The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-10

better class of citizens denounce the
whipping as an outrage. They have no
sympathy with the Mormons, but believe
ia unfolding the law and opposing vio-
lence.
Greensboro North State. The G. F. &
7. V. railroad had another accident last
Saturday. The new trestle over Town
Fork gave way and the engine andtender
went In, injurrng engineer Shepherd and
fireman Mclaughlin. The latter had an
arm broken. Both gentlemen are from
Fayetteville, and were carried home Sat
urday.
One of the buildings of the American
Wood Paper Company's works, at Spring
City, Pa, was burned Saturday. Oliver
Monshower, aged 80 years, an employe,
was instantly killed and William Robin
son, Chas. .Seifert, William Schaeffer and
Henry Seaser were injured by a falling
wall. The loss will reach 500 OO, COW
cred by insurance.
Advices from Honolulu by stea ner
state that affairs have been quiet there
since the revolution July 80. Robert
Wilcox, leader of the insurgents, and
others who were arrested were given a
preliminary examination in the police
court on the charge of treason, conspiracy,
riot and unlawful assembly, ard viii be
committed for trial at the next term OF
the Supreme Court.
Wyoming is one of the few places
where Women are recognized as the
equals of men before the law. They can
vote, they can hold office, they can sit on
jdfies, and the latest advices from that
Territory deseribeahow they hanged a
woman on the same limb fof a big cotton
wood tree with a man, one dangling at
each end of the rope provided for the
occasion. Wyoming scorns any sex dis
examinations.
Mammoth Cave says the. journal Of
Education, the largest in the world, near
Green river, KY, has been explored ten
miles About twenty rooms have been
discovered, and here are found subterran-
ean streams, waterfalls and pits Of UNI
known,depth. Several Of the rooms are
of great extent, and have received appro-
pirate pamess The Haunted Chamber is
two miles long, twenty feet high and ten
feet wide, the roof being supported by
beautiful pillars.
The grading on the roadfrom William
ston to Plymouth has all been completed
and track Toying is being done as rapidly
as possible. All the t~restes have not yet
been built, but it is thought that the road
will be finished and trains will be running
on it before October. The terminus Of
this road will be at Roper City, six or
eight miles below Plymouth, where there
is plenty of water front, and it is gener-
ally believed that a line of steamers will
be put on from this point to Baltimore
Wilson Mirror.
The Treasury surplus is given at $780,
100000, the highest point reached since
last October. Adding International silver,
which is really an asset if not g available, +"
the surplus is nearly 800, 100000. In
Gen. Harrison's campaign speeches last
year he pooh-poohed the surplus question
as one of no importance. All the Gov
eminent had to do, he said, to prevent IN
accumulation of money embarrassing to.
business, was to buy bonds. Why.doesn't
Secretary Window buy them2 Is he.
saving the surplus for Congress to squan-
der 2-R1chGnge.
That Canada is to have a direct cable
to Great Britain is nearly a settled fact.
It's contamination however, depends on
the Dominion Government. Application
is being made to the Government to
guarantee bonds OF the Canadian Gable
Company to the extent of half a : million
dollars. The total capital required is
ISL 600, 900. Dobell, Of Quebec, has al
'ready4secured $350,O00 oof this In Eng
land by private subscription. It will be
the shortest ocean cable Of any. Enter
the water at Westport, ireland, it
will run to Greenly Islands, in the Gulf
tof st. Lawrence, a distance of only 1900
miles. ~sE Jste
i The Quaint sayings of children are al
WAYS more or less refreshing. The young
minds 0nhampered by eonventionalitY,
take a short and explicit cut lin the ex-
ipression3of a thought. "A little girl who
accompanied her mother into town the
other day was very much interested in
the speed with which she was travelling
toware the city, and on leaving the train
at the Fitchburg depot and passing by
the great putting locomotive that had
borne the child ~so1rapidly over the rails,
the little one. turnedsto her mother, and
the latter's attention to the en-
lgine, said: "See, mamma, it's all out of
breath. Boston Budget.
Everybody recalls the story of Ginevra
the beautiful maiden who ~entrapped her.
self in an oaken chest on her wedding
night, and whose bones and jewels were
discovered long years after. There was
a beginning Of that same kind of tragedy
in Bethlehem, Pa, the other day. A
Mr. Froxel's little daughters, aged 2 and
8, were accidentally shut in chest in
the garnet. It closed with a spring lock,
and the playmate who did it ran away
and left. them. The mother, missing the
children, began a search, which ended in
the garnet. The feeble crises from the
chest located the children. An < split
it open, and just in time to save them.
They were both unconscious when res
cued.
A curious fact is that In France q man