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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
yuMuRr BURNED BY cuBANs.
Insurgents Capture and Destroy Another
Seaport Town.

~NSPSGS wv"
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. % The Brit
ish steamship Fillmore, Captain Nc
Leod, which arrived here last night
from Bec2co, Cuba, brought into port
some Cuban refugees and news OF the
complete destruction of the port of
Yumuri, Cuba, on the 18th inst, by
the insurgent forces. The entire place
was burned down. Hundre DIS of peO-
pie were left homelc So ana without
any place to go. They were subse-
quehCly driven back over the mOun
Calns, and the huge elevators erected
by the fruit exporters for carving the
bananas down from the mountains of
Yumurl for shipment were then de-
strOyed.
Miguel Arrue, a we'll known fruit
exporter. was among the passengers,
accompanied by his wife and family.
he tells pitiful stories of the manner
IN which he was treated and compelled
70 nee Co this country, giving up every
thing he possessed. Since n break-
ing out OF the trouble ne says life in
the island has been unbearanle. The
Spanish troops prevent householders
from laying in a stock of provisions.
From day to day they are compelled
TO come into the town and secure Cnly
sufficient provisions to last for one day.
This Is done for fear the Cubans will
feed the insurgents, whom TIE Span.
lards are attempting to slarve.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
MEN MEET.
Ship-Yard Men, of Norfolk, Ask Secre-
tary Herbert Not to Reduce Wages.

tary Herbert Not to Reduce Wages.
NORFOLK, Va, Sept. "a Special
A largely attended meeting of the
workIngmen of Portsmouth was held
to night with Walter T. Pope as chair
man and Charles r. Bland as secretary
to. take some action in opposition TO
the reduction Of the wages of employees
IN the navy yard l. was stated on
the authority of che Commandant, AID
miral Brown, that the force there had
been reduced from 1 8OU to 800, and
there was very little work in sight.
IL was announced that wages at this
port was lower than az any time for
twenty seven years.
W. H, Falrlcas, T. J. Wool, and
Hon. l. Il DAVIS, with Senators Mar
tin ana DAME were appointed a com
mite @ to wait upon Secretary Herbert
and urge upon him the Importance of
not reducing wages as contemplated,
and TO ask That he send ships III need
Of repairs to the Norfolk navy yard
The committee wired the secItary
to plight asking him to name an hour
Thursday for a conference, and to de,
lay action upon the report of the Board
of Wages until the committee could
see him.
PICk8Gt-Bucn2n1n camp, -. v, ap-
pointed a committee to night to in
Quire into the e~xpediency and cost Of
establishing a museum of Confederate
relics here. The matter OF B4rnes'
School History was referred to the
Historical Committee to examine and
report.
Mr.. w. W. Gibbs this evening ten
dered his resignation as managing ed
itor of the new Daily Pilot to accept
the general southern agency OF the
Campbell Printing, Press Company,
which was rendered him unsolicited
last Friday.
Mr.. Gibbs will be succeeded by Mr.
james A. Pugh, who came to the Pilot
as city aud news editor last October.
and since April 14th, when Rev. San
w. Small resigned as managing editor
has shared the editors work on the
paper.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
ENATO HILL BEATEN.
The New York Democratic Conven ion
Sits Down on His Pet Schemes.

Sits Down on His Pet Schemes,
SYRACUSE, Sept 25 Hill has failed.
Word was passed around this morning
that the State Democracy had failed.
This action created a great sensation.
The State Democracy delegates entered
the hall as spf ctatoTs and decided to
leave by the 3 o'clock train this after
loon. The following ticket vas nOmi-
mated: For Secretary of State, HoratiO
@. King, of Kings county Attorney
General, DAM | @. Griffin, OF Water
town; Treasurer, Horton Chase, If
Albany Comptroller, J B Jud5on, of
G~IoversviIIe; State Engineer, Dewitt
O. Ward. Cf Oneida county Associate
Justice Of the Court OF Appeals, John
S Teller, of Auburn.
SYRACUSE, Sept 25-The Committee
on Credentials have adopted "A resolu-
ton giving the Grace aid Fairchild
delegates one fifth Of the representa-
tiOn. The latter left the hall amid
cheers and jeers.
NEW York, Sept. 25-Flfteen thou-
sand citizens who procl4lm themselves
lovers Of liberty ard against the en-
forcement Of the excise laws on Sun
day will parade 'hs streets this afUer-
loon with GRASS bands and american
f2ga.
Commissioner Roosevelt says he has
arranged to review the parade. which
is under the auspices OF united societies
for liberal Sunday laws.
The platform adopted provides for
home rule in excise "a in all ether mat
ters for cities The State Democracy
demanded one third representation and
four members of the State Committee.
Tammany Hall was willing to yield.
Senator Hills excise plank was de-
feated by countrymen. Chairman Bel
mont opened the convention at 1925.
Elk Governor Flower was made permR-
nent chairman. He was enthusiastic
ally received, as we're his remarks. He
denounced the republicans, pleaded
for harmony and praised Cleveland.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
STATE NEWS.
}reau Of the State ~Press-Drops of Turpenttne
and Grains of Rice from the East-CIusters
Of grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-Stalks of Corn and Grains OF
Wheat from the West-PeanUt
I'D Dnttnn GnnA Ernn Ahn Gn-+h

Of grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~NOrth-Stalkso of Corn and Grains OF
Wheat from the West-PeanUts
and COttonS Seed from the South
Ever is reported TO be raging in the
ueIghborhood OF DIN, Iredell county.
the value of firearms of Arson
county Is greater by $500 than that of
the libraries.
Stephen Peed, colored, WAS thrown
rom lumber a near Aurora Mon
day AMI killed.
EFaogel'sts Jones and Stuart re-
ceiVed a check for 81 $50 Tor their
work in Winston. 'AoAA
The G~1|ds0oro graded eclool onnnnd
with o9l pupils, the largts5 enrolGmant
Il the history of the schools IN the
opening day.
Euglehard, Saunders, Coke-tbo
three Democratic Secretaries of Stat
since rec instruction days, havs All
died in Cfice.
A lady in Rutherford county rave
bir6h TO a child, and a month later
gave birth to another fully developed
healthy child.
Fayetteville Presbytery has decided
to establish a female college at Rec
Springs. Red Springs has donated
q, 900 and site.
Several deaths and % cases are re
ported by a gentleman who was IL
that neighborhood q few days since
says the Wilkesboro Chronicle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
A FALL.
A Painter Drops Thirty Feet and is I'm.
paled Upona Picket Fence.

SAVANNAH. GA, Sept. 24-John
Aodgts. a painter, at work on a wall
thirty feet from the ground, was killed
to day by the falling of the platform
upon which he ard another painter
were working. Hedges was impaled
on a barbed iron picket fence, which
pierced his body, striking the heart
Five inches Of the iron entered the
mans body, and he was held by the
barbed so that it was with difficulty
that-he was lifted from the fence.
Death was almost instantaneous.
Charles Durham. another painter,
was seriously injured.
The accident was due to the ropes
which held the platform being eaten
by acids used in washing the walls.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
POOR CHICKENS!
Beheaded to Appease the Wrath of Go,

Beheaded to Appease the Wrath Of God.
NFw YORK, September 26.-Fifty
ender of live fowls we're arrested to-
day. To morrow being the day of
atonement among the Jews when the
custom of the lower classes is to swing
a fowl. preferably a chicken, over the
head of a member of the family Dy the
neck, then to kill it and eat as a sac
rifce to Rbsolve them from their sins,
the butchers aid il a large supply of
live fowls contrary to the Board of
Health's decision preventing their sale,
and the arrests followed The atone
ment day sacrifices will be at a prem
Ium
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
MINING OPERATIONS ARE sUS-
PENDED.

TERRA HAUTE, IND Sept "a There
is another suspension of mining opera
tions in the Clinton district, and the
operatives have ordered the men to
take their tools, with the intention of
closing the mines until the wages-s scale
question is f1nalIy settled.
Toe operators wanted the men to
work on the min run basic, aid they
refused TO do so.
There are about five hundred men in
the district.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
R DYING A A
Provisions for the French Soldiers Spoiled
by High Tides.

ToULoN. Sept. 25 - Dispatches re
ceived from Madagascar state that
provisions for the French exUe6ition-
ary force which were stored at Ma
iunga have been spoiled by the high
tides. It is also reported that the
French soldiers stationed at Majunga
are dying at the rate of forty per day.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01

President NJ. M Lemmord, of the
Southern Business College of Asheville,
N. @, offers free railroad fare to the
Atlanta Exposition and return to all
students who enter on the cash scholar
ship plan before Nov. 1st.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08
They Seem TO Like II.

(. Our republican contemporaries, the
Helena Herald included, cannot repress
their satisfaction over the defeat OF
free coinage in Kentucky. The results
there are a distinct defeat for silver
and the triumph of pronounced gold
bugs; II is enough for these repubh-
can contemporaries to know that the
victors are republicans-partisa
gets the better of loyalty to the cause
Of free coinage, even here in Montana.
The Standard, on its record, is COM
petent to pass opinion on this question;
Brice, in Ohio, for instance. is a demo-
GRAFT. He is defeated. He is a goldbug.
During the campaign this newspapers
hope was that he would fail and we
rejoice that he was whipped, believing
that result to be in THE nature of CEN
sure of the administrations goldbug
policy. We cannot understand what
there is in the results in Kentucky
that should afford satisfaction to any
newspaper that is candid in IT'S advo-
cacy Of free coinage.
Evidently an end ds put to the career
of Mr.. Blackburn in the federal senate.
No good citizen need regret that, ex-
cept as Blackburn had pulled true for
silver. Personally he is a clustering
braggart, endowed with very few of
the qualities out of which dignified or
useful senators are made. He asserted
that he could go into Kentucky and
whip Carlisle handi1y on any issue. He
made thorough personal canvass, and
all mis- Boosting proved to be idle. His
alleged proximity Ito the popular
heart" in Kentucky proved ito be
myth
Blackburn has had five or six terms
in the house of representatives, a few
months hence he will close his second
term of service in the senate. He must
be getting toward SIXTY years of age
and. after a quarter of "a century spent
In political life. he Will probably find 1t
irksome to go back TO his law books.
Senator Blackburn made good fight
in Kentucky for silvers side, but the
administration was too many for him.
For silver's sake, we regret his defeat.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08
Their SUFFRAGE Test.

After prolonged discussion the South
Carolina constitutional convention has
fixed up its suffrage law in this way:
Until 1898 an educational test will be
applied; the ability to read. The cleo
ton officers may substitute for this the
test of the voters intelligence; he must
be able to give a rational idea of
the meaning of what is read to him.
After 1897 the test will be the ability
of the voter to read and write. the al
tentative being the ownership of a few
hundred dollars worth of property,
with taxes thereon paid. Considered
theoretically, these tests seem reason
able. although, according to census fig
ures, the application of the test in
reading or writing or its property alter
native. will bar many voters in South
Carolina, white as well as black.
The reports current throughout the
country have been to the effect that
the aim Of the South Carolina conven-
ton is to put the colored vote under
serious restrictions. That result need
not follow IL the law is administered
with any degree of fairness; our opin-
ion is that 1t would be well for this
country were reasonable qualifications.
aside from the mere fact OF residence,
exacted in every state in the union.
Much was said in the convention
about the evils that had come upon
South Carolina, in a not distant past,
as the result of the presence of bad
men in office-.the point aimed to be
made was that a restricted suffrage
would furnish a safeguard. This talk
was based on the facts as far as the
past is concerned. but a colored mem
Der OF the convention made the point
that the evils that overlook the state
was not a charge against the negroes
rather. they followed the regime of the
white carpetbaggers who looted the
state and brought its name into utter
disrepute. And that assertion has the
indisputable testimony OF history to
back II UP.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08
MYRTH IN RHYME.

Now the lordly" gobble, gobble''
OF the proud Thanksgiving bird,
In a pleasing wobble, wobble,
Through the pumpkin vines is heard.
Detroit Free Press.
IT'S not the man of fine wrought mind
Who yanks along the ship of state.
But rather he who time can find
o. To help the boys make up the slate.
Indianapolis Journal.
The rose is red, the violet blue;
Both are sweet, likewise you;
Ere I proceed. please answer this:
"Bloomers are?" or "Bloomers is?"
lU. Detroit Tribune.
Sweet Indian summer sings its song
Where burning fevers dwelt;
And the apple dumping comes along
To fill a want long felt.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Among the many people
Who brighten up our lives,
First ranks the spinster lady
Who writes advice to Wives"
Cincinnati Times-Herald.
The careless world full we'll believed
He led a model life,
And yet he had thousand faults
Known only to his wife.
st. Louis Republic.
No ear Of sow can genius make
Into a purse of silk;
Nor yet the water slops and chalk
= Create the best of milk.
San Francisco Examiner.
Have you seen service as a soldier.
STRIP
His honor asked the petty larcener:
ION, yes" the culprit said, with show OF
i.g tears,
IT was on pick-it duty many years"
Richmond Dispatch.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08
While in His Cell.

Now that Durrant is writing a book.
the public will conclude that he surely
is guilty. The prisoners recent inter-
views are made up largely of criticisms
passed on those who happened not to
be on his side Of the murder trial. He
is not pleased with Pastor Gibson be-
cause that gentleman did not rush to
the Jail and make the prisoner the OBJ
ject of industrious personal attention.
He protests because during a recess
in the closing scenes of the trial, Glib
son, who was sitting in a bevy OF
friends In the court room. happened to
smile over some passing remark. Dur
rant himself didn't feel at all like smil-
ing. and ne does not see how anybody
else could feel inclined that way. Then.
too. the prisoner finds that IL was al
together out OF character on the pant
of the assembled crowds to receive with
demonstrations of approval the an
nouncement of the verdict. He de-
nounces the Lannon'S.
There is nothing unusual in the que
rulous talk; 1t is rather common with
men who. at the close OF a persistent
trial. find themselves unmasked, with
the vision of the hangmans rope con-
stanItly before their eyes. These men
undergo a peculiar mental process.
They invent a defense, they study con-
stantly TO make II consistent, they
swear to its truth. they half persuade
themselves. in the end. that they have
the right of IL and that the pursuit OF
their crime by the constituted authori-
ties is in the nature of persecution.
This will be found to be especially
true OF condemned murderers who are
above the average in intellect. no mat
ter how heinous the crime In any in
stance may have been. The dull
Drained murderer puts his fate in his
lawyers hands. his mind fingers with
his crime, he accepts the inevitable and
is simply sorry that he did not escape.
But the brainy criminal-and doubtless
Durrant is of this class-speculates for
months over the probable weight of nhe
evidence ne invents, calculates the
chances in what concerns the impress
sion he may be able TO make on the
Jury and trains himself 10 make a
showing Of innocence. until he is men,
tally in an unreal world and fancies
himself a martyr rather than a Grim
inal
Undoubtedly all these illusions dis
appear when. standing beneath the in.
exorable rope. the condemned murderer
finds himself helpless under conditions
where deceit no longer avails. But thai
a prisoner may put himself. during his
long waiting in Jail. in a mood thai
brings him into a complete haiiucina'
ton. is proven by the conduct OF many
q prisoner Of DurranG's mental grade
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1895.
The Situation Unchanged.

pt is Ito be regretted that circum-
stances have arisen that have been fol-
lowed by the importation into the
Northwest of men engaged to work on
any section of the Great Northern rail-
road. AS we understand the conditions,
there is no demand for the presence of
new men in this section; we also un-
denstand that the new hands are des-
tined not for this vicinity but for
points in North Dakota and. possibly.
In Eastern Washington; the line of the
Montana Central is equipped with its
full quota of railroad men.
We get no news that calls for any
correction in what the Standard has
hitherto said in regard to the recent at
tempt at agitation. Apparently there is
no purpose on the part of the employees
In this region to take a hand In any at
tempt to stop the operation OF any of
the roads that center in Butte. Nor is
there any discussion of account in bus
mess and labor circles, as certainly
would be THE case were there serious
apprehension of trouble: citizens In the
communities where the Standard is
read have. in the past, shown their will
lingness. Ito the point OF personal sac.
rifice. to stand by the railroad men
when they have a fight to make.
That the rumbling of discord has
been heard at certain points along the
Great Northern is true; the echo of II
surely has not been heard in the vi
cinfty of Butte. nor do we learn that
the disturbances ait Kalispell find favor
I'm tl,fs raUion
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08
A Senator's Views

Talking in a strain that had in 1t
no suggestion of jingoism, Senator
Morgan has lately expressed himself
in favor of the annexation of Cuba
to the United States: he favored that
sort of treatment for Hawaii. The
senator says that IL this country rec
ognizes belligerency in Cuba 1t must
be prepared to back that position with
arms-American shipping would con-
stantly be exposed to search. and
trouble would be sure to follow.
But the senator feels sure that we
cesses. Spain, in his opinion. will
weary of the attempt to hold the
island in subsection. The men are not
found there to whom Madrid can con-
fide the government as England does,
for instance. in Canada. 81 think"
added the senator. that the Spanish
statesmen will see that the holding
of Cuba is too expensive a task, be-
sides involving constant bloodshed."
Mr.. Morgan's opinion is that, in due
time. in peaceful ways and as the re-
suit of processes that will not bring
discredit to Spain. this country can
get Cuba. He Is chairman of the SEN
ate committee on foreign relations and
will probably retain that position for
some time to come. so that his ex-
pressions respecting a Cuban policy
have added interest.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08

NOVEL OR NOTABLE.

James ]. Brooks, for many years chief
of the United States secret service, died
at Pittsburg Friday. Brooks is the man
who broke up the whiskey ring, captured
Brocaway, the notorious counterfeiter,
and directed the pursuit and capture of
the men who abetted John Wilkes Booth
In the murder of President Lincoln.
DIR. Richard Durnford, bishop of Chi
chester, who has just died, was born in
1902, educated at Elton and oxford, took
orders in 1884 and after holding several
important livings, was appointed bishop
of Chichester in 1870. He was an earnest
advocate of temperance, middle class ed
ucation and the organized work of wo-
men.
John Burns has answered malicious
critics who said he had been making
much money in the United States by stat
ing in England that he travelled 1900
miles in seven weeks, visited Is cities and
addressed 10000 people for a little over
SOCIAL of which he spent for expenses,
leaving him no profit save knowledge and
experience.
]. j. Van Aliens father was a successful
merchant, but retired early in life with a
competency. He married the daughter of
another successful New York merchant,
Miss Steward. She died in the early in
fancy of her only child and heir-the
present ]. J. Van Alen-leaving him so
well provided for that when he attained
his majority, his father. who was his
trustee, turned over to him securities val
ued at 81, 100000.
How completely the Boulanger cult has
decayed in France is indicated by the
scant observance of the fourth anniver-
sary, which occurred recently, of the bur-
ial of the general. Only a single friend
visited the cemetery near Brussels where
he is buried. and only three gifts of flow
ers came Rochefort, Boulanger's ardent
supporter, appears to have given up his
pious pilgrimage to the grave, for he did
not go there this year.
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have helped each other without calling
on the auuhoTdties.
The Geographical society of Florence
Will celebrate DIN 1898 The 400th ami
yersary OF Americas Vespucius' voyage
of discovery. and will invite all the
geographical societies in the world to
take part in the festivities. There Is
to be an exhibition of objects relat-
ing to these voyages. and at the same
time the unwilling of a monument.
The colored people living in Berlin
held a festival in that city recently
which attracted many of the prominent
people of the capital. One of the best
speakers made an address, as became a
good adopted citizen, in eulogy of the
German emperor. Negroes in the faith
erland have reason to be content with
their lot. They are said to be received
on an equality with whites, and are
often called "brunettes."
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The First of Them.

Lately the newspapers have been
digging UP the record Of Commodore"
Vanderbilt. the founder of the fortune
which an English ducal house is about
to share. The humble beginning son
a little garden farm on Staten island Is
known about. Vanderbilt's modest
ferry in New York harbor belongs to
traditions not worth reciting. He en-
gagged in steamboat operations on the
Hudson. with such success that when
he was forty years old he was rated
to be worth half a million collars-a
great fortune in those days; that was
about 1910.
was quick TO discover the opportunities
offered by the carrying trade to Cali
fornia He pushed that line OF bust
ness. He would not tolerate success
full competition-he offered a better
and a faster service than any other
line by way of the isthmus could equip.
A biography OF Vanderbilt. written
years ago and which is assumed 10 be
official. SAYS that in the course OF
eleven years ne made ten millions in
this trade.
Commodore Vanderbilt was shrewd
enough TO know when TO let go. He
had the foresight to discover that the
ocean traffic was soon to languish. He
set at work with energy 10 acquire
railroad interests: his conquest OF the
properties that constitute the New
York Central system OF to-day makes
a racy story. That work demanded