The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

The cOmmlGCe0 OF JD0 Guy
council of Richmond, Va, n cOnSld-
ering resolutions looking TO the appro
priation of $25, OOO for the purchase of
a residence for Ms. jefferson Davis,
provided she will make Richmond her
home.
Gunboat No. 5, now christened Ma
chias, was launched at Bath, Me, yes
terday, and the event was made the
occasion of a great demonstration be-
cause she is the first iron vessellaunched
on the Kennebec river. Everything
went well.
PANAMA, Dec ELECTIONS were held
throughout the United States of Colon
bia Yesterday. Numerous attempts
were made at riOting. but were quickly
suppressed by the military. At the
closing of the polls the Liberals claimed
a big majority, The result, however,
is in doubt.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. 8.-PCtt9r & Co,
cotton buyers, assigned today to FIem-
ing, Thomas & Co., bankers. Local
| creditors are protected. AssginOrs say
the assets viii cover liabilities, and
arrangements will be made to conduct
business as usual.
LONDON, Dec. 10 -Advices from
Pekin state that the rebels have been
again defeated. The dispatch further
announces that the Emperor is study
ing English. The Council of state
opposed this idea, but the dOwager En-
press OverruIed them.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
yes erday NJ. Barley, Minister Ct
Marine, said France was the only ma
ton that had solved the problem of
submarine navigation, and would soon
possess a submarine navy that would
give results as yet u~nattained.
The wreck which occurred near West
Plains, Mo, Monday night was more
disastrous than first reports indicated.
In the cabOOse of the construction train
were thirty four men and not n of
them escaped injury. Four were killed
and nineteen others dangerously hurt,
some of them fatally.
A Paris dispatch says the body Of
Pedro. ex-Emperor of Brazil, who died
last Saturday morning at hi residence,
Hotel Bedford, in that city, was placed
yesterday in the coffin prepared for 1T
and in which. after royal ~Obscquies in
that city, it will be conveyed to Lisbon
and inferred in the family vault there.
LONDON, Dec. 10.-A dispatch to the
Times from Tien Tsin says: Some
Christians have been masSaCred near
PakOuscibG by banditti and an undis-
ciplined mob. The military commander,
who cOnniVed at the massacre, has
committed suicide. a magistrate i'm
plicated in the affair has been arrested
and committed for trial"
4 dispatch from Goodrich, Tenn,
says that in a difficulty there Monday,
Henry Crutcher and Anthony Lock
ridge, both colored, were shot by James
LausOn, white. LOckridge died almost
instantly, and CrUtchcr is in q dying
condition. LausOn is a young man.
Perfectly unsuitable was the verdict
returned by the c]orOner's jury.
The departure of the United States
STEAMER Atlanta for her new station in
South Atlantic waters will be delayed
q few days by reason Of q change of
commanders. An order was issued
from comm md f the vessel and order
ing CtpU D.. f. Bigginson to that duty.
Lieu ant T. Is. NJ. Mason has also
detached from the Atlanta.
Governor Merriam, of Minnesota,
has issued a circular letter, many thou
and copies of which Will be mailed
throughout his State, setting forth the
terrible der titutiOn which exists in
Russia and asking that people who are
blessed with homes, goods, and money,
and can look forward to continued
prosperity, will do all in their power
to mitigate the terrible sufferings of
the starving Russians.
A fire broke out yesterday in the
Buffalo On " planning mill of Lee,
Pollard & Co, and an explosion fol
lowed which blew out the wall of the
building Part of the wall fell on five
workmen, at the same time breaking a
large steam pipe. One was killed and
two others were injured by falling
bricks and were badly scalded. The
other two men escaped serious injury.
The money loss is Comparatively small.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. THE steamer
BeIgic, which arrived yesterday morn
ing from China, reports that the seal
ing schooner Arctic, after bring seized
by the Russians, escaped. and was
brought into Yokohama by the British
ship Leander. The Russian Minister
asked her detention, but as the schooner
was flying the British flag, the repre-
~sentatives of the government declined
to interfere, causing official GOODNESS.