The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-17

next week. An increase of wages is
asked. Five thousand miners are Ill the
dist let that is threatened.
Perhaps the heaviest telegram bill IN
the rworld is that of the Chinese Envoy
at Washington, Can You Woon, who
regularly pays $1,000 dollars a week for
lis dispatches to China, the representa-
tive of the Celestial Empire using acipher
which costs 81 dollars a word.
Mrs. Vernon P. Clayton is at the
Everett House, New York, mourning
the disappearance of her husband, to
whom she had been married only two
weeks. Clayton took all the money in
his wife's purse. Mrs. Clayton is an
actress. They came from Richmond, Va.
A well recently bored for gas at Pitts
burg. delivers fresh water, salt water, and
gas at the same time. There are two
castings, one within the other. The outer
one, one hundred feet down, taps fresh
water stratum the inner pipe reaches the
salt water and gas at two hundred feet
down.
Marsha has a bad reputation-not alto
gether deserved. 1t is a Sicilian wine,
and, though very frequently the process
of fertilization is applied to it, it is for
the most part a comparatively pure wine.
The chief imposture in relation to it is
that vast quantities OF it are sold as genu-
inc sherry. =.
In-tSa ar Francisco, last week, Elisha
Ransom, who had been summoned as a
juror sswore lis prejudice against news
paper men was so strong that he could
not bring in a true verdict in a case in
which a newspaper man was murdered in
cold blood. Mr.. Ransom is grain dealer
Of that city,
1t is estimated that in London the
evening papers print no fewer than 250,-
900 copies every day, whereas thirty
years ago they did not issue 10000 alto
gether. Of the morning journals, there
are two that boast of printing more than
100000 copies between them for the
days supply.
Aewarrant for the arrest of Dennison
D.. Dana, the fugitive treasurer of the
Douglass Axe Manufacturing Company,
Of Douglass, Mass, charging him with
stealing $4,000, has been issued. His
thefts are believed to be much larger than
that sum-. The company has gone into
involuntary insolvency.
Edwar Muir, a pauper who, while
irrational, escaped from the county poor
house at Amigo, Wis, last winter, and
whose feet were 50 badly frozen during
his wanderings that they had to be am
putated, has secured a verdict of $4,000
against the poor-house keeper for negli-
gence in allowing his escape.
DR.. Llewellyn A. Powell was convicted
of mahslaughter at San Francisco Satur-
day night, for killing Ralph Smith at
Redwood City, Cal, two years ago.
Smith, who wa editor of a paper, pub
lished an article to which Powell took ex-
ception, aud when the men met a quarrel
ensued, in which Smith was killed.
In 1916 it took just one bushel of corn
to buy one pound of nails; now one
bushel of corn will buy ten pounds of
nails. Then it required sixty-four bushels
of barley to buy one yard of broadcloth
now the same mount of barley will pay
for twenty yards Of broadcloth. It then
required the price of one bushel of wheat
to pay for one yard of calico; now one
bushel of wheat will buy twenty yards
Of calico.
Il Ex-Policeman Patrick q. Kearney, of
Washington, who was stationed FOR many
years at the Baltimore & Potomac station,
died Sunday night at his residence, No.
342 Virginia venue southwest, of internal
h~emorrhageS. His death was rather sud-
den, as he was only taken i'll last Tues
doy night. Officer Kearney was a native
of Ireland, and after serving twelve years
in the Marine Corps, became a member
of the Metropolitan Police, remaining on
the force about eighteen years. He will
be well remembered as the officer who
arrested Charles ]. Guiteau on the morn
ing of Garfeld's assassination. Some
time ago he was retired from the force
with a pension. He wa Sc years of age.
Bro. w. 81. Worth, State Business
Agent of the Alliance, received the fol-
lowing letter from an enthusiastic farmer
of Washington county, which speaks for
itself: "Dear sir and Brother: Having
the cause of annihilating trusts and COM
binations of all sorts and kindred at heart,
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