The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-08-07
Mount Airy Mews complain

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On Tuesday morning last, the man
Porter, who has been held under sus-
pieion of being Partin, the wife and child
murderer, was released from prison, Col.
Argo, the Solicitor, having satisfied him
self that he is not the man he is looking
for.
Lawyer H. p Mcknight, while
pleading the cause of a'forger, in the city
of Toledo, on July Both, ult., was called
outside the bar and arrested upon a war
rant charging him with forging anote for
$3.50. In default of $500 bail, Mcknight
went to- Jail.
1t is said that tile enough has been
laid in Illinois, to reach three times around
the globe, costing between $40, 000,0 900
and SIS, 600, 900; and the experiments of
the State University professors 60 to
show that the best crops are found in the
b~est-drained soil. - }f..-:
The religious instincts of man are in
~destructible and everywhere exhibited.
Nothing can eradicate, nothing can
quench them. They lie deep in human
nature. Therefore we should never trife
with them or suffer anything to blunt
their sensitiveness.
Our good friends Messrs. Alfred
Powell, F. P. Williams and S. Ohio
Wilson and Capt. B. P. Williamson will
accept our grateful acknowledgements for
nice fruits in the way of apples, melons
and grapes. We never tire of these pleas
ant attentions, gentlemen.
DR.. Josiah Strons says: awe multi
| ply ourselves in our gifts" Shaftesbury
speaks with contempt of magnificent
bequests," as though there were any real
muniicence in giving away what one can
no longer keep or use himself; but en-
| phasizes munifcent donations.
The Raleigh Standard Fertilizer Com
pany offers a valuable premium to the
Farmers Alliance of the State. 1t will
give to the Subordinate Alliances which
shall make the best display of agricultural
products, at our State Fair, five tons of
the Raleigh Standard Fertilizer.
An exchange that favors female
suffrage, uses the sledge-hammer argu-
ment that "the right to pay taxes has
never been denied women" The right
to pay poll tax has never been accorded
her, and this is the only kind of tax-pay-
ing that entities any one to vote.
The Alamance Cleaner says Mrs.
Mary Stockard who was hurt in the acct
dent near Orange Court House, Va, three
weeks ago, has not sufficiently recovered
to be brought home. DR.. Geo. w. Long
returned Tuesday night from a visit to
her and considers her condition critical.
"A Washington letter-writer says: The
Hon. Thomas L. Clingman is sometimes
seen on our streets. He, and the Hon.
Jefferson Davis are the only surviving
ex-Senators who resigned their commits
sions in the United States Senate to link
their fortunes with the Southern Confed-
eracy. d,
The Pittsboro Home utters this
lament: ooh, for a soaking rain! Early
corn is past redemption. Cotton is small,
gardens are parched up, and it is too dry
to SOW turnip seed. Peaches and apples
are plentiful, watermellons are scarce, and
we have not seen a respectable cantelope
this season."
The Jonesboro Leader says: awe
are proud to record the fact that not a
bushel of corn has been shipped upon the
railroads to this point during the past
winter and spring and up to the present
time. In view of past years, this certainly
shows improvement in the condition of
our farmers"
In publishing the report of Bro. D. R.
McIver, Deputy Organizer for Stokes
county, we inadvertently omitted to pub
fish the names and number of Alliances
formed by him in that county. Bro. Nc
liver worked faithfully and we regret that
his private interests takes him from that
field.
The annual meeting of the Baptist
Orphanage Association was held at
brownsville week before last. The aver
age number of orphans taken care of dur
ing the past year was 90. This was 20 in
excess of the accommodations, and incon-.
venienced the orphans and officers. The