The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18

and his body was cut half in two. An
other negro was injured.
Mr.S.O. Stimson of Wataugna, writes
TO the Commissioner Of Agriculture
that there was a frost in that county
on 1.-The arst day of July heavy enough
to write your name in"
James Pearsall, a negro in Whining
ton jail awaiting trial for stealing, at
tempted to commit suicide last week
by eating powdered glaes with his
breakfast, but his attempt was frus
trated by the jailer.
Chief of Police Orr arrested VIM.
Henry, colored, at the postofice in
Charlotte Saturday for robbing the
pcstoffce in Atlanta. The e
showed fight and was only arrested
after a fierce struggle.
The Citizen says that Earl Alex
ander, an employe of the Asheville
Milling Company, attempted to spring
from a porch to a freight car Monday
and fell to the ground. He received
injuries from which he died Tuesday.
Mi. T. K Bruner suggests that three
extra statues of Vance from the model
selected be made-one to go in the
rotunda of the capitol at Washington
one for Independence Square, Char
lotte; and one for the city of Ashe
Vile.
Southport Standard: The army
worm is now cutting his way in Town
Greek township, where he attacks pea
nuts as we'll as other crops. This is a
new departure, but not one because
the army of worms is on half r%ations,
it is simply a pest Of the most destruc
tive kind.
The statement by the negro news.
paper here that in the coming twelve,
month 80, 900 negroes will migrate from
North Carolina is Of interest. That
will be as great a number as Peg Leg
Williams, the prince Of exodus pre-.
motors, removed in 1889, before the
legislature choked him off.
''Spenic'' or '~'spleneticA fever" com
monty called Texas fever, has appeared
in herds Of cattle in several places in
the State-notably in Wake and Ala
nance counties, and many cattle are
dying from it. The State Department
of Agriculture will make a determined
effort to stamp out the disease.
The Enterprise says the tax assessors
for Newton township raised the assess.
ment of all the cotton factories in the
township. The Newton Cotton Mills
was rai9ed from $25, 900 to $40, 900; the
Providence Mill from SIS 600 to $25, 900;
the Union Mill from $50 900 to $50, 600;
Maiden Mills from $11, 600 to $12. 900.
The p~enitentiary executive board has
authorized State Treasurer worth to
issue $50, 900 of 4 per cant. bonds to
buy the two Caledonia" farms on the
Roanoke river for the State. These
farms have been leased by the State
for the p~enitentiary and their purchase
was authorized by act of the legisla-
ture.
There have been a number Of fires in
Wilson recently and some of them
were believed to be insurance fires !"
Last week two young men, Brooks and
Cooper, furniture dealers, were ar
rested on suspicion of having fired
their store to obtain the insurance.
After a preliminary hearing before a
magistrate it was decided that the evil
dence was not sufficient to hold them
and they we're discharged.
Kiuston Free Press: A special from
Rocky Mount says no succees attended
the efforts to induce tobacco ware
housemen there to sell out to the pro.
posed trust. It now appears, from
the numerous reports, that nobody
was in it. These fellows trying to
engineer the thing must have been
awful liars, for they told U people
that they had all the other towns
solid.
AsheviIle Citizen: Trusts are very
difficult things to head off. Despite
the opposition to the so called tobacco
warehouse combine in the eastern part
of North Carolina end Virginia, and
the declarations that it was making no
Roadway, the announcement is made
that options have been secured on two
Of the Durham warehouses, and the
trust formers seem to be in no way
discouraged. Promise Of profits lie a
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ment.
The Jim Crow" cars are differently
nnnnr-nd on the Gaahnard Air Line