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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-08-14
H CROP.

CHURCHILL ALLIANCE, Warren Co.,
N. c., July n, 1888.
BROTHER PoLK:-Warren is classed
as a tobacco county and a goodly por-
ton of the weed is grown in her Dor.
ders. She can boast of as fine a mar
ket as there is in the State, having at
the county seat, two large and -four
ishing warehouses, consequently her
farmers take a lively interest in all
that pertains to this important product.
It would therefore seem that produ-
GERS, buyers and sellers would tote fair
with each other. Is this the case I?
Let's see: The crop of 1886 was re-
ported as the largest ever made. On
the lst of June, 1887, it was reported
that only 40 per cent. of a crop had
been planted. Now Il understand)
the warehouse men claim that there
r ten millions of pounds more on
hand than there was at this time last
year. This has depressed prices since
February last, all the crop has passed
into the hands of spectators and the
farmers pockets are empty. How is
it possible for a crop, which has 80
per cent less in the ground, to leave a
surplus of ten million pounds more
than the largest crop ever made in the
United States? Is there not some
thing rotten in the State of Denmark?
Will the time never come when the
farmers can get the truth about their
crops :? 1 hope 50. Our leaders should
expose all such tricks and let the toll
ers know what is being done.
We hope for good things from our
Exchange. The brethren are subscrib-
ing freely to build up this enterprise
and the funds raised should be care
fully guarded, and looked after. / be-
lieve every member, in No. 480 will
subscribe, and the poorer one are
willing to make sacrifices to help on
the good work. If there ever was
a time for wisdom, purity and honesty
to exert their sway, it will be when
our delegates meet in August next.
May the God of the poor guide them.
We are now in the midst of a
severe drought and it is impossible to
say what the outcome will be. Farm
ers r respondent and everybody else
ercept, tobacco holders.
Fraternally,
VIC. DRAKE,
Correspondent No. 4SO.
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LEAoHBURG, n. c., July ID, 'SS.

LEAoHBURG, N. C., July IA, '8S.
Col. l.. L. PoLK.-Dear Sw:-Hav.
ing been elected at our last meeting
permanent Corresponding Secretary
for Leachburg Alliance, and feeling it
a duty to perform the task there In
posed, I write you my first letter,
merely Introductory. Perhaps we shall
become better acquainted. In the first
place, let me congratulate you as run
ming the organ of the grandest party
that ever existed in North Carolina,
to-wit: That of the farmers. The Presi-
dent Of Johnston County Alliance re.
marked few days ago on his r~e-elec-
ton that he considered it the highest
honor possible to represent the Farm
ers' Alliance. His assertion was true.
I doubt if Cincinnattus felt him.
self promoted when called from the
plough handles to command the des-
TIMES of Rome. Yes, the farmers are
beginng to awake at last, to shake off
their lethargy, and to be advancing to
the front. | am anxious for the State
Alliance to meet. We may expect i'm
portant events to result therefrom,
but to some subject. What shall it
be? The present is ours, and it only
a we claim. Let us discuss then as
farmers, what we shall do during our
summer vocation if we may apply the
term to the interval between the
finishing up Of the crops and the time
when we begin to house or to pick
cotton. Here is about a month; what
shall we do with it, turn loose our
hands and rest or go to work on
another task. 1t is well enough, even
necessary, to rest a few days, our con-
stitution demands it, every a~vocation
calls for it, but the farmers life less
than any other. After all bis, peerrpplexzi-
ties he has fewer, I think than anyone
else: Being constantly exposed to the
pure air his nervous system becomes
less PROSTATE; in a word, the census
show his to be the longest life, con-
sequently he needs less inaction. Then
let us now Don begin to renew waste
clear fresh lands, add to the
compost beds, and to do everything
can for another crop. For says the
poet: "Life is real, life is earnest, " &c.
Also another one: ale is a benefac-
tor who makes too blades Of grass
grow where only n grew before.
More next time.
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NOTES FROM ALLIANCES.
WESTERN Prone ALLIANCE,
Columbus Co., July Is, SO.

SSAuu1OuS w., 0NAJ NH
Col. l. L. PoLK.-Dear &r:-Wnl
you allow a farmers daughter q small
space in your good Alliance paper to
say a few words? l am a girl ~
years old and l enjoy reading HE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER very much. l
belong to the Western Prong Alliance,
which is in a fourishing condition.
AT our meeting Saturday before the
I'd Sunday in July, there were II in
itiations of the fair sex, and a good
many more are to be initiated at our
next meeting. We r having fine
seasons and crops r looking well
now, though had I written one week
ago the report would have been
rather gloomy. A very fine rain has
changed the whole face of things to a
brighter prospect. Gardens are poorer
than l ever knew them. l will close
my note by saying much success to
the Farmers Alliance.
Yours fraternally,
MoLLIE B.
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UNIVERSITY STATION, N. c.,
july II. '8S.


Col. L. l.. PoLK.-Dear Sv:-This
is my first letter to The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER. Our Alliance Cool Springs)
was organized in April, 1888, with 7
members, and steadily increased to
about 81 members. We meet twice a
month and discuss different subjects
on farming. Some of our body are
anxious to 60 into the State Agency
with that SIS, but do not know how
and in what way they are personally
benefited. I have stated to them that
it is the backbone to the baby if the
Sub-Alliance will be faithful in attend
ance and feed the baby, it in the future
will return tenfold. My idea of sue
cess for the farmer is to spend his
leisure moments at home in reading
farming interest, and not spend his
time sitting around town and country
stores discussing the political ques-
tions of the day. Let every man set
tie down on one or the other of the
parties and stick to it; not change
every year, and if they will do SO they
will always come out victorious. [
wish you would impress on the farm
ers the Importance of raising grass
and stock, it will not only enrich the
farmer, but it will enrich his lands so
that there will be something left be-
hind him when he has departed from
this world that will enrich his chill
DION II will ho tho Il cfopo
for them to be governed by. I am
sorry to say that l have not been able
to get subscribers for your valuable
paper, but In the future I hope to have
every member of our Lodge a patron
of your valuable organ; it is the watch
word to every member. If you think
my letter worth notice, you can give
it a corner in your paper; you can
condense it to suit yourself.
Faithfully yours,
W. D. LATTA.
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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, UGU Il, 1888.

ucces Now, brethren, If we would
make a success, there is a battle to be
fought, as we have a very strong
opposition. Now don't think that
Capt. Alexander and Col. Polk can
fight this battle alone, but just con,
slider that your help is needed in the
combat. AS many grains of sand
and many drops of water form the
great shores and the mighty oceans,
so will the many united efforts of the
honest old farmers bring about the
grand and noble objects which they
have in view in organizing themselves
together in this noble work.
Respectfully,
B. S. NJ, Sec'y.
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CLEAR CREEK, N. c., July &c, '8S.
Col. l.. l.. PoLK.-Dear Sr:-Some
of our brethren would be glad to see
a word from our Alliance, No. 1876,
and its vicinity. Began in March with
9 members. The ~lateness of the or
ganization was against us, but other
hindrances prevented growth. Some
were discouraged, but all are a plucky
set. We held on, and about the time
the drouth struck us we began to
grow. Applications are coming in
one, two and three at a meeting, and
we are encouraged. And we are 60
ing to help our best to raise the Bust
ness Agency Fund. When we get
stronger we will pull stronger. We
believe in the principles, and conf
IDENTIFY expect the success of the ALI
ance.
A good rain visited part of us yes
terday after four weeks Of drought.
Upland r. is injured, some badly;
all to some extent. Cotton is doing
well, though rain is much needed.
Has been a fine season for cultivating
crops, and they are, generally, in good
condition in that respect. Wheat a
failure; oats good. We have some
fruit. 1t seem to be a good year for
worms and insects. Chinch bugs are
plentiful, but seem to be doing less
damage than usual in proportion.
Early watermelons. generally inferior;
also Irish potatoes. Sweet potatoes
and other vegetables promising. Our
farmers are beginning to grow more
clover. But little attention is given
to stock raising. May write again.
Yours truly,
H. G. j., Sec'y.
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SHILOH ALLIANCE, No. SO7.

1ILo ANOs
Randolph Co., July 80, 'S8.
Col. l.. l.. PoLK.-Dear Ser
Again | attempt to write you a few
lines. Our Alliance is in very good
working order. We were organized
May 18th, 1888, with 9 members; we
now have 46, and still they are COM
ing. 1t seems like this order has a
kind of a magnetic attraction about it,
for wherever it is introduced the
farmers just lay right hold of it. But
still there is great opposition to it. It
seems that the entire mercantile world
is combined to crush the Alliance, and
| believe the opposition is not confined
to the mercantile class alone, but we
find it in all classes; even among the
farmers we find men ready to con-
denim the Farmers Alliance and pro-
nounce it a fraud. Now why is this
the case; have not the farmers just as
good a right to be organized as any
other class ? If they can by united
action and intelligent cooperation de-
wise a plan by which they can better
their condition, I ask again, haven't
they that privilege? Or do monop-
olies think that they should yield to
the wishes of the Shylocks in their
greed to content themselves, and
finally become serfs for the money
kings. l ask is it right that they
should, when they are the bone and
sinew of the universe, the backbone
of the commercial world? Yes, just
let the wheels of agriculture cease to
roll, and see how long it will be be-
fore the wheels of commerce will come
to a stand still. And yet, of all men,
the farmers are the most oppressed.
Now, brother farmers, how much
longer are you going to bear with
this? | hope and trust and pray to
Almighty God that you may (if
you are not already very soon be
awakened to a keen sense of your
duty, and we feel that we are safe in
recommending to you the Farmers
Alliance for shield and protection
from the awful curse which is now
hanging over u.s.. And if we will
comply with the Alliance in every re-
spect, we will certainly make a sure
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1t is reported in New York that
Jay Gould is endeavoring to sell out
his holdings in Western Union Tele-
graph stock.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-07-14
Mothsr. motnsrs motnsrs n

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A tonic ia what nervous people require. To
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Catarrhal Dangers,

TO be freed from the dangers OF sufrocation
wnhe lying down; to breathe freely, sleep
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head clear, brain active ana free from pain or
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Would Have been Set Upon,

Had not Burdock Blood Biaers been a re-
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worthlessness was discovered. "BuId dock
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A Woman's Discovery.

"Another wonderful discovery has been
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HOODS SARSAPARILLA.
BLOOD POISON

Whether originating in disease, or from hand.
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Tne People Astonished,

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A Penitentiary Romance,

A romance, which had its origin in the
Georgia penitentiary, has materlalized in
remarkable way at Atlanta, Five years ago
Mrs. Rooney and her daughter, Miss Isa-
bella, of Fort Gaines, took a violent dislike
to Mrs. Millirons, whose husband was said
to have been former admirer of the
younger woman. One day the two women,
assisted by their son and brother set upon
Mrs Millirons and beat her to death. The
son was hanged in Fort Gaines, the mother
died ON the night before her trial, and the
daughter, Miss Isabella, was given life
sentence in the penitentiary. For several
years Isabella enjoyed the distinction of
being the only white woman in the $500
inmates of the Georgia penitentiary.
The ladies of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union interested themselves in the
fate of the young woman, and lately in
duced Governor Gordon to pardon her.
The ladies put her in the Woman's Home,
where she has given evidence of strong re-
pentance. A couple of days ago a new
phase was developed. Dick Davis made
his appearance at the Home and claimed
Miss Isabella for his bride. Dick was a
long termer from Bibb county, whose term
had closed. 1t seemed that he made love
to the girl while they were in prison to-
gether, and he sought the first chance to
marry her. The ladies who had Miss
Isabella in charge, after inquiring into
Davis record, finally consented to the mar
rage, and on Monday evening the event
took place in the parlors of the Women's
Christian home.