The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-09-05

wall
"Wbat's the matter Lieutenant - de-
manJed the penera1
GIVE got chill" said Polk.
! General Crimes staIkcI III. and noticed
! that in tie shade of the wall where Poll,
was lyinr. The lone grass was covered
with white frost
s.If vou,ve oot . chill - ne said .,badn,t
Won I,cttcr crawl over tlo wall where .ho
sun shines >"
But acafnst the sunsIinv side Of that
wall Union bullcts we're bcino nottcncd
"Tom," said General Grimes, as he and
! his aid rode on ss,ion't foront this
shall call on Won as q witness acainst
| that id scOundrcI"
! That was Winchester for Polk even
more than for General Early. His mil
! itarv career was ended. Chance saved
him the disgaacc Of a c0urt-martial. The
dead 0n.tlc field OF Winchester had
hardly been buried when Lieutenant
Polk was invited to come home and fill
the vacancy in the legislature left by the
death Of the member from his county
! This rave him an excuse for resigrinr
other than the disgraceful one cf which
| General Grimes and Or1orjv~ Doyereauy
| had been witnesses
After this war Poll, e,1crppTed no hn4ter
at farminr than he had before. lie tried
tn ctayn off disaster nv cuttino Nm his
farm into built]inr lois callinr it Polk
vilIe and ADVERTISING for Inhabitants
Pe0Dle in search of 11ace to live did
not take kindly to PoIk's lots. and Polk
vile collapsed. Polk would have col
larsod too hnt for that DESTINY which
| has kc,,t an eve on him from, the herin-
ming. He managed TO be elected state
commissioner Of agriculture. to which
Office there is q living salary attached
| Within the last month Polk's assistant
| editor of The Progressive Farmer T T.
RAMSEY, has carried on . Diplomatic cor
respondence with Can't. S. A. Ashe. edi
tor of The News and Observer, relative
to The News and Observers editorial
statement that Polk was q failure &C
commissioner of agriculture. Messrs.
Ashe and Jernigan continue to stand bv
that statement, and Polk and RAMSEY
have let the matter drop.
Having failed as farmer, and as the
states official adviser Of farmers Polk
turned his attention to patent medicine
He got hold of a marvellous specific for
diphthcria and took it uD to Connecticut,
the native heath, as it were, of patent
medicines. Presently Polk came back 10
Ralcirh in bigh feather. SAVING that nat
ent medicine was the thino. and that his
fortune was made, He borrowed some
,,oro,, ord want hoo1- 10 C,ornoo+;o,,+
N''
| Nhether the sure cure 1alled TO cure, or
whether it was a dull season for diph-
liberia. is still matter of controversy.
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o"' II 10 N'i0" Il 'N''' olN O"nlI iloi1e
from Cohhecllcut oead broke. lie has
not the appearance Of an abandoned
sroundrpI bv anv means In fact neonle
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nv "'' 'ii,-.5 ~ o0'1I'
take very kindly 10 MN. 0uch people
welcomed him to Winston, near here,
and helDod him start his Daner. the Pro-
r,o-.;,,a I-on,or Than poI,, buono,,oa
sioSSi'' d iiio,' ii0N 0,h u 'iAOl'oo
ont on the only career which has not
proved too much for him. lie became
| damacorno
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| teFeSted III paper ana got shSht start
| in the field of demagOgy by warning the
! farmers arainSt LAWYERS. He told them
,,.o,., 49,, t.1 ,;.
'h"I i""S9l' wee VIC CAUSE "i naiu 'l"leS
! on the farms. Then be told the farmers
| that the merchants and manufacturers
were the nponle who held their noses on
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