The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-11


High License bill now pending before
that body. sass
The. Indiana and Illinois Railroad has
been sold at auction for 800, 900 to w.
r Alley under a decree of the Master in
GAancery, and will remain under the old
management. errt,l -
d" Charles c. ede wick, Postal Card Agent
st Birmingham, Conn, was yesterday
removed by the Postmaster General,
and N. NewtonJot Newton was appointed
to succeed him. .,
: The sales of leaf tobacco on the Dan
vile marketfor January aggregated $685.
9OSipounds. The sales for the first four
months of the new tobacco year are about
1000, 600 pounds.
The Diamond printing Office at Erie,
Pa. from which The Saturday Equitable
printed, was destroyed {g fire on
Saturday. The damage will foot up about
81, 60O; fully insured. - 49, e:sz,@..
Al a meeting OF the executive COM
nittee of the Kansas Farmers Alliance
and State Grange, resolutions denouncing
national banks and favoring free silver
coinage were adopted, =: 9
A negro boy sged~l8 wa&&rEeted ut
LouisiSna Mo-, for killing Ihb .sixyear-
old sister and three-year-old 'bfothef. He
his sister with a-mnsket and, b9{9alinned
bis brother with an axe. - aicr> s,e 5 Ii
"a little German giIl near 4PlttsblFg,
Pa, has invented a volapuK ofTher own,
which bears no resemblance to any other
language, and which mo one can under
stand except her parents les
A gentleman who was recently mar
III Newport, Kys> gave up an in
aeritsnoe of SIS, 900 rather than miss get
ting the object of his choice. He was a
Ridower, and his first Wife's property
was to revert to his mother m case he
married.
Three hundred men were buried in a
in England on the 9th. Nearly
two hundred have been rescued, some OF
hem fatally injured. 1t is estimated that
more than 100 are yet in the mine and
40 hopes are entertained of getting them
nat alive. -.
The dispute over through rates between
Boston and Albany and the Fitchburg
'oads, has been settled by arbitration.
The Fitchburg has been awarded 9 differ
,ntial of 81 on each frst-class passenger
y the West Shore route, and So by the
erie route. .,: s..
Col n. M. Roberts, corps of engineers
las been detached from duty at "Phi1a-
and ordered torelieve Maj. Charles
". Raymond, corps of engineers, as
engineer commissioner of the District of
Columbia, who is, in turn, ordered to
Philadelphia.
Dsnville, Va, has sold during the FIRST
our months of the tobacco year 1O,945,OOO
of leaf tobacco, which is an in
rease over the same period Of last year
( 4,l65,s3s pounds. Sales of manufac-
ured tobacco over January of last year OF
5000 pounds. '=~ ~:
It is reliably stated that there are hun
reds Of people in South Dakota sitting
i their farm houses going mad from
rant. The ground is covered with deep
low, the weather is bitterly cold, and
aey can neither go after relief nor can
come to them.
The Auditing Committee Of. the Irish
League reports. Balance on
and at Chicago Convention, 1885, $2l,-
IS; receipts to Jan. !, 1890, $257, 922;
to Ireland to Jan. /, 1890, $751;
48: current expenses, $22,225; balance
a hand Jan. l, 1890, $20,s35.
Owing to the dismissal Of the Cork
ioard of Guardians, the Nationalist are
onsidering the plan of having. all the
'oards throughout Ireland resign, thus
,rowing upon Chief Secretary, BalfOur
le burden of responsibility for the adj
Illustration of the Boards duties.
L. .|- 81. .a. f-:AF 81 ~. -. III
Six hundred delegates. were in sttend-
nee at the opening of the Convention of
Men Monday in Washington.
cry Careon, of that city, called the
to order, and in his opening adj
ress advocated the Blair bill9the CHAM
ler election law and other measures.
George Hills, appointment farmer living
few miles south of Hope, Kansas, went
iOlently insane yesterday, and stripping
nearly naked, went from house
} house attempting murder. He was
18th great difficulty captured last night