The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-08

New YORK, June 28.-The Hsralds
Washington special says that Mr.. Blaine
now reached the point VIII re, as was said
If Marshall MacMahon, he mu t submit
or resign.
At a meeting of the Virginia State
Democratic Committee, held last week.
J. Taylor Ellyson, Mayor of the city. was
elected chairman, vice Basil B. Gordon,
resigned.
The medal which has just been pre-
scented to Mr.. Stanley by the Geographic
cal Society is the first special medal for
such services that has v e been struck
by that society.
SAVANNAH, Ga, June 3O.-The steamer
St. Nicholas burned to the waters edge
at her wharf at the foot of Lincoln street
this morning. She carried an excursion
to Buffalo yesterday.
PARIS, June 3O.-Le Petit Journal re-
ports that in the city of Narbonne, depart
ment of Auda, several cases of cholera
have appeared, and that one Of the vic,
Tins has already died.
A special detail of troop have COM
pleted the work of setting head-stones
over the graves of General Clusters brave
band who fell in the battle of the Little
Big Horn, June %, 1876.
At Philadelphia the Roman Catholic
Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, the
corner stone of which was laid September
9Th, 1916, was consecrated last week with
most imposing ceremonies.
Gov. Gordon and State officers have
accepted the bid of tle Nashville, Chat
tanooga & ST. L us Railroad for the
Western & Atlantic Railroad lease, for
twenty nine years from December 9th
next.
An English tourist has written a letter
to a newspaper ridiculing the way we
name our food. He was surprised to
find that green corn was yellow. Also
that a succession of ~eye-openers induced
sleep.
4 Savannah Ga, telegram says the
steamer st. Nicholas, of the Georgia and
Florida Inland Steamboat Line, and
was burned at her wharf yesterday. The
vessel was an old one and was valued at
$4,000.
The immense plant of the Allen b.
Bradley Distilling Co. at Southall and
Thorn streets, Louisville, KY, was COM
pletely burned yesterday morning, entail
ing a loss of not less than $615, 900.
There is full insurance.
Willis Strain, a m mister of the Church
of the United Brethren, was whipped
and tarred and feathered by white caps
near New Albany, Indiana, last week.
He had ben living with a woman who
he ella. med was his lawful wife.
PARIS, June 30.-The stranger who
murdered NJ. Gouffe, the court bailif,
after having been arrested in Havana,
was brought, in custody of French detec-
tives, from that city to st. Navarro on
the steamer Lafayette and arrived in
Paris this morning.
The Speaker has laid before the House
a letter from the Secretary of the Treas
ury transmitting a letter from the Com
mi sioner of Pensions, requesting an ap-
preparation of 1891, 900, which, he says,
will be necessary for the prompt execu-
ton of dependent pension bills.
Fort WORTH, Texas, July AT the
convict camp, sixteen miles south of here
yesterday, a guard named Riley Williams
was killed by a squad of convicts. The
murderers then secured weapons and
liberated other convicts, and nineteen of
the most desperate men are now at lib
erty, we'll armed and equipped,
PARKERsBURG, w. Va, July "A re-
port has reached here to the effect that
two brothers named Wilson, living in
Logan county, quarreled a few days ago
with their teacher, named Clark. Pistols
were used and Clark and the elder Wilson
fell fatally wounded. The younger Viii
son wa badly hurt.
In the last ten years 672 persons were
committed for trial in England and Wales
for the crime of willful murder. OF these
299 were sentenced to death, % acquit-
ted, and l42 adjudged insane. OF the
299 condemned to death l54 were exc
cuted and 145 had combinations of SEN
tence; of the 299 fifty were women, of
whom nine were hanged.
SHEFFIELD, Ala, June 3O.-This place
was yesterday visited by a terrible storm,
accompanied by almost incessaut light
ming and very heavy clouds The fall of
rain was the severest ever known here.