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

Cream II the State Press-Drops Of Turpentine
- Grains OF Rice from the East -ClusterB
y Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
0F&h-Stalks Of Corn and Grains OF
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and OottonSeed from the South
The Enterprise is the name of q
weekly paper just started in william
ston with ]. Dali, as editor. The first
number is newsy and well gotten up.
Tde Greensboro coons' bootblack
trust which had advanced the price of
shines to ten cents, has gone to
pieces, and the price has been reduced
to five cents.
The executive board Of the State
prison has decided to purchase the
Arson farm, which is being operated
under lease. II will cost the State about
$21 600 at the option price.
At Troy, night of October 3rd, fire
broke out in the livery stable of Hearn
& Warner, destroying the property,
together with a hotel and several
stores LOSS about $40, 600; origin of
fire is unknown.
In an interview in the Richmond
Times Col. Julian s.. Carr, Of Durham,
announces that he will be a candidate
for election as United States Senator,
to succeed S3nator Butler, whose term
expires March, 1901
NeWbern Journal: At the meeting
Of the county commissioners of Pam
lico, Mondy, j. W. Aldridge, the Popu
list sheriff, rendered his resignation,
and the commissioners elected Wallace
Hooker, Democrat, in place of Nj. Al
bridge.
A largenumber of replies are coming
in from parties to whom invitations to
attend the Cotton Growers Conference
to be held here Fair week were sent by
Commissioners Patterson. The indica
tics are that tho attendance will be
large and representative.
The time of holding the AIamance
Fair has been changed and instead OF
it's being held October "a, 25, %. and
%, it will be held October 31st and
November 1. 2 and 3rd. The manage,
ment have q great many valuable and
useful premiums to offer to exhibitors.
This year there have been two calls
made for volunteers for the Philip
pines. Under the first North Carolina
furnished 119, and for the second 261,
the latter being in excess of the States
quota of recruiting officers. Lieutenant
Settle is greatly pleased at this fine
showing.
Work is now progressing rapidly at
the Catholic Ofphanage in Raleigh. A
! press has been put in and Truth will
now be published at the Orphanage.
The sisters of Charity are busy and
have put in the furniture, etc Two
boys have already been received in the
orphanage.
A Raleigh negro woman julia H }bby,
died Sunday afternoon, Qs'), from
the effects of poison, which had been
placed in the coffee which che drank
for breakfast Her hueband and broth
er were suspicioned. The coyoner's
jury decided that her brother, George
Lee, aged IA, is the guilty one.
The United States government is
dealing largely in Durham smoking to
bacco these days. During the past
two weeks the Blackwell Durham
branch Of the American Tobacco Com
pany has filed two orders for Uncle
Sam that made an aggregate Of one
hundred thousand pounds Of tobacco.
Masked men recently broke into the
county jail at Winton. Hartford coun'
ty, and shot Robert Vaughan, under
suspicion of barn burning. The doors
we're broken down and the prisoner
was shot at least three times. The
prisoner was in an iron cell. The act
is greatly deplored. Vaughan will
probably die.
The weather in Raleigh during Eep-
TENDER showed quite a wide range Of
temperature. Toe highest tempera'
ture was 100 degrees, on the 6.h; the
lowest 40 degrees on the % b. The
mean temperature was 20 degrees,
which is 2 below the average. Th9
rainfall was only z, 68 inches, while the
average is 8 II.
Senator Marion Butler is in Wash
ington. In an interview with the Post,
be seems to take ground against the
constitutional amendment. He says
that the grandfather clause is uncon
stitutionaI. It had been given out that
he would support the amendment, but
trnm this ~intaruiaW il seems that he