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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-08

lift is IN slip moose of very light cop
per wire. Il should be about three feet
'ons, or adapted to the depth at which
the fish are lying in the stream. The
free end should be attached 10 n pole
about two feet long. From the bank or
from your boat with the utmost quiet
ness lower your moose into the water,
Slide it up about the fish, working
toward the head. Be very careful not
TO touch the fish with tie moose, bu;
when it is about him Jus; back of the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-08
A Remedy for Insomnia.

\ writer in the st. Louis GioJc- Demo,
crat says: The abuse of the eye is the
crime of the age. am prepared to DEM
onstratc that ut least nine.tenths of the
prevailing slccplessncss of which we hear
so much is due to nervousness directly
traccablc to the optic nerve. We are
wearing our eyes out over books and
desks and types, and the effect shows it,
self not only in the appearance of the
organ itself but in its retroactive effect
on nerve and brain. I have discovered
Il remedy for slceplcssness, and for the
reason have never known it to fail I am
fortified in my opinion that the whole
trouble arises from the overstrain of tho
eyes. Take n soft cloth-say piece of
mapped towel-and fold in it two small
pieces af ice at distance apart to OK !
actly cover the eyes when the cloth il
laid across them. Then lie down, adjust
the cloth with the ice over the closed
eyes and you will be asleep in very
hort while.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-08

The railroad companies Of the United
States owe 81, GOO, 600, 600. Last year III,
amount of interest paid by the railroads,
pf the United States was S2O7, 900, 900,
and the amount in dividends $50, 600,
200. If the amount of freight hauled
were all reduced to one mile, it would
AMOUNT to $40, 1000, 100000 tons O.
treiuht
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-08
Cft.is estimated that Uncle SAMUEL will
bay out ut least 81, 500, 900 in artificial
legs and arms i'll 1890.

William Nye, the humorist and philoso
pher, sagcly and wittily remarks tia
lhcrc arc two kinds of baldheadcd men
Some arc bald on the outside and som,
Ire bald on the inside.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
JOHN 1 G A

A cablegram to the News and OBJ
server, dated London, March. 27th,, an
nounces the death of Mr.. John Bright the
member Of the House of Commons of the
British P arliament, representing the cen
trail division of Birmingham. He died on
Wednesday morning last, at half-past
eight o'clock. His end was peaceful and
painless, as he had lain in a comatose state
for the previous twenty-four hours. All
of his family were present at his death
bed. The deceased, a popular politician,
soa of Jacob Bright, a Quaker cotton
spinner and manufacturer, of Rochdale,
Lancashire, was born at Greenbank, near
that town, November, 18th, 1911. He
was first brought into notice by the Anti
Corn Law agitation in the year 1889.
When the Anti-Corn Law League was
formed in that year, he was one of is
leading members, and, with Mr.. Golden,
engaged in an extensive free trade agita-
tlen throughout the Kingdom. In the
spring of 1843 he offered himself and was
chosen a member of Parliament for the
city of Durham. At all times an animated
and effective speaker, MI. Bright was in
c~essant, both at public meetings and in
parliament, in his opposition to the corn
laws, until they were finally repealed.
This may be called the beginning of this
eminent gentleman's public life, which
has eve been brilliant and useful. Being
2 Quaker and a member of the Peace So
ciety, he strenuously opposed the war
with Russia in 1854, and, in 1855, he
theoretically denounced the Crimean,
war. In the year 1860 a severe illness
compelled him to withdraw from pa olic
life and he retired to the continent His
health having been restored he took Office
again in 1881, as Chancellor of. the
Duchy Of Lancaster. Mr.. Bright" had
reached the ripe old age of seventy-seven
wears. "-':'.:. 3!
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
QUESTIONS AND ANawESs.

IN w 1R.-Where Sab-AIliances ax;-t
and there is no County Alliance orraS-
lied, do-they send their dues to the STATE
Secretary, and if so, what amount?
Answer-Yes, they make their report
to the State Secretary and send the same
amount as would be due the County Ali
ance were it organized.
L. j. K.-When a member is expelled.
or suspended, what is the duty Of the
Secretary? 49,
Answer-He reports the fact promptly
to his County Secretary, who win notify
each Secretary in his county. He also
sends notice to the State Secretary.
S. NJ. S.-A member gets a dimit. How
should his dues be arranged2
Answer-A member applying for a
dlmit must pay his quarterage before it
can be granted. His dimit is then q true
guarantee that he is. clear on the books.
OF course this carries him through the
Alliance which he joins for the succeed
ing quarter.
Should a member take in the a~pplica-
ton of a man whom he knows to be in
eligible2
Answer-No.
J. G. BIN Art. l, Sec. 3, of our Con-
stitution do the words: ats standing and
special committee" refer to committees
Of the Subordinate and County Alliance?
Answer-To committees of the County
Alliance.
Sec. II, Of the Working Bulletin says:
"Select good Secretaries and pay them"
We see nothing in the Constitution re-
curing them to be paid. Should they be
paid and how much2 -,
Answer-The Constitution does not for
bid it and each Sub-Alliance can deter
mine whether its Secretary ought to be
paid and how much would be a just COM
pensation for the service rendered.
What is the object of the meetings held
by the Secretaries of Wake and other
counties?- *'.~- ..a "a
Answers-The Wake County Secreta-
ries Association is regularly organized and
is composed of all the Sub-Secretaries of
the county and meets regularly on Friday
before each regular quarterly meeting to
make up their reports, &c. It works
we'll and greatly facilitates their labors.
What is the duty of the committee on
the good of the Order in cases of miscon-
duct on the part Of members.
Answer-Ir is the duty of that COM
mittee to take ~cognizance of everything
which in their judgement tends to injure
the Order. They may investigate and try
members but the Alliance only can inflict
punishment. See Art. 7, Sec. 3, of the
Constitution.
S. B. ALEXANDER,
Pres't N. G. Farmers Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR ORGANS.

To the County and Sub-AUianceS -
I receive frequently, letters from off,
ce Of County and Subordinate Alliances,
requesting me to reply by mail, that they
do not as yet take our organ, The Pro
GREss1vE FARMER. This should not be;
the officers of an Alliance cannot do what
they ought to do, if they do not keep
posted in all that the Alliance is doing. /
earnestly request each County and SuboT-
dinate Alliance to subscribe for at least
three copies of THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
and three copies of The National EconO-
mist (our National organ, published at
Washington, D. CO. Each paper will be
furnished at one dollar, and as the Presi-
dent, Secretary and Lecturer perform i'm
portant duties without pay, each Alliance
can well afford to subscribe for a copy of
each of these papers for each of them,
thus enabling them to qualify themselves
better for their work. Six dollars is not
a high salary for three officers who are ex-
pected to perform the duties required Of
the President, Secretary and Treasurer.
Each member of the Alliance, who can
afford it should subscribe for our State
and National organs.
Fraternally,
s.. B. ALEXANDER,
~'.' 4sPres't N. C.!S. F. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
H "SCOTCH-IRISH."

A Scotch Irish Congress is to be held
in Columbia, Tenn, on the 9Th of May
next. Among the distinguished person
ages who are expected to be present are
the following: Senator Zeb. Vance of
North Carolina, Col. A. K. Mcclure of
Philadelphia, Robert Bonner Of New.
York, and. Henry W. Grady Of Atlanta,
The question has been asked, =" Who are
the 1Scotch44rfsh?" Well, tits a hard
question forssn outsider to answer with.
any degfeeof certainty, since the leading
dictionarie ~1lexicons and encyclopedias
make lno. reference whatever to- stchtaf
people. That there are many6in the
country-in North Carolina and Tennes-
see, especially-who claim to be Scotch
Irishmen, and who take great pride in
the calling, is a patent fact. II the
county of Rowan, some: miles west Of
Salisbury, there is a section of Country
known to the older people as the "Scoteh-
Irish settlement" and the .peopleawho
compose it are noted for their intelligence,
refinement, thrift, morality and Chris
tianity, the latter generally assuming the
orthodox Presbyterian Or Calvanistic
type. AS the "books" give us no light as
to how these worthy people obtained the
seemingly contradictory name of Scotch
Irish-two peoples who never could, by
any possibility, have intermarried' to any
considerable extent-our conjecture is
that a Scotch-Irishman is a defendant of
the Scotchmen who settled in the north
of Ireland after William of Orange sub
jugated the country, He probably has
no Irish blood in his veins and is only
Irish to the extent that he was born on
Irish soil. When the islands were first
visited by the Romans, they were
found t. be inhabited by the Celtic race,
and speaking the same Gallo language. In
short, it would seem, that Scotland was
inhabited by one tribe of the Celts and
that Ireland was inhabited by another
tribe of the same race. We trust
that Bro, Kingsberry, of the Star, or
brother of the press who has the
ability to do SO, will give the origin of
the term "Scotch-Irish,' as applied to the
people who will meet in convention in
the city of Columbia, Tenn, hMay next.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
AT the recent Young Mems Christian

AT the recent Young Mems Christian
Association Convention, held In Whining
ton, thirty-three Associations were repre-
sented and 81 delegates were present.
The reports showed increased interest in
the work all over the State. The follow
ing are the officers elected for the ensu-
ing year: President, W. A. Blair, of
Winston; Vice Presidents, NJ. M. Holt,
D. G. Worth and W. S. Prior; Secretaries,
J. B. Whitaker, J. F. Jones and F..S.
Harris. The next meeting will be held in
Goldsboro.
The World, of Tuesday last, de-
nounces in unmeasured terms the action
Of two Republican lawyers, who an
nounced themselves as candidates for the
vacant seat upon the Bench of the United
States Supreme Court, while the body of
the dead Justice Matthews, was yet IN
buried. The World said: "!The indelicaey
of a pushing self-candidacy for, this .ex-
allied judicial station. would be great at
any time, To break through the funeral
procession that marks the vacancy, with
a claim for the. place which is yet
hardly cold, is verse than indecent.
How does it 7happen that so many
United. States Senators become million
aires IL on a salary Of $4,000 a year? -Four
teen years ago there were nine millionaire
Sen1ators-to-day there are nineteen, rep
resenting wealth to the amount of one hun
dred and thirty-nine millions ofhdollars,
which number is one-third of the total
membership of the Senate. When Zach.
Chandler went into the Senate just before
the war, he could not find another mil
'~lionaire in the chamber. And yet there
is now a movement on foot in the Senate
to increase salaries to ten thousand dol
lars a year.
Those of our readers who would like
to know what Maine whisky will do for a
man, will be interested in the following
telegram from Pennington, Me-: Ross
Avery, a wayward youth, terrorized the
West village folks in his career with a
scythe. "He was full of fight and whiskey
and deied arrest. He jumped On a train,
but was followed to the next station by
teams. He then jumped a trestle thirty
feet high and made for the Sandy River,
which was full of floating ice. He
plunged in, and, after a desperate battle,
reached the opposite shore. He:was,
however, overtaken ten miles away. by a
sheriff on a fleet horse, and now rests his
head in Jail" 4
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
The venerable and sanity James S

The venerable and sanity James S..
Purefoy is no more. He died at his home
at Wake Forest College on Saturday
morning last, in the 18th year of his age.
A lifelong and devoted Baptist, a jealous
and untiring friend of Wake Forest
College, a sincere friend. of education
and a liberal promoter of Christian work,
in all its departments, he goes to enjoy
his glorious reward.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
Pres't n. G. Farmers Alliance
EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN, No. 6244,

EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN, Nc. 621,
N. G. Expm't Station, March 81, '89.
Bulletin No. 624 is issued to-day. It
contains in addition tx the fertilizer analy-
ses, published in Nc. 81, other analyses
completed since that time. The list, as
printed in 624, embraces, with but few
exceptions, all of the brands licensed for
sale in the State. 81
Write for the Experiment Station Bull
letin 623. This and the subsequent pub
locations sent free upon application.
81. B. BATTLE. Director.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
LOW RATES TO NEW. YORK
go, AND, RETURN.

The Richmond and DanVilie Railroad
will sell round-trip tickets to New York
and return, for persons wishing to attend
the CENTENNIAL ENAUGURATIeY OF VASE
1NGToN."
Tickets will be. put on sale at all coupon.
Offices April 26th to 3Oth, 1889, inclusive,
good, returning until and including May,
ed 1899: - a.:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
NOTICE.

The Secretaries of the various Sub-AHi-
ances of Wake county are requested to
send me the nam and postofice address
Of their Sub-Business Agents at the earli-
est practicable moment.
J. q. ALLEN.
County Business Agent
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

The New Berne Journal of Tuesday
last had this ITEM. "Mr. John Collins, q
o~ne-legged Confederate soldier and janitor
at the customs house. had the misfortune
to fall from a'buggy and break an arm
last Saturday. On Monday his little four
year-old daughter fell from a fence and
broke her arm"
Good form requires that the Chief
Executive of the Nation should be adj
dressed as follows: "To the President,
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. G.?
The North State, the oracle of that side of
the house in North Carolina, says: "The
offce-seeker making a mistake ia this viii
have a poor show"
A coteh-1rish Congress is to be held
in Columbia, Tenn, on the 9Th of May
next. Among the distinguished 2ersonags
who are expected to be present are the
following: Senator Zeb. Vance of North
Carolina Col. A. K. Mcclure of Philadel-
phia, Robert Bonner Of New York, and
henry w. Orauy OF AtIduCd'
The Salisbury Waterman says MI. j.
B. Lanier, who conducts a canning fac
tory in that town has planted eleven
pounds of tomato seed. This is a won
derful statement, but it is not more so
thar another in the same paper which
says, can organ and monkey grinder
were. in town last week, a sure sign that
spring is here" - .
The Fort Worth Gazette, commenting
on the emigration of negroes from the
Carolinas, says they will find a demand
for their labor in Texas, and complacently
remarks that the Lone Star States 100;-
900 Democratic majority can easily swal-
low the surplus blacks of the overcrowded
Southern States. That would seem to
settle the problem. ~s
A dispatch from Paris, KY, dated
March 25th, gives this strange coinci-
dence: The child of Lafayette Endicott
died to-day. He set out to inform his
brother John, when he met the latter K
actly on the same mission. The children
had died about the same hour. They
were eighteen months old, and were born
and died on the same day.
According to the census of 1860 there
were at that time in North Carolina Is
bankers and 33 bank officers, 2 chemists,
S cigar makers, 9O7 clergymen, 500 law
yers, 2 colporters, 2 cotton brokers, 2
cloth manufacturers, 2 photographers, l6l
grocers, 81 peddlers, 2O2 printers;i68 pro-
f~essors, 2 provision dealers, 3 publishers
366 railroad men, 2 sewing machine agents,
8 spectators, 8 telegraph operators, etc.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
Military or Parties

These are the lowest round-trip rates
ever offered to New York and return.
The low rates for parties of so or more in
uniform applies strictly to Military Com
panies, and the whole party viii travel on
one solid ticket in each direction. For
further information call on or address,
W. A. TURK, D. P. A.,
L. TAYLOR, G. P. A, Raleigh N. G.
Washington, D. g.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
S. B. ALEXANDER,
aPres't N. C.!S. F. A.

/, Remember that the regular quarterly
meeting Of all the county Alliances win
be held next Friday, the 9Th inst. Let
there be a full attendance all over the
State. ~E"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

County Secretaries will please make
their regular quarterly reports to. this
Office at the earliest practicable moment.
L. [. Polk, Sec,y.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
The California Quarantine Law.

The bill which was introduced one
month ago in the legislature at Sacra
Inento, prohibiting the importation OF
.attle from New Mexico and Aroma
nto California. was fought by all f..ii
minded men and was defeated. DR..
Chandler, the Territorial veterinary
surgeon, returned TO Arizona and re
rorted that the bll had been killed.
The press of Southern California were
opposed to the proposed law, which
would put the people Of the state at
he mercy of the cattlemen of the
lorthern counties. But some very
energetic means seems to have been
Applied lately to resurrcct this infa
nous and unnecessary measure, as
rom late advices the news comes thai
Governor Waterman has signed the
law declaring quarantine against tn,
Arizona and New Mexico cattle. The
;attlemen Of Arizona should test the
natter in the courts, and that a.
once, or they will lose the best mar
let this section has for the sale of
1eef cattle.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
As the matter stands now. these

AS the matter STANDS now, these
claims contain first: free milling
cherry, brownish looking quartz
~hich is auriferous--at present very
rich. Whether this quartz mass is
continuous, and how far it is uniform
in its COLA bearing character, can no,
"e established at the present state OF
Developments. The other part Of tina
mineralized ledge consls of carbon
ate, with a more than usual yield OF
gold, hpt little silver. This, of course
may change, aud it is hard to foretell
the future and permanent character Of
these carhonates.
On the whole, there can be no
doubt that these prospects are emf
nently promising, and form part OF
chat gold belt which passes through
Arizona FROM east to west, and which
[ referred to recently in my report to
the Director Of the Mint.
4. TRIPPEL.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
The Flew Cold r, Ella OF Arizona.

Ed. ENGINEERING AND MINING JoUR
NAL.-Sis: Although I have not a
yet visited tn, newly discovered gol,
prospects nenr the I!arqua Hal;
mountains, IN Yuma county, Arizona
I have been favored with some relia
BE information in regard TO this emf
nently promising district, which, i,
he face of SO many contradictory
statements, NAV probably be useful {.
readers Of The Engineering all Mr.
ing Journal The location is lot ex
sctly in the Harqua HAla mountains.
hut southwest of it and substqntiall,
in the old Ellsworth district, wLere q
trD-stamp mill has stood for mary
years. The geological feature of tie
location is mainly granite, having lis
central line in the low grounds west
Of the new mines and porphyriti
lates on either side of it. On the
vest side of these a number of small
but very regular veins have been pros
pected for years, but have not paid
and We're virtually abandoned. TIL
,ewly discovered claims are on IT,
ast side Of the grant,, and consist q
= yet undetermined belt Of ebert,
quartz, which carIies gold to on almos'
unprecedented amount, most of which
IS Of coarse description. The pre-
else trend and the width Of that qnartz
IS not yet known, but from the bot
;om of the present main shaft, which
is 40 feet deep, cICss-cuts are in Il
short distance on both sides, which re
vesl the same stuff | saw this morn.
ing a portion Of this quartz ore grount
md panned, with exceedingly rich re
suits in gold.
Nothing is positively known about
ne Dip or the walls, except that neal
che contact between the perphyritio
rock and limestoh,, several feet of
rich carbonates are found, which Seem
to work into the latter. So far os ex
amined, these carhonatcs are SANDY
and assay from 80 to so per cent.
lead, with geld, varying from $50 to
%lC0, Int carry ing little silver
The whole surface is covered with
cap of limestone, evidently removed
from the limestone hill to the east,
and from to feet thick.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30

The GjO5e Democrat says that a
great deal of interest is being taken
in the Harqua Hala gold discover
les by gentlemen having connection
with mining investors in st. Louis,
and it is probable that before long
some considerable amount of st.
Louis capital will find investment
there. A letter received from Phoe-
nix from R. K. McGrath, who has
prominent interests in st. Louis,
announces the receipt of letters
from Mr.. Geo. Hamlin in reference
to the new district, which he has
been investigating. He says the
strike is holding out well and will
turn out big. He does not believe
there is any doubt about its value
Silver Belt.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
important, II True.

A special to the S. F. Examiner
from Ensenada, Lower California,
says: A discovery is reported here
which is said to be filling the Inter
national Land Company with dread
1t is said that by a mistake in the
English maps at the time Of the
treaty at Guadalupe de Hidalgo,
the boundary line between the
United states and Mexico was
placed seventy miles too far north,
and that the real boundary termi-
mates on the Pacific Ocean, at a
point some distance south of En-
senads. The treaty prescribes that
the line shall cut the mouth of the
Colorado river, but the English
maps-the only maps extant al
that time-had the ella river,
whose mouth is at Yuma, incor-
rectly marked as the Colorado river
The mouth of the Colorado river is
seventy miles south of Yuma, at
Point Isabel, and if the boundary
line were to be drawn at that point
it would place the town of Ensen-
ada and all the country north of
taat place within the limits of the
United States.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30

The passage of the bill concern
ing the office of Territorial Geolo-
gist, and attaching a salary there
to, was the most important piece OF
legislation of the Fifteenth, and the
appointment of Prof. Alexander
Trippel to exercise the duties of the
Office was the best possible one which
could have been made. The office
under his skillful management will
prove of untold benefit to the min
eral interests Of the Territory, and
viii be the means of giving to the
world large amount of valuable
and correct information on the min
eral resources of the Territory, and
as DR.. Trippes an accepted au-
thority on geology, mineralogy and
the reduction of ores, his appoint
ment to and acceptance OF the Office
makes the office one Of the first in
importance to the people Of the
Territory.-Star.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30

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