The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-08

on Shackelford's bank, near the bar,
killed the largest whale captured there
In many years, measuring sixty feet
long bone. seven and a halt feet. The
whale will make sixty five barrels OF
oil and is estimated to be worth /, scO.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: It is rather
strange that some OF our wells are
going dry, at this season of the year.
It can only be accounted for from the
fact that we have had a very dry win
ter. We have had no soaking rains of
any account and no SHOWS. The grcuRd
has not been thoroughly soaked this.
winter. As q consequence. the streams
are low and the wells are going dry.
Greensboro Record: A remarkable
story coma from Surry county. Louis
Bray died in Marsh township last Sat
urday at the age of 90 years. He was
buried in his night clothes and barer
footed. He made this request regard
ing his burial. He made his own CT fin
about 15 years ago, and called it ms
''meat box" and when the n9ighOors
boys called in he would get out his cot
fin and they would play cards on it.
Chatham Record: There is q citi
zen of this county who will not receive
or handle a quarter of a dollar. The
reason of this eccentricity ia that, some
years ego, he had a claim against a
neigEb0r and il was referred TO arbltra
tors 60 settle, and they awarded him a
quarter OF a dollar, and ne was so dis
gusted at their award that he not only
resused %toreceive the quarter but vowed
he would never touch another quar-
ter!
Holmes Conrad, Jr., a son of Hon
dolmes Conrad, of Winchester, Va,
solicitor general of the United States
under the last administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland, and one of the fore
most lawyers of the country, recently
bagan the practice of law in AshevIlle
Mr. Conrad took the law course RG
Chapel Hill, married Miss Love, q bau
Uiful Haywood county girl, and has
otherwise shown his appreciation of the
Old North State. -Asheville Citizen.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: John Bras
we'll and wife, colored were convicted
at Tarboro criminal court last week of
setting fire to the gin house of Flag
Marsh lest fsls, and burning up a large
amount OF cotton. They were gwen
five years each in the penitentiary
Braswell had two cor ure bags with
him &C the trial and depending more on
them than his lawyers, practically ig-
nored the latter, and kept changing his
noodoos from one hand to another dur
ing his trial. They, however, did him
no good ard he will spend the next five
years mediEating on his folly.
Raleigh Post: Cape Lookout, the
famous point that ia recorded on all the
maps OF the world, was sold recently
for 934 cents under a land grant by the
Safe. Eugene Yeomans was the pur
chaser of this famous projection Mr.
Yeomans was given q grant for n
acres by the Secretary of State and he
paid therefor the sum OF 124 cents per
acre. The Cape ia in CartereE county
Another grant was Issued at the same
time by the Secretary of State for 81
acres on Mount Mitchell, the highest
mountain peak east Of the Rockies.
The grant was made>to VIM. Stepp.
Some years ago q very successful and
distinguished physician characterized
Western North Carolina as the future
~sanitarium of the world, Probably this
wonderful region is not more remark
able for it's healthfulness and magni
ficent scenery than for its agricultural
capabilities. It seems equally adapted
to almost every agricultural pursuit
and every product OF the soil, except
such as need a tropical climate IT is
the home Of the grasses; it has every
qualif cation needed for successful
stock raising; it is pre- eminently suit
ed TO fruit growing, producing some OF
che finest apples in America, and
equally adapted to peaches, grapes,
strawberries,~ etc.-S 0uthern Farm
Magazine.
Morganton Herald: Citizens of the
upper LinvllIe and Irish creek valleys
report great excitement and danger IN
those sections last week during the
prevalence of fires on Short OF noun
tain. For three days the 14mes ragged,
a heavy wind driving the fire for eight
miles along the mountain side. The
people living in the upper Irish creek
valley were in peculiar peril. Down
these mountain sides the wind drove
the flames in great sheets, and burning