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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-13
GRoWTH OF lie ALLIANeR.

Several papers have asked if the Al
lance is not dieing, and not a few as
sert that it is. The last report of the
State Secretary shows quite a healthy
increase in number of limitations. OF
course not as many as when the ogani-
cation was first started. Twelve char
tiers have been sent back to Alliances
that had disorganized and have been
re-organized. Owing to the scarcity
OF money and natural carelessness in
all age organizations, the dues for the
last three years have not been paid as
promptly as when the Alliance was
first introduced. This is to be expected.
Altogether, there is nothing discourag-
ing. There is more unity of thought
and action than at any period since the
organization was started.
Reports from all sections of the
country are about on the same line.
We notice that the Order is remark
ably healthy in Texas. During the
past twelve months 500 Alliances have
been organized and the dues are paid
up better than at any period in several
years. The present campaign viii
cause the Alliance to be obscured
somewhat, but it will emerge with re,
neWed vigor and determination. It is
the duty of every member to guard
with jealous care everything connected
Herewith.
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RALEIGH, N. O., SEPT. -, 1892.

papeT entered as ~secogd-cldse matter at the
Post Office Ng Raleigh, NJ O.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19

but the slim hand that smoothed it
carefully betrayed its roots scanned by
the red track of a recent bullet. The
features below were clear cut and high
bred, though deeply tanned from expo
sure.
The newcomer saluted, as the gen.
eral asked, quickly:
'Do you know any Fauntleroys here
abouts, sir?"
The guide raised his eyes, meeting
full the mingled surprise, contempt and
hatred shot into them by the blazing
glance of Carolyn Clay. And even her
best-trained tact lost itself in the cry:
"Peyton Fitzhughr'
The mans tanned face grew almost
purple in its flush, and his eyes fell be-
fore hers; but, equally surprised as her
self, he exclaimed:
Carolyn Clay"
If ever human face spoke plain words,
that of Evan Fauntleroy cried to the
silence now filling that tent:
ooh, Lord! it's all outl''
But his cousins face was dark with
wrath that swept before it thought,
prudence-an save the deep contempt
quivering in each word of her retort:
'"To her own people, yes! Miss Clay
to the branded traitor Peyton Fitz-
hugh!''
Rapidly the generals glance moved
from man to woman, resting sternly on
the guides face as he said:
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
A BoRGlA OF THESE DAYS.

Several Children Poisoned at Tonawanda
BY aFourteen-Year-Old Girl.
ToNAwANDA, N. Y, July ia young
Borgia has been discovered here in the
person of Ella Holderidge, aged IA years,
daughter of Franklin Holderidge.
Last Wednesday Mrs. Luman Eggleston
went to Buffalo, leaving her daughters,
Susie and Jennie, aged 10 and 4 years re-
spectively in the care of a neighbor, Mrs
Garlock.-
During the afternoon Ella Holderidge
came to the Garlock House with some
thing mixed up in the cover of a tin box.
Some of this she fed to the Eggleston
children and to the six-year-old son Of
Mrs. Garlock, telling them it was cocoa
Shortly after the children were taken
violently i'll and DR.. Edmonds was called
He relieved them and the eldest Eggleston
girl related the incident of the mixture
fed to them.
An investigation showed that the
children had been given trough on rats :"
The Holderidge girl would give no
reason for her conduct. She was taken
before a justice and committed to the
Limestone Protectory at West Seneca.
There was much speculation concerning
the death of 13-year-old Zoena Stuermer,
daughter of neighbor of the Holderidges,
which occurred July s, and in the light of
what has transpired it is suspected she
was also given dose of poison.
She was apparently in perfect health
until about B o'clock of the fatal day,
when she was taken suddenly and VIC
lently ill and died at 10 o'clock. Her case
puzzled the doctors, who thought it was a
case of indigestion or cholera infantum
Her body will be exhumed and examined
for noicon
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
DESPERATE FEMALE PRISONERS.


Three Attempts Made to Burn tho Indi-
ana Reformatory.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 19.-Three
separate attempts were made by prisoners
in the reform department of the Indiana
female prison to burn that institution
Sunday night. The first came shortly
before 8 o'clock by setting fire to guam
tity of bedding stored in one of the large
closets on the third floor.
Soon afterward fire was discovered in
one of the bedrooms some distance away,
and third attempt followed in still
another department.
The girls greeted the firemen with cries
of ''let her burn" and they ran about the
grounds wildly insubordinate and de-
terminedlv bent upon mischief.
Some are thought to have escaped.
After the danger was checked the fire
men and the police remained on guard for
several hours until the INSTRUMENTATION
was under control
For several hours most of the girls were
clustered in the corridors and halls,
shrilly declaring that they would not go
back and the officers were much disturbed
over the outlook.
The latter reported that the girls are
possessed of a mania to burn the institu-
ton and they live in constant dread of a
recurrence of the disaster which partly
destroyed the reformatory four months
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19

name, and what were you doing here
about with cavalry soldier?"
81 told you, major! That's my cousin
from the farm" Evan began, only to be
cut off by the sergeant's stern call:
''Silence in ranks! Riley, guard your
prisoner!'
But the quick woman's wit caught
the fact of her cousins capture, and his
cue, at the same time; and she folded
her arms quietly, remaining silent.
every well, madam" the major said.
ST will send you to headquarters with
your cousin there, and let you discuss
military ethics with the general. Capt.
Granger, detail one man of your squad
to guard this lady. Corporal Doyle, re-
port with both prisoners to provost
marshal ut headquarters: the fires will
guide you to the river bank. Captain,
n word"
And soon Evan Fauntleroy and his
cousin were again riding side by side
merrily, hopefully no longer, but he in
physical pain, and in greater mental
distress for her, she with gold-crowne6
head dropped upon her breast, and tears
of mingled modification and despair
forcing their way between the long
curved lashes.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
THE SUN RECORD.
How the Duration of Sunshine Is Accu-
rately Gauged.

How the Duration of Sunshine Is Accu-
rately Gauged.
Sunshine is recorded at the Meteor
illogical Office in England by means of
the Stolkes-Campbell instrument, the
lens, which acts as burning glass. AS
the sun accomplishes its apparent jour
ney from east to west, it burns it's auto
graph into a strip of card placed be-
meath the lens, but can only do so when
it is unobscured. AS the card is divided
into hours, it is easy to calculate the
amount of actual sunshine with which
each day is favored.
A report has recently been issued
giving the results achieved by this in
strument for the past ten years. From
this we learn that our southern coasts
are the most sunny ones, if we except
the Channel islands, as represented by
Jersey, where alone one-half the posi-
BILE amount of radiance was registered
for May and August. The east coast
of Britain is also decidedly sunny. In
the summer and early autumn Ireland
shares with the west coast of Scotland
the reputation of persistently-cloude
skies, but later on, toward November,
the observatory in Phoenix park, Dub
lin, records the greatest average
amount of sunshine for that month
namely, twenty-eight per cent. In the
metropolis, as might be expected, the
record is bad, the sun failing to leave
any trace on the card for more than
| one entire month.-Chambers' Journal
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
THE TRUE SIBERIA.
A Land That Offers Few Inducements {
Immigrants.

"A Land That Offers Few Inducements to
Immigrants.
"Dense swarms of mosquitoes attack
the inhabitants during summer night
and day, and deaths have occurred from
their bites" The natives do not slaugh-
ter cattle, and are exceedingly poor,
''the staple food being sort of cake
made of fir-tree bark powdered very
fine" Blocks of solid ice are used as
window panes in the houses during
winter. "An idea of the lowness of
the temperature may be gained by the
fact that notwithstanding the heat in
side the hut, these seldom melt till the
return of spring.
Now among these natives who have
nothing to sell, and in these not very
warm huts, political exiles are living
under circumstances which make their
existence harder than that Of a native.
In Sredne-Kolymsk, for example, a
place which is hundreds of miles furth-
north than the town of Yakoutsk,
there were, in all, only sixty houses.
in some of which two families of natives,
together with their dogs and cattle,
were already crowded, when about
twenty-five ''politicals" were sent
there. This was quite an invasion,
and one can easily understand the
anxieties and miseries caused by the
scarcity of dwellings. Imagine now
these male and female students
OF different universities, young
doctors and professional nurses,
technical engineers, literary men,
and even school boys of sixteen to sew
enteen, on a frosty day, barehanded,
patching up their huts with clay and
snow or cutting ice blocks, two hun
dred pounds in weight each, for their
windows, or lingering in icy water.
In summer, when a great deal of other
work is done, they are obliged to carry
everything on their shoulders, as
Sredne-Kolymsk does not possess even
a wheelbarrow. Again, consider the
food question. A native can easily live
on putrid fish for months, but Eu.
ropean needs bread and some variety in
food. Now let me quote letter re-
ceived some time ago from one of the
political exiles in Sredne-Kolymsk. He
thus describes his daily menu during
two months:
During March and April our food
consisted exclusively of rations of bad
meat. The meat was boiled in water.
and taken without any vegetables,
sauce or anything else to make it eat
able. The microscopic slice of bad rye
bread given per man only awoke an in,
supportable longing for more. After
having eaten such a would-be dinner in
our common dining-room, everyone Of
us took home small piece of the same
meat, wrapped in little rag, and an.
other microscopic slice of bread. That
was for supper and for breakfast next
morning. But as we were awfully
hungry, the meat and bread were eaten
up Immediately after reaching home,
| and then we had for our sole food, or
| rather drink, in the evening and next
morning, the detestable cake tea, with
| out anything else to fill our stomachs."
F. Volkhovsky, in Contemporary Re
view
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
STABBED WITH A BAYoNEr.
A Drunken Militiaman I'm Pittsburg ia
tally Wounds an Old Veteran.

Drunken Milftiaman I'm Pittsburg Fa-
tally Wounds an Old Veteran.
PursBURa, July 19.-David Lester, of
Company A, 14th Regiment, N. G. P,
stabbed Frank Calhoun with his bayonet
ON Grant street, near Fifth avenue, in the
morning.
The ARRAY is the outcome of a nights
carousal that Lester and Howard Hook in
Obliged in during the entire night.
They went along Grant street insulting
every person they met, and brandishing
their bayonets in the faces of passers-by.
They entered the rooms of Undertaken
Beinhaur, singing and very noisv. Mr..
Beinhaur ordered them out. This they
complied with, but renewed the noise out
side the building.
They defied arrest, but when Beinhaur
telephoned for an officer the drunken men
started off.
When they reached Devore's undertake
ing establishment, where Calhoun is en-
ployed, the latter advised Lester to be
more careful with the bayonet he was
thrusting about.
Lester, with vile exclamation, plunged
the weapon into Calhoun's stomach.
Calhoun fell without struggle.
Lester rushed upon him again, but was
caught by bystanders.
<Aor d hhEo HSnI AesCer auu LOOK were
arrested.
DR.. McKelvy, who attended Calhoun,
says the wound is very serious; the stom-
ach was torn and the liver penetrated by
the bayonet and he has no hope of Cal
houn's recovery.
Calhoun is 81 years old, a member of
the G.. A. R., and has a family
Lester lives in the 32d Ward and is 20
years old.
Lester and Hook were deserters from
the camp.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
LENGTH OF THE YEAR.
1t Was Formerly Little Greater Than al
Present.

Present.
The Egyptians were the first people
to fix the length of the year. What is
known as the Roman year" was intro
duced by Romulus, 73O B. c., and was
corrected by Numa, 7I3 B. c., and again
by Julius Caesar, As B. C. Caesar fixed
the solar year at 365 days and hours.
This was known as the "Julian style"
But the calendar of Julius was defective
in this particular: The real solar year
consists of 3o5 days 5 hours and 40 min
utes. This made difference of eleven
minutes between true solar time and
solar time according to Caesar. At the
time of Pope Gregory XIII. (he
became pope in 1879 that differ
ence of but eleven minutes each
year had grown to an error of
ten whole days. To obviate this error,
Gregory ordained, in 1882, that that
year should consist of but sos days; this
change was called the change from the
Julian to the Gregorian system of reck-
oning time. However, all the world,
with the exception of Italy and a few
inconsiderable countries, reclzoned
time by the old Julian style for more
than a hundred years after Gregory
had announced the change. In
England the Gregorian system was not
recognized until 1852, atwhich time an
other whole day of error had been
added. In the year last mentioned
above England and her dependencies,
America included, made the change
September 3 of that year, being recl1-
oned as the fourteenth. Russia is the
only country of any Importance that
still adheres to the old style system.
Chicago Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
Good COOKING

Is one of the chief blessings of every
home. To always insure good custards,
buildings, sauces, etc, use Gail Borden
Eagle" Brand Condensed Milk Direc-
tons on the label. Sold by your grocer
and druggist.
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tossed his hat on the table.
Miss Clay's eyes met her questioner's
steadily, but with unmistakable de-
hance, as she answered:
ST am not, sir. am a non-com-
Blatant, a Virginia lady on her way to
her aunt's home, arrested and dragged
here without cause or excuse for the
outraged You doubtless could hang us
both to-morrow-or now, if it suits your
governments theories of war; but its
articles protect this youth and release
me-"
The generals eyes again inventoried
the speaker with curiosity that had
some admiration mixed with it, but he
answered, calmly:
"Um! you seem familiar with the
articles of war. Did you study them at
your aunt's, or-in camp? What is your
name?'
Carrie Fauntleroy-my first cousin,
catching the papers on the table, before
the girl could reply.
SIS that true?"
The federal general questioned the
man, but his gaze never left the face of
the woman turned defiantly upon him,
now suffused with a glow of anger that
never deepened under his scrutiny.
''My cousin is q Virginian, SIR" she
answered for him, as he had done for
her. ''We are never ashamed of our
Names"
A quiclz,glance sent her Evans thanks
that she had caught his meaning-that
, her own name was too well known
along the border to be risked in this
! new peril. Whether the general caught
that glance or not, he seemed i'm
pressed by it's reflection in her eyes,
from which his own had never swerved;
for, after a brief pause, he asked, sud
denly:
''At what point, miss, did you hope to
| reach the river?'
If he expected start or flush for an
| answer, it was in vain. Carolyn Clay
had been in close places before, if not so
| perilous as this; and she answered, as
calmly and naturally as though declin-
ing an ice:
''My aunt lives inland, sir; not on the
river
A half smile he could not repress
flickered an instant about the cavalry
| leaders lips, quickly replaced by their
habitual sternness, as he retorted:
eft is strange hour and strange
company for you to be found in, miss.
| No, I am not doubling your statement
stopping her intent to speak by a
gesture-"but shall ask proof for it.
Major, question the guard who brought
them in for point Of capture and all de-
tails. Send the guide to me, SIR"
AS the major hustled out of the tent,
Miss Clay said, rather anxiously:
81 can give you all the details now,
sir. The troopers will prove my state
| ment.'
Gum! doubtless" the general an
swered, slowly. "Wnl they also dis
close to me-what was in"-he turned on
Evan like fash-"that paper you swal-
1owed?"
Zine cut, SIR" the boy answered,
quickly but meelkly; and even the grav-
ity of his peril could not restrain the
twinkle in his eye as he grimaced with
affected nausea.
A challenge without, a low reply,
and the orderly stood in the entrance,
saluting:
''The guide, sir"
''Send him in at once"
A tall figure, wrapped in long cloak,
that showed beneath it only muddy
riding boots, entered the tent. The
plain felt hat he removed showed fine
black hair on his broad white forehead
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
Whitney at Gray Gables.

Boston, Mass, July ia special
from Buzzards Bay says: w. G. Whitney
and E. s. Benedict were the guests of Mr..
Cleveland yesterday They came from
Newport in Mr.. Benedict's yacht Oneida.
The visitors took dinner at Gray Gables
and later went on board the yacht. 1t
cannot be ascertained whether the visit
had any special significance.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
wilmipeton,s Double Tragedy.

WILMINGTON, Del, July 19-The terri
BILE tragedy enacted by James McCloskey,
a carriage painter, Sunday, is now known
to have been caused by jealousy. Miss
Claringbould, whom he shot and fatally
wounded, is only "a years old, and as Nc
Closkey is 48 she had begun to treat him
coolly for other company. The four bullets
McCloskey put in his own brain will
probably prove fatal.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
Latest British Election summary.

LONDON, July ia summary of the
latest election returns is as follows: Con-
servatives, 267; Liberal Unionists, A |;
total against Home Rule, 311; Liberals,
289 anti-Parnellites, 81; Parnellites, Q /;
total for Home Rule. a46.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19
Nh, 4 4. Railroad Time Table
June 8. 1892.
NAUGATUCK DIVISION.
Trains leave Waterbury for

NAUGATUCK DIVISION.
Trains leave waterbury for
ZOOS SUNDAY 49, 4 + M so s' p M.
s9fsS s sassa sas ~ 5snstiGn-
turn-sGO, 1900 a. m, 1:45 p. m. Sunday 500
NE% ~ london and intermediate stations
BR1b 5eFePSe9R ! S:5o, sss 1880, lss,
So s's Pa r M a. SUNDAY % is f9 ss bso ~ r.
ANsoN1HHsSS T:sS, $50. 1880, s. M IL. 11s; Ssh
fs9; sss %ae ST. p, o:sa 1ssi s',
a. sSS E M su $751; li 81 a. a. m ss SIG
e e, p is e. 1896 sssDtsay .'' aso' 40 SO,
rH68M a esso iii7 a. NJ sas, $50, s;SO
p- Sunday 9:25 q. m. Return,-79e. 7soo,
io:ss. a. m. 2:s5, $40 p. m sunday S4'
sl;l7, M, sss, $50 7 go
I c:9c a. m.. ESQ, SOS p m sunday aga m.
w1NsTED-s:Ss, 1t:l7 a. m; 1858. osS 800 CO., e
ok sunday % yyo e. "a e M M Sunday 60 pm
L,UCJUs FUTILE, General Manager.
CT. HEMPsTEAD, General Pass Agent
7TFRIDFN. WATERBURY, & CONNECTICUT
M RIVER RIVER RIfLRoAD.
In RrrEcT JULY II, 1882.
GOING EAST.
Leave Waterbury. dublin street,.
500, daily except Monday 500 am; l.So e'oop.
LEAVE MERIpRN for cromwell-e.4S, $40
M; ar, 5.45p. m.
GOING WEST.
LEAVE CRoMwELL-6.so 80. sos a. M; IL d. o'oo
LEAVE nERlpEN for ss pggo,S s,r ssS
S9O; iOii a M; i.s5, 756 r. m.
HARLEs N CRAWFORD cnu"!
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-19

WatGrburyFirGAlarm
LOCATION OF BOXES.
4-Corner Willow and West Main streets
6-Exchange Place.
12-Rogers & Bro.
14-East Main street and Wolcott road.
15-Corner Cherry and East Main.
21-Horse car railroad stables (private.)
23-Iron bridge, West Main.
M-Waterhury Brass Co priv .Ce.)
25-Corney johnson and Waterville.
26-Corner Prospect and Grove.
27-Junction North Main, Grove ana
North Elm.
28-Waterbury Manufacturing Co (private
32-Corner Washington and South Main
34-Waterbury Buckle Co (private.)
35-Benedict & Burnham Co (private.>
36-Waterbury Watch Co (private.)
38-Corner of Grand and South Main
42-Corner of Union and Franklin.
43-Scovill Manufacturing Co (private.)
45-Corner Clay and Mill.
46-No Hose house, Baldwin street
47-Corner Dublin and Doolittle alley
312-Corner Meadow and Bank.
314-Corner Meadow and Cedar.
321-Plume & Atwood Co (private.)
323-Holmes, Booth & Haydens (private.)
324-No Hose house, Brooklyn.
313-Randolph & Cloves.
SIGNALS.
One stroke 10 M.
One stroke calls the superintendent OF
fire alarm telegraph to the City hall.
Two single strokes, fire out or fire under
control, used as recall.
Ten strokes quick will indicate a gen.
eral alarm.
Fifteenstrokes Quick and repeat calls
out the militia.
INSTRUCTIONS TO KEY-HOLDERs.
Be particular and remain at the box and
direct the firemen to the fire.
Dosnot pull the hook If the 6reben OF
small bell in the box is striking, as that
indicates an alarm has already been given
Be particular to remain at the box until
the arrival of an officer of the fire depart
ment, who will release the key, or, If cir
cumstances will not permit remaining, then
the proper officer will return the key to
the holder as soon as convenient.
Always give the alarm from the box
nearest the fire.
Be sure and close the door before leav-
n q the ho1.