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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-11
General Gordon 10 Lecture

New York, June General John
Is. Gordon has, ut the solicition of MANY
prominent men in this city, consented
to deliver lecture founded on The
closing days of the Confederacy and his
personal estimate of two great captains,
Grant and Lee. The date will be an
rounced later.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-11
Weekly Bank Stateme.,

NEW York. June 1O.-The following
Is the weekly statement of associat ted
banks: Reserve, decrease. 6,5G6, 500;
loans, decrease, 81, 100000; specie, de
crease, S627, 100; legal tenders, decrease,
,o60 800; deposits, decrease, s12, ass, 600;
circuiation' Increase, $4,000. The banks
now hold Sl4.429. 600 in excess OF the
requirements OF the 25 per cent. rule.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-11

No BRASS clocks or corner lots are
given with Magnolia cigarettes. Quality
alone Is furnished the consumer.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-11
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.

At Philadelphia
Philadelphia. .... OOalu101o 4,
81. Louis. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. O03OO3OOx- i;
ts-Philadelpha, 9: St Louis. II. Errors
rhiiade!phin, ,; st. Louis, g Batteries-Kecfe
H'c<ery, weighing and Clcme ats; Gleason and
Gunson. ~
=, At New \ ork Gen iDningsl-
new 1Ork.... % O 0 2 3 / T
Louisville ................. Dol / 900 3 o. 6
His-New York, 12; Louisville, o. Errors-New
YORK. y; Louisville. 2. Batteries and
Doyle; Stratton and Grim.
At Baltimore
D Disiuihore.. ..'.'........... 5000 o. {
NleVcihnu. Observation-Disclosures. 0 q / 90 o o.. /
Hits Baltimore, S; Cleveland, Z. Errors
Baltimore, ,; Cleveland. , NATURALIZATION
ana Robinson; Young and thinner
At Boston
boston ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. i00OllaOx- $
Iitteourg ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. U 0 U 0 3 U o. 8
Hits Boston, Z; Pttsburg = Errcrs-Boston.
!: pitfsburg, l. Batteries Nicho and Bennett;
Terry and Mack
AT Brooklyn
brooklyn. Observation-Disclosures. 20 002Ox- 1
Ni"ei"hati' '..''...... ...... U u u q d >
Hits BroOklyn,6: Cincinnati,7 Errors-Brook
hn, ; Cincinnati, 3. Batteries Stein and Kins
low; sullivan and Murphy.
AT Washington
M Mhaisnanston'.''. .......... 000oo0lo l
Hits-W Washington, Il; Chicago. $. Errors
washington, !, Chicago. |. batteries-Mcekiu
atG Farrell; Maack and kittridgc
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-11
TUE WEATHER.

Forecast for Virginia: Fair, variable
Winds.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-11
FoRD'S THEATRE DISASTER.
The List of Dead and Wounded
Now Complete.

A Coroner'sJ Jury to Investigate the Cause
of the Accident and Fix the Response
bliity--The President Deeply Con-
cerned-Coionel Ainsworth Asks for n
Court of Inauiry-The Wounded
Generally Doing Well.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16
kirkhart Bros Shows.

kirkhart Bros shows have pitched
their tents on the corner of Second
avenue and Sixteenth street, and to-
night open a series of performances
to continue through tomorrow. Kirk
hart Bros. lay no claim to a monster
aggregation such as is presented by
Barnum. or Forepaugh or Sells Bros,
but they have the reputation OF Civ
ing an unique, interesting entertain
ment well worth the admission price.
which is placed at the remark
ably low figure of % cents.
The show embraces among its
more attractive features Miss Lii
liam Cady. the worlds greatest pistol
shot. The bold and daring Brazilian
Prince Mungo, who is the most mara
culous performer with knives.
swords, spears and axes. that has
ever been seen in America. The
finest leapers and tumhler> ever seen
under show canvas y troupe OF
educated dogs. goats and monkeys,
funny clowns, one great exposition Of
wonders. curiosities and arenic tri-
umph>
Ries Bros viii this evening, prior
TO the opening of the show. give free
on the outside of the tent their great
carrying perch leats.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16

Tower Sunday. He and Bill McMil-
len, also an athlete viii give the
feat of 81 wrestling match on horse
back.
A buggy belonging to Morris Ro-
senfield, containing his son, Charles
Rosenfield, and female employee of
the household. was overturned on
Second street in Davenport this
morning by colliding with a street
car. Fortunately neither of the oc-
cupants was injured.
Ticket Agent Plummer of the
Rock Island road has received no.
tification that tomorrow there will
be grand parade of all the peo-
pie. animals and special features
in Midway Plaisance at the World S
fair. The parade will be made
through the entire fair grounds.
Somebody started rumor a few
davs ago to the effect that the Rock
Island road was offering round trip
tickets to Chicago for 81, and the
consequence was a sudden determi-
nation on the part of many to hasten
their visit to the Worlds fair. The
report, however, was unfounded.
No reductions in rates prevail.
We Just returned from Chicago
bought about 900 suits at 80 cents on
the dollar How the wholesale mer-
chants did squirm when we offered
80 cents on the dollar for them, but
ready cash did it, what's their loss is
your gain-of course. only more so.
Underselling everybody on every
thing, you know us. We showed the
public last Saturday how we do
it. The London.
1t is understood that when Morris
Rosenfield moves into his new man
sion at the head of Nineteenth street,
the house at present occupied by
him will be entirely remodeled by
Il. r. Gable, who owns it, and con-
vert it into a modern home for the
occupancy of that gentleman and his
family, when he moves back to Rock
Island. after he has laid aside the
cares of active railroad life.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16
\ Passenger 1rain in the Ditch.

ALBUQUERQUE, y. NJ, June 16.-The
eastbound passenger train is in the ditch
three miles east of Holbrook. Engineer
Oscar Frost and Fireman Snyder were
caught in the wreck and both are badly
if not fatally burned. Three tramps were
stealing rides on the blind baggage" and
one of them was killed outright
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16
De Lesseps Released by the Court.

PARIS, June 16.-Thomas de Lesseps,
who was sentenced to prison for completely
in the Panama canal frauds, has had the
judgment reversed by the court of cassa-
ton and his prison days are over. All the
others condemned go free also. De Lesseps
is too i'll to be removed yet from the
hospital
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16
The Hudson. Wis, Savings Bank,

HUDSON, June 16.-The statement of a
committee to report on the affairs of the
Hudson Savings bank will show that the
assets, which by the banks statement
were S736, ,125 sc, are by the committees
apprsisement 1896, ,21636, the liabilities
being S614 4g3. 2S
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16
Ju,.. rerry.s escape from the Mob.

The late Jules Ferry had n narrow escape
from violence at the hands of the Paris
commune, to whom be was especially
odious. He eluded their pursuit through
church, letting himself down in a basket
out of a rear window while the mob was
forcing the outer door. The basket fell to
the ground with thud and gave its occu-
pant a severe shaking up.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16
The Infanta at Niarara.

NIAGARA FALLS, June 16.-The 1nfanta
and party have visited Goat island, the
Sister islands, the inclined railway, and
other points of interest about the falls.
In the afternoon they drove across to the
Canadian side.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16
The mad Dog" of the Street.

The mad dog of the streets is, we know,
rarely rabid and usually only needs little
judicious and kindly assistance to restore
him to health. 1t is just about as reason
able to pounce on and kill human being
that falls in an epileptic fit as the majority
of the dogs that are attacked and killed
by an excited crowd.-Popular Science
Monthly.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16
SHERIFF Asphyxiated by Gas.

OMAHA Neb., June 16.-Sheriff b. a.
Dennis of Culbertson, in attendance at the
interstate sheriff's convention, was found
dead in his bed at Council Bluffs, as
phyXiated by gas.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-06-16

A curious Romanian proverb is this, ''It
is easier to keep sack full of hares than q
fS
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

The Cotton Plant of April 22d says:
We attended last week the meetings of
the Abbeville and Fairfield County AL
liances. In both counties the order
shows abundant evidence of life. We
believe that the order in Abbeville
county is in better condition than in
any county that we have visited, the
reports from the Sub-Alliances show
ing a larger number of active mem
bers. Arrangements were made to have
a series Of meetings in picnic fashion
yer the county during the coming
summer, and we thank the brethren
for a kind invitation to attend. The
Fairfield brethren are up and doing
and will be on hand when fighting is
fO he done
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
MARSHALL NEY.

We publish on another page a con
densed report of an argument recently
made by Rev. Mr.. Weston in support
of the widespread belief that Marshall
Ney was not shot by his W soldiers,
acting under orders, but escaped to
this country and taught school in
Rowan county for a number of years.
All of his old pupils now living firmly
believe that he was Marshall Ney. His
knowledge of military tactics, habits,
personal appearance, everything in
dictated the truthfulness of his state
ments. Even on his deathbed he as
serted that he was Marshall Ney.
A few years ago the body was ex-
humed for examination. There has
been one missing link, and q somewhat
hasty investigation failed to establish
this link. Marshall Ney was wounded
on the left side of the head, just above
the ear, by a sabre stroke. His skull
was fractured and tripanned with
silver. No silver was found in the
grave, but the skull was perfect in
shape, except a hole just where the
wound was said to have been. Chemists
say that the small quantity of silver
might have been destroyed by the
acids in the body, and the failure to
find the silver is not satisfactory evi
dence that it was never there. The
writer was present and knows that the
Investigations were not thorough, and
if the silver was ever there it might
have been overlooked.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
TAT DROPS.

The new Kansas Ballot Law is
thought to be an excellent one. North
Carolina needs a law now that will pro
tect the ballot and electors in their
rights Wilmington Messenger.
There appears to be a doubt in some
quarters as to whether the interna-
tional naval review was gotten I'D to
display our war ships, or society's
manageable girls. -New Berne Jour-
mol.
The new Sponsel one-pound rapid
firing gun has a range of three miles.
with effective penetration at $500
yards. Late tests show that it will
shoot Is shots per minute. There isn't
any fun in tackling things like that
Wilmington Star.
The St. Louis Republic says the COM
plant is again made by some Congress
men that $1,000 a year isn't salary
enough. Well, there is no law which
prevents a Congressman who is not sat
isfied with that salary from resigning
- Wilmington Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
WHAT A STATESMAN SAID.

A short time before his death George
Washington wrote an article on the
danger of 'party spirit" AS we see
how ruinous too much party spirit has
been, an extract from his article will
be timely now. He wrote:
"Ihave already intimated to you the
danger of parties in the State, with
particular reference to the founding of
them on geographical determinations.
Let me now take a more cOmprehen-
sive view, and warn you, in the most
solemn manner, against the baneful
effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately is insep-
cradle from our nature, having it's root
in the strongest passions of the human
mind. It exists under different shapes
in all governments, more or less stit1ed
or repressed; but in those of the popu
lar form, it is seen in it's greatest rank
ness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction
over the other, sharpened by the spirit
of revenge, natural to party dissension,
which in different ages and countries
has perpetrated the most horrible enor-
mites, is itself a frightful despotism.
But this leads to a more formal and
permanent despotism. The disorders
and miseries which result, gradually
incline the minds of men to seek secur-
ity and repose in the absolute power
of an individual, and soone or later
the chief of some prevailing faction,
more able or more fortunate than his
competitors, turns this disposition to
the purposes of his own elevation or
the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an ex-
tremity of this kind (Which, neverthe-
less, ought not to be out Of sight, the
common and continual mischiefs of
the spirit of party are sufficient to
make it the interest and duty of a wise
people to discourage and restrain it"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
THEY SEE THE CAUSE.

A writer in the FOrtnightly ReUieW
has obtained from nearly 800 leading
manufacturers and merchants in the
British Islands expressions of opinion
respecting the causes of the depression
OF business and the fall of prices. Upon
one point there is practical unanimity
among these persons, and that is that
the depression is largely due to declin,
ing prices, and that the downward
tendency Of prices may be attributed
to the appreciation of gold under the
influence of the decentralization of sill
yer. ''It would seem, therefore," re
marks the writer of the article, that
the appreciation of gold is injuring our
manufactures, our trade and our com
MERGE" This is the opinion of the in
terested parties, and it is also the opin-
ion of theorists of high rank, "for,"
remarks the writer, 'almost all the
teachers of economics in Great Britain
to-day are bimetallists." 1t would be
curious to ascertain what is the opin-
ion upon this subject now prevalent
among the manufacturers and mer-
chants of our own Atlantic seaboard.
If the newspapers of the country rep
resent them, assuredly they do not re
gard the matter at issue as II is re-
garded in Great Britain; but the plain
indications are that our journals obtain
their views from the financial rather
than from the commercial and manu-
featuring class. At any rate, there is
not the smallest reason for doubling
that the theory proposed in the Fort,
nightly ReUieW is thoroughly sound,
and that the gold monometallism
which is robbing the producers of this
country of hundreds of millions of dol
lars annually is also destroying values
and paralyzing industry in the British
| islands. We may hope that British
public sentiment may soon acquire
force enough to compel the British
Government to cast it's influence for
| silver reconciliation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
WHERE R WE AT7

The Atlanta Journal of the 26th ult.
had the following editorial item:
'The Raleigh PROGRESSIVE FARMER
makes a cOmical blunder in mixing up
eX Pension Commissioner Black, of I'LL
nOis, and Congressman J. @. @ Black,
of Georgia. The editor of the FARMER
needs to progress a little more in
knowledge"
We always accept good suggestions
and try to profit by them. However,
somebody else did the mixing in this
case. Several papers had published
the statement and put Congressman
Black down as the man. We apologize
to Congressman Black, of Georgia, and
at the same time condemn the admin
istration that appointed a man ''men-
tally and physically disabled from any
work." and who was drawing a pen
sion on that account. The Journal nor
any one else has denied any of the
other charges, and they stand unless
proof to the contrary is forthcoming.
We are not expected to know every
man who is mentally and physically"
weak, even if he does hold a govern
ment positionand drawsa pension. The
whole matter is too ''black" to dwell
unOO
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
MONOPOLIEs AND TRUSTS.

There are people, plenty of them,
who cannot see the necessity of so
much denunciation of monopolies and
trusts. For one reason or another this
class has never been pinched by the
gentlemanly, keen sighted, pushing
business pickpockets who have reduced
business methods to scientific pillage,
and they cannot understand why any
body should be alarmed at the condi,
ton of things, says the Chicago Farm
ers' Voice.
But to the man who has felt the
strong, relentless grip of capitalistic
combination and to the student of pres
ent commercial conditions, the trend
of business, social and political affairs
is clearly toward the absorption of all
wealth by the few and consequently
toward the ultimate destruction of lib,
erty and Of systems. The follow
ing is a list Of trusts and monopolies
that at present exist, and when we re
member that a trust or monopoly
means the plumber Of the masses, the
list is formidable enough to startle any
body: Anthracite coal, axes, barbed
wire, biscuit and crackers, borax,
brooms, brushes, buttons, carbon can
dies, cartridges, casket and burial
goods, caster oil, celluloid, cigarettes,
condensed milk, copper, copper sheets,
cordage, crockery, cotton and duck,
cotton eeed oil, electric supplies, en-
velopes, forks and hoes, fruit jars, gal
vanized iron and steel, gloves, har-
rows. harvesters, hinges, indurated
fiber, lead, leather board, lime, Iinseed
oil, Autograph processes, locomotive
power, marbles, matches, morocco
leather, oatmeal, oil cloth, paper bags,
pitch, plate glass, pocket cutlery, pow
der, preserves, pokers, rice, rubber
(gossamer), rubber (generaD, safes,
salt, sandstone, sanitary ware, sand
paper, sash, doors and blinds, school
buttons, school furniture, sewer pipe.
shot and lead, skewers, soap, soda
water machinery, spools, bobbins and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
THE AME CITY F A

The trouble at James City is supposed
to be over. The negroes have signed
leases for the property at moderate
rates of rent. These leases are for
three years.
AS usual, both sides were more or
less to blame. First, the Federal off
GERS Illegally put the negroes in posses
sion of the property, and then Mr..
Bryan delayed entering suit for its re
covery. The courts we're slow to de-
eide the matter somehow. If Mr..
Bryan had secured possession of the
land Immediately after the close of the
war, the necessity of sending eve COM
panies of militia there would never
have occurred. The negroes are to
blame for resisting the law. We must
have law and it must be enforced. But
the negroes of James City are ignorant
and cannot see both sides of a question.
They believed that their title to the
land was indisputable. They had lived
there for nearly thirty years and they
could not see how anybody could drive
them off their property or out of the
rude houses they had built. But it is
to be hoped that neither side will act
unwigely hereafter.
Governor Carr was on the ground
from the hour that the troops camped
in Newbern. He acted conservatively
and patiently and did everything pos
sible to get a ~peaceable settlement.
Any other course would have been IN
wise. The negroes felt that they were
standing by their homes, and to have
driven them off at the point of the
bayonet would have been cruel, even
though it was lawful to do so.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
THE CATERPILLAR PLAGUE

The Wilmington Messenger saws II,
| caterpillar plague which has been =,
| ported for the past two years from II,
Big Swamp and points on the CaroIiD.
Central railroad near Clarkton, is apsis
exciting the anxiety of the people ~
that section. The worms have q,
peared in greater numbers than in fl.
previous years, and have not onr
stripped the leaves from the treesi
the swamps, but have attacked the DAB
trees in the forest for ten miles aroma
CIarkton, and r even getting into thu
houses of the farmers. The trees And
the ground are literally covered with
thousands of caterpillars, and thu
farmers are alarmed lest they attacb
and destroy the fruit trees and grow.
ing crops in the fields.
If the caterpillars are to increase IN
numbers every year ruin stares The
farmers in the face, and they are now
concerned about how they are to d.
stroy the pests in order to protec
themselves. Can't somebody sugges
a remedy9
It is stated that up the Cape Fep
river, at White Hall, Bladen county,
the caterpillars have appeared in great
armies, and are creating havoc wha
ever they go. The area covered By
them this early in the season is largeF
increased over the two years they han
been infesting the section where thev
first appeared. 1t will be rememberd
that for the past twoyears they stopped
trains on the Carolina Central, the
wheels of the cars MASKING them uph
such large masses as to cause The
wheels to slip on the tracks.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

shuttles, sponges, starch, steel, steel
rails, stove doors, strawboards, sugar,
tinplate, tombstones, trunks, tubes,
type, umbrellas, wall paper, watches,
wheels, whips, widow glass, wire, wood
screws, wool hats, wrapping paper,
yellow pine. Here are SO bands of as
polite gentlemen as ever scuttled a ship
or cut a throat. They are land pirates
whose business is that of wrecking the
ships of industry that are passing them
on the great ocean of business life. They
stand at your table to levy a tax upon
every mouthful you eat; they are in
your wardrobe to tax the clothing you
wear; they appear at your grave to
chip wealth from the tombstone that
marks your place of rest, yet there is a
law against such combinations. The
law existed under the last administra-
ton at Washington; it exists under the
present one. But who supposes the
law will ever be enforced until the
people take matters in their own hands
and enforce it9 To enforce the law
will hurt the party, and the dear
blessed old party must not be harmed,
if all the farms, workshops and homes
of the masses in the country are robbed.
The tendencies are alarmingly threat
ening, and the people should become
awake to the demands of self-interest
and of patriotism at once.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
IT IS

A foreigner who reads the daily com
mercial reports as published in our
great metropolitan papers, if he be
lieves them, concludes that there is
practically no suffering in this country
for the necessaries Of life, says the
Teru8 Advocate.
They are told that the country was
never sc prosperous, and that while
cotton and wheat and other farm
products are cheaper than the agricul-
tural classes are satisfied with, it is all
dueto over production. OF course those
making these reports and statements
know them to be misleading and wick
eddy false. But they have a purpose
in view and it is to their interests and
the interests of those whom they serve
to have the world believe the country
is prosperous. But those who know
assent that ther9 are millions of poor
in the United States who are half
starved half the time, who scarcely ever
enjoy the luxury of tasting meat and
are able, scarcely, to secure sufficient
clothing to hide their nakedness. The
Advocate was told a few days since by
one of the most substantial farmers of
an adjoining county to Tarrant, that
notwithstanding he has been blessed
with two good crops in succession and
owes no man anything, by the time he
pays his taxes and the numerous other
demands made on him, he has little
left, after selling his crop, for comfort
and none for luxuries. But even if the
farmers of this country were growing
more every year than the n~ecessities of
their country demand, still there would
be no over-production, while millions
of poor are dying in other countries of
hunger. It is only necessary to read
such things as follows, 10 demonstrate
that the trouble is under consumption