The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-24
WHAT TAR HRRLs ARE DOING.

: Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
#9TEh-Stalks Of Corn and Grains Of
V1sat from the West-PeanutR
and OOttonSeed from the South
Avery Kale, white, age 10, was
hanged last week at Newton.
A. 7. G.sut has been appointed
clerk of the DAvie Superior Court by
Judge Starbuck.
The managers of the opera house at
Goldsboro refused to let the Mormon
elders hold their meetings in that
building.
Mr.. G. A Brown, a wsp man
with thirty years experience, has
bought the Scottish Chief and changed
the name to the Max5on Herald.
Lewis SlmmerelI, overseer of con
victs on on one of the State farms, was
last week found not guilty of the
charges of cruelty brought against
him.
Rev. VIM. 8. Lacy, a Presbyterian
minister, died at the home of his
brother, Labor Commissioner Ben R.
Lacy, in Raleigh, Saturday morning.
He was an eminent preacher.
The old Dismal Swamp canal has
been reopened. The first boats went
from Norfolk TO E izabeth City Satur
day. The event was cell brated in
Elizabeth City in handsome style.
HArvie Saunders, Jack L9e and Sam
Hutchins, three young men of Salem,
w5re arrested on the 18Th on the charge
Of making a criminal assault upon Miu
ME Sprinkle, aged about Is
In the Durham Superior Court last
week was tried the 8 Of the admin
istrator of Moody Andrews, deceased,
against the Safe University Railroad
for $50. 900 damages, resulting in a
verdict Of g 500 damages for the
plaintiff.
Eugene L Epps. an employe of
Cones Finishing Mills, Greensboro,
has been robbing the mill OF cotton
cloth for months aud selling il to mer-
chants at cut prices. 1t is said be has
stolen $500 or 5000 worth Of goods. He
has been arres5 ed aud jailed.
Will Biggers, an employe of the
Southern Railway at Charlotte, had
his arm cut eff by a train Saturday.
He carried the severed arm to a livery
stable. while the physicians were be-
ing 'phoned for. Ha was one of Roose
velt's Rough Riders at s lntiago.
TIE cotton mill of the Coleman
Manufacturing Company, of Concord.
will be run within six weeks. The
ma .hiuery is being put in place now.
This mill is to have 1000 spindles and
40 looms. Mr. Fl E, Smith, formerly
Of Lowell, Mass, is to be tae supesiU
tendent. Colored operatives, q far Sc
practicable, will be employed.
Laurinburg will soon have g vel
fitted cotton mill. The building is now
ready and the machinery ia beginning
TO arrive. By the first of January the
mill will be in operation. The mill is
to be known as the Scotland Cotton
Mill and will make fac hosiery yarrs.
The capital stock is 800, 600 and the
capacity 5000 spindles.
The trial Of John Jefferson for the
murder of Capt. Cal. Barnes was CON
cluded at Wilson Thursday, when the
jury rendered a verdict of guilty in the
first degree. Judge Battle sentenced
] ffarson to be hanged November 18Th.
Jefferson's council, Hon. Jno E Wood
ard, has appealed the case. basing his
appeal on various exceptions and on
an alleged error in the charge OF Judge
Battle to the jury.
Hulsboro Observer: There are about
8, 900 orphans in North Carolina. and
only about 1 600 of them are being car
| ed for in a5ylums or orphans homes.
There are six o~rphanages in the State.
There are two at Oxford Zone white
and one c~oIored); one at Thomasvilie
one at G Jldsboro, one at Barium
Springs and one at Charlotte. The
seventh is being built at Raleigh. This
will give the Baptists, Methodists,
Presbyterians ard ~Episcopalians all an
orphanage ca 3h. Then the MasoDs
have two and the Odd Fellows one.
Mr.. a r. Page, a prominent bust.
ness man Of Raleigh, died at his home
in this city on the 18Th inst. He was
a brother to Rev. J Il. Page of the
Methodist Church. Mr.. Page was first
engaged in the lumber business on a
large scale in the early seventies, and
in 1867 projected the Aberdeen and
West Ead Railroad, now the Aberdeen