The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-23
EcHoRs.
Bill Nys Keeps Us Informed As TIE H"w
Things Are Moving.

ASHEYILLE, N. c., January.-IhIS
has been a very gentle and balmy
winter for the native tar heller, also
the Cape Cod asthma5ic and bronchial
wheeler from the frozen home OF n
abolitionist who may have been spend
ing the season here.
Tropical growths are getting along
first rate here if kept indoors, and such
%subtropical vegetation as the John pine,
the jOnquIl and the horseradish are
growing in the open air.
Senator Zebulon B. Vance has TO
turned from the Holy Land with a
new story picked up on the Sea OF
Galilee. 1t Is a cOrker.
Senator Vance is looking well and
returns t his senatorial lAbors with
renewed vigor and a travelled air which
we North Carolina people alone lack to
make US shine.
He says that Baireuth is pronounced
Byroit.
Senator Vance was there during the
Wagner imbroglio. l do not know
What an imbrog.i 10 is, but l think 1t
vas that. He told several stories illus
traVive of American humor while at
ByrOit, and, as l understood it, inter
spersed between the Wagner selections.
They were not we'll received.
He told an anecdOte of ex Governor
HOardiS, of Wisconsin, regarding an
experience he had while in the army.
After n forced march of eight weeks
during which the brigade did not
touch food, being anxious to close the
war, they Camped one night at a
roads where it was found that in an
old deserted tobacco warehouse there
were Secreted three barrels of spark
ling, home made, Dent corn Heidsick,
grown on the place.
The boys tried to get at it, but the
officers saw at once that there would
not be more than enough for them
selves, and 90 PLACED a guard over the
liquor. In the night the boys gUt into
the basement of tho warehouse with
eight clean washtubs and an auger,
and in the morning it was found that
two of the barrels were empty ard
most of the brigade full.
The following night, after apollinariE
and family prayers, it was resolved to
try an / get the other barrel in order TO
sOO1ne that vague unrest duu III LhlhS
and another which one feels after an
undue indulg' nee in spirituous, vinouS,
malt OR fermented liquors. They did
not know that the guard had put the
third barrel on two BawhuFscs q foot
above their auger'S utmost scope. All
night they bored holes into the o
turn&l bosom of the scooting hours, all
unmindful that the guard slept by
the barrel in O new place on the
floor.
Toward morning Governor Hoard
took the anger with a heavy g t and
bored q new hole in the bosom of the
night. He did not strike what he
sought, but there was q wild shrek
from above, and when the governor
pulled the Nuger out he found on it the
fragment of a gray army shirt and n
0irthmark. Leaving the eight new
tubs where they were, also I'VE 400
900 new auger holes that had never
been used; they all went away.
Senator Vance told it better than 1
have, but when he got through the
German friend of VOguer said:
"Um-yahl Vot kahn of a story vaS
datl"
That 10 q humorous story. That is
American humOr."
mo, my frain; oxcoose me. Dot vas
not yoOmar; dot vas a tam lie
Senator Vance will, during this seq
sion, move the passage of an act
authorizing the city Of New York to
buy the street bonds Of the city of
Asheville. The city has been author
lied of course some time ago to sell,
but New York has not bought the
bonds, no doubt feeling some hesit@
ton without congressional authority,
but this will be soon remedied by act
Of the National Legislature and ali will
DO well.
The colored people of AEheviIle each
year cele orate on the 1st of January
their emancipation from slavery. They
parade on the street in strange cos
TUNES, and many of them improve
their appearance by wearing false fases
of a repulsive character.
This year the procession was quite
large and embraced many Of our haut
tOnnest colored people.
Mr.. Plum Levi, the barber of the old
school who shaved me five years ago
and atiIl nnints with nrida to the g0rX