The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
sTATE NEWS.

Cram + the State Press-DroDs If Turpentins
Trains of Rice from the East Cluster
e Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
N~urth-StAIks Of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
Rev. j. A. Cunningham, D. D., n
If the most beloved Methodist preach
ers, died January 9TH. A good man
gone.
Col ODDS says that it is quite safe to
ssv that three fourths of the bills in
troducad in the legislature are to repeal
some act of '95 OF 81.
Lieutenant Barnes, U. s N, retired,
once ms ructor OF tactics at the Agrl
cultural and Mechanical College died
last week at his home in the South
west.
Professor" Isaac b. Smith the col.
ored representative from Craven coun-
ty has been formally expelled by res
olution from members in the Republi
can caucus, and repudiated asa mem
Der of the party.
An Anti Imperialist League will
probably be organized in Salisbury
next week. Salisbury and Rowan are
almost solidly against expansion. Both
of Rowan's Representatives, in the
legislature are anti expansionists.
my county," said Rep. ]. s. Ball,
OF Clay, "is 40 years old, and has new
er had a murder trial, except III that
was removed from an adjoining coun,
ty. Ny township has never had a ne,
gro vote cast in it, and there were only
10 negro votes cast in the county this
year." Clay county has always stood
high, but it rises as it becomes known.
-Ex.
Between 9 and 10 o'clock, Jan. 18th,
the Durham colored school build
ing was totally destroyed by fire. The
cause of the fire could not be learned
to night, but from the circumstances it
is thought by some to have been in.
cendiary. The building cost Sc 900
and the furniture and fixtures about
ST. 0 The building was insured for
$4,5OO. Nothing was saved rom the
fire.
Mr.. J. R Brooks, who killed the
negro at Hamlet, surrendered himself
to Sheriff Wright last week and is now
in Rockingham Jail. Just before the
election it will be remembered that a
negro insulted Mr.. Brooks in a store at
Hamlet, and made an attack upon him,
and Mr.. Brooks shot him while be
was making the attack. There are
now five men in Rockingham jail
charged with murder.
Last Saturday at noon the Coleman
cotton mill in Concord, owned and op'
Grated by colored people, was started as
an experiment hitherto untried. It is
said to be the only cotton mill in the
world owned and operated by colored
people. The capital stock is $50, 600,
and the success or failure of the enter
prise may mean much to the colored
race. The people of North Carolina,
and of other States as well, will watch
with interest this lone experiment in
cotton milling by the African race
tx.
The North Carolina Presbyterian has
changed it's name and is now the Pres
byterian Standard. 1t is devoted to
the interests of the Southern Presby-
terrain church, and the organ of the
Synod of North Carolina. Rev. A. J.
McKelWay is editor, with Rev. w. W.
Moore, D. D. LII. D., of Richmond,
Va. Rev. P. 3. Hoge, D. D., of Viii
mington, N. c.; Rev. Neander NJ.
Woods, D. D., of Memphis, Tenn. &;
Rev, Robert P. Farris, D. D., of ST.
Louis, Mo, and Rev. J r. Bridges, of
Orlando, Fla, as editorial c~orrespon-
dents.
Chatham Citizen: Rev. J. Sanford
has had stolen from him 1872. The
money was In a tin box inside a trunk
shipped from Warrenton as baggage.
When the trunk was received here it
appeared to be corded up as when it
left Warrenton. In a few days after,
the trunk was opened and the money
was gone. So far he has no clue as to
who got it. We sympathIz9 very
much with the good brother who has
thus lost the economical savings of
twenty years with which be had hoped
10 ouy a home for his oil days" How
much better if he had his money in
bonds or in a reIiabIe hopkI