The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-29

Miss Winnie Davis is not, as is nv some
oc"ple supp sed, the only Surviving
daughter of the Confederate 'esder Miss
Wiu"Ie has Al Older 81 ter, Margrrri. who
IS the W.T. o. J A. Haynes origin lily a
NJ s~sissiopian, but now a banker of Color
ado Springs.
WASHINGTON, July l8.-Mr. Vance in
troduced in the Senate to-day a bill pro-
vldjng for the repeal of the tax of ten
per cent. on the circulation of State banks,
and providing thar NJ hi her rare os tax
shall be levied on such circulation than On
that of National banks.
BUENos AYERS, July 2O-Conficting
reports are current Of The discovery OF a
plot against the government. Semi
official papers declare that the reports
have no foundation. A national conven-
ton will be convoked in January to des-
igDate for the Presidency.
CAIRO, ILL.,, July l8.-Eight prisoners
confined in the Pulaski county jail, at
Mound City, seven miles above here,
escaped last nigh. Some outside party
nuggled a rope to them and they reached
the ground through the scuttle hole.
None of them w been recaptured.
Inroverhauling tine Cars civil list with
a view to economy, recently, one of the
items discovered was the payment of
$75Osper year for clip ~salve," which has
been made to one family ever since the
time of Empress Catharine, who is sup
posed once to have had chapped lips.
New York pick-pockets nave invented
a new scheme for robbing people. 1t is
to pour kerosene or alcohol over the back
of a mans Goa and touch a match there
to. Then while helping to extinguish
the flames they cliff" the victims watch
and whatever money or valuabl4s he may
have.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July 22.-The
steamer NJ. H. Gift took fire from a spark,
which was LODGED in a ba'e of hay this
morning, off Lannon's Lodge. on the
Tennessee river. about thirty passengers
on board were badly frightened, but were
saved without difficulty. The loss is
about $4,000.
Oshkosh, Wis, July l8.-John War
poo-e, an Indian from the Keshene reser-
walton, who was found guilty in the U.
S. Court here of repeated assaults upon
his daughter, was sentenced to be hanged
September Both, on the reservation. This
is the first death sentence ever passed in
the State of Wisconsin.
The Spanish mission, it is understood,
has been tenCered to General Malone, of
Virginia, but the probabilities are that he
will not accept it. The reason assigned
for his expected declination is that he
does not lik President Harrison, and will
not for that reason place himself under
| obligation to that gentleman.
BIRMINGHAM July 19.-Bart Thrasher
is a notorious moonshiner and escaped
COuFICI VI DlOO COuuGy' hdoC uISuI uG-
t~ectives Morgan and Patton undertook to
arrest Bart, and killed a man whom they
supposed to be the outlaw. 1t proved to
be Bart's father, however, who was
standing guard over the rancho.
VAN VERT, Ohio, July ia bold at
tempt at train robbery was made here
late last night on the Cincinnati, Jackson
& Michigan Railway. Three men boarded
the engine of the rorth-bound passenger,
near Enterprise, Ohio, and attacked en-
gineer V~andevender and his fireman with
hammers and coupling pins, knocking
both senseless.
J. w. Napier, a detective, better known
as Kentucky Bill" armed with war
rants for the arrest of the Hatfelds,
started out from Charleston, w. Va, a
few weeks ago with the declaration that
he would not return without them. 1t is
now learned that his body, with a bullet
in his heart, has been found near the
home of the Hatfelds.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 22.-Small
pox is epidemic along the Mexican side
of the border. At Piedras Negras, %
per cent. Of the population has been
affected, and the per centage of fatalities
has been very high. In New Laredo
have been up wards OF 200 people stricken
with the disease. The Mexicans have
taken no p~recau'ion against its sp cad
and in many of their smaller towns it is
raging uncht cked.
PEORIA, Ill, 18.-It was reported here
at Z o'clock last night that the town of
Green Valley, on the line Of Peoria, De-
catur & Evansville line, and Morton, on
the Santa Fe, we're swept away by a