The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-18

OaCCO d are opposed 20
the increase Of the tobacco tax from 6
to S ceats as proposed in the new tariff
bill and the tobacco board of trade OF
that town has taken action to protest
against it.
Mr.. s. G. Corpening, of Core, has
been running two wagons for two
weeks delivering his canned goods at
the depot for shipment. He has sold
all he put up last year and did not have
enough to supply the demand, says the
Lenoir Topic.
Concord Standard: Troy, Mont,
gomery county, is to have a cotton
factory too. 1t is to be 32Ox1OO feet.
Oae half of the factory is to be two
stories high. The mill will have a
capacity of 1 500 spindles. 1t will con
tain looms also.
Mrs. Alice Rountree fell in her yard
Sunday and broke her wrist. It was a
very painful injury and Mrs. Rountree
has the sympathy of many friends.
She is getting along as we'll towards re-
covery as could be hoped for, says the
Kinston Free Press.
Brevard News: V. M. Goodson has
lost q fine COW by permitting her to
hunt her own pasturage. Scarcely a
spring passes but one or more cattle
are poisoned by eating the Mickey
which grows along the Jumping
branch south Of town.
New postmRsters: Fl. NJ. Joyce,
Dan6ury, Stokes county, vice s. B.
Taylor, removed; A. M. Smithernan,
Shore, Yadkin county, vice W. @.
Sprinkle, resigned j. A. Moose, Stony
Point, Alexander county, vice A. O..
Shoemaker, resigned.
Willie White alias Gillian Hart, col
ored, was before Squire Bunting this
afternoon charged with the robbery of
the Cromatie pcstofice a few weeks
ago. He was held for Federal court
in default of a $500 bond, says the
Wilmington Dispatch.
Marion Messenger: On Sabbath
morning, May 2, the tops of the Black
Mountains were snow capped. An old
reliable citizen tells US that about 1856
he saw the tops Of the Black Noun
tains covered awhile each month in the
year with snow, ice or hail.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: The money
question hes been solved and by q
Wilkes man. He assures us that il the
bees make plenty of honey this season,
money will be plentiful, almost grow
ing on the trees. But if the bees fail,
our people may suffer for money.
A gentleman who came from We
tauga county last week, informs us
that in the mountains Sunday night,
the 21d inst snow fell to the depth of
six to eight inches and lay on the
ground four days. Rather late for
sleighing, says the Hickory Mercury.
W. D. Alexander OF Mallard Greek
has the identical half bushel measure
that John MtKnitt Alexander used as
standard keeper of M~ecklenbu-g coun-
ty under King George. 1t was willed
to Mr.. Alexander by Miss Sarah d.
Alexander, a grand daughter Of John
McKnitt Alexander.
Windsor Ledger: Mr.. ]. B. Stokes,
Of this county, took somo eggs from
under a hen that had baen setting, and
had left her nest, laid the eggs down
on the ground in the sunshine and
after q few hours was surprised to find
that all the eggs had turned to live
chickens. This beats the incubator.
State Treasurer Worth decides that
"horse swRppers" are not liable to the
$25 annual State license tax as traders.
This de ision will be good news to
the horse sWappers" of this county.
At the terms of our court horse swap
ping or trading, IS it is usually termed,
is a great business, says the Hillsboro
Observer.
Morganton Herald: A few days
ago, at Hartland, O whirlwind struck
Mr.. ]. f. Crisp's hog pen, raising il
eight or ten feet from the ground and
carrying it about twenty yards away.
The pen contained two hogs, weighing
over 100 pounds each. Strange to say,
the pen was damaged but very little
and the hogs were not hurt.
The Charlotte Observer says the
Brown system of discipline" has beer
inaugurated on the Southern Railway
By this system an employee, instead o.
being suspended when he has failed il
any way in duty, is given a bad mark
a certain number OF bad marks means