The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-03
STATE NEWS.

|aeat from the West-Peanus
Hnd Cotton Seed from the South
The Duke cigarette factory will u:
year make 1000. 900 pounds of cisar
cites.
Eight prisoners, all colored, escaoos
from Franklin county jail on Tues6en
nighg of last week.
Wills telling q tree in RsndaIm
county last Friday, a man named Den
ny Alfred Yves KILLED by a limb.
The Oanville R agister has baoo
purchased by John R Webster. ~
R sidsvllie, N. Q. The price paid was
"a $50.
John W. Starnes, a prominent ci,i
zen of Ashevilie, who once reprason.
ted Buncombe county in the LeoieI2
ture, died last week.
It is asserted that in the IegisIasuro
not 25 votes will be cast against tbo
bill requiring the provision Of seDaraa
cars for whites and blacks.
Articles of agreement were last weeb
fled with the Secretary OF Safe fm
the j. Van Lindley Nursery COMPANY
at Pomona, III G1ilford county.
Wake Jail is quite crowded, and
the arrival Of Tom Smith, the mur.
derer from johnston county, last night,
brings the number of ~murderers uD to
elk.
The conservation of Rev. JuDius
Moore Horner, as Bishop of the mis-.
sionary Jurisdiction of Ashevtlle. oe.
Cured at Trinity church, Asheville,
Dec % h.
The people of the lower or eastern
end of Richmond county will apply to
the legislature for the formation of
Scotland county, with the county seat
at Laurinburg.
It is regularly reported and as regu.
Iarly denied that the 3rd North Carroll.
ma Regiment (negro) which is com.
manded by James II Young, is to be
mustered out Of service at an early
date.
TIE Winston JCucnal says that Dr..
B. J. Sapp, of K8rnersville, killed a
for Christmas that weighed "a
pounds, and after being dressed, 81
pounds. Oae gallon of oil was taken
it.
Governor Russell has appointed Nr.
N. Jones director of the school for
the deaf, dunno and blind, vice James
Fl. Young (col.), resigned. TIE beard
now stands: two Democrats and five
Fusionists
Pos: Hon. D. Fl. Caldwell, died
3O5h at Greensboro, N. O.,
an illness of over a year. he
was stricken with paralysis several
months ego and had a second strokea
few days ago.
TIE Charlotte News Issued last Fri
lay an industrial edition of "a pages.
1t comprised an illustrated wrlge-up of
Charlotte, Mecklenburg county and
surrounding towns and sections. The
FARMER CongEatulates the News upon
It's enterprise.
Charlotte has put a $500 lax on thoe
who sell fire works and a $50 tax on
those who use them. Sinc3 reading
of the damage done by fire
in other cities, we are Inclined
10 believe that she has acted wisely.
TIE next Legislature will asked to
amend the Railroad Commission act
90 as to give the Commission power TO
Ak rates for the Pullman Car Com
Oany, and make such changes in crofs'
as the safety and convenience Oh
The public demand.
A Durham correspondence OF the
Raleigh Post says: 1t is learned au'
5horitatively that several schools 10
Ibis county whose teachers receive
rom $25 TO $35 per month, have oeen
,unnlng for some time with an aver
OF three sch olars and less.
Fayetteville, Dac. 80 1.-The Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad was
,old here to day under an order By
udge SIm9nton in the United States
Circuit court and was bought by tie
Atlantic Cost Line for 50 ITO. 600. the
road was sold as an entlrety.-Post'
Tuesday night OF last week Archie
Ztnsauls, charged with murder, WSS
from the Jail at Clinton, SamP-
,on county, By a mob, and has nos
oeen heard Of siuc9. II is belleVe'
hat the mob was composed Of frlena'
If Kinsauls, who desired TO rel0"'0