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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-26

declaration, ~
A dealer who in 1891 sold $2S, OOC
worth of horses and mules in the An.
son section, this year has sold only
81, GOO worth.
Waiter S. Little, aged 40, of Arson
county, committed suicide Thursday
by shooting himself through the heart
with a pistol.
Congress appropriated 800, 600 for
the improvement of the Cape Fear
river below Wilmington and SIS, OOO
above that city. W
StatesvilIe Land ARK. Fhe con
census of opinion see-I1s to be that the
cold snap las about made an end of
the peach crop.
thousand gallons of ''moonshine liquor, ="
was raided by revenue officergi in Wilkes
county Saturday.
Rev. B. F. Marable, aged 50, pastor
Of the Presbyterian churches at Clinton
and Mount Olive, died at Duplin Roads
Thursday morning,
The second annual session of the
Western North Carolina Sunday school
Conference will meet at Salisbury
Thursday, May 5th.
John A. Hamilton killed himself at
Charlotte by taking laudanum, He
was from Baltimore and brother of the
actor, Theodore Hamilton.
Charlotte NeaUs: A little child of
DR.. Knox, of Steel Creek township,
died yesterday, from the result of
burns accidentally received.
The Presbyterian Orphans Home re
Gently burnt at Barium Springs, Iredell
county, will at once be rebuilt and
completed by September 1st.
DR.. R. II. Lewis president of Judson
college, at Hendersonville, has con-
cluded to return to his home at KIN
ston and resume his position there.
The Durham Globe reports that the
Dukes have let a contract for a cotton
factory to be built within sight of Trim
ity College, which will cost $500, 900.
The people of the vicinity of Bost's
wire bridge across Rocky River, which
is the only one of the kind in the
State.
DR.. VIM. E. Hall, editor of the
International, an undenominational
lectured at Oxford female seminary
Monday.
The Salisbury Herald learns that
have purchased the Rocky
River Springs, in Stanly county, with
the intention of opening a fine sum
mer resort.
The owners are sinking a shaft at the
iron mine at Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus
county, the Standard reports. And,
as Capt. Albright says, the quality of
the ore is fine.
A correspondent writing from Martin
county says he has just seen a freak of
nature in the shape of a calf with two
One is just where it ought to
be, the other is attached to the back
bone just over the calf's hips and hangs
down on one side. |
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CRUSHED UNDER Aident

LONDON, April 18.-An az children
place at Hampstead this evS
which two Ome and six
were killed and thirteen other persons
we're seriously injured.
Hampstead, which is a favOrite holt
day resort, about four miles from Lon
don, was visited, it is estimated. by
1OO,O 600 pleasure seekers to-day. Trains
were run every three minutes in order
to accommodate the crowd.
Signs of a storm at 6 D.. m. caused a
scamper for the station, the platforms
of which were already crowded. A
ticket box at the bottom of the stair
case projected into the passageway,
making it comparatively narrow. A
block resulted from the converging of
the people at this point.
1t was some time before the people on
the platforms began to realize whathad
happened. The rough horseplay
characteristic of the bank holiday
crowds was INDUCED in generally, both
thus hiding the alarming nature of the
situation and preventing the screams
of the struggling crowd from being
the staircase shouted, "Wh can't we
get down3" The pressure increasing.
many tried to reascend the stairs, but
found that task also impossible.
Finally, the officials began to extricate
the killed and injured, who were re-
moved to a comparatively empty plat
form for down trains. It was notuntil
then that the people generally became
aware that a terrible disaster had hap
pened.
AS the bodies of the dead and injured
were carried to the platform a scene of
great excitement was enacted. Thou
sands rushed f~rantically toward the
platform, crossing the rails in front of
a train that was fastTGnning up, the
engine giving warning wftSa prolonged
shriek otFSs whistle. The offcllaIs bad
just time to signal to the train to Stop
to prevent another calamity.
Several doctors were Immediately
summoned to the scene. A few per
sons who appeared to be dead were re-
by mean of artificial respiration.
Eye witnesses say that the crowd con-
sisted largely of women and girls,
man of them carrying babies. Dozens
tainted owing to the extreme pressure.
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4 10Y WAS halTOT mo N'LUn owe NnOrS6f
the other day, the harrow struck {
stump, or something in the ground
throwing one of the horses, breaking
Its leg n three places, which necessi
tated the killing of the horse, says the
Hickory Mercury.
DR.. Phil. Macon, of W%arrenton, was
very severely hurt a few days ago.
His horse, being nervous, ran off be.
fore he could get the reins and threw
him backwards out of his buggy, he
fell on his head, and the result was a
slight conclusion of the brain. He is
now out of danger.
A day or two ago a man was at
Greensboro making inquiries for the
Adamses and Joneses. He was attOr-
ney for people of these names as de-
scendants of the Cherokees, who claim,
the Record says, more than half of
GuilfOrd county, the claim embracing
much of the city property.
Charlotte N5aus: Several years ago,
a jeweler named j. D. Barnes was in
business here, He flched a watch
from Mr.. w. F. Alternately, of Paw
Creek township and struck out for
South Carolina. He piled his vocation
IN that State for awhile and spent ~
months IN the p~enItentlary.
Charlotte NeUs: John Bovd, the
negro who is charged with the train
wrecking, arraigned in court yester-
day and was permitted to submit to a
charge of larceny. The indie ment
was for the burglary of MI. McQuay's
house. Judge Mears sentenced him to
ten years in the penitentiary.
While Mr.. Gray Boswell was unload
ing guano at the Fremont depot, Mon
day morning, his mule became fright
ened and started on a run. Boswell in
attempting to check the fight of the
animal, was dragged across a lot of
cross-tles and his right leg becoming
entangled was broken above the ANGLE.
The Laurinburg Exchange, speaking
OF McDOugal, of that town, says he is
not wasting away from the effects Of
his confinement and subsequent attack
OF grippe, but seems to be in the en-
jOyment of his usual health. and is
prosecuting his business with as much
vlgor as he did before he went to jail.
Goldsboro Argus: It is thought
that the entire bean crop in this section
Is entirely killed by the frost, and
those who a secure seed, which are
very scarce, n busy replanting their
crop of truck, in the hope of yet being
time for the Northern market be,
fore Norfolk shuts out North Carolina
truck.
Washington Gazette: Jno Coward,
and escaped convict, was taken back
to the ~penitentiary by Sheriff Hodges,
Tuesday. John, as he calls himself,
has had a wonderful career, if we
may believe his story. He says he
was sentenced to eight years in the
penitentiary, and after serving two
years he escaped to South Carolina.
was caught and remanded to the
penitentiary, where he remained three
years and escaped again. This time
be has eluded the detectives for seven
years, but when he came to Washing
ton was nabbed. i
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THE LONG, LAYEk DOCTOR"

B.-"Whv, Mrs. Bi tk;ns, that looks
more like a cabbage head than any
thing [ have seen lately His hat
stands up like he is sicared on account
of the political situa3 .on."
Mrs. B-'I reckinti lit does. but it is
the best picture | hawk seen of him"
R.-What do you think about the
political situation noE?'
Mrs. B.-"I don't lcare. Re don't de-
serve any better treatment. He has
been calling us honest folks, "nihiI-
lists" anarchists" and every mean
thing he can think of. If it wasn't for
we honest folks who work and furnish
him a livin' he would be runnin' wild
an Twin on roots an herbs in the
woods. His finger nails would be four
inches long Instead of that he used
the pulpit for a bomb proof during the
war while Zeke was to the front fight
in like a man."
Mrs. - think the proper way to
do is to look after State politics first
Let all Teformers attend the pri-
maries that are now being held through
out the State, elect ~TefOTmer8 to
the county convictions and to the
State Convention. l am not in favor
of a new party so FIR as State politics
are concerned. All we need is go1d
true men for State officers, etc. But
when it comes to National politics it
looks like something must be DONE"
RIFF you do nat what will be-
come of extremists ike DR.. Kingsbury
and DR.. Caldwell?'
Mrs. B-"I don'know an I don't
care. We must savithe country. If
they are saved allSght; if not every
week will still hay even days. Good
bYe." |
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4 49, ~
Spanish anarchist has been EXPELLED
from France, Anarchist manifestos
have been seized at St. Eitenne and
Lyons.
CHARLESTON, S. c., April2O.- Rumors
companies in this vicinity have organ
lied into a trust with F. S. Rogers as
president, and that the trust will issue
bonds for 50, 900, 900 and will control the
output and price of commercial fertil-
izers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 10. "A canoe,
while crossing ClinCh river, near Kyles
Ford, became entangled in set lines and
was overturned. It's occupants, an un-
known woman and two little girls, were
thrown into the stream and drowned.
1t is believed that they were rowing
away from the flood district.
Something is the matter with the
bottom Of the United States steamship
Philadelphia, at Key West. She has
met with some accident about which
the officers are extremely uncommuni-
been Informed of the matter, and an
expert diver will be sent to make an
examination.
WASHINGTON, Pa, April 19.-Lawyer
Burlington, of Memphis, has been here
securing affidavits for use in the de-
fence of Alice Mitchell, indicted for the
murder Of Freda Ward. He learned
that Alice Mitchells mothers maiden
name was Isabella Scott and insanity
was hereditary in the Scott family.
to New York, where he expects to sub
NIT fhono To inConitu ovnoT%o
UTICA, N. Y, April 19.-At 3 o'clock
this morning fire was discovered in the
yarn mill of E. B. Woolworth & Co.,
in Oriskany Falls. 1t originated on
the roof and it is thought a spark from
a midnight train, south bound, was the
cause. AS soon as the fire found it's
way through the roof it was impossible
to check its progress, as the floors were
so lked with oil. About fifty hands
were employed. Only the walls remain
standing. Loss $50, 900.
AKRON, O., April 21.-Mrs Anna
Percy, wife of night foreman Percy, of
the Cleveland paper company at Mon
roe Falls, this county, while preparing
breakfast this morning, turned to her
four children who were playing in the
kitchen, and kissing them good bye,
ooAu' NO" 4OOA1 CL44AuISu. DIG
then drew a revolver from her dress
pocket and blew out her brains, dying
instantly. No cause is assigned.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, April IA des-
per ate fight between the United States
authorities and a band Of moonshiners
took place this morning near Big Bay,
in Craighead county, Ark, in which
one of m~oonshiners, T. @. Bryan, was
The authorities we're led by
Deputy United States Marshal Faux
enburg and a deputy sheriff and posse.
They captured a quantity of beer and
whisky and two moonshiners, whom
they will bring to this city to day.
LITTLE Rock, April 2O.-A terrific
wind storm, accompanied by heavy
rain and hail, passed I'VE Arkansas !
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SEVEN MEN BLOWN TO BITS.

MOUNT ARLINGTON, N. J., April 49,
The works Of the American FOrcite
Powder Company, on the shores of
Lake HOpatcong, about a mile below
here, blew up at about 8 O'Clock this
afternoon and seven men were blown
to pieces.
Most of the buildings were used In
the mixing process, and only one man
was employed in each. The other
buildings, which stand further away
from the lake on the side of the noun
tain. are used for the storage OF dH ma
mite, nitroglycerine, and detonators.
The explosion occurred while all the
men were at work. The men working
in buildings distant from those blown
un first heard a roar, and the buildings
in which they were working shook and
| tre1abled for fully a minute then came
a terrific explosion.
The startled men rushed from their
| work and saw a cloud of dust and
ga Aoke flying through tie ar near the
lYlde1r part Of the companys grounds.
= smNSnew in a moment what had hap
lowe - that n CONCLUSION
los They MKING IN RIves in the other
l." pened, and, fearinsA the mountain
might set off the explosts, when they
buildings, they ran forfr was lmml-
'te side. After a few momdRnced to the
Il saw that no further dame Wreckage
as nent, they cautiously ad nghercely,
scene Of the explosion.
was already on fire and buCROWD.
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STOLE A MILLION MARKS.

BERLIN, April 2O,-A most decided
| sensation was eau ed on the Bourse here
to-day by a report that Herr Jaeder,
chief cashier for the great banking
house of Rothchilds and Frankfort was
a defaulter. According to this report,
Jaeder had succeeded in defrauding
his employers of over 1000, 900 marks.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-26
STATE NEWS.

IAN of the State Press-Drops of Turpentine |
>nd Grains of Rice from the East-Clusters
{ Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Salisbury is to have a neat opera
house.
Union county is to have a new Jail
costing $12 1000.
Southport, which has 1900 inhabi-
tants, has no shoemaker.
A revival has been going on in the
Methodist church at Greenville.
A storm did a good deal Of damage
at Salisbury on the night of the 18th.
Charles Bll;kburn, colored, shot and
killed his wife at Greensboro Friday
night.
Fayetteville, under the new law, be-
comes entitled to a free delivery of
mail.
The people of Asheville have con-
tributed 1920 to the Soldiers Home at
Raleigh.
Lawrance & Rackle, brown stone
quarymen at Sanford, have made an
assignment.
The annual convention of the Kings
Daughters will be held at Wilmington
May 1870.
The new hotel at Hendersonville,
containing 100 rooms, will be opened
some time in June,
There has been for some days a mad
dog 'scare" at Fayetteville. Many
dogs have been killed.
By forging a deed William Brinkley,
of Forsyth county, swindled Mr.. H.
Montague out of $118.
Four men we're injured by the ex-
plosiOn of a boiler at Hilton mills IN
Wilmington last week.
Sites for a fine depot and warehouse
which the COast-Line will build at Fay
etteville have been chosen.
Less guano has been sold at Halifax
and the adjoining counties this season
than in any year since 1866.
The farmers report that owing to the
damp cold weather the early corn Is
beginning to rot in the ground.
Becky Watson, a young colored cir,
of Beaufort county, killed her newly
born infant Thursday by smothering it
The North Carolina synod of the Lu
theran Church, will meet in St. Paul's
Church, Rowan county, on April 28th
The electric street railway at Viii
mington has purchased the Gratt1ir
lands at Hilton and will have a park
there.
And now the Messenger hears the
frosts i'll the Wilmington section have
not hurt truck as bad as was ex
pected
Richard G. Green, Jr, of Yadki1
county, eloped with a young girl Mon
day, leaving his wife with four children
destitute.
The German Reform classes of Nortl
Carolina will meet at Hendricks Grove
Davidson county, the last Thursday IL
this month.
Gen. Bradley 7. Johnson will be a
Charlotte May 18th to further pos
himself in rReaEdz tSyfyTENecklanbur
Ll6
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TO EURN

LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 2O.-Seven
attempts were made to burn this city
last night.
Fires were started in different parts
of the city and some of them gained
considerable Roadway before they
could be gotten under control.
In all fifteen houses are in ruins.
There is no clue to the perpetrators Of
the deed.
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HAVE THE COUNTIES GONE ?

SAN Francisco, April lit is re-
ported here that the towns of Dixon,
Winters, and Vacaville were destroyed
by earthquakes this morning. The
wires to those places are damaged so
that particulars have not been obtained
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"HellO! Mr.. Editor"

Hello! Mr.. Editor"
R-"HeIIo! Col. Bilkins."
R-"Say, | want to know what Bro.
CwinsOn is going to do at GOldSbOrO9 |
see that he has called a political meet
inc all by himself"
"R-"You will have to ask Bro.
~Swinson."
P-"Well, I reckin it don't matter.
They will see the Importance of going
With the majority, whichever way that
is, If they don't, they will get nifty
lonesome"
R-"How are politics since you had
your holiday?'
B.-"Doggone if [ know. Betsy has
bnpn sOrter out of humOr, an she makes
me dance around so I hardly know
how to vote. myself"
R-"What is the trOuble?"
B-"WPll, she is mad because some
of the people want to go into the Third
nartv. some into the Democratic and
some into the Republican. She saws
nnople who want reform should wait a
title 90 slow an get together an go
into the party that is the best an adopt
the policy that is best"
R'-"She is right. If there is a
division of reformers in a partisan way
orif they divide on a question OF policy,
the fat will all be thrown in the fire.
People must vote as they pray. Nc
matter about a party name. A rose
bv n orher name would smell just as
sweet"
BI'Say, if you T going to talk
about roses and SIGH, I'm goIn' to cal
Betsy. She is runnin' the rose business
and pretty near everything on this
ranch now"
Mrs. B =" Hello! Mr.. Editor"
R-"Good morning, Mrs. Bilkins.,
Mrs. b" Wha5 was t. at you asked
Zpke about roses?'
R. Oh, nothing, only said they
are mighty nice flowers"
Mrs B-"Yes. they are. That fel
low who runs the Wilmington MeS8en
Qer is a nice flower, too. He is not
rose, though"
R.-"W What is he?"
Mrs. )" Well, is hard to tell -.
guess he is a Canada thistle. 1 would
like to wiring his neck"
R-"WhV. Mrs. Bilkins, thatSVOulC
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49,
probably be extended A gentleman
representing a corporation appeared
before the board last week, and wsS
given an option On them. He has the
matter under consideration. says the
TarbOro Advocate.
Tobacco plants in the Asheville sec
ton are reported to be seriously injured
by the recent cold weather, The CgtI
zen says it is found that serious short
age in the tObaC 20 crop will be the re
suit, as it is too late to grow new plants
in time for planting,
Smithfield Herald: Mr.. Geo. S.
Wilson, keeper of the poor of Johston
county, told us to-day that sometime
ago he was remodeling his barn and in
tearing up the floor they killed $40
rats, a large number of them had bur
rOwed beneath the barn.
Charles Blackman, the wife MUIR
derer, waved an examination at Greens
bOro Tuesday and was sent back to jail
June term. The Record says the
worn-out insanity dodge is what he
will, no doubt, attempt.
Greensboro Record: J. @. Mont
gomery, of this city, has patented a
black ink, from which letters written
with it can be copied into the ordinary
letter book, without brush, water or
press. In fact, you a copy your
letters on any soft tissue paper.
Raleigh Visitor: The hope is ex-
pressed in the State Guard circles b a
the next encampment will be hello at
Wrightsville. - The little son 81 MIR.
T. O. Byrum, of Barton's Greek town
| oL;0 fo4o11- I1,rn01 unctnrGaV
morning and died this morning.
New Berne Journal: AJOnes county
gentleman had DR.. G.. K. Bagby to ex'
tract 81 teeth at one sitting. He took
no notwithstanding whatever tC
assist him in passing through the
ordeal and yet he gave not the least
expression of any pain he suffered.
Morganton Herald: The horse thiet
who murdered deputy Marshall Miller,
in Wilkes county, has neve been cap
tured, thOughhundreds of men secured
the mountains in seach of him. jim
James, a noted rObber OF the DucB
Creek section Of Alexander county.
The invitations to the goth of May
celebration at Charlotte will be hand
somely engraved and printed from
copper plates. They will, the NeW'
says, be Illuminated by a representa-
ton of a genuine Mecklenburg hornets
nest, from a photograph taken from
) life"
Franklin Press: Mont Huff, a mer
chant of Nantahala township, com
) n ed suicide one night last week b!
liking a box of Rough on Rats and tw!
and a half ounces of laudanum, II
) was involved in fnancialtroubles, an
2 had been drinking heavily for sewers
days.
Louisburg Times: Cypress Gree.
. has recently lost two of its highly es
teemed citizens; Joseph Hines, age
so; died on the 9TH, and Jasper York
D aged As, died on the 4th. The latte
2 gentleman was formerly from Graz
Vile, having been in this county abou
two years.
While Mr.. Dave Abernathey's lit
: ! S,5,. Szcfn14r VeGZr;n9 ,EWiIkI,t Net,bCI :
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fdllNlll0 COuLlUy "LllIC ~ -
I AZ 20. see her married GIAn OR wa.
Suntay % WAS thu nowersIster, nea
trankllntOn, 80, f4OWn from tn
buggy by a runaway mule and almos
Instantly killed.
John Barlow, of Davie county, get
ten years in the p~enitentiary for killing
one Faircloth, at a corn shucking
MOOnshine whiskey was the beverage
of the evening. Barlow cut FaircIoth't
throat with a knife.
There was a shooting affray at Ad
vance, Davie county, at w. A Bailey
distillery, between his book keeper
James McGinn, Jr., and his boss dis
tlller, VIM Jarvis, who shot the former
and made his escape.
The Fayetteville Observer says thai
Col. Wharton J. Green, who is largely
interested in horticulture, reports the
outlook bright at Tokay, where he has
under cultivation fruits of almost
every kind and variety.
Truck farmers in the Wilmington
section ought to come out largely
ahead during the approaching season.
From all accounts, the Star says, their
crops of early vegetables suffered but
slightly by the recent cold snap.
1t is stated authoritatively that Char.
lotte, Winston and Wilmington are
rated each as having only twenty-six
men IN business who are valued at
$50, 600 and over. Raleigh is rated at
ten men of that amount and over.
Mount Holly NeaUs: On last Friday
night, April 9Th, 1892, Mrs. Charles Ice
man, nee Miss Ella Brinkley, daughter
of Mrs. Martha Brinkley, Of Mountain
Island, died suddenly of heart disease.
Aged twenty-On years and V emonths.
Rev A. Q. Dixon, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
will preach in the new First Baptist
church at Ashville May 10. He will
also lecture in the church on 'Myths
and moths of modern infidelity, , and
will handle bob" Ingersoll with gloves
off
The Snow Patent Tobacco Barn Com
pany has failed, and attachments
amounting to between $35, 900 and
$37, 900 have been taken out against it's
property at High Point, Oxford and
other places, the Danville Register re-
ports.
MI. P. @. Coontz has been down in
Cllne's township and reports that the
farmers have abandoned cotton grow
ing almost entirely; but were planting
a large crop of corn. 1t is so in various
parts of the county, says the Hickory
Mercury
The Salisbury Herald learns that
Mrs. Rebecca Hooks, of Red Hill, An
county, gave birth last week to
children. Two years ago three
children we're born to her, and in six
years she has given birth to twelve
children.
Cabarrus equity appears to be in.
earnest about the new railroad from
to Charlotte or to some point
On the Carolina Central railway Con
cord township Tuesday voted to issue
SIS, 900 in bonds in aid of the road.
This road appears to be a certainty,
he Charlotte NelUs says.