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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-14
Very truly yours, I
JOHN ROBINSON,
Sec'Y CommlslOnef.

wv
The Board being in session last
week, we received a letter from Bro.
Stokes informing us that an agent of
the Department had seized the guano
ordered and asking us to go before the
Board and present the correspondence
and the facts and get its decision.
We addressed the following letter to
the Board and it very kindly granted
us an audience:
To the State Board Of Agriculture, Raj
etgh, N. G.
GENTLEMEN-As the Secretary of
the N. G. F. Alliance, [ have the
honor to address your honorable body
for information touching the rights of
our order under the operations OF law
regulating the sale of commercial
fertilizers.
The various subordinate and County
Alliances each may have INT Of their
members to act as business agent. He
is allowed no fee or commission on
anything bought or sold. Some of them
are allowed a mere nominal amount
to cover expenses of stationary, post
age, &c, but hundreds of them receive
nothing. They simply receive the
order of individual members and con-
solidate, them, and order in bulk, thus
enabling the farmer in many instances
to buy cheaper. If one of these So
called agents should order a lot of
fertilizers from a manufacturer who
has not paid the license tax, said order
to be simply the aggregate of the
orders of Individual members, who
order simply and only for their own
use, and do not pay the said agent
for such. service, could the manu-
facturer fill the order, without violat-
ing the law?
1 am induced to make this applica-
ton for your official ruling, by a recent
cent decision made by the Commisi-
sioner CT Agriculture, in. which he
says: "EThe buying agent of the. ALI
ance is doing the business of the regu-
lar merchant and is dealing to the
prejudice of the same and is liable"
Should your honorable body find
that 1 have not been sufficiently ex-
plicit in defining the duties, &C., of
the Alliance agents and should desire
my presence, it will give me pleasure
to serve you. I have the honor to be,
Most respectfully,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-14
RALEIGH, N. c., MAY IA, 1889.

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Office in Raleigh, ". CT
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
A Dishonest Postmaster.

FREDERICKSBURd, VA, May
25.-COleman Pitts, postmaster at
Pomona, Westmoreland county,
was to-day arrested by Inspector
Coghill for riling registered letters.
The discovery of the thief was &C.
o0mpllshed 10y the means Of deooy
letters.
Pitts was in the habit Of taking
the registered letters from the mail
bag addressed to other offices, as
we'll as to his own, while the carrier
was waiting tor him to take the
mail for his own Office out of the
pouch. Alter the carrier had left
he would take the letters into a
back room, open them, take out the
money, and burn the envelopes
and letters. 1t is said that Pitts
has realized abOnt $1,000 from bis
thefts, which have covered a period
of two years,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31

DIR. Francis Buckner, OF COving-
ton, Ohio, has broken all modern
records IN his success IN dealing
with the class of spirits which are
cOnjured up by the mediums Of the
present day. 1t appears that DIR.
Buckner's wife was believer in
the pretentlons of the mediums,
but the doctor himself was skepti.
cal. One day recently he went
home and found his parlOr darken-
ed, medium engaged in holding Il
seance, with the assistance OF two
females, all for the special brhOoi
and benefit of Mrs. Buckner. As
the doctor was at home he could
not properly I've put out, so he was
invited to join in the exercises. lie
did so, and was soon rewarded by
the sight of what purported to be
the materiaIized form Of his wiie'S
deceased sister. Watching his OPP
pOrtunity, he seized the alleged
sister.in.law by the arm, copducted
her with all convenient dispatch to
the outer room, ond threw her down
the steps. This would not have
hurt her if she had really been q
spirit, but she turned out to be one
of the female assistants. Without
any unnecessary loss of time the
skeptical physician seized the
other assistant and threw her
through window, aud then, fall
ing upon the medium himself, gave
him a sound thrashirg. This rad
lcal behavior on the part OF DIR.
Buckner has materially diminished
the activity OF the spirits in Gov.
ington. Louisville CoWicr'JOurhat
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
Buried Treasure.

1t Friar's Point, Miss, the peo-
pie are strangely excited over
newly discovered treasure. Two
bows who were digging in the sand
a long the river unealthed a mum
Der Of gold pieces. 4 fisherman
examining the money found il con.
sisted Of go pieces. lie began
digging and was soon joiaed by
others. Pockct-kniyes, parasols
and fingers were the tools used,
and they yielded a Iich return.
The fisherman got about $500, a
lady passenger secured $500, and
others got smaller sums, the whole
amount aggregating several thou
sand dollars, all in $40 gold pieces,
bearing dates OF 1859 and 1860.
The money was buried early during
the war by somebody unknown.
Several years ago a wealthy plan.
ter spent about $1,000 in excaya-
lions on Montgomery bar, some
distance above Frars Point, to
find treasure that was supposed
to be buried there. He failed in
bis attempt, bat managed to fur
nish another channel for the river
at That point.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
He Deserved his Fate.

PORT HURON, MICH., May 81
Albert Martin, a colored tramp,
was lynched last night for an out.
rage on Mrs.Gillis on May II. Last
night two pistol shots rang out on
the air and a wild cry Of SEQ away
from here" startled the people lily
ing in the nelghbOrhOOd Of the Jail
early this morning. Soon every
body in that neighbOrhOOd was on
the alert, and the word passed
quickly that tina mob was after
Martin. The shots were fred by
the sheriff, but the mob Of seventy.
five or one hundred masked and
blackened men surrounding the
Jail doors paid no attention to the
shots. Some had already gained
entrance to the jaller's room and
were battering in the Jail doors
with heavy sledge hammers. The
locks and catches offered but mo.
mentary resistance, and soon the
men seized the mulattO, who was
in bed, and fastened a rope around
his neck. Martin resisted deSper-
ately, bracing his knees against
the cell door, while twenty men
were tugging at the rope and 9TH
ers were kicking HIM in the back Of
the head. He then grabbed at the
stove, which was jerked out of its
place, and just before reaching the
outside door he struggled to his
feet. lie was struck terrible blow
in the back of the head by wagon
stake and was sent head nrst out
into the street. He was then struck
on the head by Il sledge. and fully
twenty shots were fired at him,
one shot taking effect in his head
and another in his back. He must
have been dead before the mob
had gone the length OF the first
block, but he was dragged through
the sand aud oyer the pavement 10
the Seventh street bridge, three
blocks from the Jail, where he was
strung up to the iron stringers. He
was cut down by the sheriff few
minutes later, bat was dead and
maneled almost beyond recOSni-
ton. The whole affair did not oc.
cupy uore than twenty minutes.
Only the sheriff and the turnkey
were on duty at the Jail, although
they had been warned that an at
tempt would be made to lynch
Martin,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
A Boy Disappears With $1,000.

New YORK, May 2G.-The
thlrteen.yea son of the presi,
dent OF the New Jersey Wine Com.
pany of Passaic, n. j.. disappear,
ed last night from passaic with
81 900 in money and checks, which
were to have been used to pay of
the employees OF the wine company
yesterday. The boy is Morgan
Speer, and he is the son OF Alfred
Speer.
The pay envelope containg the
money was carried to Passaic from
New York Saturday evening by
the boys uncle, Joseph Speer,
who entrusted the money to the
boy to carry to his father, who was
to pay OIL the men. Tue boy failed
to put In an appearance, and Chief
of Police Henry, of Passalc, was
notified. He learned that young
Speer had taken the ll3O train
last night for this city In company
with Willie Hartman and Thomas
Hunt, aged, respectively, ID and
10 years. Inspector Byrnes was
notified to-day of the enbez2le.
ment. The boys father is a wealthy
man, and is almost beside himself
with grief over his sons action.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
Is Mr.. Flower in the Field ?

care you candidate Tor the
Presidency 7" was the interesting
leading question which q reporter
out where the Oregon hears no
sound save it's own dashings put
to our distinguished fellOw-towns'
man, Roswell =. Flower. Mr..
Flower, of course, was equal 10 the
trying emergency. lie didn't pro-
pose to show his hand to the gaze
of Grover Cleveland, or Of David
b. Hill, or of William O. Whitney.
Not he. The result was, as the
reporter states, that "Mr Flower
fell back in his chair, and alternate
~ smiled and sent up blue wreathes
of smoke from his cigar; then he
said he did not care to talk poll
tlcs.' If the reporter could see
between the lines of this vague re-
ply, he doubtless discovered that
Mr. Flowers political p)stoflice adj
dress was the hands OF his friends.
1t will probably occur " the other
candidates for '92 to watch Roswell
P.-N. y. Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
FOOLISH MUGWUMP TACTICS

It is cOmical to note the frantic
efforts our good friends, the mug
wumps, are making to keep Mr..
Cleveland before the public. One
of the illustrated organs of Mug
wumpery in picture of the Cen
tennial banquet made the late oc-
cupsnt of the White House the
principal figure. The President
and Wee. President Of the United
States were represented as sitting
at the same table, but they were
cast in the shade by the portly
figure of the Idol OF the Mugwumps.
This IS a good specimen OF the
way in which the late free traders
candidate for the Presidency Is
being doomed by the political non
descripts whose favor he strove so
hard to gain during his occupancy
of the White House. They are
even talking Of forcing the Demo
cratic party to put him in nomlna'
ton again for the Presidency. With
him 1t is a case of "Barkis is will
in'.p The Mugwump incense has
evidently blinded him, aud it looks
as if he has been persuaded that
there is chance OF his being re-
elected again to the Office that he
filed in way quite acceptable to
every AnglO.maniac IN the land.
The mugwumps in irving to
boom Mr.. Cleveland are thinking
more of themselves than they are
of him. They feel that their for
tunes are indissolubly linked with
his. They took to themselves the
credit of placing him in the White
House, and they are now doing
their best to keep him before the
public in the hope that something
may turn up to make him a Presl.
Dental candidate. These tactics
of the Mugwumps are extremely
amusing. They are not likely to
do Mr.. Cleveland much good
n. y. Irish World.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
From a Reliable War COTrespOn-
dent.

The row in the Cabinet is a
terrific one. If you don't believe
it, read the Democratic papers
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch which
of course has superior facilities for
getting inside news in this Ad-
ministration, says "the truth of the
matter is that Blaine is red.hOt,
and he is being backed up by
Window, Noble and Proctor,
though of course they are all keep
ing quiet, and are compelled to
deny that there is trouble around
the Cabinet table" 1t has often
been noted by psychologists that
when people are red.hot they "of
course" keep quiet. People will
watch the Democratic papers close
ly for the details this desperate
and bloody struggle now going on
between the President and his Oabi-
net.-Cincinnati Commercial (Rep.)
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
.EATARRH
CaURCH DIRECTORY


LUTHERAN. Rev. A. a. J. Bushong
breaches in the Lutheran Church, on the
list Sunday night, the 2nd Sunday morn
ing aud night aud the i,h Sunday night
of each month.
METHoDIsT. - Rev. d. r. Ball
breaches in the Methodist Church, on
the lst Sunday night, the 2nd Sunday
morning and night the Jrd Sunday night
aud the 9Th Sunday morning and night
PREsnYrERIAN.-R Rev. Z 2. Hpps
breaches in the Presbyterian Churcn, at
Woodstock, every Sunday morning and
evening. -
EpiscoPAL-Rev james w. Shields,
will preach in Emmanuel Protestant kpis-
copai Church, Woodstock, on the lst and
Sd Sundays of each month, morning and
night,
REFoRMED.-Rev. A. X, Kline breaches
in the Reformed church on the LIST and Bird
Sundaysin the morning and eyery Sunday
night.
CuRsrIAx-Rev.g 4 Spencer pleach-
es in the Christian church at Woodstock,
ON the Sd Sunday morning and evening.
CATHOLIC Services the second Sunday
of each month at 1890 o'clock, An.
N. +. CHURCH, CoLoRRD.-Rev John
Meredith, breaches in Woodstock every Sd
Sunday.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
Southern PrOteCtiOnist Moving.

The prOtectlOnlsts in the South
have determined to hold cOnven-
ton at Chattanooga next month
for the purpose of devisiDg some
plan by which their views on the
tariff question shall be carried out
They have hitherto acted with the
Democratic party, which, under
the leadership OF Cleveland, Mills,
and other so.called "tariff reform
ers," has adopted policy that
aims at saddling the country with
free trade. The Southern pro
tectonists who have called the
Chattanooga Convention assert
that in thirty.three Southern Con
gressiOnal districts the protection
lists. if they vote together, have a
majority of votes. They propose
to form an organization in these
districts that at the next Congress
sional election will compel the party
that has the majority to put IN
nomination pronounced protection
lists whether they belong to the
Democratic or the Republican
party.
II is the intention of the South
ern protectionists to subordinate
every other question to the para
mount one of protecting American
Industries against the assaults OF
free traders. The Representatives
they will send to Congress will be
instructed not to 60 INTO Il Demo
cratic caucus for the Speakersbip'
On the question Of tariff and sub
sides prOtectlOnist Congressman
from the South will vote with the
Republicans. On other questions
they will be free to vote with either
of the political parties.
We are glad that at last an or
gained effort is to be made by
/ Southern men to arouse the South
to the necessity of dong some
thing to protect and develop the In
dnstries that have sprung up IN
many Southern States during the
last few years. The free traders
have been accustomed to regard
the "Solid South" as their mainstay
in .he fight they are waslng
against American INDUSTRIES
They could always count upon
its vote with Il certainty
If the movement that Is to
he started by the Chattanooga
Convention succeeds IN making the
vote of Southern PrOtectiOnists
tell, the "Solid South" will in a
few years be a thing of the past
n. Y. Irish World.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
CLEVELAND'S SPEECH.
BY A DEMOCRAT
IC PAPER AS A BID FOR A
NOMINATION..

The speech made by Ex-Presi.
dent Cleveland at the dinner given
in his honor Monday night by the
Young Mems Democratic Club was
diguided in style, earnest in tone
and often felicitious IN phraseology
but it was the speech of a conscious
candidate rather than that of a pos.
tive and progressive party leader.
Mr.. Cleveland dealt IN glitterlng
generalitles instead OF pointed par.
tlculars. He attacked no abuse
aud but dimly indicated any that
should be assailed. He depicted
no danger. lie champiOned no re.
form. He neither regretted con-
spicuous blundcrs in the present
leadership of his party in this state
and city, nor rebuked the faithleSs.
ness to pledges and to duty which
has characterized it. Mr.. Cleve-
land will not profit as a candidate
for President by the mistakes Of
others II 10y his silence he excuses
or approves them.
Nor will he realize his evident
ambition by an appeal to the
"sobeT second though' Of the
country. "The mill will never
grnd with the water that has
passed" The campaign of 1888
Will not DO fought over again.
Though the tarlll issue may remain
it will not dominate the next presl-
dental canvass. Other issues more
vital to the welfare of the country
and the integrity of its institutions
are already upon us.
Mr.. Cleveland's speech does not
Indicate that he Is yet prepared to
grappe with them. 1t may he that
his convictions and his sympathies
are not warmly enlisted on what
should be the Democratic side.
The letters of a corporation lawy
and the atmosphere OF Wall Street
are not favorable to what Mr..
Ieveland calls the esprit Of true
Democracy As time goes on the
difference will he more plain be.
tween Groyer Cleveland, the "re-
form Governor" Of 1891, and Presi-
dent Cleveland, the representative
of the sole issue il the campaign
Of 1883, forced untimely by himself
and Grover Cleveland, an attorney
at.law, at the centre of the money
power Of the country.
Aud yet the Democratic party IS
not strong ~ national leaders. The
graveyard OF its statesmen il pop
ulous. Mr.. Cleveland is undoubt.
edly, for this reason, again a posi-
blity. But it can not be SAID that
his speech last night did much
towards converting the possibility
into probabiIlty.-Nc'c YORK
WorM (Dem).
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
A Lone Highwayman's Bold Work.

SHAWANo, WIS, May 2J.-As
the Laugldde stage, carrying the
mail between several minor points
in Outagdmie county, was APP
proching this place last evening,
on its regular TIP over the Old
military road, man jumped from
the brash by the roadside, covered
the driver and six passengers with
a revolver Ia each hand and de-
manded the mail sacks. When
they were thrown to him he or
dered the driver TO proceed and
kept him covered until out Of
range. The robber then took to
the woods with his plumber, the
value Of which is unknown.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
SUPPOSED WORK OF ROBBERS.
A PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
FORTYFIVE PERSONS IN.
JURED.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 2l.-The
west. bound tram ON the st. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad which
left st. LOUIS Thursday night AT
S:1J was wrecked at a point three
miles west Of Sullivan, Mo. which
place is IS miles west Of ST. Louis.
Not a passenger escaped uuhmt.
and f. are known TO have been
seriously injured. II was ll.25 p.
NJ. when The accident occurred.
The tram was travelling nc "a high
rate Of speed, and most Of The pas.
sengers bad already gone to sleep,
while the few remaining awake
we're about TO do so. There is d
curve in the road about three miles
west of Sullivan, and when this
point was reached a Sudden jolt and
lar was felt all over the train.
Everybody felt It and the people IN
the rear cars could hear the for.
ward coaches rattliug and rumb'ing
over the ties and the crashing
noise of cars beng demolished. y
creek is crossed by the road at that
point and there la a steep cmbank.
men, thirty foet high. Most OF the
passengers thought the train was
gong through a bridge and feel.
ing Of horror chilled their blood.
lu an Instant ai the coaches eX.
cept the two SicrpingcuS bad
been thrown from the rails. PEG.
ple were thrown about IN the ears
m all directions and some OF tEem
were thrown from ihc coaches and
down the cmbinkment. One man.
Walter Davidson, 50 no travels tor
the Westinghouse airbrake, was
thrown rlght oat Of "a window on
the opposite side OF the coach from
which be Nas sitting and sent roll.
ug down tuc cmbaukmeut 10 the
edge Of the creek. His feet were
I'm the water. Most Of the forward
cars Ncre smashed into smith
Greens. Trdinmen told the pas.
scngers that the spikes and fish.
plates had been removed from the
rail az the curve, thus leaving the
rails loose on the Ties. The forward
portion Of the locomotive passed
the place All Right, but the lender
inmpcd ne track and was thrown
plItof lhc say down the embank.
ment. Who removed The spikes
and plates is not known, bnt the
suppOsitiOn ], the work was done
by train robbers who wanted 10
hold up the train. Still no robbers
put in an appearance. On the
train was a large body OF physi-
clans returning from Springfield
where the State medical cOnyen-
ton is being held, and they also
rendered valuable assistance in
caring Tor the injured. Among
those seriously injured were DR..
Russell, Of Springfield, OHIO; Gen.
s. Simpson, Hancock county, III. ;
Patrick ODay, aged : yeas, who
will probably die; Mrs. Mary Hash,
Bloomington, ILL.,; d. Ralley, New
YORK Walter Davidson, ST. Louis,
and others.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
He VIII Now Go to the GaIIOW.

PETERSBURG, Va. May 2S.-
Henry Moore, colored, who was
convicted in 1850 by the county
court of GreeusvilIe, Of the muir
der Of Littleton stewart, also col
ored. and was sentenced TO be
hanged, and who made his escape
the day before that set for his ex-
acution by burning ont the jail, and
who has been at large ever since,
was arrested this morning at Chase
City, Mecklenburg county. Gov.
ernor Lee had offered a reward OF
800 for MOOrc's arrest Moore
was brought here tonight.