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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
RALEIGH TOBACCO MARKET.

To the Democratic Voters of Duplin
County.
The commissioners have ordered a new
registration. No one who fails to register by
October 25th Will be permitted to vote Let
every Democrat register and see that his
Democratic neighbOrs register within the
prescribed time. A, D. WARD.
Chmn Co. Dem. Elk. Com,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
Manufacturers Of all Grades Of Chewing
Tobacco,

We make . specially of fine Sun Cured To
bacco, and our Of. A. l. o." and "Sun-C Cured
SweL tness" brands ars made Of the finest
sun-cured leaf, and never fail to give salts
faction. We also make q fine line of other
goods in all styles, and atthe very lowest pos
sible prices. ,
Our Factory is fitted up with all the latest
improved machinery, and we use nothing but
the very best ~lieorice and sugars in the manu-
facture Of our tobacco, and we ask you for q
trial order. Weknow we can please you, both
as to quality and price.
Our Factory is owned and controlled by
Alliance men only and is strictly an Alliance
enterprise, established under and governed
by the Law and Constitution of the National
and State Farmers Alliance.
Send for samples and price list. Address
Durham Farmers Alliance Tobacco Manu-
featuring Co., Durham, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
ALLIANCE NOTES.

always give the name and number Of
your Alliance, your ~postof6ce and your
county, plainly, when you write to the
President, Secretary, Trustee, Business
Agent or Chairman of Executive Com
mittee of the State Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
To the Voters of Rowan Co

Owing 10 the dissatisfaction of a large number
of the voters of Rowan county with the present
candidate for the Office of cotton weigher, I here
by announce mysely an Independent candidate for
that office. Very espectfullY-~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21

All communications for L. L. Polk
President National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union, or for J. Il. Turner
national secretary, should be addressed
to them, 5ll 9th St, N. W., Washington,
D. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
RELIGIOUS NEWS.

A brief outline of the doings of the differ,
ent Christian organizations through
out our State and cOuntry-Per-
sonal points, etc.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21

Carolina Farmers Official Fer tilizer upon
the following terms, viz:
Car lots F. o, B., Richmond, Va, payable Oct.
P Pa iSyS, Jan. 5t6, 1891: .sf.OS
Payable Nov. 1st 1891. ..22.40
Any quantity F. o. B., Durham, N. c., Payable
Payable Jan 9Th, 1891. ................ ....22y0e
Payable Nov. list, 1891 PSI
Parties desiring to purchase on tiI
will please send orders and notes diI
to Durham Fertilizer Co., Durham, y
Cash orders, as above or, through thi;
fee.
North Carolina Farmers Alliance 3
Phosphate guaranteed Ii per cent. a
able PhosphoIic Acid Gums Ii IL t
per cent? at any railroad depot in
Carolina at $16.40.
Yours Fraternal
W II. WORTH 81
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
BUSINESS AGENTS.

Fall Terms on Guano and Acid.
l am prepared to furnish the North
Farmers Official Fer tilizer upon
following terms. viz:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
DURAN FARMERS ALLIANCE 79sAGs!
MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
DURHAM, N. @.

J. n. MEADOWS, Secretary.
W. T. MEADOWS, Manager.
DIRECTORS:
Jno, w. Pope, Durham county Jesse W.
Brooks, Durham county; P h. Massey, Dur
ham county; Paul A. Brown, Durham county;
w. Adams. Granville county; J.J. Meadows,
Granville county,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
ANOTHER CRoNIN SUSPECT.

The arrest, at st. Louis, of another man
who is believed to have been leader in the
Cronin murder conspiracy, shows that the
effort to detect and punish the perpetrators
of that remarkable crime is not yet aband-
oned.
All men who wish the lives of American
citizens to be protected by American law
will be glad to see the full penalty of this
importation of exotic conspiracy for assassi-
nation visited on every one of the partici-
pants who can be reached by the law. II
this man is guilty the public hope Will be
that his guilt may be so plainly shown that
he cannot escape the capital penalty. But
it will be neither edifying nor calculated to
prevent similar crimes, if the case is so pre-
sented as to produce q compromise verdict,
with the practical declaration that a con-
spiracy for wanton assassination deserves
only the punishment of the penitentiarY.
The case of the new Cronin suspect
should inspire Chicago justice to show itself
more vigorous, unerring and free from the
wiles of jury fxers than the first trial did.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
FANCIFUL OR FUNNY.

One of New York's dudes is said to have
25 different silk hats. A versatile fellow.-BEr-
Etn0t0n Free Press.
The horse-car conductor is like pugilist,
because he punches great deal and knocks down
occasionally Washington Post
We don't wonder that some people who
try to waltz get discouraged. They are con-
stantly having reverses.-YOhksTs GAZETTE.
A member of Congress has a poky old
driving horse which he calls ''Pension BIZ,
because It is so easy 10 pase.-1he PuoEe SeTo'es'
Giles-Is your job permanent?
Merritt-I should say it was. I'm secretary OF a
committee that Is raising money to build mona-
ment.-Nsl0 York Sun.
1t has been discovered that kisses-love
kisses, we mean-are full OF electricity NOW we
know why old maids have always called kissing
shocking I-B0StOn Courier.
II man knew as many odd, queer and
mean things about others as he must know about
himself would he be apt to speak to them without
considerable wear and tear OF conscience G-PhSta-
dstphtG Times.
Mrs. Merritt hear your husband fell on
the ice and broke his leg. That was dreadfully
unlueKy.
Mr.. GIles-I should say 1t was. He fell on our
own bidswAlk.-BpOch.
Mabel Cooking out at the window)-
What on earth Is Prof. Curio doing out there on
the ice?
Maude-You see Cousin Carrie, from Chicago,
was sliding down there this morning and the pro-
fessor thinks that he has discovered some fossil
lied footprints Of = prehistoric mastodonic race,
he tells me.-LGa0rsnee Anserfeaa,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19

the general eonvulsion which took place in
1873. In addition to that, the disasters of
that year were made possible by an equal
imitation of the prices o: commercial staples.
At the present time there is reason to believe
that while commercial interests maintain
conservative values, the creation Of corpor-
ate investments has reached a rate somewhat
spproximating those of eighteen years ago.
In 1889 the new securities In England had
reached 5000, ,0O0, 900, and for the two previ-
GUS years they were $500, 600, 900 annually.
In this country the new securities listed on
the New York Stock Exchange rose to $685.
600, 900 in 1888, and were still larger in 1889.
If all securities, new and old, newly listed,
were taken into consideration, the advance
would be from S24S, ,OOO, 900 in 1885 to $780,
200 in 1888. The total of new cor
porate investments throughout the world
for last year, is believed to be within a
short distance of $4,000, 900, 600. The fcti-
tious nature of many so-called investments
is shown by the industry with which the
floating Of watered capital on the basis of
trusts has been carried on. Some of this
capital is based upon the possession of
monopoly in the industry which is repre-
sented; and a still larger amount is foated
upon the allegation of a monopoly. more
fictitious than the capital itself
The growth of the worlds business makes
the total for last year less disturbing than
the same total would have been 20 years ago;
ond tho foot that tho nrioe of commercial
and industrial staples is still upon a con-
servative and sound level, takes away
large share of the danger, which might
otherwise be feared. But the tendency
shown by the rapid creation Of largely spec
ulative masses of corporate values, is one
that conservative and wise policy would
wish to see corrected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

JUBAI E EARLY has fad that he will ac-
cept no bill with General Grants likeness
upon it.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has been
dissuaded from publishing a volume of poems
which he wrote as young man.
RUBINsTEIN has announced his intention of
dividing between the st. Petersburg Conserva-
tory and the Imperial Russian Society of Music
St. Petersburg branch-all the money pre-
sented to him on the occasion of his recent
jubilee day.
JUDGE THOMAS 7. BoULDIN. who is now II
years old, habitually sleeps IN the room he was
born in, on a plantation in Charlotte county,
Va, that has been in his family for 146 years.
His father and greatgrandfather are buried on
the plantation.
NICoLAI UsPENsKI, who was 40 years ago a
poet and writer rivaling in Russia Turgenef
himself, has Just died. Along in the f1fties he
became a slave to drink, and ever since has
been wandering about the country playing and
singing in small entertainments and in the
streets.
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. it Is de-
clared is not SO infirm in either body or mind
as to prevent her taking daily exercise or keep
ing up regular correspondence with her friends.
among them Mr.. Gladstone and the Duke of
Argyll. both of whom recently wrote her letters
appreciative of her biography of her son, Rev.
Charles E. Stowe.
TURKEY has lost distinguished statesman
by the death oS Khereddin Pasha, who held the
seals of office of Grand Vizier in the troubled
period of the Russo-Turkish War Khereddin
was born a slave about 66 years ago, and, after
a series of remarkable adventures and strug-
giles, entered the Turkish service. Toward the
end of 1873 he became Grand Vizier of the Sub
lime Porte and retained Office for over year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
CORPORATE INVITATIONS.

A tendency which needs attention is made
apparent BY the totals of capitalization oi
new companies, listed on the stock ex-
changes of the world during the past few
years. The connection between the specu-
latioR, of which the creation of new stock
companies is the index, and the panics oi
the past few years, has been close and i'm
portant. Normally the creation of new
corporate investments should represent the
legitimate increase Of wealth, but specula-
ton anticipates the increase of wealth, or is
predicated on fictitious foundations. The
result has frequently been the exposure Of
the fat character of the supposed wealth,
and the tumbling of the speculative fabric
into ruin.
This was particularly clear in the years
preceding 1873, In 1871, the exchanges of
America, England and Europe, saw over
three thousand millions of new securities
listed: in 1872 twenty-five hundred millions,
and IN 1873 nearly twenty-five hundred
millions. After the drop came, in 1875 but
three hundred and forty-one millions of new
stocks were issued, and the low rate in the
production of corporate values was observed
until 1879 when the total rose to eighteen
hundred and eighty-one million dollars, and
a ter two fat years dropped again until
1876. when they reached thirteen hundred
and fortY-one million dollars.
It will be seen that the most extreme ex-
amples of imitation were required to produce
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
Social Chatter.

Mr.. CLARENCE EDDY, the distinguished or
gan virtuoso, entertained large and fashion
able audience at the Church of Ascension,
Shadyside, last evening. He was assisted by
some of the best local talent, and programme
of exceptional merit and beauty was rendered.
THE marriage of Miss Mamie ORourlse and
Mr.. John ]. Callaghan was solemnized in st.
Paups Cathedral at o'clock last evening.
Father Molyneaux off1ciated, and the happy
couple left on the $40 train for the East
CARDS were issued some time ago by Mr..
and Mrs. William Holmes for the marriage of
their daughter, Sarah Gray, to Mr.. Hills Nc
Keown, which took place last evening in the
Church of Ascension, East End.
MRS. CATHERINE A. OUDRY and her daugh-
ter received friends yesterday afternoon at
their residence Ridge avenue, Allegheny.
MRS. q. E. MONROE lectured last night in
the Seventh U. P. Church on England" and
will lecture this evening on "Civil War;"
AN afternoon reception was given yesterday
by Mrs. John G. Stephenson at her charming
home on North avenue. Allegheny.
Mr.. JOHN w. CHALFANT will entertain 25 Of
his gentlemen friends at the Duquesne Club
House Friday evening.
THE Oakland Orchestra assisted last evening
at an entertainment gwen in the Oakland M.
E. Church.
A SOCIAL was held last night at the Arch
Street NJ. E. Church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
DETERMINED MANUFACTURERS
Will Lock Out 1900 Employees Unless
Their Point il Conceded.

Will Lock Out 1900 Employees Unless
Their Point is Conceded.
ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.t
WoBURN, MASS, February 1S.-Fifteen
hundred men will be locked out of the tanner
les here tomorrow night because dozen men
have broken their word. Trouble has been
brewing for some time. and to-day the manu-
faeturers decided to shut down until the en-
ployes would agree to live up to their agree
ment Through the efforts of the State Board
of Arbitration the manufacturers agreed to
pay for SO hours Of work per week at an ad-
vance Of about 81 per cent IN wages and they
have lived up to their agreement. They claim
agreed to do, and that they have repeatedly
violated the agreement and are continuing to
violate it every day that they refuse to return
to work
As the blackers at Beggs & Cobbs' have not
yet returned and will not permit other men to
do that work while they are out, and, as all
efforts thus far made looking to settlement Of
the difficulty have failed, the manufacturers
last night held meeting at which they resolved
to close every factory shat is in the association
tomorrow night, and keep them closed until
the men return to work at Beggs q Cobbs
This action means lockout of about 800 men
caused by the action OF less than dozen men
in one shop, and if the mandate is long enforced
it will necessarily entail much hardship among
large number who can nl-attord to remain
idle.
This lockout if enforced, will again seriously
cripple other industries which have not as yet
fully recovered from the effects of the recent
strike, and, as it will throw many men out of
work who are anxious and willing to continue
busy and who are not members of the Knights
of Labor organization, it will of necessity create
considerable bitter feeling between the various
factions, and will throw the blame for its cause
upon the men themselves. Altogether the
present outlook is a serious one, and not much
comfort can be obtained from 1t for the inter-
ests of the working classes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY. FEB 10, 1890.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

The results of the municipal elections
yesterday, are calculated to produce the I'M
preston that the sound and fury which have
been produced by the contending commit
tees during the past two weeks were mainly
wasted thunder.
This is the natural inference from the re-
turns published elsewhere indicating the
election of Gourley, in this city, by ma
iOrity In the vicinity of 4, 500 and of Wy
man in Allegheny by about 1000. While
there was, as is usual in municipal elec-
tions, good deal of scratching, the conclu-
sion is that the yoluminous attacks on the
character of the respective candidates bal
anced each other and that the voters cast
their ballots just about as they would have
done if the mud-throwing had been omitted.
With sympathy for the defeated gentle
men who made such lively fight, and with
congratulation for the successful candidates
who carry off the spoils of victory, this great
community will now go forward and fill its
industrial destiny just as it would have done
if the result had been the other way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
AS TO LOCAL LEGISLATION.

The decision of the State Supreme Court
against the law under which streets are
opened in cities of the first class, does not
bear directly on our street laws; but it has
q rather strong inferential bearing. So far
as the published report of the decision indi-
Gates it shows a disposition to hold legisla-
tion down very closely y the prohibition of
provisions having a purely local or special
application. Whether any of the laws gov
erning the opening or improvement of streets
in this city contain provisions which would
come under that prohibition is question of
vital interest So far, the pending I'M
provements have gone on without any litiga-
tion as to the power of the city. But it
would be well to be assured that no such
loophole for dissatisfied taxpayers is left
open by our laws.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
TEE CURTlks AT THE CAPITAL
Pennsylvania Family Having a Good
Time In Washington CITY.

Time In Washington City.
Z WASHINGTON, February I8.-Ex-Governor
and Mrs. Curtin, who came down from Phlla-
delphia Wednesday intending to take vesti-
bule train next day for st. Augustine, Fla,
have found Washington so open-armed in its
welcome to them, and so spring-like in its
weather, that they have camped at the Arling-
ton and will not go further South at present,
perhaps not at all. Before Governor Curtin
could get at his luggage to don an evening SUIT
he was captured by the Loyal Legion, brought
into their banquet room as one of the honored
guests at their annual dinner, and pressed into
responding to special toast, "Our Great war
Governors" His impromptu speech proved
one of the best treats of the evening, notably
his "reminiscences OF GO0mile journey through
Russia with General Sherman, while the latter
was making his celebrated post bellum tour OF
Europe, which was one long ovation, and the
Ex-Governor was Minister ut st. Petersburg.
tor John Sherman had delivered a stately and
beautiful fraternal tribute to his martial
brother. emphasizing the heroic qualities OF
the man. whereas Governor Curtin's anecdotes
of their Journey together we're humorous and
some of them slightly uncanonical. and Of
course they brought down the house."
The following day Governor Curtin visited
his old stamping ground, the House OF repre-
sentatives, and not only did his old mates
gather round him from their various desks to
pay their greetings. but the Speaker came down
from his seat to extend cordial hand of vel
come. Many inquiries are made OF Mrs. Curtin
for her youngest daughter, who, as Miss Kate
Curtin, was one of the bellies of the brilliant
Arthur administration here, and whose cul-
tured voice is well remembered by music low
ers of that period. She is now Mrs. Burnet, OF
Syracuse, the happy mother of a year-old
daughter named Catharine, for its mother and
maternal grandmother. She has so nearly re-
covered from the rheumatic lameness affecting
one knee, which attacked her while here, that
she walks without staff or limp. She is delight
fully situated as regards her musical affiliations,
being central figure in little informal mu-
sical set in the pleasant Salt City. Mrs. Curtin,
who is strikingly like Mrs John Sherman, both
in looks and manner, is kept busy in receiving
and returning the visits of old friends.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
RLAIR,S COMPLAINT.

The plant of Senator Blair against the
press of America is calculated to wiring
tears from the crocodile. A conspiracy of
silence, as be informs the Senate and the
country. has induced the newspapers to
omit publication OF his prolonged speeches
showing the necessity Of appropriating the
largest half of the surplus to his hobby of
national education. The jeers and sarcasms
which have been lavished on the New
Hampshire Senator might have justified a
complaint in the other direction, but his ap-
petite for newspaper notice is Unsuitable,
and he is going to make a national issue of
the wickedness Of the papers in not devOting
two or three pages each to his speeches.
But is not this wrath unnecessary? Has
not liberal provision secured that q verba-
tim report of the Senator's eloquence shall
go laundering down the ages in the columns
of the Congressional Record?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
A MORTGAGE SUMNER.


Wealthy Washington County, Like Poorer
Greene, All PInstered Over With Bonds
on Promises to Pay-Why Agricultural
Property Has DEPRECATED 80 Per Cent
in Value some Rnined Roads.
rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
MTAsHINGToN, PA. February Is.-Many of
the famous Washington county farms
are being mortgaged, tOo 1t will be a matter
for universal regret that this agricultural
blight so depressing in many parts of the
United States, should have attacked Western
Pennsylvania's garden spot. The wool-grow-
ing interests of this region are still vasr, and
the high state of cultivation down among these
hills and valleys would indicate to the stranger
prosperity yet uninterrupted. But the farm
ers take a gloomy view of the signs
of the times. In seeking for founda-
tions for their pessimistic indications,
asked the County Recorder if he had noticed
any increase in the filing of mortgages. He
replied that in his short official career, thus far,
he had. and that from attorneys whose
knowledge Of the Office ran farther back than
his, he had learned that there had been a
marked increase in the last two or three years.
On an average, 200 mortgages are fled in his
office every year now. Many of these, of
course, are in building and loan associations.
and others on town property. But, at the same
time, the proportion of farming property in
volved is large. An attorney in the Recorders
office st the time of my visit said undoubtedly
the debts of Washington county farmers were
increasing steadily, the same as those of
farmers everywhere. Farming does not pay,
he declared.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
CRIMINALS AND LABOR.

A remark made in New York court the
other day by a thief who was sentenced to the
penitentiary is of interest in connection with
some important social questions. 1t was that
'there is nothing left for thief but to steal. F."
The assertion that a man once branded by
criminal conviction has no opportunity left
to pursue an honest life is, if true, sad COM
mentary on the value Of our institutions for
the reformation of criminals.
Without attempting to settle the exact de-
gree of truth in that assertion it is pertinent
to point possible connection between the
difficulty of ex-eonvicts in obtaining honest
work and the employment of prison labor in
making good roads. Let us suppose in the
first place that work on the roads should be
made a privilege for good conduct by men in
the penitentiaries; and that after their terms
had expired they were still furnished en-
ployment, at better wages, so long as they
could get work nowhere else. Might not a
plan of that sort be perfected which would
be at once beneficial for the convicts and ad-
vantageous to the State?
1t is not to be expected that such a plan
will turn up ready-made. But when we
have, on the one hand, aclass of work that is
undone, and, on the other hand, class of
labor for which it is difficult to find salts
factory employment, the two factors balance
each other too we'll to permit the idea of
their mutual usefulness to be lightly aban-
doned.