The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-04-26

uvbast from the West-Peanuts
and Oottons Seed from the South
The Asheville Gazette says: A Ger
.0in young man in the city who ia ex
Getting a call every day for military
ssrvice. yesterday made a contract
9TH a substitute at $40 per month in
addition to the pay Of the government.
The cfer was readily accepted.
smithfeld Herald: A great deal of
cheat was planted last fall in this
county. The condition Of the crop is
varv favorable and the indications are
that our farmers will not be forced to
nav tribute TO Armour and Letter for
their breadstuffs next season. The
raising of home supplies is the prosper
u farmers secret of success.
Raleigh Post: The Southern Railway
Company has issued a circular stating
that such employees Of the company
as wished to enlist in the army to fight
against Spain in the event Of war
would have their positions kept open
for them until they returned from the
struggle. This will give several thou
sand men an opportunity to fight for
their country, with the assurance that
their positions will be kept open for
them.
smithheld Herald: Not long ago two
Mormon elders approached a certain
mans house in this county with the
intention of spending the night there.
One of them addressed the gentleman
of the house in this manner: "Sir, the
Lord told us to come here and you
would allow us to spend the night
'"That may be true," replied the
farmer, "but I have seen the Lord
since and he requested me to tell you
TO move on"
Noah Raby, an inmate Of the Piscat
away township almshouse, near New
Brunswick, N. J., celebrated the ami
versary of his birth April I. He says
he ia 126 years old and has been an in,
mate of the almshouse for forty years.
He was born in Eatonton, Gates
county, North Carolina, on April /,
1772, he claims. His mother was q
South Carolinian and his father @
North American Indian. He has an
excellent memory, but is partially
blind. He sleeps well, ia strong, and
enjoys good health" says New York
Dispatch.
Commonwealth: Tic is quite probable
that Scotlank Neck has the smallest
telegraph operator in the world. His
name is Ashley Bryan, o Of Mr.. g.
W. Bryan, who has been the agent and
operator at Scotland Neck since 1882,
when the railroad was first built TO this
place. Ashley ia 10 years old and
weighs So pounds. he does all the
work Of the operator at the Scotland
Neck Office, which handles on an
average about thirty messages q day.
The market reports ri correctly taken
from Chicago, New York and Liver.
pool. A stranger passing into the
Cfice would think he is his ''papa's,
little man" playing around his desk.
A Concord correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer says: A desperate
negro, name unknown, yesterday
broke into the house of Mr.. Tom Big
gers, in No. IL township, breaking the
door down with an axe. After taking
a large supply Of cold victuals in his
hands he walked On to the spring at
BraffoEd's mill, where he was seen by
Mr.. W. r Johnson. Mr.. johnson ap-
preached the negro, but was driven
back at the point of q pistol. The ne
grohred one shot at Mr.. johnson and
then fed and has not been captured
yet. He carries a small satChel. He
is a stranger in this community. Depu-
ties Hill and PrOpst are after him.
Wadesboro Correspondence Char
lotte Observer: A man, whose name
your correspondent has not been able
to learn, left here Saturday after sell
ing a load of stoneware and purchasing
enough red eye" t give him delirium
tremens and went over the river into
Richmond county on Mr.. James Bald
WINS farm. In his frenzy he fancied
MS covered wagon was the bRttleship
Maine and that treacherous Spaniards
we're seeking to blow il up. With this
horror weighing upon his mind he
9reW forth his knife and cut his throat
rom ear TO ear At last accounts from
nm ne had not died, but vas in a
IeFoclCus condition.
Washington Gazette: A farmer in
formed us, who said he had travelled
over the greater parE of this county
and Hyde recently, that the cotton
acreage would be reduced at least two
tnlrds and the acreage of tobacco in
10ls county would be largely increased,