The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-22

"A correspondent at Jacksonville,
Onslow-~ county, whose letter is too
lengthy for publication in this issue, re-
lates in a graphic manner how nobly and
grandly the farmers and laboring men
went, shoulder. to shoulder, to the Demo-
cratic Mass-Meeting and contended for
and secured the appointment of an Alex
ander delegation to the State nominating
| convention. @a -.-
Moore county held its convention on
last Thursday and the vote stood, for
Governor: Alexander AZ; Fowle 1O1;
Stedman 2; Clark 2. Iredell, according
to the Landmark, sends a majority for
Alexander. The only township in Rowan
heard from instructs solidly for Alexan-
der. Arson gives a majority for Alex
ander. The farmer candidate is gaining
and growing every day.
The Mount Pleasant Grange Fair is
to be held at the Grange Hall, "a beauti-
full place. September 9th to 9Th. The
Grange asks the cooperation of all other
farmers, organizations in. Cabarrus and
adjoining counties. This is right and we
hope the Alliance will lend it's aid and
help to make this fair a grand success.
Oranges and Alliances should work
heartily and harmoniously together for
their aims and purposes are identical.
"A news item dated Lenoir, May 18th,
says "a robbery was committed yester-
day in Mitchell county, in which, a beau
tiful young girl named Agnes Dillinger
stole $3.50 from her aged and hard-work-
ing father, and eloped with a man named
Turner Vance. Officers followed in quick
pursuit and captured the couple just as
they were boarding the train. Both were
carried back. The father is heart-broken."
"A struggle for emancipation in Brazil
which has extended over twenty years
was ended on the 18th of the present
month when the Brazilian Senate finally
passed the bill abolishing slavery, which
had been too weeks previously, approved
by the Chamber of Deputies, The En-
peror, Dom Pedro, has been from the first
an enthusiastic advocate Of emancipation,
and hence the system is at an end in
Brazil.
"A young woman in Maine travelled
on foot and alone from her home in
Kingsbury to the west edge of yelling
ton, a distance of about eight miles, and
back, for the purpose Of engaging a min
lister to go to her residence and marry her
to the man of her choice. The local
paper, which states the above fact, says,
with a mate that would allow this, she
will probably have to support the "man
of her choice" r
There are no possibilities of further
legal interference with the Bell Telephone
Monopoly, now that the United States
Supreme Court has definitely refused a
rehearing in the D~rawbaugh case. The
Bell people have won, and hold the keys
to fortune. It will now devolve upon
State Legislatures to so regulate the
charges for telephone service that no in
Justice may be done. This has been ac-
complished in Indiana, where a State law
limits the charge to $50 a year. Other
States should not be slow in protecting
their citizens against the extortions Of
this greedy Monopoly.
Hon. VIM. A. Smith, of Johnston
county, died at the residence Of his SON.
in-law, Capt. w. II. Green, Of the Rich
mond & Danville railway system, Rich
mond, Va, at 3: 49, p. m, Wednesday last.
For several years succeeding the war be-
tween the States he took a prominent
part in the affairs Of State. He was twice
a member of the Legislature from John
ston county, was a member of the consti-
tutional convention of '68, and repre-
sented the Metropolitan district in Con-
gress one tern. A wife and several chill
dren survive him. He was buried at his
old home in Johnston on Friday the 18th
inst. ~/
And now Sweden falls into line,
among European governments, in forbid
ding the American hog, dead or alive, to
enter the Kingdom, except under so high
a duty as to practically exclude him. If
the western hog, as an article of food,
were half so dangerous, as the countries
of Europe would have the world believe,
the Southern States would have been de-