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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30

ask how much of his salary of $12, coo
a year the church could afford to pay.
He eve received from the treasurer
more than So, 600 of it, and during the
last three Dr. four years he got nothing
Yet he was wont to give Mr.. Wood a
receipt in full for salary paid, and Mr.
Davidson says Mr.. Wood was accus
toned to turn in these receipts to the
auditing committee of the church as
vouchers for church moneys regularly
expended.
Mr.. Davidson also says that Mr..
Wood owes the church the sums so OBJ
tanned by him, and the present board
of trustees expect to compel him to
own up to the debt, if he does not have
money enough left to pay it, by an
appeal to the courts. Said Leonard
Moody, chairman of the board, yes
terday:
Mr.. Davidson says the books show
one thing, and Mr.. Wood says they
show another. The only way to decide
which is right, SO far as can see, will
be to take the whole question into
court"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
WILL MAKE FURTHER REDuc-
TONS.
General Manager Voorhees, Says that the
Lehigh Valley Must Retrench
Expenses.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. % "A circular
issued by General Manager Voorhees,.
of the Lehigh Valley, to superintend-
ents and heads of department on Janu-
airy 18th, was made public to day Tt
is In reference to the alleged discrimi-
nation of the company against brother
hood men in employing train hands.
After stating that the company had
lived up to the letter and spirit Of it's
agreement with its employees, the cir
cular says:
I'VE find on examining our rolls
that there are to day in the employ Of
the company a very large number of
extra men. At the same time the GEN
eral business Of the company. in com
non with that of all other roads. is
unusually depressed. 1t is not at all
probable in consequence that we shall
need any additional force other than
that which is now employed upon u
road; indeed, the probability is that
our present force will of necessity be
considerably decreased in the near
future. This being the case, justice to
those employees who are to day in the
cOmpany's service would seem to re.
quire that we should cease hiring
additional men. From this date as
vacancies occur in any grade of the
service promotions will be made from
those next in order in point of seniority,
in accordance with the agreement Of
December 5 above referred to, due re-
sard being had to the fitness and quail
fcations of all individuals"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
NEW JERSEY SENATORIAL DIS
PUTE.
To File Information as a Basis for Quo
Warranto Proceedings.

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. Ex-Governor
Werts, 1t IL reported, has asked At
torney-General Stockton to file an in
formation before Chief Justice Beasley
as a basis for quo WGrrGntO proceed
ings In the Supreme Court to settle the
senatorial dispute, and the Chief JUS
tice has been requested to call ar ex
tra~ordlnary session of the court to set
tie the question. 1t was understood
that this move was made by the Demo
Gratis, that the Republican Senators
would agree to it and abide by the de
cislon of the Supreme Court, but late
this afternoon they announced that
they have not agreed to the proposition
at all and would not do so.
On the other hand, they intend to
pass certain bills of a reform nature,
let the Governor do as he sees fit about
considering them, and adjourn, keep
ing the session alive, however, until
the next election. The Supreme Court,
they hold, has 40 authority in the
matter anyhow. To agree with the
programme in question would be to
abandon their position. They will
oppose the service of papers on them,
and obstrUct the proceedings in every
way possible. If the Democrats want
to test the constitutionality of the Re
publican Senate, a better way, the lat
ter hold, would be to carry up any of
the bills they intend to pass, and get a
decision on that.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
INDIA'S MONETARY CRISIS.
Comments of Calcutta and London Pa
pers Upon the Silver Question.

Comments of Calcutta and London Pa
pers Upon the Silver Question.
CALCUTTA, Jan. 81 The Englishman
decision to sell bills below the former
minimum of 154d.: 1T was an equal
surprise to the Indian Government and
the public. The former should make
a clean breast of it's share in the mat
ter. Such a change at the opening
confidently asserted that bills have
been taken up within a fortnight"
The Indian DGGLy NeWS says: "It
was generally exp cted that the limit
would shortly be abandoned, but the
vagueness of the new statement is likely
to demoraliZe the market and Illustrate
the intention of the measure"
The Calcutta Statesman scathingly
summarizes Lord LansdoWne's career
as Viceroy as a failure and denounces
his uniformly unsympathetic attitude
toward the natives. 1t declares that
Lansdowne has been a mere mouth
piece of the civil service.
LONDON, Jan. 22.-In it's financial
article this morning, the Daily Ne1Os
says: ''Apart from the views Of dis
appointed spectators for a rise, the
consensus of opinion must be that no
other course was open to the govern
ment. To increase the gold loans of
this country against an accumulation
of silver in India would be to invite a
recurrence of the troubles from which
the United States only now is escaping.
It may very likely prove that silver
left to itself may rally, and that State
interference hitherto has only added
to the depression. 1t is still expected
that an issue of treasury bills or some
other temporary loan will shortly be
made"
The Standard says editorially: I'm
dia must now be sorry for the mistake
of last June, and that she did not
sooner admit it. Saturdays news was
welcome proof that facts at last have
asserted their power over nicely con-
structed theories. Having found an
import duty on silver impracticable,
the government may as well abandon
forthwith the attempt to discredit the
only precious metal that Indiacan use."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
MORE WOES FOR FRANCE.
The New Cabinet in Danger of Going
to Pieces.

PARIS, Jan. %. -Rumors of dissen
sion IN the Cabinet were publishedhere
to day by La PreSse.
Admiral LIE Fevre, Minister Of
Marine, is said to think of resigning in
consequence of the approaching in
quiries into the methods of the naval
administration and the condition of
the navy.
M. Marty, minister Of commerce, and
NJ. RIynal, minister of the Interior,
are reported to be opposing vigorously
the proposals of M. Viger, minister of
agriculture, for an increase of the corn
duties. In any event, it is said, the
ministry will not accept the sliding
scale, which the majority of the min
listers fear would favor principally
American syndicates.
The officials in charge OF the Offices
opened to receive the Al per cent. bonds
for conversion according to the new
law just passed, report that they have
neither received bonds for conversion
nor applications for re payment.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
TRAIN ROBBERS CAUGHT.
Two Captured Unhurt, One Killed, and
One Wounded.

WHITE, /. T., January %. Officers
located the train-robbng gang, with
Rob. Rogers as it's captain, which has
been having it's headquarters in this
section of the country for months at
the home of Rogers, On Big Creek,
twenty miles from here, between 8 and
4 o'clock this morning, and bounced
down upon them asleep in the house.
Rob. Rogers and Dynamite Jack"
were captured unhurt. "Dynamite's'
brother, ''Kiowa" was killed and Willis
Brown was so severely wounded that
his death is expected. None of the
officers we're hurt. This is presumed
to be the band which successfully held
up the Kansas and Arkansas Valley
train at Seminole a short time ago, and
two days before made an unsuccessful
attempt on the M. r. and 7. train at
K0lGO
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
ENGLAND MUST BE ON GUARD.
Mr.. Balfouf Says Her Defenses Must be
Strengthened-Her Supremacy on
the Seas Once Lost, She Would
be at an EnemY's Mercy.

LONDON, Jan. % Arthur j. Balfour.
leader of the Unionists in the House of
Commons, spoke at length this evening
before a meeting in Manchester on the
subject of imperfect defense. This sub
ject, he said, was at present of para
mount interest. Any nation or con
bination of nations which was able to
wrest from Great Britain her suprern-
acy of the seas could bring her TO her
knees without landing a single soldier
on English soil.
He did not believe any government
was justified in expecting a long era of
peace. The French and Russian gov
ernmants were pushing forward with
all speed the work In their dOckyReds.
Certain movements made Of late years
in Asia were only too obviously directed
against England. While there were
indications that France and Russia
we're earnestly bent upon peace, their
main arrangements evidently were
prompted by the assumption of conflict
with England, soone or later, singly
or combined. He believed that the
English people were amicably disposed
toward France, but he must admit,
with the deepest regret. the conviction
that the French were hostile to Eng
land.
Finally, Mr.. Balfour appealed to the
electors to influence their representa-
tives in Parliament by all possible
means to assist in quickly and eff
GENTLY strengthening the country's de-
lenses. He could pledge the Opposi-
ton, he said, to co operate cordially
with the government in its every effort
to increase England's naval and mill
tary power.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
H LATEST NEWS.
sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

PROVIDENCE. Jan. 23.-The lumber
yards of F. E. Hovey were damaged
20 gay by fire. Loss SOS. 900.
ST. LOUIL. Jan. 24-The blizzard in
Kansas and Oklahoma is reported very
severe. Several deaths occurred.
LAFAYETTE, Ind Jan. 24-The me
chanical laboratory of Purdee Univer-
slCy with It's costly apparatus, was
burned Loss 5000, 900.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24-Alarm is felt
on account of the small pox outbreak
IN the insane asylum at Worlds Island.
There are two fresh cases in the city.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 24-Fifty
convlcts in the State prison at Coal
Greek escaped last night crawling
through the CRATE. The guards shot
and wounded some but the majority
are still out.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-John Shea, of
this city, in a fitof groundless jealousy
shot his wife dead and then shot him
self fatally. He had followed his wife
and daughter to the theater and com
mltted the murder soon after their re-
turn.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.-Owing to
the business depression and the conse-
quent falling off in the railway traffic,
there will be a general reduction of
wages on the Norfolk and Western
Road on February 1st. The employees
will not alone be the sufferers, as the
officers had their salaries reduced on
the first of the year. The reduction
will result in a saving of about $500, 600
annually.
LANCALTER, Pa, Jan. 22.-Notice
has been posted in Conestoga cotton
mills, Nos. 1 and 2, owned by John
Farnum & Co., and employing over
1000 hands, that on and after Febru-
airy LIST the mills will be operated four
days a week. The notice concludes
with the announcement that unless
trade brightens a reduction and read
justment of wages will take place. For
the past several months the mills have
been running only on half time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
HAD A BATTLE WITH ROBBERS
A Vigilance Committee Moved Against
a New Jersey Band and Caught
the Leader.

MOUNT HOLLY, N. j., Jan. 22.-For
several weeks a gang of burglars has
been robbing stores and dwellings in
the vicinity Of Tuckerton and New
Gretna, and the local constabulary
seemed powerless to do anything to
put a stop to their operations. On
Thursday night the thieves looted M.
w. Adams store, in New Gretna
The next night they robbed William
Andrews store, in Tuckerton, and on
Saturday night they held up"Samuel
P. Bartlett, a ~well-known citizen of
Tuckerton, and compelled him to hand
over his valuables.
A vigilance committee was formed
on Saturday night. It's members learned
that the robbers were living in IN aban-
doned house on the Wiley Place, near
New Gretna.
They started out last night to cap
ture them. The robbers opened fire on
them and a lively exchange of shots
followed. Finally the members of the
vigilance committee made a rush and
surrounded the house. They captured
Thomas Gibbons, the leader of the
gang, but the rest escaped and are
supposed to be hiding in the swamps.
The house they occupied was found to
contain a large quantity OF stolen goods.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
THURBER, WHYLAND COM
PANY'S FINANCES.
Receivers File a Preliminary Report,
Eaowing the Liabilities and Assets.

Receivers File a Preliminary Report,
Eaowing the Liabilities and Assets.
TRENTON, Jan. pa preliminary
report on the affairs of the Thurber,
Whyland Company was today filed
in the Court of Chancery, New Jersey,
by Receivers Andrew Kirkpatrick and
Thomas Reid.
The value of goods on hand when the
receivers took possession on Novem-
Der IA, 1893, was appraised at $611, 27S;
the accounts receivable aggregated
81, 440, 276, divided among fifteen thou
Sane customers; bills receivable, worth
nearly their face value $29, 922, and
81, 1876 in bonds and mortgages, S., 600
of viii ;h are gold and c~ollectible. There
has been $45, 437 in cash assigned to
various banks as collateral security
for Indebtedness.
The company acquired SIS, 945 on
real estate, most Of which was taken
for bad debts, but the cost is largely in
excess of it's real value. In plant and
fixtures $68 512 was expended by the
old firm. Other assets are t. ade-marks,
comparatively ~valueiess if separated
from the business.
The Indebtedness of the corporation
amounted to 1886, 500, part of which is
secured by assignments of amounts re
ceivable. The contingent liabilities
outside of the above will not exceed
$50, 600.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
TREASURER SHORT

Some $4,000 of Tabernacle Funds Said
to Have Been Misappropriated.
NEW YORK, January 25.-According
to the reports of Arnold Davidson, who
examined the books of John Wood, ex-
treasurer of Brooklyn tabernacle, it
appears that Mr.. Wood has appropr1-
ated, through arelessness or otherwise,
over 322. 600 of the church's money,
Il was the habit Of De. Talmage to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
FARED ILL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
WOODS.

LYNN, Mass, Jan. 22.-After six
days walking, footsore, hungry, ragged
and nearly exhausted, a Lynn man has
returned from a lumber camp in New
Hampshire and tells a tale of hardship
and i'll usage. He went in the latter
part of December with fourteen other
men, to Lincoln, N. H., to work at the
logging camp of j. E. Henry 6 Sons,
dealers in lumber and charcoal. They
had been engaged through a Lynn
agency, and were furnished the GUS
tomary employment slips. These have
all been returned to the Lynn agency
marked 20. c." and Accepted" but
the m IN state that when they reached
the logging camp, after paying about
81 in railroad fares, which consumed
all their money, they were told that
there was no work for them, and that
the firm had never attempted to hire
any men from Lynn through any
agency.
The men delivered their employment
slips, and the firm retained them.
Without funds or friends, the men
asked for work until they could earn
enough at the wages paid-$20 per
month-to enable them 20 get home.
Some secured this favor, but we're
IOrC6Q 70 sleep IN bu0 Op0u a1F, anu one
man had his hair frozen to a log one
night, and in awakening pulled a por-
tion of his scalp off with the hair. They
were worked hard and poorly fed on
beans and bread of the coarsest descrip.
ton.
When finally they aske d for q settle
ment they we're told that they had
taken up in board all that they had
earned. Then several Of them started
to tramp back to Lynn. One man,
who arrived to day, has placed his case
in the hands of an attorney. He states
that others of the party are in hospitals
in Manchester, Concord and Nashua, N.
H., while others are detained at the
camp and will not be permitted to leave
until they have settled claims brought
against them by the New Hampshire
firm for their board.
The Lynn agency is much exercised
over the matter, and has three times
demanded an explanation OF Henry &
Sons. No explanation has been made.
Coarse manure is not adapted for top
dressing young clover. It cannot be
made fine enough to allow it to sift
down to the roots. Where large pieces
of manure fall on young clover plants
the clover is killed, and where the
manure lay will grow next yeara rank
growth of weeds. Put the manure
where you are going to SOW clover seed,
or on land where clover has reached
its full growth and is to be plowed
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-12-20
The CoIors of Gold.

Most people suppose that all gold is
alike when refined, but this is not the
case. An experienced man can tell at
u glance from what part of the world a
gold piece comes, and. in some cases,
from what part of particular gold dis
trict the metal is obtained. The Aus
tEalian gold, for instance, is distinctly
retfder than the Californian, and this
difference in color is always percepti-
bic. Again, the gold obtained from the
placers is more yellow than that which
is taken directly from the quartz. Why
this should be the case is one of the
mysteries of metallurgy, for the placer
gold all comes from the veins. The
Ural gold is the reddest found any
where. Few people know the real color
of gold, as it is seldom seen unless
heavily alleged, which renders il red
der than when pure. The purest coins
ever made were the fifty-dollar pieces
that used to be common in California.
Their coinage was abandoned for two
reasons-(D because the loss by abra-
sion was SO great, and (2) because the
interior could be bored out and lead
substituted, the difference in weight
being too small to be readily noticed in
so large piece. These octagonal coins
were the most valuable ever struck
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-12-20
HERE AND THERE.

Fresh, pure water in abundance is
a necessity for milch cows if you would
have good milk.
Give your hogs access to as much
green pasturage as possible.
Rye is one of the best crops n
farmer can plant for winter and spring
pasturage.
Give your fattening hogs q dose of
salt and hardwood ashes once a week
with their feed.
AS soon as the rush of cotton pick
ing is over, spend week or two in re-
pairing your fences and buildings.
Give your horse his principal feed
at night. He then has time to eat leis-
urely and digest thoroughly what he
eats.
Gull out your poor cows-fatten
them for beef, get rid of them and
breed from only the best ones 1t don't
pay to raise scrubs.
Don't neglect sailing your stock.
1t is as necessary for their health as
for yours. Keep lot of rock salt
where they can lick it at will
To develop good heavy beeves. Won
must take care of your cattle from the
time they are calved. You can never
make much out of a stunted calf
The government reports show an
increase in the exports of agricultural
implements, being S5,027, 1928 in 1894,
compared with 81, 657, 932 in 1898.
Too many farmers are negligent
about their straw stacks. Good wheat
or oat straw is well worth all the labor
it costs to put it up in waterproof
stacks or ricks.
"A farmer who has tried it speaks in
the highest praise of gas tar for paint
ing wagon wheels, stating that it tight.
ems wagon tires and spokes better than
anything else that can be tried.
Free exercise and varied diet will
give to the hogs the streak of fat and
the streak of lean now so much desired
They will be especially happy over
diet of vegetables, waste fruits, skim
milk and bran.
1t pays to have good roofs on g. \
your buildings. Good shelter for stoclf,
farming implements and harvested
crops is as necessary as the raising and
gathering of your. produce. Sec that
your roofs don't leak.
AT the bottom of scrub fafmingand
the tenacious adherence to scrub stock
will be generally found scrub educa-
ton. The days when this defect IN a
nations economy can be tolerated are
rapidly passing away
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-12-20

pay their own debts, others refuse to
give them what they demand for the
church.
A fellow who pulls corks out OF demi-
johns and bottles is not a good fellow
to pull money out of the brethren, and
the fellow who plays cards cannot play
steward and deacon much.
A fellow who go1 in doubtful ways
and follows wicked devices will make
but poor Roadway when he tries to get
others to be liberal and respond to the
claims and calls of th1 church and
pastor.
A deacon whose breath does not
smell right, whose hands are not clean,
whose feet walk in forbidden paths,
will make poor servant of God to
send out on n mission of the church.
A lazy, indolent deacon will infuse
his spirit into others who will be hurt
thereby.
A pastor can nowhere show his add
ministrative qualities and good COM
mon sense more than in the selection
of the board of stewards and deacons.
No church can prosper with an Of
fensive official board.
1t is said that the devil once held n
parliament and was receiving reports
from emissaries who had returned
from earth, among others one cmissary
reported that in the section of earth
where he had been that religion was
taking the community, that at every
| church service conversions were re-
ported, class meeting largely attend
ed, prayer meeting enthusiastic and
successful, Sunday school OVERLOOKING
and every interest of the church flour
ishing nightly At the end of his
| report the devil ordered one of his
cmissaries to get his overcoat, boots
and hat, that he must start out imme-
diately and see about that settlements;
but while the emissary was gone for
| his boots and overcoat and hat an
other emissary stood up and said that
the reports just given were true, but
81 staid all night in that settlement
| the other night and one of the deacons
| gave a dance at his house" So when
| the emissary came back with his over
coat and boots and hat he told him to
take them back and hang them up in
their accustomed place. MY interests
are not being hurt in that community;
don't care how much they shout and
go round at the church nor how many
| conversions they claim at the church,
if the stewards and deacons arc giving
dances and card parties at their homes
! will get the whole business sooner or
later" Yours truly, SAN p. JONES.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-12-20
All for a Quarter.

Here, sir, you have left your UNI
brella," said the head waiter of res
taurant. running after an elderly patron
who was departing.
''Ah, that's So Here's a quarter, my
good fellow and the man walked off
with the umbrella.
A few minutes later when the gilded
youth to whom the umbrella belonged
called for it there was d scene, and the
only satisfied participant was the wait
er who had received the tip, and who
discreetly held his tongue. Detroit
Free Press.