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plant an C r as described above; any
land will make four gallons of syrup
to n bushel of corn-will make from
100 to 400 gallons per acre. The
syrup, when properly made, is good
enough for anybody to eat, and sells
readily at 40 cents per gallon. No
crop pays as well as sorghum for home
use, and every farmer ought to raise
enough for home use; then, too, it
comes in as cash in paying for labor
and then we could get a home market
for a large amount of the syrup. Now
l hope "Hogand Hominy can under
stand me sufficient to encourage him
to plant a sorgum crop, and my word
for it he will not regret it. If he
wants to know anything about me he
can find me in the Alliance No. SOL.
"HELP FREE"
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A NEWSY LETTER FROM VIR-
GINA.
SURRY Co., VA, April 8. 1889.

SURRY Co., VA, April s, 1889.
EDITOR FARMER:-In my last from
this part of the State, Nansemond and
Southampton had embraced the ALI
ance, or rather the Alliance had en-
braced them, and now the brethren
are rejoicing at the prospects of pro-
curing their farming utensils, &C., at
reduced rates. Now Isle of Wight,
Sussex and Surry have been added to
them. In these counties we visited
some of the old-time places of Colonial
times. St. Lukes Church, at Beuns,
in Isle of Wight, is one of the oldest
structures of the kind now standing
in this country. 1t is a large old
fashioned building, made of English
brick. The metal flag on the quaint
old tower shows plainly the figures
1882, the year in which it was built.
Here it stands "serene and stately,
stern and grand" for $50 years it
has stood the ravages of storm and
time. Many of the departed dead in
this quaint old cemetery had lain here
100 years before the revolution. The
bricks and mortar of this old struc-
ture felt the far and commotion made
by the booming of CORVALLIS cannon
at Yorktown across the river in the
"days that tried mems souls"
At Bacon's Castle, in Surry, is a
very old castle, said to have been
built by Lord Bacon, who revolted
against the British Governor at James
town, and was the first to rebel against
English tyranny in this country.
At Claremont, on the James river,
we visited the ancient residence of the
venerable John Allen, the founder of
the Virginia colony. He erected his
residence here about the time of the
settlement of Jamestown, on the other
side of the river. The house is still
standing and inhabited, and for CON
venlence is far beyond anything our
eyes have ever beheld. We visited
the cemetery where the remains of
the old Briton rest, and saw on the
moss-covered, time, stained marble slab
the name, "John Allen, died 1888,
just $50 years ago..
The town is now underpoino its
second colonization. As the Allen
property has passed into the hands Of
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PEASANT HOMES.

Squire Jones, who was a very plain
spoken old gentleman, used to go into
the public loa1ng resorts about nine
o'clock every evening, and after look.
ing around inquiringly would say,
''Well, gentlemen, what are you doing
here =? Are your homes not pleasant p.
The squire inferred that a man who.
loved to loaf around bar-rooms and
billiard -rooms at night could not have
a pleasant home, and the squire was
right. A man who prefers the smell
of tobacco smoke and stale beer, and
the miscellaneous society which is
usually found in places of this sort, to
the musical laughter of children, the
sweet smile of a loving wife, the per,
fume of flowers and the companion
ship of good books, must have a very
depraved taste. To be sure, there are
homes that r not pleasant, and it is
no marvel that men fly from them as
from a den or lair where crouch and
crawl the poisonous serpent and savage
beast. The wife growls and whines
and snaps and snarls, the children
fight and the baby squalls. There is
a continued bedlam, an everlasting
hubbub. It may not be pleasant for
the woman, who cannot flee from it,
but she has made her own bed, and it
is just that she should lie in it. The
aim Of every man and woman should
be to make a heaven of home, then
the men will seek it as a place of rest
and peace and JOY, and the children
will not become night providers and
street scavengers.-E1change.
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REPLY TO "HoG AND HoMINY."
CANA. Davie Co n. G..

CANA, Davie Co., n. @.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I see in The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER of April 9, that clog
and Hominy wants to know how to
raise sorghum. AS I have raised it
for the last twenty-five years, l will
undertake to tell him how to do it.
Select good land-good upland is
best-prepare by blowing and
ing the same as for cotton. The rows
should be 81 feet wide. After the
land is bedded up and you are ready
to plant, take a common bull-tongue
pillow and open the bed as near on top
as you can; take your seed in a small
bucket and catch the seed between
your thumb and fore-fnger; just a
small pinch of seed is sufficient; drop
them in a bunch, II or Is inches
apart; then cover lightly, same as for
cotton. After it comes up, the first
working is to bar it off with a one
horse turn-plow, throwing the dirt to
the middle and chop or thin to a stand.
When the cane is two or three inches
high, let from four to six stalks stand
to the hill; keep the grass out of the
row; when the cane is three or four
inches high, with the same turning
pillow throw the dirt back to the cane
and hoe it good; when the cane is two
feet high pillow it out good and stop
working it; work it as much as you
like while it is small, but never work
it after it has grown two or three feet
high; by cutting its roots you check
the flow of sap and injure the yield.
Plant any time from lst of April to
last of May; two gallons of seed will
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movement that has hadth upbuildlng
of the masses as a fundament principle
has always been opposed.
Hear the Hon. Felix Corrupt, Presl-
dent of the Farmers Alliance Fix
change of Georgia.
1--WE do not fight the Legitimate
merchants of the State. We do IN
tend to fight the blood suckers. We
intend to fight the fellows who get the
poor farmers under their thumbs and
press them until their heart-blood
drops out. We intend to rid ourselves
of the fellows who extort IS to 100
per cent. profit out of the necessities
of the farmers"
We feel proud that we have such
noble men who dare at the State
capitol say "Thou art the man."
One other illustration of the success
of a movement that was bounded and
pursued almost to it's death, but to-day
stards as the noblest effort of one
mans genius and energy. l refer to
the Cooperative Publishing Co. No
monopoly was ever better ~entrenched
than the book publishers. They had
millions of capital at their back and
they did all they could to crush the
movement. 1 remember when | first
read the John B. Alden advertisement.
l would not send the money to him
for the books l needed. The cut in
prices was so great I thought it a
humbug, and I called personally at
the store and purchased the books.
Italians Middle Ages for $1.75; Glib
bons Rome for $l.5O; Russia, by
Rambraid, L had priced it at $l8,
and to get it for 75c. seemed like a
fishers tale. To the poor who are
anxious to acquire the knowledge of
the ages, Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress
at 1Oc., Spence's Essays at 8 or &c.
each. Ruskin, Carlyle, Macaulay and
a host of others equally cheap shows
what cooperation al do and what
monopolies have done. Others can do
as they may, but as for me, 1 will ever
buy of those, will deal with those, will
vote for those that have done their
best for the poor and oppressed.
The people of this State pay an
nually thousands of dollars for text
books for their children. We ought
to do as California done-publish our
own-for we can do so and save the
purchaser so per cent.
And now, brethren, let me tell you
what the Alliance seeks to do. We
mean to act in concert for the diffusion
of wealth, thereby increasing our
home comforts. We do not seek to
rob anyone of his fortune; we do not
cause any disturbances in society; we
allay these, it asks nor accepts no gift
without corresponding benefits; it
means to break with the idler and
build up the industrious. It puts its
hand in no mans pocket and does not
mean that any hand shall remain long
or comfortably in it's own.
This, brethren, we intend to have,
but by means which shall leave every
other person an equal chance of the
same good. But these results can
only be obtained work-hard work.
We must buckle on the whole armor;
we must resist the syren song of credit
secured by mortgages; We must aid
the weak brother, and when at last
God shall call us over the river to the
land of the leal, we shall go like Paul,
rejoicing that we have fought a good
fight for u families, for humanity
and for our God. araH :- sis
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THE OTHER SIDE.
Some Plain Talk.

WHITAKERs, N. c., April 18, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I thank you for the
copied article, "The Decline Of the
Farmer" Your readers need just
such information as that article gives.
Candidly, there is no hope for us as a
class unless it is obtained by legisla-
ton. AS an Alliance man, | have
been a lukewrrm one, simply because
I had no faith in the temperatures,
trade arrangements, &C., not that
these Ire not good enough SO far as
they go, but to ignore politics, to agree
to remain in the hands of the greedy
cormorants, [ regarded the whole
thing a farce. Our redemption is to
enter the halls Of legislation and
scourge the rascals out and secure
laws that will unfetter us. [ would
not object to a repeal of the internal
revenue. We certaily need to reduce
the tariff. [ favor a poll tax to
every man who is entitled to a vote,
an Gd Valorem tax, special tax on luxu-
ries, a tax on incomes, graduating so
40 w OOdI uSdN4S1 d1u u0dV10I Uu0
larger the income with a confscating
clause concerning all property that is
not listed or at least where it can be
proved that the failure to list it, was
with a view to defraud. Further
supineness is to be unatoned. If we
would be free we must be up and be
doing. Already we are well-nigh tied
hand and foot and the despots are
ready to crush us. Is there no leger-
demain by which we can unbind these
letters and avert this yoke that is to
be fastened upon us? Freeman whose
sires once throw off the yoke should
not be enslaved again-they will not,
if timely warned. To you, Mr.. Editor,
they r looking. Expose the devices
of the would-be despots, the monied
kings, those who have obtained it by
chicanery and fraud.
Yours truly,
x. x. x.
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Fruit and Grape Grower,

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with premium lists, i've cts. Published at Charlottes-
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Attention, Alliancel

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Alliance, and as q news Medium it has no equal. III
entire outfit is owned and controlled by the Farmers
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PETERKIN COTTON Seed !

AS 1 have some seed unsold, rather than
carry them over to another season. will
fill orders accompanied with the cash as
follows:
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GEORGIA
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The only strictly AHi0nce paper In the State.
subscription, 800 per GnnuHS In GdO0acS
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Our paper is conceded to be the best Allianct
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Address, ADVOCATE.
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Cannot be Equaled.

We have been exceedingly anxious to
meet the demands of
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Any Farmers Alliance sending me a
note that their Business Agent will en-
dorse as good for $40, payable Nov. lst,
next, I will deliver, sacked, at the railroad
depot in this city so bushels Of these seed.
I have planted these seed for four years,
getting a larger yield of seed cotton to
the acre each year, and a yield of 80 to
AZ pounds Of lint cotton from each 100
pounds of seed cotton.
B. P. WILLIAMSON,
Raleigh, N. G.
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Attention, Thinkers!

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Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06
Assass sinated.

Hon. Jno. NJ. Clayton, contestant for the seat of Hon. C. R. Brecken- ridpe in the lower House of Con- press. while at Plummerville, Con- way county, taking testimony in his case. was assassinated, on Tuesday night of last week. The assassin shot him through q window about , o'clock at night, and succeeded Tn getting away undiscovered. Ihls terrible crime places q foul blot on the name of our State, that should be resented in the early capture and punishment of the great criminal and only in this way can any atone ment be made. It not only lh- lures the State, but also the Demo cratic party, as the blame will be lald al it's door, whether just or not. All good men in the Democratic party deeply deplore the foul deed, and want the assassin caught at once and punished, as is shown by the large rewards offered-oyer so,O0o private. besides S1, ,000 by the Gov ernor,
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06
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Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06
Obituary.

Mr. C. $. Daniell eldest son of Mir. E. N. Daniell, was born near Mt. Moriah, Nevada county, Ark, on February 23, 1867, and died near Lancburg, same county and state, the 26th day of January, 1889. He professed religion at the early age Of 9 years, and joined the Baptist church at Mt. Pisgah, 6 years later. He was happily married in July, 1888, to Miss Lela, the youngest child of Mir. John $. Weaver, who survives him and mourns the loss of the dearest earthly object of
 her affection. sherman, as he was familiarly called, possessed many commendable traits of character and very few faults. As son, he was dutiful and obedient, brother, lov- ing and kind; as a husband, devoted almost to fault, and as member of society, highly esteemed and be- loved by all. He had but recently set out to fight life's battles; his sun was just rising; all was seemingly bright his prospects for earthly happiness and success were brilliant, when suddenly and almost without a warning, the grim master, death, claimed him for his victim, and the immortal spirit was waited away to that land from whence no traveller has ever returned. He assured friends and relatives that death had no terrors for him. Weep not, be- reft ones, live for heaven, and in a few brief years you may again meet the loved one in that sunbright cline beyond the skies. A FRIEND.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

On Tuesday, the 29th ult., Sena- tor Jas. II. Berry was reelected to the United States Senate, by prac- tically unanimous vote of the legisla- ture, having received l03 votes out of l22. which was the united Demo- cratic strength, We are glad to re- cord the success of MT. Berry and predict that his work in the Senate will prove as satisfactory in the fu- ture, as in the past. which is saying all that can be said.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06
Hereditary.

My father died of cancer, and the same trouble developed near my right eye in 1883. It was at first a strawberry color, but changed to purple, and grew to the size of a partridge egg. My right eye be- came much inhamed, and the dread- ful disease was rapidly wasting my life away. used quite number of remedies, but without benefit. At this crises 1 began taking Swift s Specific. The improvement was ap- parent in few days, and continued to use it until the cancer was entirely gone and my health fully restored and 1 know that $. $. $. alone did It, because 1 left off all other treatment. It saved me from this hereditary can cer, which went away over two years ago and left not a sign, and l owe my life, under Providence, to $. $. S.
 MRS. LAURA F.. DEEGAN.
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Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

A magazine article states that the secret of the manufacture of the fa- nous Russia iron, which is so highly polished and durable, belongs to the government of Russia, and that 1t Is made in only one city which is walled, with no communication with the outside world whatever, its in- habitants being close prisoners. To even attempt to give away the secret is @ death penalty.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

The Arkansas Gazette, on Sunday, came out in bran new dress Of pretty type, printed on a new Hoe perfecting power press, with capac- ity of 10000 per hour. It also con. tained a larger amount of telegraphic news, and altogether, the "Old Lady" is now tirst-class newspaper, decidedly better than ever before. We congratulate her on this move, which we know will be appreciated by the general reading public of the State. May she grow better and richer, the longer she lives.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

If you ask what the quickest, best and safest Chill Tonic, the answer will invariably be: My friend, use Cheatham'S, il is pleas ant, too, and guaranteed For sale by j 0. Howell.
 Good treatment, good weights and good tender meats at Gas Easter $ meat market.
 Faults of digestion cause disorders of the liver, and the whole system be- comes deranged, Dr. J. H. Me Lean s Sarsapparila perfects the pro- cess of digestion and assimilation. and thus makes pure blood.
 The most delicate constitution can safely use Dr. ]. II. McLean's Tar Wine Lung Balm. It is a sure rem edy for coughs, loss of voice, and all throat and lung troubles.
 Hoods SarsaparilIa cures catarrh by expelling impurity from the blood, which is the cause of the complaint. Give il trial
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

The legislature is still at work try ing to pass laws, but as yet no inn portant legislature has been effected It seems to be greatly afflicted with the disease do-nothing. Even the bill to increase the number of Stu preme Judges to five hangs fire, and the railroad question. the convict question, nor other pressing demands are as yet touched. Since putting the above in type we see that the Senate has passed Judge Byrne's bill increasing the Supreme Judges to five, and the House has made it a special order for Friday. We sin cerely trust it will pass.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

And so Dr. Norwood has with drawn his little contest, although both branches of the legislature had granted his request, but had not de- cided whether or not he should make bond for cost, in case he made no just case. His foolishness cost the State several thousand dollars as it is, in time taken up by the legisla- ture. Ia, ta, Dr. Norwood.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

White caps are still committing every species of cruelty and oftimes murder, in many of the Eastern and Western States, including Ohio. These things, if done In the South, would be told all over the North as "blood-curdling, rebel crimes. The assassination of Clayton is no worse a than white cap assassin's work, leaving out politics.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06
Obituary.

Died-on 18th of January, 1889, James P. Brock, son of Moses and Carrie Brock. James was born De- cember l7th, 1866, consequently was 22 years. month, and .one day old. About one year ago he began busi- ness for himself with a bright future before him, but soon afterwards he was taken with consumption, which the physicians s skill nor loving friends could arrest. On Friday night, at ll:30 o'clock, he breathed his last :. The writer has been intimately ac- quainted with the deceased since Jan uary, 1882, at which time he moved to this (Pike) county with his father, from Huntsville, Ala. To know him was to love him-he was model young man, and of exemplary habits. Peace to his ashes. The grief-stricken family have the sympathy of the community-may they bear their loss with patience. A FRIEND.
 Wolf Creek, Ark, Jan. 2S, 1889.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

On account of railroad connections being imperfect, the executive com mittee of the Arkansas Press ASsoci- ation changed the place of meeting from Bentonville to Fort Smith. If connections can be arranged It IS possible the meeting may yet be held at the former place, in May.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06
Bucklen's Arnica SalVe

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Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

The war cloud has lifted, Germany backing down from her dictatorial and offensive course in Samoa, Your Uncle sam is too big for even the overbearing Germans, and they fear to arouse his ire.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

Hon. !. A. Williams, editor of the Hackett City Horseshoe, and mem Der of the legislature, died at Little Rock on the 30th ult, after a short and painful illness. He was a bril- liant, talented gentleman, and his county and the State loses much Ill his death.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06
Dawson, Ga. Sept. 26, lSss.

During the early part of the spring (188S) my body was covered with boils. At one time more than fifty were counted on my body and limbs. My face was not exempt from the painful trouble. The usual remedies would do me no good. Just why began taking $. $. $. l do not know, but almost immediately began to i'm, prove. I took nearly three bottles, and found myself entirely well. Il was your mediciue which affected the cure when everything else had failed. Yours truly,
 J. H. FoRDHAM. Staunton, Va. Aug. l, lSss.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

A poll tax qualification for all voters, is gaining favor in Arkansas every day. It is nothing but right that men who refuse to pay their poll-tax be debarred the privilege of voting. A law to require every vo- ter to show clear receipt for poll tax, should be passed by the legisla- ture,
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06
Distanced in the Race.

Why should Dr. Pierce s medicines not distance all competitors in amount of sales. as they are doing, since they are the the only medicines sold by druggists, possessed of such wonder ful curative properties as to warrant their manufactures in guaranteeing them to cure the diseases for which they are recommended. You get q cure or money paid for them re- turned. The Doctors "Golden Medical Discovery" cures all dis eases caused by Arrangement of the liver, as billiousness, indigestion oI dyspepsia; also all the blood. skin and scalp diseases, letter, salt-sheum scrofnlous sores and swellings and kindred ailments.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

It is now about settled that Blaine will go into Harrison's cabinet as Secretary of State, Allison refused the Treasury portfolio, which has considerably upset plans.
Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-06

The Oklahoma bill passed the House last week, and has been sent to the Senate. But little chance for it in the latter body, it is thought.