The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-08

T0A0oGAOA OA EShl was 81 50S,-
878. Increase over last year, 1912 OO3.
Personal property, this year, 81 9O5.
378, last year, So. sos. 8O8; an increase
over the previous year of 81. 2O9, $40.
Total increase of real and personal
property over 1898, $1,82l, 573
A Union county man tells the Mon.
o Journal that he and a friend were
walking in a field a few days ago when
they came upon a partridge leading
two young chickens, the latter a week
or SO old. They caught the chickens
and examined them carefully, then
turned them loose and they ran of
with their strange mother quite Joy,
fully.
The sale of sumac sometimes called
''shoemake'0 evidently constitutes a
lively industry at Rox5oro. a cor
respondent of the Durham Sun say &
O,OOO pounds Of sumac was sold there
in n day recently and it is es >imated
that 3 5000, 900 pounds will be sold this
year. The price paid was 81 per 100
pounds but has been reduced to 70
cents per 100 pounds.
w. o. Smith, of Clifford College,
recently Of the short course in sgricul
ture a the A. and NJ. @ Dllege, has &C
cepted a position with the Forest Home
Creamery, II. 7. Pancoast, proprietor,
Pdrcellville, Va. This position was Of
fered Mr.. J. Will Carroll, who de.
clined, and Mr.. Smith was then ap
pointed. Mr.. Smith writes interest,
ingly about the creamery.
The News says that "a Morgauton
pickeninnie is minus a big toe. He
was riding a bicycle of an ancient pat
tern last week and got his toe mixed
with the spokes while going at a high
speed. He left the member where it
Eel! and seemed not at all discounted
and pursued his course, not for a mo
meat allowing such trivial occurrences
to mar his pleasure"
David P. Lee, Jr., a young man IS
or 10 years old, was drowned in Little
Sugar Greek, Mecklenburg county,
Saturday. Lee was in swimming with
a companion named Brown. His
friend became exhausted and he went
to his assistance. Both were about to
sink when another young man, Elliot,
went to their aid. Elliott rescued
Brown but was unable to save Lee.
A special to The Raleigh News and
Observer says that Monday, in the
eastern part of Nash county, there was
a shooting ARRAY between Joe Farmer
and n. r Eltmap, a tenant of his,
which resulted in a tragedy, Eltman
being fatally wounded by a bullet
from Farmers pistol while Farmer re
ceived a slight wound in the head.
His mule also was SHOT. ElEmsn died
Tuesday morning.
Extensive deposits OF graphite have
been discovered in the mountains ne r
Round Ka0b, o property belonging to
CIL John K. Connolly, of Asheville.
Col. Connolly now has 30 hands at
work developing the property, and will
soon have 400 men employed, it is re
ported. The deposits Of graphite have
been traced for six miles, and the
mines are in easy raach Of the South.
ern R ilWay.-Charlotte Observer.
Chatham Citizen: We notice in the
Raleigh Post that the total cost for
smallpox in Raleigh and Wake county
has been So 700 40. The cost in this
county, many of US thought, was more
than was necessary, but when we look
at the above figures our expenses
amounting to 1855 50 look small. RAJ
eigh tried, at fret, to get along with
out compulsory vaccination. After
they had, in this way, we'll scattered
the disease and incurred a large part
of the above expenses in pest houses, -
etc., they fnally ordered compulsory
vaccination.
The Greensboro correspondent Of the
Charlotte Observer writes chat on
Thursday of last week, the ~dispensary
had sold 10. 900 separate parcels OF
drink in twenty four days, and adds:
According to An unbiased estimate it
will, at the end of the year, pay
Greensboro $13. 900 and GuiIford coun-
ty So $50, whereas the bar rooms paid
only 81 900 to the city and $500 to the
county. 1t supplies and c~onsolidates
drinking, SO to speak, and drunkenness
can be easier policed. 1t has no poll
tics, and shows an austere contempt
for minors and a credit system. This
il a resume that might defy any bar.
tander. y