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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
OUR FINE STOCK SHOW.

The committees in charge Of the
various departments are working
lively to make the Wake County Cat
tie Show on the 18th a grand success.
The lovers of thorough and high bred
stock will enjoy it. There will be a
street parade of cattle and horses.
We want to see the maidens and
mothers lend their encouraging pres
ence and learn the girls that a beauti-
full and blooded cow is one of the
essentials in good living and good
housekeeping. We want to see the
old men and the boys present and
learn that the true basis of agricultu-
raj wealth and success lies not in cot
ton or any other one crop, but in the
cultivation of the grasses and the rear
ing of good stock. Let all come and
make this a gala day and profit by it's
lessons. Reduced rates on all the
roads leading to Raleigh guarantees a
good crowd.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
FARM LABOR IN NORTH CARO-
LIMA.

The recent report issued by the
North Carolina Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics has been used by some partisan
correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press from this city who signs him
self "T. B." for the purpose of exag-
gerating and misrepresenting the con-
dition of farm labor in this State. We
know that the price of farm labor is
low, but we are safe in saying that, as
a rule, the laborers are paid fully as
much as the employer can afford. We
know that the investments in farming
in this State and throughout the
South pay less than in any other
department of industry, and that
men, economical, frugal, indus
trious men, owning good lands,
have to struggle day and night, and
year in and year out to keep their
heads above water. The mortgage
system, the credit system, the one-crop
system, all conspire to keep him down,
but the intolerable burthens imposed
by discriminating legislation, which
feeds and fattens capital and monopoly
at his expense, chiefly, is the load
under which he is staggering. W.
hear much of the unjust and iniquit-
Gus determinations of our tariff sys-
tenn, but in our judgment they are not
to be compared in enormity to the
ruinous exactions of the Banking or
Currency system Of the country.
There are evils innumerable which be-
set the farmers of the country on all
sides, and which the merchants, the
mechanics, the laborers and all pro-
fessions and all interests in all chan
nels of trade and commerce, feel and
must continue to feel until a just and
proper equilibrium is reached te-
tween all our great industries. We
would that labor on the farm and
in all departments of industry could
receive more remunerative prices, but
SO far as farm laborers are concerned
in this State, they get all, and fire.
quently more, than their earnings to
the employer justiies. We would
like, above all things, for "T. B." to
tell us how we can pay more.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
NEWS TO US.

The. Concord Times says Wayne
county Farmers Alliance week before
last passed resolutions endorsing Sted-
man for Governor and Alexander for
Lieutenant Governor.-Dwham Re-
corder. .
We see the above, paragraphs going
the rounds of the press Of the State,
and it is news to us and to every
member of the Alliance in Wayne
county. We were present at the
meeting referred to, and we assert
that so far from the meeting endors-
ing the above named gentlemen, the
matter was not referred to by any one
in the meeting. And if it had been,
every member of the order knows full
we'll that it would have received it's
quietus promptly. Wayne County
Alliance o any other County ALI
ance nor any other kind of an ALI
ance has Or will endorse any ticket in
their Alliance meetings.
The members of our order have no
preferences for candidates, or politics
which they wish to conceal, or to act
upon in secret, but in the exercise of
the largest freedom they are at per.
feet liberty to act as any other citizen
choose and vote as they please.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
OUR MI MORTAL DAY.

The Tenth will be celebrated in
Raleigh, and we trust throughout the
South, in honor of the memory of our
fallen heroes. Hon. R. T. Bennett
will deliver an address on the life and
services of Brigadier-G General James
Daniel. Col. Thos. R. Kenan, n of
the most faithful and gallant of the
officers of that brigade, will act as
Chief Marshal. He cordially invites
all the old soldiers Of the city and of
the surrounding country to aid him
and to appear in the procession,
mounted. One by one the old soldiers
are dropping from the rolls, but we
trust that so long as there remains
two of them alive, they will continue
this beautiful custom and have a re-
union on the 10th of May, over the
graves of their fallen and lamented
comrades.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08

. Bv reference to- letter from Bro.
MCLAUGHLIN, in this issue of The PRO
eREss1vE FARMER, it will be seen that
the Farmers Alliance has been planted
in our sister state Of South Carolina.
The work was began in Spartenburg
county only a few days ago and nine
Alliances have been organized. Inc
movement is well received by the, best
farmers and the organizer thinks ne
will find but little opposition to his
work. =.
Auburn Alliance, of Wake county,
is said to be in a very prosperous con-
ditiona They have just completed
and paid for their new Alliance hall,
which is a neat building, 24x50 feet,
two stories high. The upper hall will
be used for the meetings Of the ALL
ance exclusively, while the lower hall
will be let for township meetings
school purposes, lectures, exhibitions,
SC, for a small cash consideration,
which will 60 into the general fund OF
the Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08

this grand and lovely southland cursed
and blighted with a population whose
ideal government is anarchy, and
whose religion is the widest fanati-
cism.
We note that neither Governor
Scales nor our State immigration
Agent, Mr.. Prtrick, were present at
the convention, but we trust that they,
with the other good citizens of our
State who were, as, well as all others,
will lend a hearty cooperation in
securing a class of good substantial
immigration to our State. We trust
furthermore that North Carolina in
the very beginning will discourage
and reject all such as may not be Of
this character.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
lFor THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
A TREATISE ON NEAT FARM
ING,

CHARLOTTE, N. c., May l, 1883:
To an agricultural man, nothing is
more pleasing to the eye than a neat,
well-kept farm. You can very often
tell a man by the appearance of his
farm. A farm neatly kept is generally
proftably kept. Go over the farms
of the country and you can see stumps
that might have been taken out of the
way ten years ago. Take into consid-
GRAFTON the loss of time in going around
these stumps and catching on their
roots with the plow-the worry thus
given to the plowman and the team
the wear and breakage of tools, the
amount of ground taken up that pro-
duces nothing, and it looks to me like
it costs more to leave an ordinary
stump in the field than it does to take
it out. You have stumps in a field;
you want to prepare it for small grain;
here comes your two-horse pillow, your
double-trees catch over the top of the
stumps; you get that loose, and next
thing your pillow point catches; you
can't pillow up close to it. This worry
is repeated a dozen times or more an
hour. Then comes your smoothing
harrow; you can't harrow up close to
the stump except by stopping and 60
ing in circle all around the edges of
your obstacle; here comes your har-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
I'M MIGRATIO

The most important movement ever
yet inaugurated to induce immigration
to the Southern States, was the con-
vention held at Hot Springs on the
18th ult. Certain it is that: no move
ment was ever started under such
favorable auspices or with stronger
contributing forces to success. Eleven
States We're represented, among them
the Governors of Georgia, South
Carolina and Virginia, and prominent
citizens from New York to the Mis-
sissippi. The railroads and steamship
companies were strongly represented.
We published last week the resolu-
tions which were adopted as a basis of
permanent organization.
This combined effort, embracing as
it does all towns and cities in the
South with 1000 inhabitants or more,
and all the lines of transportation and
their connections, which traverse all
Southern country, and fortified with
the best business brain of the country
and impelled by that great motive
power, self-interest, will assuredly
arouse and stimulate the people on
this important question rs they have
never been before. And if it shall be
directed to bringing to the inviting
fields of the South, solid, industrious,
earnest, law-abiding people, who will
come to cast their destiny with ours,
we shall rejoice. But in the compe-
tition which will spring from an active
influx of population, the danger is that
we will open our gates to be flooded
with the scum of other nations. We
had a thousand times rather see our
uncultivated fields grow up in brush
and bramble and our minerals remain
in the hidden home of their creation,
and our laundering water powers con
tinue to rejoice in the "roaring chorus
of the wild wilderness" than to see
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
MARRIED.

On Wednesday morning last, IN the
First Presbyterian Church OF this city,
Mr.. Josephus Daniels, editor OF the
State Chronicle, and Miss Addie Worth
Bagley, daughter Of the late MAJ
Bagley, so long the Clerk OF the
Supreme Court, and granddaughter
of the late Governor Jonathan Worth,
were united in marriage. !.
In all it's appointments it was the
most pleasing and beautiful marriage
ceremony we have ever witnessed.
Gala lilies, roses and flowers Of love-
Hest hue adorned the rostrum and
rested in radiant beauty on the back
ground of richest, darkest green and
smiled their bright welcome to the
happy throng which packed galleries
and floor. The melody Of tenderest
music, mingling with the rustling of
silks, and the excited w~hisperings and
suppressed joyousness of happy youth,
filed the spacious hall with the ex-
h~ilerating freshness and spirit of a
May-morning forest-scene, where the
caroling of birds, the dripping rain
drops and. the laughing rills blend
their glad songs in honor of their
spring-god, and suddenly-as if under
the touch Of magic-the murmuring
hum is hushed, and a voice, sweet as
the thrilling of a hooking bird and
clear and tender as the silvery chime
Of a tinkling bell, rang out, in joyous
notes, and the vast throng sat spell
bound and entranced as the "Sweet
Singer of Carolina" welcomed the
approach of the procession. Preceded
by lovely flower girls and handsome
young men and beautiful maidens, the
happy bride and groom took their
position in front of the officiating
minister, Rev. DR.. Watkins, and i'm
mediately. under a lovely bell offowers
of creamy whiteness, where they were
made "man and wife"
May their life be as bright and un-
clouded as the suspicious morning on
which they were welded, and when
the ruddy sunset Of it's evening shall
come, may it rest in the soft mellow
glow of a remembrance of the days
and years spent in devotion to each
others happiness and for the good of
mankind.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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pondents that they must give US their
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their articles. We musthave their names
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we must ask our friends-all-to con
dense what they have to say-boil it
down. We are anxious to give as great
variety as possible to our readers, and to
do this the articles should be short and to
the point.
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RALEIGH, n. c., MAY s., 1888.

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, 1888-11-29

loan Is recognized az necessity OF nation
al defense. 1t will be- voted by the reich
stag without prolonged discussion. tbs
the universal feeling that 1t Germany
seeks her colonial expansion to compete
strong fleet is the first essential.
The imperial family is now located for
the winter season in the old schloss, occu..
plying q suite of rooms on the first and
second floors, looking on schloss platz.
The new Russian loan is announced to
be issued on December ist In the mean
time German holders OF Russian securities
are assiduously selling, finding Paris will
ling to absorb all kinds of Russian securi-
ties. Ready buying by foreign bourses,
pbined with the authoritative announce
meht that the contract stipulates that the
loan shall be used solely for the conversion
of 1877 bonds. has maintained the price Of
Russians, and hardened the quotation OF
r0ubles, which closed at 209.5O.
, 1888-11-29
FROM PANAMA.
Improvements In Teisgrsphy "A Prssi.
Dental Donation Tho Revolutiontsts.

Improvements in Tsisgrsphy "A Prssi.
Dental Donation Tho Rsvolutionists.
PANAMA, Nov. 2.-The government Of
Colombia proposes to construct extensive
telegraph lines in all directions, for the
construction of some OF which they are
now calling for tenders to be sent in up to
December 5.
Upon DR.. Nunez, president. whose term
of Office expires In two years, the legisla-
of $50, 900 for life. together with all honorss
and prominence due to the presidential
office.
Senior Pedrohita, an electrician of DO.
gotta, has patented telegraphic instru.
ment which. he claims, will revolutionize
telegraphy, as 1t works without batteries,
A committee which tested the machine
claimes 1t works satisfactorily.
On October 9th. President Arce of Bo'
livia, arrived at Potosi with the northern
division. On his approach the revolu.
towards Laginullias. On October 5th a
private letter. written in Potosi, said !;
- The situation is not a bright one, as the
Lucia rebels are marching on this place.
Belasario Salinas and Ricardo Mejia and
a number Of the best known civilian and
military authorities are with then." I"
Another letter, dated the 9Th said: elm
mediately after reaching Potosi President
Acre adopted measures to prevent the ad-
vance of the rebels, and we have over 22O0
men at Carachipampa, four leagues from
Potosi, awaiting the advance of the revo.
lutionists. Troops have arrived at Lapaz
from Huanchica, while all suspects are to
receive orders to leave Lapaz on the even
ing Of October 8th The revolutionary
movement in Lspaz was the cause of nu.
merous fatalities. Fiaro, who headed the
mutiny at Fiarilo. is not expected to re.
cover from his wounds"
A rumor coming via Carthagenia, and
which the Venezuelan consul at Colon has
reason to credit. has reached here. TO the
effect that . serious revolution has broken
out in Venezuela. IL is reported that Gen.
eral Crespo, supported by General Sergio
Carmargo. has landed in the east with an
army of 5000 men.
General Borja Bustamente ia dead.
NicarauRua has accepted the invitation
OF the United States government to join
in the conference of the American repub-
lics October 2, 1889.
, 1888-11-29
THE GODDESS or PEACE.
She Smiles Complsosntly On the sIumbe,
ing Demon Of War.

ono ohII0o oOompAocSuuy IN tnO SluuaDef-
ing Demon OF War.
BERLIN, Nov. "a, Special Cable Dis
patch.-- The reichstag will re.assemble
Tuesday, when business will open with the
discussion Of the budget and u loan for the
reconstruction of the navy.
The speech fromIthe throne continues TO
fill the public mind, Exaggerated opin.
ions regarding tho abiding peace replaces
the pessi mistic forebodings current prior
to the delivery of the speech. The speech
is undoubtedly as pacific a. the forecast
given last week, but it 10 misinterpreted
II endowned with the character of being
significant passage is the paragraph refer
ring to foreign relations. Il was the en-
peror's declaration that his aim was 'as-
surance of peace and good will to the best
of our endeavors." There is here nothing
beyond a protest that 80 far it depends up
on the emperor, his policy will be pacific
The concluding sentence, referring to the
confidence shown in his ma ajesty during his
tour as justifying the hope of being able,
with Gods help, to maintain the peace OF
Europe, has been read as indicating the
promise that the czAr. besides all the mon.
archs. will assist in preserving peace. II
is officially known that the emperor did
not intend to convex the impression other
than that he and his allies earnestly de
sired to avoid war.
The semi. official Post and Cologne Ga.
zette are trying to tone down public feel
ing to lower pitch, The Post warns
Germany that the situation does not justi.
fly the san9uine expectance that peace is
permanent, that it IL foolish TO suppose
that war depends upon the decision OF the
soveriRns. that the difficulty threatened
ia not France alone and that the emperor's
language means simply that he is prepar.
ing with resignation 10 face the most se.
rlous task that can be placed upon the
chief Of great nation.
The Cologne Gazette says: The
speech is pacific. only az far ss
we and our allies are concerned
and is reserved, regarding others with
whose decisions we have no influence"
1.-The manifesto passes over Germany q
immense military apparatus In silence
and il 30 we'll known as TO render refer.
encc to 1t superhuous, The emperor tells
us simply that Germany will not have to
endure the miseries of war unless she can.
not help it. These reliable comments
are already assisting to counteract the
fantastic reports to the effect that Prince
Bismarck Is feeling his way towards
general disarminR."
From Vienna papers comes the rumor
that the chiefs of the German Empire 10
dread the results of war that they are
ready to make sacrifices to secure the
fstherland against aggression. These uu.
worthy suggestions appear to refer to the !
surrender of Alsace and Lor- !
rAine. which is an impossibility as long !,
as Germany remains united. |
10 the meantime. instead OF preparing |
for the peace Millennium, the govern ments /
are seeking to develop their sinews of war. |
Austria. Hungary has obtained military
loan. Russia and France are raising n
, edit, and finally, the new German navel
, 1888-11-29
WANTED TO GET EVEN.
Decision by the Interstate Commission
In Favor Of the N. T..


WASHINGTON. Nov. 24.-The interstate
commerce commission, by Commissioners
Walker, rendered decision to-day in the
case of Slater VS.. the Northern Pacific
Railway Company, which states that u
complaint, made for the purpose of retail.
alton for fancied wrong, 30 az TO get
even with the carrier for the revocation of
the complainant's pass, does not commend
itself TO the com mission. A carrier which
has conformed to the ruling of the COM
mission should not be prosecuted for al
legged violation of the law in that respect,
which have occurred before such ruling
was made and under the construction OF
the law then approved by the carriers
the form of an annual pass to person not.
In the regular and stated service of the
carrier, nor receiving any wages or salary
under contract of employment, but re.
quested by him as a compensation for
throwing in it. way what business he
conveniently could, 10 held TO be illegal.
, 1888-11-29

| in Presldent-E -ElecJ haTrisVh o'hoV ~ ."
diauapois. The members OF the Helena
press will act as pall.bearers.
WAILA WALLA, Nov. "a, Special-The
| Northern Pacific Elevator Company bought
80 600 bushels Of wheat to-day, paying 20
cents.
hands this week.
]. b. Aliens mail has assumed enor-
nous proportions, chiefly from candidates
| for office under the new administration.
| There are enough applicants here alone to
| fil every office In the territory.
An investigation has been ordered
from Washington into Lieut.. kingsbury's 3
| management OF the post Ct quarter master
ship at Fort Walla Walla. Major Sumner
| is making the Investigation.
This evening Bruce Crawford, . carpen-
ter vorkinoyst t}sfsispn fell, spraining his
ankle and i6s1aing biz right thigh.
The Blys n'usdSr case begins on
Tuesday.
SALEM, Nov 23.--Sheriff Herbert, of
| Wasco county, brought two prisoners to
penitentiarY to-day. They were j. r.
| Sullivan, sentenced to two years for the
larceny OF a watch and chain and two years
for the larceny of three sets ut harness.
Wm. Gooseby gets two years for receiving
and another man will be brought down to-
morrow for having assisted in disposing
of the stolen harness,
SALEM, Nov. a. Special. Ten
druf, who was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary from Mutnomah about four years
ago for embezzling funds entrusted to him
as foreman of S. G. Reeds stock farm,
completed his term to-day and will be re-
leased to- morrw,
Two insane men were brought to the
asylum to-day from Malpeur county,
bringing the number of patients in the
asylum up to the unprecedented figure of
529. The fund for conveying insane and
idiotic persons to the asylum has become
deficient and certificates on the fund are
discounted at per cent by the banks,
SANTA Rosa. Nov. "a, Special.-The
iury in the case of Fred and John Mize.
charged with an attempt to kill Fred
Mizes, his father-in-law. returned ver-
dict of guilty. The Mize boys are well
cennected The quarrel grew out of
domestic troubles between Fred and his
father .in.law, which led to q shooting
affray in which eleven shots we're fired.
MERGED, Gala, Nov. "a, Special. AL
bert Williams. charged with the murder
of James Adams, at Plainsburg, several
months ago. was fouad guilty Of murder
in the first degree. The jury recommended
life imprisonment. Sentence has not been
pronounced.
FRESNO, Cal, Nov. "a. Special.--A. J.
Craycroft, a young republican voter, died
to-day from lockjaw, caused by the explo-
sion Of Roman candle in his hip pocket
while parading just before election.