The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-15
STATE NEWS.

mi COttonS Seed from the South
Durham Herald: L. A. Carr gath
cred a few days ago "a pumpkins from
one vine and the "a made a whole
wagon load.
Chepel Hill telegram to Charlotte
News: The body of Manly Mc Gauley,
the negro who ran away with Mrs.
Brewer, was found Sunday evening,
hanging to g tree, near the public road,
some three miles from here.
Charlotte Observer: DR.. Hatton H.
Mcknight, contract surgeon in the
United States army, died yesterday a.
1925 at the residence of his brother,
MI. Charles D. Mcknight, on East
Morehead street.
Greensboro Telegram: Any amount
Of jokes are being played on the de
feated candidates to day. This morn
ing some one bought a bottle OF Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup and mailed
it to Sheriff Hoskins, who had not yet
returned to the city from his home at
Summerfeld.
Concord Standard: Bev. Payseur
informs US that he has just received a
letter from Rev. B Lacy Hoge of Sci
ma, saying that he has decided to &C
cept the call as pastor of the Baptist
congregation here. It will probably
not suit Rev. Hoge to come yet. He
has a wife and a six years-oId Child.
Greensboro Telegram: r. G.. Bur
CESS brought to the Telegram Office q
mouse nest made Of a sweet potato,
nicely followed out by the sharp teeth
of a mother mouse and was neatly
lined with strings and straw. The po
tato was about three and one half
inches in diameter and what was left
Of it was perfectly sound. In the nest
were nine tiny mice.
Richmond Dispatch: DR.. and Mrs.
J. L M. Curry, accompanied by their
nieces- Misses Carlyle and Connolly
will sail on the 10 h for the old country
to- spend the winter. DR.. Curry goes
on a rest and recreation trip, which
may or may not extend through the
winter, but while away old Cairo, on
the Nile, in sight of the great pyra
mids, will be called home"
Cherokee Scout: J.. @. Jenkins, Uni
ted State deputy marshal, who re-
tuned last Wednesday from Graham
county, informed us that on the Mon
day previous, October, 81, there was
some kind Of an entertainment at
Robbinsville, and that just on the out
skirts Of the village a row was gotten
up ove some frivilous matter, the re
suit of which was that Will Slaughter
shot Bob Coward through the thigh,
making a bad and ugly wound, which
is not necessarily fatal. At last &C
counts Slaughter had not been arrest.
ed. Mauy of cur people remember
Will Slaughter, the tallest man we ever
saw in Murphy, being something over
seven feet. Coward is a young man
well known to many Of our people.
Moonshine whiskey was the prime
cause of the trouble, which the mar
shall thinks is plentiful in Graham
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State Geologist Holmes addressed
the Watauga Club at Raleigh recently
on good roads. Prof Holmes is always
practical yet always interesting. He
says that thus Tar only % counties in
the State have a road tax law. This
ranges from s to Is cents on the 800
Of property valuation. Mecklenburg
having the highest figure and having
also 70 miles of mecadamIzed roads.
The fight is in many counties against
the tax. In fact, there is an intense
and unreasonable pre- judice against
tax in North Carolina. But q tax on
bad roads is paid, nevertheless, and it
is no less a sum than S.. 600, 900 a year.
Prof. Holmes says this is an under
rather than N I'VE estimate. 1t is
that worst of ali taxes, n which bene-
Fl 8 nobody. To macadamize all the
reads in the State would cost some
thing like $40, OOO,O 900 a year. There is
no way to improve roads save by taxa
ton. TIE best way is to issue bonds
and levy a tax to meet the interest and
create a sinking fund. Intelligent
supervision is a prime requisite. The
re location of roads is necessary. One
bend road alone costs Mitchell county
people $50 900 year. Charlotte's good
roads, six miles out in all directions,
are worth $50, 600 a year more to that
city than RaIeigh's roads, only three
miles ont, are to that city. But what
will one do with the unheading people
of this Stats The road lecture, brist:
ling With facts, fell upon the ears of