THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, FEBRUARY 1890.
GENERAL STATE fJEWS.
Cream of the State Press.
Drops of Turpentine and Grains of Bice from the
X6t ; Clusters of Gmpea and Tobacco Sterna
from the North ; Bialks of Corn and Grain
of "Wheat from the West, and Peannta
ai d Cotton Seed from the South.
Gastonia is to have a bank.
Chariot j had seventeen ; deaths in
January.
A coffin factory has been established at
Burlington.
CoL T. M. Holt will rebuild his grist
mill at Graham.
A spoke and handle factory 'has been
built at Mocksvillel "
A light house to be built at Cape
Hatteras will cost $500,000. 7
Twenty two passenger trains arrive and
depart from Greensboro every day.
-The streets of .Wilmington are to be
improved by putting down byster shells.
There are about sixty Young Mens'
Christian Associations in North Carolina.
Mr. L. C. Rountree, who lived near
Greenville, died a few dys ago ' from an
overdose of laudanum. " -
" Two white men were arrested at Mon
roe last week charged fwith! stealing a
horse in South Carolina. j:
'i-SmithGeldraZd:; We saw a bale of
cotton on our streets a- few: days' ago
covered with bed ticking.
We learn from the Chronicle that the
car sheds of the C. C. Road, Charlotte,
were burned last Tuesday. . .
Mr. Julian Carr," of Durham, has given
the Students' Aid Fund of Wake Forest
College t check for $1,000.
Marion is to have a cotton and broom
factory. The machinery for the broom
factory has already arrived.
There have been seven deaths from la
grippe reported in North Carolina. Four
of these occurred at Ox ord.
The Wayne Agricultural Works at
Goldsboro sustained a loss of about $1,000
by fire last Wednesday night
The first through passenger train "from
Mt Airy to Wilmington over the C. F. &
Y. Y. Road will run Saturday.
J. P. Home, Sheriff of Union county,
yesterday settled taxes with the State
Treasurer, paying in $8,021.71.
The students of the Newberne Collegiate
Institute are studying the geography of
Nellie Bly's trip around the world.
Mitchell county is crowing over Ashe,
which has had 40 murders since the war,
while it, (Mitchell) has had only 39.
A correspondent writing from Wil
liamston says that five mad dogs have
been killed in that town within a few
days.
xjis person iu pusscssiuii ui uuo.ci
448 is entitled to the carpet at W. H. &
R. S. Tucker & Co.'s. No. 67 secures the
cloak. v
The three C's Road put a negro engineer
in charge of a train on that Road. Several
white engineers at once resigned their
positions.
" A prominent railroad man in this State
says that before long the railroad shops in
the South will turn out their own locomo
tives and cars.
The Supervising Architect of the
Treasury gives Congressman Ewart to
understand that work on the Asheville
public building will probably begin
about April 1st.
In Mitchell county, week before last,
Moulton Buchanan, who recently shot
one Stanly, was shot and killed by Stan
. ly's friends in revenge.
: The report is out that the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad Company contem-
Wilmington ana weiaon.
The contract for opening and complet
ing the canal from Roanoke Falls to Wei-
n - .
don has been let The outlay for the
work will be about $30,000. -:.
r We learn from the Messenger that an
attempt waj made to set fire to the
residence of Mr. Geo. F. Tilley, of- Wil-
' Reidsville has just put in a, new town
clock. Whether the county commission
ers are in any manner involved on ac
coant thereof, is not stated.
-:.JIr. Kleper Denmark, of Goldsboro,
has been awarded $5,000 damages by a
a jury for the loss of a leg on. the Atlan
tic & North Carolina Railroad.' "
Mr. Thos. A. Edison, the famous in
ventor is at Charlotte. He is accompanied
by his wife and two sons, aho Mrs.
McWilliams, of New Jersey.
; " Peg leg " Williams says" that he and
the other "boys" have snipped 32,000
negroes from this State to the Southwest
and have orders for 5,000 more.
Warren G. Elliott, Esq., of Norfolk,
Va., has been elected president of the
Wilmington & Weldon railroad and will
make his residence in Wilmington.
Asheboro Cow ier: . The sound of the
hammer and saw is heard daily in Ashe
boro. The old town is on a boom and
no mistake. The population of Asheboro
will be largely, increased this year.
During the month of January, Messrs
Hanes & Co., of Winston, shipped 175,
973 j pounds of manufactured tobacco oh
which they paid over $14,000 revenue
tax... . -
Charles Myers, colored, of Mecklenburg
county, was jailed at Charlotte charged
with, stealing a watch from G. C. Catbey,
Esq , of that county, says the Charlotte
Chronicle.
The Chamber of Commerce of Wil
mington has decided to hold a gala week
in May or. June to celebrate the comple
tion of the Cap ? Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railroad to that city.
Asheville Citizen: William Miller,
who is wanted in Asheville for shooting"
John Dryman, ha been arrested in Knox
ville and an officer was yesterday sent to
bring him to the city. '
Capt Nathan Walker sent us a turnip
Saturday wbioh is a Maud S. It beats
the world, and weighs ten pounds and
six ounces. It will go the Newberne.
Fair. E. City Economist
The farmers in several counties have
grown tired of the emigration business,
and on two or three occasions the agents
have been invited away never to return
or take the consequences. .
A correspondent of the News and Ob
server? writing from Yancey ville, states
that ' the town voted a subscription of
$10,000 to the Danville, Mebane and
Southern Railroad on the 8th.
, All of the prisoners (four) conined in
the Dnrham county jail escaped on the
night of the 10th inst The Sun says
that it is thought that a key was conveyed
to the prisoners bv some means.
Danbury Reporter: Much uneasiness
U felt in regard to .the wheat crop in this
county. Farmers say that it is putting
up the head stalk, and fear a freeze may
kill it, which will injure, or ruin the
crop.
Vf&desboTO InteUigencer-Messenger : No
county in North Carolina can beat Anson
for fine stock. It is a very rare occurrence
to see a sorry team on our streets. They
all show evidence of humane treatment
and plenty of provender.
Henderson Tomahawk : The wife of
John Young, colored, living on Mr. Whit
Swain's place, near town, gave birth to
one child on the 5th, one on the 6th and
another on the 7th. The oldest are living
and the youngest is dead.
Asheville Citizen: Hendersonville is
enjoying a spirited and gratifying boom.
The city has begun the laying of pipes for
a water works system, and a company is
building a street car line. Work on the
latter will be completed by summer.
The Wilmington Messenger notes that it
is currently reported about Raleigh that
the Atlafic Coast Line has in contempla
tion a double track from Wilmington to
Weldon. It would not surprise us much.
The Coast Line people are progressive, in
anything.
Lincolnton Courier: There are two
factories nearing completion at Lincolnton
which, we believe, will prove to be of
profit to the owners and of value to the
town, and these are the furniture estab
lishments of Motz Bros, and also of Mr.
Ed. James.
Rutherford Banner r Seventy-nine
thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars'
worth of improvements made in our town
inside of two years. We regret to learn
of the death of R R. Hayne's wife whioh
occurred a few days ago, at her home on
Broad river. .
A correspondent writing from Halifax
to the Evening Call of this city says:
" Obstructions are being removed and
rocks are being blasted in Roanoke river,
preparatory tolnaking the stream navig
able for commerce boats up to Halifax
and Weldon."
Louisburg Times : Preparations are oh
foot to erect a large brick tobacco ware
house in Louisburg. Mrs. Hardy Gupton,
a very highly esteemed lady of Gold Mine
township, passed over the river or death
on the 3d inst She had reached the ripe
age of 70 years.
Tarboro Southerner: Several negroes
made their exodus from this place to-day,
going to Rocky Nount and other points
to make their way southward. While
there is no regular exodus train to convey
them they leave with the hope of taking
the cars at other points.
It is stated .that the inhabitants, of
Stokes county are much- excited about a
certain cave in the Sauratown mountains.
It is so deep that a rock thrown into it
cannot be heard when it strikes the bot
tonC Lately smoke has been seen issuing
from the mouth of the cave. '
Concord Times : On the Safrit farm,
lately the home of L. H. Sapp, a gold
vein has been found and is being opened
up by Messrs. Goodman & Co., the
present owners. Experts in mining say
it is quite rich. Mr. W. A. Smith
showed us some very rich ore from the
McEachern mine in No. 10 township,
which is a late discovery. He said he
got 16 pennyweights from one small pan
full, and if it keeps up this way Mont
gomery's rich mines won't be a drop in
the bucket
The Southerner says: If people living
near Fishing creek wish that, stream
cleared pf Jogs and other obstructions tit
navigations by light draft steamers they
should send in their petitions to their
Congressmen and Senators. What is.
worth having is worth asking for. - : '
Reidsville Review : Little Ruth Sw inn,,
the six yar-old daughter of Mr. andMrsX
J. M. Swann, while playing at a neighbor's
house last Friday afternoon about 2,;
o'clock, had her clothing caught by fire.j
.She was horribly burned and died from
her injuries Saturday morning about 5:30.'
Asheville Journal: John Berry, whoset
second trial for the killing of George ,Y
Bell, occupied the most of yesterday
afternoon in testifying in his own behalf.
His wife, was also called to the stand to
testify. Other witnesses were examined
this forenoon. Lawyer M. E. Carter
made the opening speech for the State.'
New Bern Journal: There are some
towns and communities in North Carolina,
we are glad to say," where "hard times'
is not the cry a d the effect of short
crops is not felt Mr. W. O. Williams,
of Portsmouth" was in the city yesterday.
He gays that the people in his community
are in good circumstances better than
for years.
The Williamston correspondent of . te
Scotland 2$ eckx Democrat say : "An operar
tion was performed upon Mr. Peele; by
three physicians in Ds. Ha-rellV office1
last Monday. A stone as large as a door
knob was taken from him. Though the
operation was very painful, Mr. Peele; Is
now doing well, and is in a fair way to
recover.
The Goldsboro Argus announces that
Rev. Dr. iarx Moses, Rabbi of the He
brew Synagogue in that city, has beeiv
honored with a flattering surprise in th
way of an unsolicited call to the charge
of a large congregation in California. The
call is of such a nature and the "charge'
so desirable that the erndite Rabbi nas
decided to accept it
Goldsboro Argus : We regret to an
nounce the death of Mr. L. Spicer, con
stable of Goldsboro township, which sad
event occurred yesterday morning at 6
o'clock of pneumonia. Mr. Spicer waj a
native of Edgecombe county, and came
to this city at the close of the war. He
was about 48 years of age. He wa a
gallant Confederate soldier.
Mr. Jessie Brantley and Mr. Thos.
Portis became involved in a difficulty a
few days ago, near Garysburg. The
quarrel was about a boat. Brantley struck
Portis over the head with a plow handle.
Portis ran and Brantley pursued him and
again struck him with the plow handle.
Portis then turned and dealt him a ter-i
rible blow with a stick which crushed in
his skull. Brantley is still alive but will
die.
Concord Standard: We were shown
Wednesday a fine lot of gold in a pan of
ore taken from the. Allison gold mine
recently discovered in this town. It was
gotten from a lump of ore about the size
of one's fist and weighing one and a half
pounds. There was about two penny
weights of gold. J. L. Earnheart and
others have leased th mine and are now
working it They have out 300 bushels
of ore -
The county commissioners and the citi
eens of Iredell county are "janglin "
about spending $175 for a town clock, to
be placed on the new bank building in
Statesville. A good many citizens oppose
the scheme. We are disposed to take
sides with those Opposed. Those who
can't pay $1.50 for a Waterbury watch
have no business knowing the time of
day, no how. And, besides, the exercise
necessary to wind them up is of great
benefit to health.
Charlotte is to have a big time on May
20th. One of the specialties will be a
championship race between the Columbia,
S. C, and Athens, Ga., truck companies.
Those two companies are the champions
of the South, and are now "tied," each
having won one race. They propose to
run off the tie at Charlotte, and will offer
a prize of $500 in addition to the prize to
be offered by the Charlotte firemen, The
time of the Athens company is 34f sec
onds, 125 yards run, and put up ladders.
. The Board of Trustees of the. Baptist
Female University met in Raleigh last
Wednesday, and after a lengthy -conference,
decided to locate the oollege in Ral
eigh. .A number of towns made propo
sitions' to have it located within ' their
limits. Durham offered $50,6d0 in cash
and a site. Raleigh gave $25,000 and a
site. The Board decided t put thV col
lege here because it is a central point.
Raleigh Dow has eight colleges including
those for the colored people. This does
not include the graded schools and other
public schools. ,
The Washington Progress says: The
Wilmington Seacoast Railroad is putting,
in a side track at Wrightsville, prepara
tory to the forthcoming season. We
regret to learn that Mr. John Tankard,
of Yatesville, this county, was thrown
from his buggy on Saturday last by a
runaway horse and badly hurt- On
Monday night the 3rd inst the alarm of
fire was given at 12 o'clock. The fire
broke out on Main street in a hearse
house nearly opposite St Peter's church.
Thero were two hearses, a lot of hay and
foddt r and oats and about 60 barrels of
corn stored in the house. The hearses
were the property of Mr. E. L. Scovill
and the corn, &c, that of Mr. Rich
ard Farrow. The building and contents
were all consumed.
THE MOST IMPOitfANTVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
? FOR A WEEK. '
: Rear Admiral Stephen P. Qdackenbush
died -In-Washington.
There is said to be great destitution in
Greenville county, Va, .
. Wales will ask the English parliament
to give that country holne rule.;i - :
A yigorus fight is being made against
the sale of cigarettes in Maryland.
, Oscar Murphy tried to kill policeman
Hennelly- in New York last week.
A cloud burst at Tsit-li- Chow in Chiaa,
on Feb., " 7th drowned over 100 people.
Cardinal Pecci, brother of the Pope,
died at Rome on the afternoon of the
8thT v v-
Small-pox in malignant form .has broken
out in Anna, Ills. The town is quaran-
!tined. , i;. . "; ..
Mrs: Oliver, a sUteV of the late John
Bright, and a noted' temperance agitator,
is dead.
Mr. Henry M. Stanley has been, elected
a member of the Russian Geographical
Society. H.
Col Dudley's famous libel suit against
The New York Evening Post lias been
Apoitioikof the tow. i of- Plains, Pa.,
has5 carved ih It Was situated louver the
coalmines. ' - :,: ;U :
. Toe Duke, of M. jntpensier, who died
suddenly .at San Lucas, left a fortune of
$2o,oQo,ooo.;..' "7it :, .
The 'expenditures of 770 Loudon Times
in the Parnell case at e aid to already ex
ceed $10j000.
A cabinet maker, at New York had his
head severed from hU body in-a.furniture
shop last week. ; . .
Bill Victory, of New York1,' defeated
Frank Meyers, of JBrooklyn,' in a ten
round prize fight
Secretary Windom has appointed John
Curtis, of Patterson, N. J., special inspec
tor of customs at Panama.
Martin Toole was injured and a $1,500
house was wrecked yesterday at McKees
port by a natural gas explosion.
Forepaugh's circus has been sold to an
English syndicate. At this rate Barnum
will soon be the orginal American.
John Holden, a Southerner, was fined
$20 in Jersey City for shooting at a green
goods man who swindled him out of $575.
An Atlanta man runs a dog farm near
that Hty. During the past twelve months
he has sold over $20,000 worth of dogs.
The Rev. Robert M. Lipscomb, the old
est member of the Baltimore Conference
of the Methodist Church, died there, aged
82 years.
The court house at Dallas, Texas, was
burned a few days ago and nearly all of
its contents destroyed. Loss estimated
at $80,000.
A dispatch from London states that 156
bodies have been recoverd from the . gas
pit at Abersham. There are other dead
in the mine yet
General Mahone is living in compara
tive retirement in Washington. He
spends a great deal of time in taking
long solitary walks.
"Rain-in the-Face," the Sioux chief,
seeks a minor appointment in Dakota.
It is to bev hoped that he will not get into
the Weather Bureau. '
The Farmers' Alliance of Sangamon
county, Ills., met at Springfield Tuesday
and decided to boycott persons selling
Chicago dressed beef. v
George Lowe, of Council Bluffs, la.,
son of Judge Lowe, shot and filled John
Farmer, a negro, in a drunken row at
Gros wold, la., Monday. ;
Benjamin Thomas, an old mail desperate
with disease and adversities, threw him
self before an elevated train in New York
and was crushed to death. .
The schooner Minnehaha, with a crew
of six men, from Philadelphia to New
Haven, has been out twenty-one days
and is believed to be lost. ?
Representatives of agricultural societies
have held a meeting at !Lem'mrg to pro
vide relif for the Jamine v sufferers in
Russia, Poland and Galicia. . .
Judge F. M. Downs, ; of Fort Smith,
Ark., suicided by cutting his throat Tues
day . --He was a brilliant and highly edu
cated young man. Whiskey.
Mr, goring, -the American .minister to
Portugal, will start from Lisbon on a leave
of absence at th.e end of the month. He
will spend his leave in Italy.
lie Shah of Persia, is having a geo
graphical globe made upon which ihe dif
ferent countries of the world will be
represented" by precious stones.
The French government is said to be
much offended because the Czar has
granted a commission in the Russian
army to Prince Louis Napoleon.
The Sixth National Bank, of New
York, resumed business Tuesday morning.
A few depositors withdrew their accounts,
but the majority expressed confidence in
there-establishment of the bank under
its former management.
Joseph Pry or, a laborer at. the Asp 30
phospate works, near Charleston, ' was
crashed to death one morning last wet-k
by;a' lump of phosphate falling on him.
The French doctors suggested warm
alcoholic drinks as a good remedy for the
grip and within the next three days ar
rests for drunkenness in-Paris rose to 1,200.
At the Central Ontario Trmera' Insti
tute it was decided to recommend to the
dominion government that wheat and
wheat products be placed on the free list
Ten men were killed and sixteen in
jured by an accident ' hear- Dalles,
Oregon. The caboose in which the men
were riding went through a bridge. No
particulars.
- State Senator John E. Reyburn was
nominated by the Republicans of the
Fourth congressional district to fill the
vacaniy caused by the death of CoLgress
man" William E. Kelley.
JJlop McGuire, of KnoxTille, Tennessee,
last week found and rescued the-body -of
his: mother on a dissecting s table of the
East-Tennessee Medical Colhge. It had
been stolen from the cemetery.
. Ellis F. Bard, Cashier of the Lincoln,
Pa., Bank, is short in,hjs accounts to the
amount of nearly $40,000. He says that
he drew the money out to. help a friend
who stood in need of the money.
At the christening of W Polish baby at
MaVshwood, Pa., Monday'riiht a drunken
carousal took place, resulting in.the ae
struciiion by fire of ten buddings, in which
arnai and woman were crenated.
The Chinese government has jus 5 or
dered a new edition of the famous ency
clopedia which was originally compiled
during the reign of Kien-Lung. The in
uex alone fills twelve folio volumes.
: There is prospect of oloodshed at Gen.
Alger's Volunteer mines at Palmer, Mich.,
where 150 Finlanders on a s rike are
armed and confronted by a large posse of
sheriff's deputies with Winchester rifles.
A man who died in the city hospital at
Knoxville, Tenn., last week, confessed to
be G. M. Ellerton, who, while smuggling
goods from Canada, threw a revenue offi
cer overboard from a boat and drowned
him.
Joseph P. Murphy, manufacturer of
cotton and woolen goods, at Fourth and
Cumberland streets, Philadelphia, made
an assignment Tuesday. Liabilities;
$500,000. Assets will probably pay lia
bilities. The Beaver Valley Manufacturers' As
sociation yesterday elected the following
officers: President, W. W.-Hartman;
Vice-President, Abram Bentley; Treas
urer, C. M. Merrick; Secretary, W. C.
McMahon.
J udge Colt, of the United States Circuit
Court at Boston, has granted the United
States Government an extension of three
months in which to introduce evidence in
its suits against the American Bell Tele
phone Company.
The annual encampment of the Massa
chusetts Grand Army of the Republic has
begun at Boston. Gen. Alger, commander-in-chief,
addressed the comrades
in advocacy of the immediate passage of
the dependent pension bill
A masked man entered a farm house
near White ville, N. Y., on the 8 th and
killed Mrs. Ransom Floyd and fatally
wounded her husband and then escaped.
Robbery was the object of the scoundrel,
but he overlooked the money.
The New Jersey State inspector of
food is continuing his raid . on adultera
tions in Trenton. He reports that there
is hardly a grocery store in that city
without spurious coffee, and this stuff is
retailed at 22 cents per pound-
President Van Homev of the Canadian
Pacific railroad, thinks that a journey
around the world will be made in thirty
eight days in a few years. This will be
when the great trans-Asiatic railroad
across Russia shall have been completed.
The Michigan Labor Federation met at
East Saginaw Tuesday, t Tom Barry, the
noted K. of L. "kicker," who organized
a new union, applied for , admission - as
representative of his -organization, but
was refused. He was not eVehJ ! giVe'ri ! a
hearing. ' "- " : ,; T
The libel suit of RevDr Ball against
The New York EveniriglPdstvf&s begun at
Buffalo, N. Y., Tuesday. The :surt gtpws
but of charges made by Ball 'against Mr.
Cleveland during the ' campaign'' oi
The authorship of the alleged libels "was;
admitted.., : , .,
St Louis was somewhat shaken up by
an earthquake shock 'bn Mon'day' evening.
The bottles in drug stores arid bar roonis
were shaken together,, and. in some few
instances broken. At. the courl house,
the insane asylum and lexian Brothers'
hospital the shocks produced much excite
ment 1
The American Ax Company, a new
corporation of Pittsburg, is composed of
a syndicate comprising all the concerns
in the United States making edge tools of
the character of axes-, adzes, etc. The
Underbill Edge Tod Company will be
given con rol of the ax trade of the entire
New England section.
It is announced, from St. Petersburg
that the committee authorized by the
government has prepared a plan for the
through Siberian railway, to be completed
in ten years. The total length of the line
is to be 4,375 miles, and the total cost
250,000,000 rubles.
Charles Cheatle. a 17-year old boy who
is employed in the wire factory at Trenton,
N. J., was pierced through the body by
a red-hot iron rod on the 6th int Be
fore the machinery could be stoppad, ten
feet of the wire had be err curled up in
the unfortunate boy's stomach." ' ; .
A train narrvinor On&cn ViMrvrla on A
j .
her attendants was stopped in a tunnel
in Derbyshire iasc vreek by a broken
locomotive. Another train Came rushing
in but three torpedoes had been placed
on the track and happily their explosion
was heard and a terriWe calamity averted.
Three men undertook to capture a negro
burglar, in a store at Camak, Ga., on tKe
6th. The negro shot Mr. A. S.. Rogers,
the owner of the store, as he ran out by
him and he is said to be mortally wounded.,.
The other two men pursued the fleeing
burglar and after a desperate fight suc
ceeded in capturing him.
Surgery has made immense strides of
late ye are. Yesterday's Herald reports a
wonderful operation performed on a girl
about twelve years of age in Pittsburg,
Pa: - A tumor as large as a du jk's egg was
taken from the cliiliTs b:ain. The little
patient x is much .relieved and is thought
to be now sure of recovery.
At a congregational meeting of the
Park Presbyterian Church, Erie, Pa.,
call was extended to Rev. William Slem
mer, pastor of the Mercer Church, at
$2,300 per year. Rev. Slemmer was a
Chicago Teporter, graduated at Princeton,
was admited to the bar and then studied
for the ministry He is an able man.
The women of Lothrop, Missouri, or
ganized themselves into a mob of 100
"crusaders," and completely destroyed
two saloons, and emptied about $1,000
worth of liquor into the gutters. They
also notified the druggists that they
would be treated in a like manner if they
persisted in selling liquor in defiance of
the law.
Mary Hooper, aged seventeen, and
Rachel Ferguson, aged eighteen, recent
converts to the Baptist Church at Utica,
Ind., quarreled about which should be
baptized first, and blacked each other's
eyes. When the minister interfered they
attacked him vigorously. A large crowd
was present and the baptizing wound. -in
a row.
The imperial train of the Czar of Russia
is lighted by electricity, which is furnished
by a complete plant carried in a car by
itself. The train consists of fifteen cars,
and during 1888 it ran . upwards of 5,000
miles, and the electric lights always
worked. In the disaster of October, 1888,
the electric car escaped uninjured. The
lamps are from six to eight candle power.
It is reported from California that the
Los Angeles river has changed its course
at almost a right angle Just south of. the
city limits, and after crossing the country
for six miles empties into the old S&a
Gabriel river. The inundation covers a
large area. A large number of orange,
walnut, lemon and other orchards are al
most ruined. Growing crops in its course
are completely destroyed. The total
damage in the Los Angeles region is esti
mated at $750,000. "
Dave Ready, the white man who while
drunk, took William Black, a negro
prisoner, from the officers near Robbies
station, tied him to a tree and shot his
head off on the Tuesday after the whole
sale lynching at Barnwell, haj been caught
Sheriff Lancaster received a telegram from
the sheriff of an Alabama county saying
he had Ready, therihfc man, and asked
him to send for him. The sheriff also got
a telegram from a Flo: ida sheriff saying
he had Ready, who A j' wanted for the
murder of Black.
AN APPEAL FOR HELR.
Bro. D. M. Dry; President of Center
Point Alliance, No. 813, Iredell county,
asks 93 to say thai Bro. J. K. Abernathy,
a worthy member pf that Alliance, has
been so unfortunate as , to get one of
his hands badly sawed in a cotton gin,
and having a large family entirely de
pendent upon, hi labor -for sustananjse,
they earnestly, ask; that every Subordi
nate Alliance in: the State contribute a
small amount from: . the treasury, . or by
individual subscription, tC elp him along.
Such contributions can be sent to Bro.
Dry, at Oak Forrest, Iredell county, N. C.
MEETING OF COUNTY AIL4
A1ICE.
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Ralkigh, N. C, Feb 11,1800.
At the requey f the Executive Com
mittee, there je a called meetinsr of
the Wake county Farmer?, Alliance, . in
the city of Raleigh, on Monday, February
24th, 1890, at 11 o'clock a. m , for the
purpose of attending to important and
pressing business v connected with the
work of the Alliance. Let each lodge be
represented, and each delegation come
nreDared to clear themselves on the books,
that they may receive the new pass-word.
' Fraternally,
A. O. Green,
Pres't Wake County Alliance. .