The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-19

as you did to the Southern Confederacy
you will not have clothes enough to wad
a shotgun" The story may. be true, or
may not, but there is a great deal of truth
in it.
Mr.. John Payne, Jr., of Warsaw, Gal
latin county, KY, is n of the oldest
pensioners in the United States, who has
drawn a pension continuously for over a
half century. Mr.. Payne was a cadet at
West Point in 1920 and on April 18th of
that year he received a wound in the
face, which permanently disabled him
from duty as a soldier. He has drawn
his pension from the Louisville Office v
since. He does not come after his check,
but General Buell's efficient young lady
clerks send him the money regularly if it
takes the last cent in the Office.
Miss Martha A. Booth, daughter of an
ex-alderman of Lewiston, Me-, a hand
some and accomplished young lady,
brought suit several days ago against
George A. Wiseman for breach Of prom
Use of marriage, appraising the injury to
her heart at $4,000. Wiseman and Miss,
Booth had, been intimate friends for
many years, and it is said that she taught
him how to read and write, he having
been. a poor boy, and deprived Of !educa-
tienal advantages. Wiseman, however,
married the daughter Of one of the
wealthiest Irishmen in Lewiston, and is
now away on his bridal tour. il
A Washington correspondent says:
The Secretary, Of War, Gen. Cooke, o. 3.
A., and the principal of the Indian school
at Carlisle will visit Western North Caro-
lima next December to inspect the lands
which Mr.. Ewart has offered the govern
ment through his constituents, for, Zero
nimo's band. Mr.. Ewart says a military
post will be. established near Asheville if
the Apaches are sent there and that Gero-
nimo and the worst of his braves will be
closely guarded. He seems to think it
will be a fine thing for the Indians to
locate in his district as they will also
bring the fort and the soldiers.
It is said that the makers of the big
globe which is now on exhibition in Paris
found it necessary to make parts of Africa
over twice on account of important geo.
graphical news received from the Dark
Continent. Some Belgian map makers
had a still livelier experience two years
ago. They prepared a large Map Of the
Congo States five times for the press, and
withdrew it each time for additions and
corrections. Mr.. Habonicht, editor of a
most notable map of Africa, says, in his
preface to the second. edition, that " the
map of Africa is never completed, and
that no mail arrives from the big continent
without bringing new work for the map
makers"
A letter sent from the p~ostofice at
Briar Creek, Wilkes county, N. G., on
October 18th last, was registered at that
Office and a ten-cent Confederate stamp,
containing the vignette of Jeff Davis, was
placed upon the envelope as a registry
free. The envelope was a United States
stamped envelope bearing the we'll known
features of Ben Franklin. The letter was
received received at the Office of destina-
ton, Statesville, N. G., inclosed in the
usual registered package envelope, and
then it was that the peculiar mistake of
the postmaster at the Office of mailing
was discovered. Evidently Confederate
stamps, though slightly out of date, still
retain their popularity in that region
Washington Post.
A man of thirty years, who gave his
name as William Savage, while filing an
application a few days ago for a position
on the force in the Office of the Board of
Public Commissioners, at st. JOSEPH, Mo,
began looking over the Rogue's Gallery
and suddenly snatched a picture out of
the books and said it was his picture,
taken thirteen years ago in Paterson, N.
J. Secretary Lawrence looked up the
record of the picture and found it was
that of William Savage, wanted in Pater-
son as an heir to a fortune of $50, 600, his
parents having died twelve years ago.
Savage was overcome, and said he had
run away from home before his parents
died, and since then had heard nothing
from tn m. He left for Paterson that
night.
Ivan Dzarschky Orlehf, from Buda Pesth,
has arrived in New York, and will be
exhibited in a museum. He is known as
as the transparent man." and his case
has interested some of the greatest medi-
cal authorities of Germany, among whom