THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER : AUGUST 11, 1896. STATE NEWS. d of the State Press Drops of Turpentine Crl tirsins of Rice from the East Clusters f Wrs,pea and Tobuctd Istams from the NcrtnStAlks of Corn and Grains of Wheat from the West Peanuts nd Cotton Seed from the South Tnc Salisbury World is authority for h , Jtatement that Mittie Allison, col- crcd. died there Monday, aged 100 :irc,hm Index: The farmers of vinpor lU'timond are compelled on ac ,rlt tho recent freshet to replant their corn crops. The iJailfor d Herald, a weekly pa n n- published by Mr. W. M. Sherrell, luei,ded with this week's issue. It irLt j wo months ao. Mr. J. O Whisnant, of Holly Bush, cowed one bushel of wheat last season, Ksinz one sack of fertil zr, from which be produced 26 bushels of good grain, ca the Shelby Aurora. Lexington Dispatch: "We regret to f,nnet:nco tho death of Rev. G. W. I:irJi?OD, formerly pastor of David coa circuit, which occurred at his b'.nio in Mocksville last week. p.ivenport College at Lenoir, is one of tho oldest and best educational hi -tiiulions in the State. In addition to regular courses, muic, art, stencgra cy and type writing are taught. Revenue agents Smith, Rosscau and L; wis were operating in this county Lt week and destroy td three illicit distilleries on Reeky creek, in north Iiv-iel), says the Soatcevilie Landmark. TLc Ooserver fays the young son of Robert Smith, who lives near Ct:.rlotte, picked up a lamp Thursday nuht when it expludcd in his hand, burning him so badly that he died next day There are two neighbors in Hickory Mountain township, Chatham county, who have been married fifteen years snd huve twenty children, sixteen of whom are girls, and none of them twins. We learn that a tenant house on Mr. V7. A. Bell's farm in Sampson county, four miles from town, occupied by Jim Gainey, colored, was burned last night about 10 o'clock, Eajs the Dunn At Taylorsville Superior court, last week, a man by the name of Clontts, was fined $5 for attempting to kiss a girl. The judge afterwards reduced the fine to f 1, which i3 considered dirt cheap. Conference has come and gone, and chickens tho few left are getting tame again. We hope tho brethren enjoyed their stay among us and will co-ne aain, eaj 3 the Wilkcsboro CnroL,i:le. Ti e Pxtteboro R-cord i3 informed that a Chatham county yoaog lady at tend ted to commit euicide last week, because her lover did not make his ap pearance on the day appointed for their At Pantego J;hn Carter, colored, threatened the life of Mr. P. P. Wil kinson, a justice of tho peace. John, failing to give bond, is now cooling hi.i heel? in the cooler, says the Washing ton Gazette. Policeman J. R Grist captured Ge-o-Browu on Tuesday. George was wanted for stealing a watch ard other articles rem the boat ol Capt. Robert Huiney. The watch wa3 recovered, say3 the WiWiirtor. C'Zjlte. Greenville Week?; : During the last wtek several tcbicjo barns have been burned. Rev. Sam Moore and Fernan da Davenport, cf Bethel, have lost one ech, J J. Tuck(r, of Chicod, cna and J I F. K-'el near here one. Jonesboro Progress: The revival at the Baptist church closed Sunday night after continuing cn3 week. Tnere were several professions of faith in Christ and much interest was mani fested during the entire week. The Ciinton Domocr&t's K3nan?ville correspondent states that a certain school in Smitn'3 township, Duplin county, has 4G enrolled scholars of w hom 30 aro Smiths and all the 46 cousins, 43 being first cou3ins. Tne roof is being placed on the new county jail. In a few days expert me chuic3 will begin p itting up the cages and constructing the mob tower. This will take a month or t to to complete, sajs tho Fayetteviile Observer. In an altercation over tools Satur day night between John Dmpsey and Wm. Alston, both colored, the latter was shot in the thigh. Dr. Whitehead extracted the bail. It was only a flesh wound, eays the Rocky Mount Piicenix. The Lutht ran Visitor has this : The proppec's of an increased number of students for North Carolina College are bright indeed. President Scherer has awakened greater interest in the institution by his vigoroup, well timed efforts. It is tho opinion of cur farmers that the cotton crop will be twenty five per cent, shorter than it gave premise of some ten or fifteen days ago. The reason assit ned is the extreme heat of the past few days, eays the Laurinburg Exchange. The Cit"z?n eays a contagious disease believed to be either cholera or thumpp, ia playing havoc with hogs in the sec tion a few miles West of Asheville. It is estimated that 15 000 pounds of pork have been lost by farmers during the past two months. Morgan ton Herald : Mr. John Stamey of Lovelady township, who, in his day, has found 35 bee trees, made on last Saturday tho best find he ever made. He found a tree with 65 pounds of very fine honey, the comb being H feet long. How is this for honey ? Burnsville Eagle: Jeff Lewte, who lives at Green Mountain when he is at home, tells us of a phenomenon which he witnessed in the Northern eky at 9 o'clock cn last Wednesday evening. It was a beautiful rainbow, perfect in coloring and graceful curve. The Wiikesboro Chronicle says that R jbert Pearnson, cf Boomer, who is; about 75 years old, has a hen egg, soven inches in length and seven inches in circumference. H9 broke the shell elf thi3 egg and found another cm plote egg insido of the largo one. Train No. 23, freight and pa?s?enger, was wrecked and burned 12 miles from Durham on the Oxford road early Su a day morning. Ncbcdy badly burr, although the engine and cars feii ab ut 18 feet. The engine was a eomp'efo I wreck, says the Hillsboro Observer. San ford Express : Deputy Collector Troy recently made a raid through Cumberland, Mcoro and Rindolph counties. On his raids he captured one large copper still complete, th it teen barrels of corn whiskey, a very fine two horse team and wagen and one pistol. Charlotto News: While on his re cent vi&it to the Petersburg battlefields Mr. J. C. McLean, of Shopton, ihU county, found an interesting relic in the shape of poison bullet. Tho shaft and cap were still attached to it, though the bullet was fl ittened as if it had come in contact with a rock. W. F. Carrigan, of Cabarrus county, is SO years old, hale and hearty, and has plowed this summer, making a r. g ular hand. He has a grain cradle and scythe made the eamo jear he was born and has been in use SO years. It was made by Mr. Hamilton, who be came master of his trade in Pennsyl vania. Charlotte News: The Elliott Farni ture factory was sold again to-day. Tne property was bought by Capt. John Wilkes for $7,000. Receiver, Cochrane wul recommend that this eale be confirmed, and it ia more than likely that th.s winds up the business, and that the factory will pas3 into the hand 8 of Capt. Wilkes. Last Thursday afternoon ab-Ut half past 2 o'clock there was quite a heavy rain hero accompanied by considerable thunder and lightning. Oat at Oneida Mill j lightning struck a persimmon tree, under which were a cow and seme shoats. A sheat belonging to Chin ley Rui wa3 killed and the cow wts stun rit'd, eajs the Alamance Gleaner. Tne Asheville Cit zn Bays: R. M j Stevens, cf Gasho's Creek, takes the blue ribbon for Irish potatoes, with a Kood, long lead. Ho brought to the Cito'zen today an Eirly R.jso that turned the scales at two pounds eight ounces. It bears a strong facial re semblance to Li Hung Chang, the Chi ncsc statesman who ii scon to c:me to Amcric i. Fayetteviile Observer: Ur. R.bert Furmidge, well known in this city, was killed ias's Tnursday near Lum ber Bridge. He was engaged in mea3 uring a tree which had just been cut down, when one of its limbs, which had been broken c If during the decent and lodged m a trse over the spot, fell and striking hitn on the hea", killed him instantly. Salisbury World: W. Murphy's grainery was visited by somo one Wed nesday night and yesterday morning, he missed about ten bushels wheat. The visitor of Wednesday night bored an auger hole in the floor of the grain ery, from which he got all the wheat he wanted and then closed up the hole and departed, leaving no clue by which he could be tracked. Greenville Reflector: Tho first sale comiDg on Monday, the weather being so warm, prices being nos yet estab lished, and most of the farmers being busy with their curing, everybody was surprised that on the first day of the eeason with such circus tancjs, when no special tff.Tt had been made for an opening break, the offering should run up to nearly 40,000 pounds. According to the Concord Standard, sometime duriDg last week, Mrs. Isaac Biles, a middle aged lady living at Forest Hill, gave birth to a child hav ing a full eet of pearly white teeth. The front ones were unusually large for a email child, and never, with the one exception, has such a freak of nature been known in that part of country. The child was otherwise normally de veloped. The little infant lived only a few days. Jane Byrd, who was convicted Fri day in the Superior court of concealing the birth of her child, was discharged by Judge Starbuck on the payment of the costs. This action was taken on the recommendation of p'lyeician?, says the Fayetteviile Observer. Concord Standard : Maggie Sides, a young woman who lived with her brother in-law, Matthew Cable, at Forest Hill, was found dead in her bed Saturday morning about 7 o'clock, having expired some time during Fri day night. She was recovering from an attack of fever and had sat up all day Friday. When she retired Friday night she was in the brightest of spirits and was quite hearty. Fayetteviile Observer: Joe Harring ton, who stabbed Charles McKay dur ing a camp meeting at Beaver Creek church Sunday night, was captured at his home in Beaver Creek last night by Township Constablo Maulttby. Har riDgton, who is not much moro than a boy, made no resistance, and quietly accompanied the t llioer to thid city, and was placed in jail. MeK:iy is said to be in a critical condition. From one of the pilots at that point wo lern that HuKeras Iniot i3 almost entirely filled up, only b xits of very J'ght draught hcn; ablej 10 p. ts in and out. In view of tho recent dredging of Wallace's channH, t.tl jrJd.g aeplen- did and ta?e pes-uge over Ooracoke bar, the filling in o Ilatteras Inlet is not to be regretted, only iu ho far as it 1 ll'octa the Hatterai pilots. Tnia latter inlet with its tortuous channel, its ever shifting and treacherous sands and storm swept waters has always been a menace to the lives of crews and safety of vessels forced to seek an out let through itsdaugeroua pas, says the Washington G'izstte. REDUCED KATES. We understand that all the railroads in the State will give the U3U il con vention rates to the Populist State Con vention this week one and one third faro for the round trip. Delegates from the First Congressional district will have to got a ccrtifi ;ate of attendance from the State Chairman, but that will be no trouble and can be done any time during the Convention WHAT COTTON IS MADE OF. Oa page 569 of "The Year Bonk of the Department of Agriculture, 1S95," there is a small table which it would pay Our cotton farmers to prefer vo and study, and for their use we reproduce it: r. - r- r- -r v 1- s - -9 ? 5 - J a 5 5 J. 2 -r Z if H 4 r - - J. O 2 r. 2 ; Z. " ' If these clemer.t3 are found in the cotton plant, evidently they must have como mainly from tho soil. Tne soil then is impoverished by the crop to that extent, aud tha rule of common sense teaches that unless you pay back to the soil what you take from it, scon your soil will fail to produca a crop composed of these elements. How, in the easiest, cheapest or best way, to make your soil rich in these con3titu ent elements of the cotton plant and keep it well stocked with them, is just as essential to the success of the farmer to know, as it is f or a merchant to know how to koep his stock replenished with just that class of good, which are most called for by his customers, and are essentials which they mu.-t have. Oae important element in the suc cess of the farmer is labor. Work, but work a'l you may from sunrise to sunset all the days of the long year through but if you put cotton seed in a soil which has been robbed of every essential element or even one or two of them, or the proportions broken even. No cotton will come to pay you for your labor. It is, then, as important to know your soil, and the crop you wish to produce as it is to labor. The day has passed when the farmer had only to know how to plant and work a crop. Th3 original soil is worn out. brain, as well as brawn and muscle, must now be used. And the brain must now do the most important work on the farm. Our farmers should re alize this and be &ure to give their chil dren every educational advantage possible. THE SITUATION. How the North Carolina Delegation Stood at St. Louis and How Some Things Were Cone. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. Concord, N. C. I think the People's party has reached that point cf its existence where it can, by taking advantage of certain oppor tunities, go forward to greatness and victon ; or, by being entrapped by cer tain leaders and influences, it can be obliterated from the face of the earth in a very short time. "To be or not to be, that is the question." I know the millions of its champiors all over this country would rush forth any day to fight its open enemies and die in their boots rather than see a single thread torn from its silver banner. Yet, sirs, there is a secret enemy, a silent, de vious devil that is today lurking near the hearc of our party which is setting its net to bind the party in its iron grasp 30 that it can never rally from this deadly e ffect unless we, the masses of the p ?ople, rush forth and snatch our luvid party from the hands of this sulking devii and place it beyond tho reach of eu?picion. At SC. Luis the other day our whole party orgai. z ition for a time hurg upon a very ter;d:r thread hung be tween life? ard death and it was al most an accident that saved it from an ignominious death. Tho leaders who were entrusted with the safety of the party came in au inch of leading it into tbat valley of desolation the Demo cratic party yea, they even lead it there, and only the almost superhuman work of the masses saved it and snatched it all torn and bleeding from such detestablo companionship. Do we want to longer truet this party in the hands of such men? If they will ruin us once won't they do so again? Under its present leadership our forces are being disorganiz d, every wheel has been held fast for months and month?, and our oeoDle are d if tins away like the leaves of autumn, and our "big" men sit back at the Lindell Hotel and caucus with Democrats and listen to Democratic promises and hearken to Democratic lies while the tue patriots cf the People's party are ignored, their wisdom is scoffed at, their demands are hissed, their plead irg3 aro unheard. I atk every delegate to St. Louis if thf-se tniogs are not true. I believe that tho People's party should be for Populicts. I believo that there are many of our leaders to day who at heart are eneanea to our party. If not, t'iv do we see the pad spectacle of our leaders working and voting for Mr Bryan, tho chief of Dtmcrats, and Mr. Sewall, tho prince of DemocrtP, while they cuss out every man with manhood and patriotism enough to publish their traitorous actions? I appeal to the Populists of North Carolina if they are not tired of such Democratic ruie? I have bsen sneered at for months because I told the people wherein they were being crucified up-n a cross of ambition, but I am glad that my course is now being vindicated by every day events. Every day some honest man says well, Kestler, you were right about this matter, and from now cn I'm going to do a little think ing for myself. Didn't I tell you ail mcnths ago that our loaders were go iag to land 113 in the Democratic party ? Are we net lanced there if you vote and work for Mr. Bryan, a Democratic nominee? In St. Louis the middle of the road men agreed, in order to pro vent the Bryan Democrats from stam peding tho convention and nominating Mr. Bryan and Mr, S3 wall, to nominate the Vice-President first. The North Carolina delegation had in caucus agreed to support the minority report, i e , to nominate Vice President first. Our State leaders, being Bryan Demo crats, came to our delegation and argued very eloquently and at length with us to vote for the majority report. Such was the pleadings and promises that 85 of tho votes were cast as they dictated, but ten of them would not yield to their solication and were cast for the minority report. After some time the majority of the delegation saw the w isdom of tho ten delegates and they came over to the middle of the roaders. Then cur leaders, seeing that they were defeated, jumped on the side of tho minority report and claimed the victory as their, afters they had done all in their power to win so as to take up the presidential contest first and thereby nominate Bryan and 8ewal. I appeal to every delegate there if these aro cot facts. Ask the men who changed their vote upon pleading and who afterwards changed ic again when they saw themselves fooled if these things are not true. And yet they say that these men decided the question! If they had decided it Bryan and Sewall would have been nominated to day and the Populist party would now be only a dream of nothingness, an echo of by gone hopes. It may seem strange that 70 of North Carolina's votes went for a Democrat against a Populist when 60 of the votes were for a Populist and 35 for a Democrat, but such is the case, j We in caucus polled the sentiments of each delegate and it was fully under stood that CO votes were to go to a straight ticket, but by manipulations the Bryan Democrats changed the en tire result. First. By delaying matters until a number of straight Populists had to leave for their homes and when the final count was made only a few of us were present. Second. By unduly irflueccing some by false representations. Third. By pledging North Carolina to policies that were the desire of the leaders and not the voice of the dele gates. Majir Guthrie, who was one of Bryau's chief boot-licks, made a sickly speech in which he pledged our State for Bryan when 60 of the 95 votes had just been polled and leund favorable to a straight ticket. I asked our spokes, man, Col. Harry Sk nner, to give us middle of the roaders only a few min utcs to show our views of the matter, but he refused to do so. Senator Alien and the entire machin ery of the convention were run in tho interest and by the dictation of the Bryan Democrats and for the good of the rotten Democratic party. A true Populist could not get recognition in thi3 Democratic &how. No wonder the people are grumbling at tho mixed up state that we are in. And it won't be much wonder if their vote is split when the ides of November come around. Mr. Butler and several of his boot licks were handsomely ensconced at the Lindell Hotel, the ofHciial hea?quar tersof the Democrats, while we humble Populists fared the best we could in humbler hotels. A leader who is too nice to board with the men who ele vated him is too nice to be further trusted by them In order to prove my statement, I give a list of the delegates and the way they said they wanted to vote just be fore the vote was taken. Mr. Ayer, the Secretary, if he has his minutes near, can bear me out in this fact: For straight Populist ticket: Jen kins, Qaeen, Herron, Waller, Leonard, Strowd, Jr. and Sr., Kestler, Hodges, Garrett, Harris, Foster, McGreggor, Caldwell, Koontz, Birker, Kinsay, Newsom, O'Berry, Rimsey, Ray, Ayer. For Bryan: Guthrie, Butler, Sr. and Jr., Skinner, Kitchen, Lloyd, Scrat ford, Dula, Henry, Martin, Barkley, Fountain, Shuford, Wilcox. With three exceptions all these were present in the caucus and this is the way they wished at that time to vote on first ballot. It was published and well understood by all that Mr. Bryan said he would not accept the nomination unless Mr. Sewall was also nominated ; yet this so called Populist convention nominated a Democrat unconditionally, with no pledges or promises whatever from him or any cf his co adjutors. If the Democrats he.d given some evidences of good faith ia the matter there might have been some reaeoa in co operating with them, but they did not. If they had pledged themselves to take down Mr. Sawail and vote as one man for Mr. Watson in return for our thre million votes, or if they had, also, agreed to stand on the Populist plat form, there might have been some show of sense in considering such propositions, but they utterly failed to give any concessions whatever, and in the face 0? all this the Populists were partially swallowed. The leaders are responsible for it all, they wanted to turn the whole Populist organization over body and soul into the Democratic camp. And the delegates who repre seated the masses of the voters are en titled to the giory of saving the party from such a disgrace. As an example see our leaders pleading with the North Carolina delegation, trying to influence them to vote to nominate the President first, which every one knew meant Bryan and Sewall as the nominees and then necessarily to compel the annihi lation of the People's party. A leader ship that would not cill the convention when it ought to have been called (be fore either of the two cn vention and which lead the party into a hole when they had the opportunity of leading it to victory, is not entitled to many flowery encomiums from me, yet we see the same leadeis upholding the banners and again getting ready to place the party in other compromising positions. These gentlemen wouldn't even help us get the party out of the hole they had put it in. The only thing that will preserve our party, preserve its honor and its greatness, will be for the people to rise up in their might and run the party for the good of the crganizition, for the preseivation of its principles and the salvation of the country. No man can have power free and unlimited without eventually transcending his authority and wrecking whatever he is monarch of. Let us have a party of, for and by the people, or let us quit business. i Some months since I advocated co operation with the silver Republicans, atd Ob ! what a dismal shout went up from thtse Bryan folks because it was not principle! Just see how they bel lowed for 4 principle, principle!" No party can fu?e without being absorbed, they said. And the first thiDg these "principle" angels do is to fuse with the grandest humbug on earth, tho most unreservedly goldbug extant, the Democratic party. Euch hypo. -racy is too evident to even argue. It is "prin ciple" with them to turn our party over to the Democrats, but it would be a disgrace to have an honorable co operation with honorable silver Repub licans. This same set of "principle" cherubs are now, after they wt re foiled in their attempt to nominate Mr. Sewai), a national banker and co opera tion tool, cussing out Mr. Sewall and s lying that we won't support him, and they iurn right around and boom for Governor Major Guthrie, a corporation attorney. Great country, indeed ! I'd like to know why we can't have one of the many able and honorable farmers of North Carolina to lead a farmers' movement? I would like to know why the Pjpu lisfc party has taken upon itself the duty of giving every dead du ?k, every broken down politician from the old parties honorable positrons and not recognizing at all the abJe and earnest men who built this party from a tense of duty and conscience. I say away with these old worn out politicians and tricksters and give us the young, fret-b, manly blood of Populism in our coun sels. So long us these old moes-backs and manipulators are allowed to dictate to our party, it can never prosper. These fellows never cane to us until we made it possible for somebody to get offices and they want to be the ' somebody." I appeal to the patriot ism and manhood of our party to rally to our State Convention and let us have a new deal; let us let the people have a ay so ; let us bury the traitors. If ten men in the St. Louis Conven tion from the little State of North Carolina could save the party organiza tion, then why can't ten men in North Carolina save the State organization? Come down to Rileigh, boys, on the 13 ih, and let us prevent this sell out(?) to the Democrats that our leaders are contemplating. Will you do it? No matter how humble you are, no mat ter how ugly you are, no matter how poor you are, come there and help us save our party, aud if you don't come then, I fear it will be good bye to our grand party, that we have toiled so hard to build up, and that we love so dearly. Scm of you Pc p llists cussed me out some six months ago because I told you that some men would land our party in the Domoc-ratie camp. I ask if my prediction hr s not been carried out, partially, and if they are not pre p iring to carry it cut entirely. View the landscape over acd see where you are at, and remember that to day i3 the time to act, "to morrow never comes." We men who made so many sacrifices to buiid up this party will not make another one, if this one is obliterated by demagogues. We are too tired of toiling for naught as wo noped and thought we were building to the good and giory of humanity and our country. I warn our peopb against the ten dency of things, and beg them to get down to a people's rule or the jig is up. G. Ed. Kestlek. DIED S. T. Perry, son of A. C. and M irtha H. Perr'-, died at his parents' homo near Satton in Franklin county, t n Friday, June 26 :b, age 19. Lng will he be mourned by relatives and friends. It was so sad to stand by his dying bed and hear the lamentations of those who loved him so dearly, and then have that dear moiher to avk you was her darling boy gone. It was so hard to give him up just as ho was entering manhood, and he wanted to live so much. His poor old grand mother did take it so much to heart. We do sin cerely hope she will meet him in the bright beyond, and our loss be his eternal gain He was much loved by his mates and they did all they could tor him during his illness. He died from abcess of the kidneys. Written by a friend. M. E. B. STATE PEOPLE'S PARTY CON VENTION Will be Held in Raleigh on Thu rsday Aug. 13th. The State convention of the People's party for North Carolina will be held in Raleigh on Thursday Aug 13tb, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Governor and other State Gfficers, and transacting such other business as may seem fit to the convention. All voters who are opposed to the rule of monopolies ard other gold trusts and who are opposed to "Bull pens" and ballot box stuffing are earnestly in vited and requested to co -operate with us in the coming campaign. By order of the State People's party Executive Committee. Marion But lee, Chairman.