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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The Baltimore Plan is getting there.
1t caught Mr.. Cleveland at the very
first haul.
Almost without the change of a word
or a detail, Mr.. Cleveland, a Demo
cratic President, takes his orders from
the Baltimore convention of national
bankers; and he says that their de-
mand to control our national currency
should be obeyed.
In the next paragraph he declares in
favor of State banks of issue also.
Perhaps it is worth nothing now to
say that previous to the late civil war
the Democratic party always fought
national banks. The time has been
when precedent counted for something
with Democrats, when the authority
Of Jefferson. Jackson and Benton was
treated with some show of respect, and
when the Democratic platforms were
not used as cuspidores by the men who
made them.
If we could reasonably hope to do
any good by it, we would quote from
Jefferson, Jackson and B5nton to show
how utterly they abhorred national
banks; and we could show that the
Democratic platforms, from the foun-
dation of the party down to 1856, al
ways denounced national banks as be-
ing destructive to the spirit of our re
publican institutions.
Never in his life was Mr.. Jefferson
more emphatic than in his condemna-
ton of State banks of issue.
Never did Joseph E. Brown, of Geor-
gia, whose lifeless body has just been
committed tothe ground, take a holder
stand against any evil than when he
made his celebrated fight against State
banks of issue in 1853.
If Jefferson's wisdom is out of date.
if Andrew Jackson's democracy is old
fashioned and obsolete, turn, we pray
you, to Joe Brown whom you all praise
and read what he said of the system
which Cleveland wants to fasten on
this country again.
The Baltimore Plan gives to the ma.
tional banks complete control of the
national currency; the State bank plan
will give to the State banks OF issue
complete control of the local currency.
There you have it in all its beauty
the Boez reapers, the national banks,
going first and getting the bulk of the
golden harvest, while the State bank
Ruth comes gently along afterwards,
cleaning the fields which Boaz has
reaped.
Between the two systems, there won't
be enough grain left on the ground to
fatten a field rat.
By the Baltimore Plan, the Govern
ment is to print and sign in blank the
notes which are to be issued as monev
The President is careful to say that the
government is always to keep a full
supply OF these blank notes handy.
whenever a national banker feels
ike issuing more money. he calls for
more OF said notes, and straightwav he
gets them. The government has al,
ready signed them and ssstemned,,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11
The Major Will Run for Congress in 1896
"A Wonderful Sight, Probably
a County Commissioner.


B.-"Hello! Mr.. Editor"
R.-"Hellol Major. Any new to-
dayF"
B.-"Whole cords ov it. I'm In the
swim ergin an I'm goin' ter run fer
Kongress in 1896 sure az Christmas"
R.-"Who said 500"
B.-"KurneI Jones. He cum out
here an TUX dinner with me an Betsy
the other day. Ne an him got ter
talkin' polyticks sum an sorter con-
solin' each other. I tole him we dy ma
krats mite az well shut up shop, fer
we won't be in it soon ergin. He lowed
why, Zeke, you are crazy. Why they
can't beat us in 1885, l tole him he
sed the same thing this year, but we
got the hole top ov our heads tuck of
as slick as a peeled ingun. Betsy says
a fly can't lite on top ov my head emmy
more. Kurnel Jones he just LATED at
me an says: We'll, / know a thing or
two 1 tole him I knoWed a thing or
two, too, an 1 know that we'll be
Wastin' breath an time foolin' with
~electshuns. Cleveland hes got two
more years an if he don't kill the
dymakrat party in that time too dead
ter skin it must hev erbout twenty
seven lives more nor a cat. He seed
that I wuz discouraged an downcast
an he lowed: tZeke, I am goin' ter
tell you sumthing co~nf1denshally. We
are goin' ter nomernate you fer Kon-
gress in the 4th district two years frum
now an beat whoever the Pops put
up Ireckon I blushed, ] don't know"
R.-"You didn't see things so darkly
then, did youG"
B.-"No; they sorter britened up a
little. I told him I wurnt entirely out
ov grit yit an maybe with plenty ov
hard wurk we mite pull through. But
I'm tellin' secrets. Say, 1 seed some
thin this week whut scared me out ov
a years growth"
R.-"What was it,"
B.-"Blamed if I know. 1t looked
like sumpthin' dreadful. 1t wuz erbout
twenty feet high, or looked that way
ter me, an it stood up strait like a
man. 1t looked ter me like agreat big
man an wuz spittin' fire out ov its
mouth. 1 wuz cummin' up home frum
Sam Roland's. I seed it standin' close
ter the road an wuz nifty nigh scared
ter death. 1t looked like erbout three
devils tied up together ter resemble a
man. Whatever it wUz spoke ter me
an tole me ter hit the grit. I hit it
that is now and then. I Wuz plum out
ov breth when 1 got home. What do
you reckon it wuz9'
IR.-"From your description I would
judge that it was a county commits
sioner."
B.-"Maybe it wuz. I haint got over
bein' scared an shaky yit. Betsy says
/ imagined it, but l know better. | did
see somethin' an it Wuz awful lOokin,'
Good bye"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11

0TTn RODS, Spanish Needles and Dip Needles
lIIk ere III best instruments for hun 4
OOAL minerals. BEN. @. STAUFFEK, bar
risbuTg, "a.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11
ADVERTISEMENT
FOR SPEAKER OF THE NEXT
HOUSE.

Col. Lusk will be a Candidate for the Po-
sition.
Col. Virgil s. Lusk, one of the rep
resentatives-elect on the fusion ticket,
from Buncombe county, has decided to
enter the list for Speaker of the next
House of Representatives, and has au-
thorized The PROGRESSIVE FARMER to
make the announcement that he will
be a candidate for the position.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11
STATE OF ONO, Cry OF TOLEDO, J.,
TTTCAS County SSs

LUCAS COUNTY.
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner Of the firm Of FL. CHENEY & Co.,
doing business in the City Of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum OF ONE HUNDRED for each
and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured
by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day Of December, A. D. 1886.
$500 A. W. GLEASON,
t~B Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENE & 0 Toledo, O.
~ Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11
o QUITE SURE.

Boy.-''Papa, may I go rabbit hunt
ing9"
Father.-"I don't know, son. I'll
have to see the county commissioners
before I can answer"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11

THE MOST SIMPLE AND SAFE REMEDY
for a Cough or Throat Trouble is
"BrOWn's Bronchial TrOches." They
possess real merit.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15
EXPRESS COMPANIES AT WAR.
The American and United States
Violate the LAW.

BOSTON, March Is, 1S94.-An interesting
fight is being waged between the American
and United States Express Companies. The
United States people aver that the American,
with no valid reason, refuses to pay their
charges on c.. o. D. goods where such goods
are addressed to points where the United
States has no lines and the American has.
For instance, Philadelphia ships a package
addressed to a point in Maine, c. 0. D., via
the United States Company. The United
States carries the package as far as Boston
and then sends it the rest of the way over
the American, as it has no lines of its own to
Maine. 1t has always been the custom of
the American to pay the charges due the
United States Company on such delivery at
Boston and then collect the whole amount at
the point of destination. This, it is alleged,
it refuses to do longer, and, as a result, the
United States cannot give the privilege of 9.
O. D. shipments to its customers who wish
goods despatched to territory controlled by
the American.
The United States has the same advan-
tage over its competitor in the South and
West, and In self-defence has resorted to the
same tactics.
By the law neither company can refuse to
take goods from the other for delivery in
territory where either has exclusive service,
but each can make it as uncomfortable for
the rival and unpleasant for the shipper.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15

NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that on the twenty-seyenth
day of February, 1884,, the Chief Engineer and Com
missioners Of Assessment Aled in the office Of the
Clerk Of the Board of Street and Water Commission
ers their final assessment map and report for the
between Wayne street and Railroad avenue, In such
manner as is shown in the title and assessment map
dated 1882, of that part of Jersey City which was
formerly known as Bergen, and the land to be taken
for which may be more particularly described as
follows-
street, where the west line OF Fremont street, II
extended northerly, would intersect said north line
of Wayne street; thence north along said west 1ne
Of Fremont street, If extended to the south size OF
Railroad avenue; thence east along the south side or
Railroad avenue to q point distant sixty 1eeI. meas
ured at right angles from the first described nnei
mont street, IL extended as aforesaid to the north
side of Wayne street; thence west along the north
side of Wayne street sixty feet to the point or place
The assessment for benefits by reason Of said open.
ing. amounting to the sum Of four hundred and
twenty-seven dollars, which said sum represents
the total cost of said Improvement, is assessed en-
tirely against the National Docks & N. J. Junction
Connecting Railway Company, on the basis OF an
agreement on file in the office of the Clerk of this
Board.
AN, and the meeting room of the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners are hereby fixed as the
time and place when and where the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners will meet to hear and
consider objections to said final report.
All objections to the same must be presented In
BY order Of the Board of Street and Water Com
misSioners.
Dated Jersev CITY. March Q. 1891.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15

Notice is hereby given that on the twenty seventh
day of February, 1894, the Chief Engineer and Com
missioners of Assesment fled in the Office or the
Clerk of the Street and Water Commissioners their
final assessment map and report for the opening OF
Prior street, between Wayne street and Rallroad
avenue, in the following manner, viz; Beginning at
a point on the southerly line of Railroad avenue,
distant easterly four hundred (4OU feet from the
easterly line OF Fremont street, as shown on the city
title aud assessment map, dated 1882 thence south.
erly on a course parallel with tne easteriy me OF
Fremont street, as shown on said map, and distant
four hundred 600 feet easterly therefrom, one
hundred and nfty-three Q50 feet more or less to
the northerly line of Wayne street, thence easterly
along said line of Wayne street forty GO feet. thence
northerly parallel with the first course, one hundred
erly line Of Railroad avenue, thence westerly along
said line OF Railroad avenue forty G) feet to the
beginning.
scribed as follows
beginning at a point on the north side of Wayne
westerly side of Prior street, as opened, thence
easterly along Wayne street, seventy-hve feet to
Prior street, as opened, thence northerly along the
westerly side of Prior street as opened to Railroad
avenue.
Such assessed property being more particularly
designated on said map as Lot z. Commissioners
No. ]. Block $50 asa.
And that the ninth day of April, 1894. at ten
O'Clock A. n. and the meeting room of the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners are hereby
fixed as the time and place when and where the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners will meet
All objections to the same must be presented in
writing.
Dated. Jersey City, March 9. 1894.
GEO. T. BoUToN,
G1nrH
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15

VIVA
o full Grape vest, is bordered with the same
trimming. Tight Grape cuffs extend to the
elbow, while Grape ~epaulets fall over the
puff that forms the upper part Of the sleeve.
Grape Is still the orthodox material for
mourning, although it is so unserviceable a
stuff. Wooden Grape and crepons, henriet-
ia, serge, camels hair and all dull finished
black cloths are employed, while some
beautiful black silk crepens are shown
among the new spring goods, having a mar
row plain silk stripe, or a silk stripe with a
sort of ruffied effect, or the goods, instead
of being striped, are sprinkled with plain
silk flecks. For warm weather g~renadine,
nuns yelling and plain black silk net may
also be used. Ample wells of the latter are
far better for summer wear than the suffo-
eating Grape ones and are quite as complete
mourning.
The custom of wearing black lisse or
tulle ruchings next the neck and wrists is
one to be followed with caution, as the dye
is usually not fast in those materials and is
apt to come off upon the skin under the in
iuence of warmth or dampness. A fold of
dull china silk or a plating of silk net is a
safer finish to adopt.
A spring mourning toilet is shown made
of dull finished and wooden material. It has
a round bell skirt trimmed with three bias
bands of Grape of different widths. The
plain corsage has a short basque and opens
in front over a full vest of black gauze con-
fined by a Grape girdle. The full cloth
sleeves are trimmed with Grape. A triple
cape accompanies the gown, the two lower
capes of cloth and the upper one of Grape.
They are mounted on a yoke which is con-
cealed by a cloth collar continued down the
front edges of the cape in the form of Grape
revers. The bonnet, with its trimming and
strings, is of Grape and has a ruching of
white Grape beneath the close brim.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Latest Y. S. Govt Report
R@!a!:,..!! B BsMdsg
ABSOLUTELY PURE
VULGAR VALENTINES.
Mother and Daughter Received
Them--Suspeet a Former
Friend of Sending
Them.

Mrs. Josephine Copertino, who lives at
No. 315 Third street, on Valentines morn
last received from the postman's hands an
envelope addressed to her containing two
highly colored cleap valentines, anything
but flattering to Mrs. Copertino's personal
appearance. The verses at the foot of these
artistic productions. vulgarly known as
''take-offs," were just as insulting as the
drawings above. On the back of one of
them the sender wrote with a lead pencil
even more impairment remarks, ending up
with a threat. Mrs. Copertino was thor
oughly indignant that anyone should send
her such abominable stuff.
HER DAUGHTER, TOO.
She had scarcely got through examin ing
them when her daughter, Mrs. Nettie
Mastress, who lives two doors down the
street, entered, holding in her hand two
valentines somewhat similar to those her
mother was at that very moment perusing.
Mrs. Mastress had received an envelope too,
and the handwriting on both was evidently
that of the same person. Those sent to the
daughter were not quite as bad as those
Mrs. Copertino received, but they were
sufficiently course ana vulgar offered to Mrs.
Mastress' susceptibilities.
Scrawled on the back of one of
them were some sentences in pencil, and
these satirically complimented Mrs. Mastress
on possessing a mother like Mrs. Copertino
and advised her, Mrs. Mastress, to prevent
her good looking child from crying A pic,
ture of a child headed Mammals Darling"
was enclosed, and one supposed to represent
mamma herself.
BLAME A FORMER FRIEND.
Mother and daughter after carefully ex-
amining the handwriting on the back of the
valentines and on the envelopes came to the
conclusion that a former friend of theirs,
with whom they had recently quarreled. had
sent them. Accordingly they consulted a
lawyer and a suit of libel was brought by
the two ladies against Antonio Capoano of
No. 102 Brunswick street. They claim that
the handwriting is Capoano's and they ask
the court to give them $500 to soothe their
ruffled feelings. The papers have been
served and Judge Puster has set down the
case for trial next week.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15
NEW JERSEY ~GLEANINGS

Among the valuable collection of relics OF H.
G. Farnham of Woodbury. is a marble table
used by Daniel Webster. and q cradle 10 which
the statesman was rocked. They are believed
TO be 200 years.
Henry Lederle Of Hackensack has o cat with
twenty-four toes. eight on each hind foot and
four on each f~orefoot. Several men have offer
ed to buy the cat for New York museums,
bnt Mr.. Lederle refuses to sell his remarkable
pet.
Mrs. James Hilton or Phillipsburg recently
gave birth TO q male child. She Is the mother
of a daughter thirty-six years old. aud grand
mother to three children, the Oldest being four
teen, and Mrs. Hilton has been married twice.
SIX years ago she married Mr.. Hilton. Shs Is
fifty six years old, aud Mr.. Hilton is sixty niue.
Mother and child are doing well.
Hunterdon Democrat saYs:-"WiHiam Glenn
mems, one of bart. Hufrman's millers at Rim
goes Stations, boasts Of his gastrouomlcai
feats, he claiming that he has at different times
eaten q whole bunch of bananas, also at an.
other time 1871 oysters Qaw), and ton plates OF
Ice cream, 30 hungry he deyoursd the last plate
IN i've spoonfuls. and Il Is a frequent occurrence
for him TO eat twenty-four buckwheat cakes
and weigh at least four pounds more after a
meal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15
oANADA,s TARIFF CHANGES,

OTTAWA, Ont, March 10, 1S94.-The Gov
ernor-General of Canada, in his address from
the throne, said, among other things:-'At
an early date a measure will be laid before
you having for its object the revision of the
duties of customs, with a view to meet the
changes which time has effected in business
operations of all kinds throughout the Do
minion. While my Ministers do not propose
to change the principles on which existing
enactments on this subject are based, the
amendments which will be offered for your
consideration are designed to simplify the
operations of the tariff, and to lessen, as far
as can be one consistently with those prin-
ciples and with the requirements of the
Treasury, the imposts which are now in
force
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15
PHANTAsMA.

Excellent Entertainments BY the
GreenviIle Y. WI. G. A.
The tableaux "~Phantasma" given last even
ing by the Greenville Y. M. G. A. was with
out exception the finest entertainment ever
given in the celery district. Tn tableau is a
patented affair, and is an innovation in the
entertainment line. By a clever arrange
ment of a common pane of glass, the char
acters are made to appear as passing through
one another, similar to dissolving stereopticon
views. The programme consisted of mytho-
logical, classical, military, scriptural, ALE
gorical, historical, comica1 and miscellaneous
tableaux. Under the direction of stage direc-
tor George w. Dunbar the tableaux were
given without interruption.
The military tableau representing a group
of soldiers ON a battlefield, in five scenes, the
alarm, attack, death shot, bivouac and vic
tory was the prettiest of the evening, and
ELECTED hearty applause. The parts were
taken by the following members of Com
pany A of the Fourth Regiment, Harry
Rink, Corporal w. Kline and Pcivates
E. futile, Frank Bouker, Walter De Ronde,
Charles Ward and George Burger. During
this tableau the selections 'JuSt Before the
Battle Vacant Chair and 'Tenting on the
Old Camp Ground" were rendered by the Y.
M. C. A. Quartette.
The football tableau in which the Y. M. G.
A. team took part was also well received.
The Angelus was also received with much
applause. The characters were taken by Mr..
J.. F. Peters and Miss Fannie Outwater.
Other tableaux that deserve mention, were:-
''Sappho," by Miss Eliza Simpson; limo
n~ocence," by Miss Amy Julian; "You Dirty
Boy" by Miss Hattie Vreeland and Nelson
Walker and ''Child's Prayer" by Miss M.
Denton and Miss Leioue Troll. The other
young ladies who took part were:-Misses
MaySaybolt, Jennie CARING, Annie E. Arm
strong, Grace Armstrong, Bertha Grady, II.
Denton, G. Krall, c. H. Wiltse, Addie
Julian. Edith M. Nelson, Ella Carey, Emma
Cambreleng, Anna Dickinson, Nellie Reid,
Olive Carmichael, Marion Bruce, Kate Vree-
land, Bertha Campfield, Emma Walker,
Bertha Grady, Lulu Twist, Viola Puster,
Ludelle Brooke, E. Kyle, M. Tannerhill, A.
D. Caldwell, NJ. Harmes, y. Hassel, Jennie
Walker, G. Krall and Messrs. L. Clark
Walker, R. Petit, w. Wolf, p. F. and C.
Jaehne, A. Beggs and c. Vreeland.
Miss Lillian Stratton and Mrs. L, A. Fen
neman furnished the piano accomplishments,
and between the tableaux Misses Emma
French and Eta French rendered vocal
DUETS, and Mrs. Fenneman piano solos. Mr..
Robert H. Craig, humorist, kept the audience
in good humor with funny stories. The en-
t~ertainment will be repeated this evening.
The features will be a reproduction of
ssElaineo and 1.-THE Spectre Bride The
military taleau will also be reproduced. Mr..
Fred. G. Clerihew, the well-known baritone,
will render solos, and Mr.. William Machin
the clever tenor will also assist in the pro
pramma-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15
REAL ESTATE NEWS.

Transfers.
Theodore D. Howell to Henry Block, for
$4,000, lots 70 and 80 South street.
james W.. Parker to John F. Marion, for 81,
lot 2, Block SO, Railroad avenue.
John F.. Marion TO Emma Parker. above de-
scribed property. for 81.
James W.. Packer, ST., to James W. Packer,
for 81, land aud premises north side of Grand
street 24S feet east of N avenue.
James w. Packer, Jr., to Louisa, wife OF
James Packer. Sr, above described land and
premises, for 81.
Frederick Spengeman to Martha z. Weastell,
for 81 ,615. lot IS, Monticello avenue.
John Dielou to Robert jerome for 81, lot l..
Block $50. Bergen aud Lexington avenues.
Henry Puster, trustee. to Julia A. Puster, for
$500. land and premises northeasterly side of
West Thirty-third street, 338 feet from Avenue
B, Bayonne.
Mortgages.
Thomas j. McCabe to the Howard Building
and Loau Association, on land AMI premises
easterly side of Kearny avsnue, 557 feet north
of Bergen avenue. for 1893.
Phillip Kelley to Carrie Triswisky, on lot 90,
Block A.. Hobokea. for $500.
Free terich Bruckner to James f. Minturn,
executor, on lot 10, Block 100, Hoboken, for
$3.50.
Julia Puster to the Lincoln Lodge No. 1876, I.
O.. o. F., on land and premises northeasterly
side of West Thirt y.tnlrd street, 336 feet westerly
from Avenue B, for $3.50.