.
Miss Allen and Hazlett returned TO Buffalo this
evening.
The affair originated through proposition of
Larry Donovan to go through the whirlpool if
he could find girl of sufficient nerve to accom-
ing went to New York to fill an engagement at a
museum. About week ago Miss Allen said
to HaZlett, in joking way, that she would 60
if he tHazlett) would 60 with her. The offer
was at once accepted. but when Sadie saw that
her friends were treating it seriously, she tried
her mind to try it. Last night
she, Hazlett and a number of acquaintance S
went down to the falls. During the day the bar
rel had been brought from Chippewa. Ont, and
was moored at the Maid of the Mist landing
About o'clock in the afternoon the party went
over the now suspension bridge and
walked down to the ferry landing,
where curious crowd were waiting, anxious to
see the girl. At 2:3O o'clock she stepped into the
barrel, looking pale and frightened, though she
stated she had no fear at all They were
at once towei cut into the river. No
danger is met with until the cantilever and the
suspension bridges are passed. Here the first
great wave is met, and when the barrel struck it
it bounded about like cork, and was
then fairly rushing along, and, already feeling
the strength of the malstrom, a short
distance below. In an instant more they were
into this, and, after making the circuit of it a
few times, shot into the river again.
It was supposed that they had gor through in
safety, but as it turned out, they b 81 quite a
close call. 1t appears that the men who towed
them into the river screwed the cover of the
man hole down SO tightly that Hazlett
was unable to open it, and the barrel circled
about in eddy at Thompson's Point for forty
minutes before it could be brought to shore.
When the occupants of the barrel were
excited condition. and had suffered fearfully
from nausea She expressed herself thoroughly
cured of the desire for glory, and said she
would not take the ride again for any amount of
money.
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from Berlin that diplomatic understanding has
been arrived at between England and Germany,
Austria Hungary and Italy for settlement of
the question on the basis of the Berlin treaty.
Although there is written treaty of alliance
between these powers on the subject, their
united faction could not fail to operate as
check on Russian action. The Bulgarian
diplomatic delegation, consisting of Stoiloff,
Grekoff and Vailcheff starts early next
week 10 visit Vienna, st. Petersburg,
Berlin, London, Paris, Rome and CONSTANT
nople, and will make statement to the various
governments fully explaining the situation in
Bulgaria, and will request them to choose can
didate for the Bulgarian throne General Kaul-
bars has left Constantinople for St Petersburg
with the order of the Medjideh. conferred by the
Sultan during his brief visit to the Porte 1t
seems that the German consuls, as well as the
French, have been instructed to protect persons
claiming Russian protection in Bulgaria since
the departure of the Russian consuls.
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PHIL ARMOUR'S TACTICS.
He Is Sending Hogs to louisville, Where They
Are Butchered and Returned to Chicago
Special to the Indianapolis journal.


LOUISVILLE. KY, Nov. 2S.-The Commercial
tomorrow will say that circumstances sur
rounding an unusual activity in the hog business
in LOUISVILLE for week past go to show that Phil
Armour, of Chicago, shipping hogs toths city to
have them butchered and returned to him at once.
The arrivals of hogs from Chicago on Sunday
morning wer 4,500 head, Of the best grade.
Fred Leib g. Son were at work all
day, and killed 1850 head. Workmen there
said that they were for Chicago. The
other three packing-houses-O. w. Thomas,
White & Aiken. and Hughes & Taggart-do not
work on Sundays, but they will begin
on Monday morning on Chicago hogs.
The claim is made that Armour is
shipping hogs here because labor is SO much
cheaper that he can gain over the cost of ship
ment both ways Others say that he is manipu-
lating the provision market.
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
An Actl of Faith Which Cost an Art ANA
Afetar HalE nGillior, Ernncs-

An Actof Faith Which Cost an Art ANA
steur Half a Million Francs.
PARIsNoE PA very costly auto da fe was
recently celebrated in the sumptuous apart
ments Of young art amateur in the Rue Mar
beuf The amateur invited well-known art
dealer and expert to breakfast, and, after con-
ferring cigarettes asked the expert, NJ. George
Petit. to- visit mis- picture gallery of gems. which
were signed Meissonier, Corot Troyon, Le-
febvre, Bouguereau, Fromentin, Dupre, etc
The dealer, examining the picture Of "The Two
Chevaliers of Louis Treize," said: ''Why, that
is not Messonier. / know what Meissoniers 8
pictures are. This is a false one" Then, pro-
ceeding TO examination of other canyases
signed "Corot' and "Troyon" he found dozen
spurious. The young amateur had paid over
500 600 francs for these pictures, and so disgust
ed was he with his experiences as an art anna
teur that he built huge bonfire in the large
medieval fireplace of his picture gallery, threw
the false Meissoniers, Corots, Troyons Bougue,
reaus, etc, pell-mel into the flames and watched
them until they were reduced to cinders.