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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02

France severing the matrimonial bond
and 10000 persons of both sexes were
doomed to celibacy. This was said to
encourage immortality. Under the
present law, which has been framed
with care, the number of marriages
dissolved is less. A French decree of
divorce does not take effect till nine
months after it has been rendered.
The parties have thus ample time for
reflection if they have acted in the heat
of passion. If sthey persist they may
remarry, but the marriage cannot be
solmnized by priest. They may even
remarry each other, once and only
once. A Frenchman who remarries
his divorced wife and again divorces
her cannot marry heragain. He must
look elsewhere for a new wife.-SGn
Francisco Morning Cal.
The reproach of our nation has been
it's divorces laws, and the movement
now on foot to reform them is both
opportune and desirable. The family
is but an epitome of the nation; and if
the sacred institution of Christian
marriage, upon which the family rests,
be violated in order to satisfy every
man and woman chatting under marital
yoke, there will soon be an end to the
moral order of things and death and
vice reign in it's stead. Isit not APP
palling to contemplate that during the
past twenty years 267, 748 divorces have
been granted in the United States? Of
these 81, 225 have been granted to hus-
bands and 40, 523 to wives, thus show
ing that the women are the discon-
tented parties in matrimonial differ
ences in nearly two-thirds of the cases..
Then look at the fimsy pretexts for
which divorces are sometimes granted.
There are few married lives without
momentary Earring of some kind, but
if wives and husbands are allowed to
rush into a court and obtain a separa-
ton every time their matrimonial
coach becomes derailed, then good by
to the virtues of home and the moral
health of our people. A prolific cause
leading to divorce is the marriage of
erratic youths who, under the impulse
of passion, contract marriages before
they have cut their wisdom teeth, and
learn when too late that romance and
passion conduce but little to the happi-
ness of married life. Truly is the
divorce problem in this country one of
the questions which cries out for a
solution Tribune.
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lay out their work. They will prose-
cute during the summer a careful In
vestigation as to the extent to which
governments, municipalities r en-
couraging and aiding the deportation
to the United States of criminals, pau
pers, and members of the various de
fective classes. DR.. Kempster has had
a long experience in charge of asylums
for the insane.
MI. Powderly will give special atten-
ton to co~ntract-labor immigration,
and MI. Cross, who is a lawyer of wide
practice, in addition to his general in
vestigations abroad will give particular
attention to the criminal side of the
mmigrationproblem Chairman Gros-
venor will have general direction OF
the Investigations. The report of the
commission is expected to be ready by
the opening of the next session of Con
gress.-N. Y. Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
KANSAS WANTS A THIRD PARTY.

Topeka, May 26, 1891.-TheF Farmers
Alliance in this State has arranged to
ratify the action of the Citizens Con-
vention by voting in each of the three
thousand Sub-Alliances in this State at
their regular meetings this week and
next. The vote In each Alliance will
then be forwarded to the State Presi-
dent and announced in the newspapers
for the purpose of showing the other
States how unanimous the feeling is
for an independent third party in
Kansas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
FARMERS RESIST EVICTION.

JEWEL Cry, Kansas, May 26, 1891
Two years ago Joseph H. Bennett, a
farmer of Washington township, Dor
rowed money to improve his estate and
defaulted in his first payment. He re-
fused to leave when foreclosure pro
ceedings were instituted against him,
and the farmers in the neighborhood,
who are imbued with Alliance feelings
against this class of money lenders,
gathered to his support. The farm
was purchased by a law firm in Jewell
City, who represented a. young lady
school teacher of that place, who had
loanedt the money. Oscar K~inlesperger,
acting for the firm, took a deputy
sheriff with him Saturday night and
forced Bennett to give way.
The latter swore that he would yet
get the place, and Sunday night re-
turned with a mob of forty men armed
with revolvers. The tenant was told
that he could either leave or his dead
body would be carried off, and Bennett
took possession. Kinlesperger has the
names of the leaders of the mob and
will bring suit for damages. Bennett
belongs to the Farmers Alliance and
the officers in Jewell county are all
Alliancemen.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
A PREACHER sNuRRED.

MILWAUKEE,, May 23.-The Rev. DIR.
P~arkehurst, pastor of the Summerfield
Methodist Church, to-day received a
note d~elicately worded ~canceling his
engagement to deliver the Memorial
Day sermon at the Soldiers Home to-
morrow. This unprecedented action
has aroused angry feelings among both
veterans and Methodists.
About a week ago a committee from
the Grand Army of the Republic post
at the Home called upon the Rev. Mr..
Parkehurst and invited him to preach
the memorial sermon, he being Grand
Army man and having taken much in
terest in the soldiers affairs. AT a
stormy meeting of the post last night
the action of the committee was re-
iected, and the invitation to the clergy
man to keep still was determined upon.
In searching for the reason of the
change it is learned that DR.. Parke-
hurst, who is an uncompromising pro
hibition advocate, while in Chicago In
1884 boldly denounced the Republican
party as being dominated by saloon
influences, and he intimated to-day
that the politicians of that faith have
been bounding him ever since. Some
time ago, in a sermon, the reverend
gentleman declared that the saloon as
an institution had grown up since the
war, and after the great army of veter-
ans had been dismissed FRONT the service,
leading to the inference that the sol
diers were responsible for this.
The veterans resented this %aspersion,
and the preacher finally declared that
he had been misquoted. These things
were recalled to the home veterans,
and resulted in the invitation being
recalled. Captain Wright, of the
home, will conduct the services at the
home tomorrow.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
ToLooK INTO IMMIGRATION.

WASHINGTON, May 23.-The commits
sion appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury to proceed to the several
countries of Europe from which inn
migrants mainly come, and to investi-
gate and report upon the various
phases OF the immigration question as
presented there, consists, as to-day
completed, of the following named
gentlemen: Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor,
of Ohio, Chairman; Judson N. Cross.
of Minnesota, DR.. Walter h. Kempster
of Wisconsin, and Joseph Powderly of
Pennsylvania.
The members of the commission will
sail separately from the port of New
York during the next three weeks, and
will meet in London to organize and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
DEATHS FROM YELLOW FEVER.

BALTIMORE, Md, May 26, 1891.-The
British steamship Elvaston, Captain
Steele. of the Maryland line to Brazil,
arrived today with Is, 90S bags. of coffee
taken ON at Rio Janeiro and Santos.
Yellow fever broke out on board to-
day while she lay in port. Almost
every one on the ship had it. All were
sent ashore.
Second Officer A. D. How and Fire
man Thomas Wardle died of the dis
ease. Mr.. w. T. Chase, of Baltimore,
who went out as ~supercargo, was taken
with the fever and remained so i'll that
he could not return on the Elvaston.
He subsequently recovered and is now
on his way home on the British steam
ship Pharos, which sailed from Santos
Saturday for Baltimore. Second En-
gineer St. John Thompson, of the Elvas-
ton, was left in the hospital at Santos
in a c~onvalescent state.
The second engineer of the British
steamship Bencroy, Captain Appleton,
which passed in the Capes to-day from
st. Jago, Cuba, with iron ore, died of
yellow fever after the departure of the
Elvaston. Captain Appleton and a
number of the crew were down with
the disease. The Bencroy went out
from Baltimore.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
FOREIGN NEWS.
R AND THE JEWS.

VIENNA, May26, 1S91.-One thousand
Hebrews have already left the Island
of Corfu as a result of the recent perse-
cution they have been subjected to by
the Greek Christians of that place.
The trials Of the Greeks who took
leading parts in the anti-Hebrew dis
%turbances are proceeding. Several po-
icemen who have been found guilty of
aiding with the rioters have been sen
fenced to various terms of imprison-
ment. It is expected that five of the
leaders of the anti-Hebrew agitation.
will be sentenced to death,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
DOMESTIC NEWS.
GOOD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS.

HARTFORD, Conn, May 26, 1891.-It
is rumored that the Connecticut SUI
preme Court, in a Branford contested
election case, has decided that certain
so-called "for ballots" similar to those
which played so prominent a part in
the recent election, are irregular and
illegal. The decision will not be filed
until next week. If the report be cor
rect the decision practically decides
the State election dispute in favor of
the Democrats. -N. Y. Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
MORE INDIAN LANDS FOR WHITES.

SPoKANEFALLs, Wash, May 26, 1891.
The commissioners appointed to nego-
tiate with the Indians now occupying
the Colville reservation have made an
arrangement under which 1 800, 900
acres of land are to be sold to the gov
eminent at 81 per acre and opened up
for settlement.
Under the treaty every Indian
man, woman and child-has a right to
select eighty acre in ~severalty. The
government must erect a blacksmith
shop for the use of the Indian on the
reservation. The land coded will con-
stitute one of the richest and most at
tractive portions of the State. 1t com
paises farming and grazing, has fine
streams and mountains Of minerals.
The territory coded is larger than the
State of Delaware and more than twice
as large as Rhode Island.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
TO KILL THE BISHOP OF LONDON.

LONDON, May 26, 1891.-The Bishop
of London, the Right Hon. and Right
Rev. Frederick Temple, received a
mysterious letter last week warning
him that an attempt would be made to
a-ssassinate him at the ordinance ser
vice held In st. PauIs Cathedral on
Sunday last. The Bishop placed the
letter in the hands of the police, who
took steps to protect the prelate and
tried to find the writer of the warming
letter. Detectives carefully watched
the cathedral, but with no result.
Other police officers tried to trace the
mysterious letter, but did not meet
with success.
1t is believed that the threat was
genuine, but that the would-be assas
sins plans were frustrated by the vigil
ance of the police officials who are still
making strenuous efforts to find out
the identity of the writer of the warn
ing letter. 1t is believed that the mar
who is threatening the life Of the
Bishop is only awaiting a favorable
opportunity to carryout his intentions.
That beautiful picture oaqhtto hama
IN gOWT home. Send 81. 90 on subscriD-
ton account and get 1t.
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ONE OR TWO PARTICULARS.

It may be mentioned in particular
that the platform of the Peoples Party
is substantially, if not wholly, the plat
form and demands enunciated by the
National Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union at St. Louis In 1889, and
emphasized and reaf1rmed at Ocala,
Fla, in 1890, and by the National
Farmers Alliance at Omaha, in 1891.
And that there might be no lodging or
misunderstanding about what might
not have been meant, the Sub-Treasury
wasspecially emphasized and endorsed.
Another particular to be noted is that
the platform was adopted with total
unanimity and amid the most glorious
enthusiasm. Still another particular
to be noted is that a large number of
the delegates to the convention were
not. members Of the Farmers Alliance,
and not eligible to membership.
Friends of the ~Sub-Treasury plan may
freely dismiss all doubts or uneasiness
as to the ultimate victory. IF the par
tieulars as now proposed are not put
in operation, the principle involved
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of that State with courage to cast old
and hackneyed issues to the winds;
and they are fighting manfully and
nobly for the establishment of prin-
ciples and measures that are requisite
for to-day-and they feel and believe
they will win-and it looks as though
they will.
THE WORK IN NEW MEXICO.
The New Mexico Alliance is discuss
ing the adoption of a new constitution
and bylaws, such as will remove
some restrictions which have operated
against local growth and progress. But
there is beginning to be an awakening
there as elsewhere. About 75per cent.
of the population speaks the Spanish
language, and the Territorial Secretary
has requested that Alliance working
literature in Spanish be supplied. A
strong, able paper has been established,
and though growing rather slowly, is
fixing itself steadily and firmly and is
disseminating proper information.
THE COLORED ALLIANCE.
The membership of the Colored ALI
anee is increasing beyond count. Ma
tional President Humphrey writes that
the organization is prospecting beyond
all precedent so far as organization is
concerned. His greatest hindrance is
in the educational line. The demand
| for EEoro+,,-o =, Fo, - ,,oo61z Of hbi1ifxr
to supply organizations having litera-
ture which they a dispose of, can do
much by forwording it to President
Humphrey, or distributing it among
colored Alliances that may be near
| them.
FROM INDIANA.
The Alliance has had no greater
struggle in any other State than in
Indiana, but it is now conquering.
Thirty-three counties are organized,
twenty-four commission organizers
are in the field, and the Bureau has
official information to the effect that
the f. M. B. A, which has a strong
hold in many counties, will soon join
the Alliance and also the Patrons of
Husbandry. The Alliance workers
think they will have a sufficient"
organization before the close of the
year.
STORMING NEW ENGLAND.
A few weeks ago it was asserted that
the Alliance could never meet with
any favor in New England. To-day
there are Alliance organizations in
that famous section. The walls around
New Hampshire and Vermont have
been preached, and the next State to
be invaded will be Massachusetts. The
first national organizer will go into
that State to work in the next two
weeks.
NOTE OF WARNING.
Prominent Alliance men have called
the attention of the Bureau to the fact
that many patent sheets" protesting
to be issued for and in the interest of
the Alliance, contain as much or more
matter of an antagonisiic nature to the
order than infavor of it. The Alliance
expects and invites discussion; but
such g~roundless misrepresentation
and u~nwarrantable attacks as have
been noticed in some Alliance papers
which S patent sheets" ought not
to be disseminated by Alliance organs.
Editors who use these sheets should be
careful to stipulate that no matter
except such as deals fairly and favor
ably with the Alliance shall appear in
them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
WE ARE WITH YOU.

The Cincinnati convention is to be
followed by another great meeting
next February, which will be a con
vention officially authorized by the
great agricultural and labor organiza-
tions Of the country. More than five
millions of American citizens will be
represented. The platform of the Peo-
pies Party launched at Cincinnati,
embodies all the principles which
these organizations have supported
and pressed into national prominence
despite railery, v%illification and vitu-
peration from so-called leading men
who ought to have been their friends
and not their enemies. The primary
object of the last meeting is to be
virtually the same as was that of the
first. The National Committee of the
Peoples Party will attendthe February
convention for conference; and in that
conference the Alliance and other or
CARNATIONS will take the Peoples Party
by the hand and their five millions of
members can and will say through
their representatives: "your principles
are u principles, your platform is
our platform, we are yours; we are
with you, and will stand by you to
the end"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
AN UNUSUAL SPECTACLE.

The large gathering presented the
unusual spectacle of a political as
sembly among which there vas no
packing and in which there was no
effort or purpose to buy or sell. Many
men of evidently divergent views and
strong convictions composed the body.
But with all this, concession" and
not "obstinacy" was the character
istic feature. There was friendly and
earnest consultation which soon con
centrated and crystalized itself into
the shortest, but grandest and most
comprehensive platform promulgated
by any political party in a third of a
century.
The work of the convention was a
confounding surprise to old partisan
and sectional politicians. They pre-
dicted that the platform would be rot
ten with numerous impossible "isms."
They misjUdged the men whom they
WE'RE trying to condemn, and they
failed to realize that politicians and
great newspapers do not possess all
the brains of the country. The work
of the convention has either caused
ominous silence or conservative express
sion among them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02

That beautiful picture ouQhtto hoa0
IN gOuT home. Send 81. 90 on subscriD-
tiop account and get At.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

So "--
1--WE are with YOU" and will Stand
. by, ,You-The~ Cincinnati Conference
and The Peoples Party-The Ali
ance will take the Peoples Party by
the Hand, and will March with it
-Four millions Strong-Some Particu-
lars-He is a "POpulist A New
INTERPRETATION by the People-Com
mending the Principle-Many Mass
Meetings and Encampments-Gro with
of the Order-A Note of Warning.
EoUAL RIGHTS TO ALL, SPECIAL PRIV
LEGEs TO NONE.
The great Cincinnati conference is a
thing of the past. It has made history.
In the United States of America the
first step toward the formation of a
new great political party is taken, the
chief corner stone being Equal rights
to all, special privileges to none" and
this party standing on this foundation
is one against which the united cohorts
of greed, avarice and monopoly shall
not prevail. It must win and will
rule.
The preparation for and the gather
ing of that conference was watched by
the country at large with mingled in
terest, anxiety and contempt. Drones,
and those who r barnacles On the
body polite were aroused to some in
terest. Men and patriots who have
long and earnestly been trying to
inaugurate a revolution that would
restore the whole people their indi-
vidual privileges and protection were
anxious-painfully anxious-lest there
might be some misstep by which all
their painstaking efforts might be in
jured or nullifed. Those who hate
and try to crush everything but them
selves composed the element which
tried to brand the conference. with
contempt.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02
FROM FLoRID

A prominent and very vigorous and
active Alliance newspaper man of
Florida assures the Reform Press Bu-
reau this week that Florida viii either
send an Alliance man to the Senate or
send no one at all. The fight is still on,
but the spirit of the new revolution I"
has imbued a large number of the men
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1891-04-10

Administration Central de Comunicaciones
sacO de correspondence de la Habana, l de
Santiago de Cuba | de Mayaglez; para Cadiz
de Santiago de Cuba. 81 vapor San Agws-
tin ocfgogo hoy saco de la Habana, de Ma
yague7 y. de la Habana para San Thomas. Ell
vapor E21ailj09so de Liverpool entreg6 2 sacos
FL yapor Pio TX entreg6 un paquete de las
PaImas
Ell vapor espanoPf o:'san Agustinn rooojera
la correspondence para la Peninsula manana
yiernes las sete de la manana.
Aver tarde Sc re1no la Junta Provincial
de bagajes con el objeto de tratar de ampliar
la dicha Junta llegar pronto al fin de sus i'm
pOrtantes tar6as.
Ieemos en- Las N0UedGdeS, de New York !;
''S@spensj6,o de pagos. .-Despu6s de una
prolongada lucha, el Banco NaciOnal de Keys
tone Sc ha visto obgado cerrar sus puertas,
por orden del Inspector General de BancOs,
segdn manifesto un anuuciO tijado sObre la
puerta del edificio
Ell passive de esta Socfedad es de $760,0OO
mentras que su active solo ascende a $5.0O0."
~
U7No hemos bebido nunca mejor BRANDY
que el del FRAILE CARAT
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1891-04-10
La Correspondence de PuertO-RiCO.
Puerto Rico, Abrtl 8 de 1891.
Diputacion Provincial
Session del dia 8,

Presidential Soler.-Ubarri, Pena, Perez, sa-
gastibelza, Dom1nguez, Alvarez Perez, Co.
ira, Brau, Ferrer, Ramos, Blanco, Mendi-
Zabal, Lopez Landr6n, Estevanez, Amell y
Martinez.
Sc did 3uenta con una communication del
Sr. Otero manifestando hallarse enfermo 8
imposibtado para as'stir la session.
-Acuerdo sObre ell cupo de la cOntribu
cion territorial para 1891 90.
-AcuerdO sObre ell repartimientO gene
raj de cupos remitidos pOr la Intendencia &c
neral de Hacienda Y 0tros antecedentes.
-Acuerdo sobre subvencion de cuatro
mil pesos para la carretera de Adjuntas y
Lares
-Acuerdo sobre moci6n de los Sres. Blan-
co, Brau Y Amell acerca de la discussion de
presupuestOs.
-Qued5 sobre la mesa la moeion de los
senores BlancO, Brau Y Amell relativa 4 los
d6bitos por derrama provincial.
-AcuerdO sObre moci0n del Sr. Domin-
guez acerca de la torna de cubrr la plaza de
Escrbente que resulta vacante en- estas OH.
cinas.
So acord6 pase a la comision respectiva
la mOci0n del Sr. Mendizabal relativa al pagO
de 10 que Sc adeuda al Tesoro por varios sor-
teOS de la Lnteria.
-Qued0 s0bre la mesa la moci0n del Sr,
: Alvarez Perez reativa consgnaI en- eI pre-
supueStO de 81 90 una suma para atender
los gaStOS que OcaSiOne la festlVldad fellglO-
sa de Mira. Sra. de la PrOvidencia.
-PaS0 Il la Comis0n de presupuestOs la
moci6n del Sr Alvarez Perez relatiVa conce
der dos pagas de toca la viuda del Official 3'
de estas ohcinas u. Francisco Martinez.
Sc di0 cuenta con La mOcion de los Sres
Banco, Brau Y Amell, relativas un estado
que debe presentar la mesa acerca del cum
p'imiento por parte de los Ayuntamentos del
art1culo % de la Ley municipal
Sc acord0 por once votos contra seis no
aprobar la moclon presentada por los senOres
Mendizabal, Perez Martinez acerca de la su-
preston de la Diputaei0n Provincial.
-AcuerdO sobre distribution de tondOs
del mes de Enero ultimo.
-Concediendo a don Jorge Finlay autori-
zacion para establecer uua via fila en- la carre-
terra num. Z.
-Acuerdo sobre diferencia de 100 pesos
que resutaron 4 favor del rematista de la ca
rretera mum. lie Ponce q Adjuntas.
Sc acordO pedir al Ayuntamiento de
Ponce los antecedentes relatives al recursO
de agr&vios interpuesto por don Francisco
ROubert
-AcuerdO relative los billetes del Ban
co que Sc venen admitiendO en- la Adminls-
TRACTION de la Loteria.
Termn6 Ell acto siendo las de la tarde