The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-17


q souls fckness, a heart-hunger for God.
In Persia's wales they felt this heart-sick-
ness and built temples, erected affairs,
swung censers, and had wondrous ri nails
in worship of the, sun. Egypt felt this
yearning-the immortal doctrine Of the
Iace-apd made gods of the mounful
stones y
Stern & Stern, of New York, when
they failed the other day for 100000,
had q travelling man on the road with 2
good deal of qjewelry in his trunk. A
creditor attached it at Cincinnati for a
claim of $1,000, which was promptly paid
and the trunk hid in Kentucky. tits be-
.lieved it contains $I5O.0OO worth of
diamonds.
The story autographed from Indiana on
Wednesday of lat week about the poison
ing of a large number of students and
several of the faculty of the State Normal
school, at dinner; is declared to be abso-
lutely false by the school authorities
There had been some talk about poor
coffee sickening some of the weak-stom-
ached students, but nothing more.
The.death of Jefferson Davis has aroused
curiosity in Washington respecting the
relics associated. with his capture at the
close of the War Department. Many
requests have been made in the past few
days for permission to see them, but in
pursuance of Secretary Procter's determi-
nation to officially ignore the fact of the
deth of Mr.. Davis, all such request is have
been, denied. A&~
This, from the New York Independent,
seems to be well said: christianity,
while disturbing no innocent or proper,
relation of this life, and forbidding no Joy
that man can virtually have, sweetens and
improves life in every department thereof.
This benign effect it produces by the
change it works in the human heart. It
changes the inward man and thus makes
US fit alike for heaven and earth"
Attorney General Miller has referred
the case of the Old Dominion Republican
League of Virginia to the United States
Attorney for the District of Columbia for
such action as he may deem proper. The
League is charged with having violated
the civil service law against the collection
of political asse ssments, and it is said that
the civil service commission reported to
the President that the charges were sus-
tanned by the evidence.
We learn from the Medical W,rd that
habitual tobacco users and whisky drink
ers are cured by the following plan:
Those who smoke their cigarette or
say at { o'clock in the morning, be-
gin by putting it off just 10 minutes past
the hour for a few days, then make it
or twenty minutes, and so on until
will be noon and hen night before the
first one is smoked. If it is slow, it is
certainly a sure way of tapering off, if
faithfully followed"
The Ladies' Hermitage Association of
Nashville, Tenn, having procured a char
ter from the Legislature, granting to it
the dwelling and tomb of Andrew Jack
son, together with a tract of twenty FIVE
acres which surround it, proposes to re-
pair the house, which is in an extreme
state of d~ilapidation, and to lay out the
grounds in the form of a memorial park.
With this object in view, the association
has issued a public appeal for funds, which
is Endorsed by the Andrew Jackson
League.
Some men have a habit of turning up
the wrong time. Mr.. Cassidy, of st.
is one of these. Seven years ago
he had a pension and arrears allowed,
amounting in all to $2,1OO, but suddenly
left without drawing the check which
stood to his credit. Under the law the
check could not be paid until the lapse of
seven years. The other day his expectant
widow was looking for the check by mail,
and went to the door to open it for the
carrier, as she supposed, when there stood
Mr.. Cassidey, as full of life as any resur-
rected corpse ever was.
President Charlotte Smith, of the Wo-
mans National Industrial League, has ad-
dressed a memorial to Congress, in view
of the Worlds Fair of 1892, asking for
an appropriation to erect a monument at
Washington to Queen Isabella 1. of Spain,
who was the friend and patron Of Colum-
bus. The petition suggests that the
monument in question should be the
work Of q Spanieb IN Amoroor uo~oo