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. - 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. .