The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-10

revenue stamps appear on a deed Of
indenture placed in the register of deeds
Office in New Hanover county. 1t is
a deed of five roads to the Atlantic
Coast Line of South Carolina.
Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hob
son, who is just no receiving so much
attention from the press, sen SIS I O
aunt, Mrs. Mary Pearson Davis,
and $25 TO his COUSIN, Mrs. Mary DR-
Wis Boyden, of Sta GeavIlle township. ae
Christmas presents. -Statesvllle Mas
cot.
By actual count there have been over
30 new buildings erected in Tryon ano
vicinity the past year. When one o
siders the slz of the town, this is com
pletely astounding and puts in the
shade all previous efforts of Tryon.
However, this is but the beginning.
More inquiries have been received for
Information about this part of North
Carolina than ever before at this time
of year. If there were more four or
six room cottages, furnished, to let,
they would be quickly taken. IS most
all Inquiries are for houses Of that size.
-Tryon Bee.
The State Auditor gives out some in
teresting figures as to property values
as follows: Aggregate value Of alt
property returned for taxation in 1896,
1887 437 237, this being the smallest
amouot sli ce 1892. Aggregate value
for 1898 1865 9I8 1877, the greatest
amount ever reported. The increase
for 1898 owe 1896 is no less than So.
48O $40. This Increase is as follows:
Real and personal property, 81 1886, 1913
telegraphs 1888 1886, STEAMBOATS, and
canals $65 657, railways S. 44O 878
The aggregate value in 1897 was $3.50.
oil, 5O8, so the increase II a year is
Sc 9O6 $50, this being as follows: r al
and personal property 50 392, $50, tele
graphs 1888 619, steamboats, and canals
500 $40, rail ways $4C6 $50.
The American Wool and Cotton Re
porter says: North Carolina will
certainly make provision for the estab
lishment of a f~1rstclass textile school
during the session of the incoming
Legislature, which meets January 4
writes u Raleigh correspondent. The
most popular plan seems to be to es
tabllsh it as a separate department
(with special and separate Instructors
and plant for the practical teaching Of
the cotton mill businees) in connection
with the College of Agriculture &
Mechanic Arts n of the very best in
stitut!ons of it's character in the our
try, North or Sonth, and located Of
the outskirts of the city of Raleigh,
opposite the State Fair grounds, in the
western suburbs of the city, about
three miles from the capitol building,
etween which there is a beautiful
macadamized road and electric street
railway.
The United States government still
stands firm in it's refusal to pay the
States claim for money expended in
organizing, modifying and equIpping
It's three regiments Of volunteer troops ;
and the Legislature will be asked to
make a special appropriation for the
settlement of the debt. The amount
claimed by the State and due indlvIdu
ais is S24 542. OF this snm only a little
over $9UO mas yet been paid. And this
500 Is only in part payment OF a mum
Der of claims, part Of some bills being
approved and part disable we'd. Hardly
a single claim has been settled in full.
Many of them, Auditor Aver thinks,
will never be followed by the United
States. The State, however, has ap
proved every one of the bills, and war
rants have been issued for them under
Sec lois 1857 an0 8 263 of the Code Il
ls not cerCaIn, though, that these sec
lions confer upon the Treasurer the
power TO pay the warrants, and for this
reason he has honored only those that
nave first been allowed by the United
States government.-Ex.
Wilmington Messenger: At the be
ginning of a year the thought viii oc-
cur as TO who will die before 1T closes,
and how many budding hopes will be
nipped by an untimeIy and unfriendly
frost, and how many of the heads
frosted by time will be laid low by the
great reaper, Death. Many excellent
cGtlzens, men of influence and useful.
ness aud honor and repute have gone
to the marrow house and the long
Sleep" We do not answer for the
~soundness of the theology of that quo