The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12

@batf1Ope OF UfeaJ BFitalu says Luuuu6f-
cloud is hanging over Europe and that
sooner OF later, probably sooner, it will
burst and bring the fiercest and most hor-
sisbie war eyer known. His utterenee is
sAfv indiscreet, coming from n in his
position, unless he has most excellent
ground for his assertion. His words will
have weight accordingly.
"A floating paragraph says: 1t is about
as hard t find a girl. whose marriage is
announced in the newspapers, who isn't
beautiful and accomplished as it is to
lind a ma who wasn't "honored and res
peeted by all who knew him" It is a
fact that e~xtravagant terms are being used
50 rtcklessly and indiscriminately as TO
make nine-tenths OF such matter the
merest bosh and twaddle.
1t is settled by the Supreme Court of
North Carolina that a description of prop
est, in a deed is sufficient when IN terms,
or by reasonable application arising from
the facts stated in respect to its circum-
stances, relations and connections, desig-
bates the property so that it can certainly
be. seen or ascertained. This is, a .descrip.
top, my tobacco crop to be. grown this
VEAL. on my own1a is.ssfficient.
Miss Mamie Hatchett, the winsome
Iittte lady so well known throughout the
State, as travelling agent FOR the Oxford
Orphans Friend, has taken editorial con
troll of that paper. Miss Hatchett is a
talented young lady and a very pleasant
writer, and mnch of the success. which has
attended the Orphans Friend has been
due 70. her efforts. The Oxford Ne,cs says
she is the, right man in the right place.
-Wezhave had no special report from
tiie Farmers Alliance Warehouse at Dur
ham, but learn from persons who were
present that the opening sale on Tuesday
last was a grand success, both as t equality
and quantity of bright golden wrappers
The prices were. entirely satisfactory1ant
the projectors. of the enterprise are greatly
encouraged. Let the brethren see to i
that this establishment isskept in the from
rank.
Many of the citizens of Raleigh, who
knew him well, will be panied to learr
that Uncle Johnny Hill, the doorkeeper o.
the House of Representatives for nearly
. quarter of a century, died in Asheboro
Randolph county, January 18th, in the
seNtnty-seventh year of his age. Who o
the older citizens do not remember Iii
Pe,a,lair, stentorian announcement
Mister Speaker! A message from the
SenaJe!ll" Peace to his ashes.
Some villain, with murder in hi
heart, opened a switch in, the vicinity O
the Round House, in the suburbs of thu
city, on the Raleigh & CASTOR Railroad, OF
Friday afternoon last, and caused tn,
wreck of the $40 passenger train from
Portsmouth. The engine, three flats, thu
be8g:sges. express and passenger cars wert
badly broken up, but strange to say, NJ
one was killed or seriously wounded. The
road has offered five hundred dollars re
ward for evidence that will lead t. thu
arrest and conviction of the miscrean
who opened the switch.
/ ANNA Ellis, colored, paid the penalt,
ar lis crime Of tho and Of q rome IN Camn
son county, on the 29th ult., in the presenc'
OF about five thousand people. Company
a, second Regiment, marched as a guart
to4lhe gallows, where Ellis confessed hi
crane, saying his fate was just. Th'
; crime for which Ellis was hanged wa
the murder of his father in September o
! last year. After a quarrel, he went to
:, grindstone in the garden and sharpenec
a large knife, while his brother William
! turned the grindstone. When they mex
mel the father was stabbed three times
causing his death.
VIM. G.. Alternately, a clerk in
STORE at Catawba Junction, S. c., wa
murdered by some negro burglars, whom
he discovered in the store. Three Of Thu
murderers were captured-one at York
vile and two near Rock Hill. One o
tie negroes confessed the crime, stating
that there were SIX negroes concerned il
il. Amob collected in Rock Hill AM
j started for the guard house to lynch thu
murderers, and the people were s~osinfuri
ated that they would have quickly ende'
the lives of the prisoners, but for the ap
pe4rance of a Presbyterian minister, Rev
Mr.. White, on the scene. After speak
I, ing a few minutes he convinced the mel
of the mistake they were making AM
they all quietly dispersed.
Mr.. Joaquin Miller, in his. "Burie,
River" published in this issue of The Pro
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