The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-25

a. unknown insect is destroying
foliage in Greensboro. State Entomol.
ogist 6andersOn has gone there, accom-.
panied by State Veterinarian Curtice.
These experts will make q tour Of the
State, giving illustrated lectures on in.
sects which are orchard pests, blight
and the San Jose scale.-Ex.
New Bern Journal: From all parts
Of the city comes the complaint Of cat
erpillars, thir insect having seemingly
taken possession of the trees all over
the place. Whatever efforts that have
been made to destroy this pest seem to
have availed nothing, the caterpillar
simply increasing in numbers and ad.
vancing or vegetation everywhere. At
present this insect is really q serious
pest.
The revenue collections in the East
ern District of North Carolina for the
past twelve months have nearly dou.
bled, showing an increase Of about one
million dollars The collections for the
fiscal year ending June Both, 1899,
amounted to about two millions and
a quarter. For the previous year the
collections were about a million and q
quarter. This phenomenal increase in
collections is due largely to the impc'
sition Of the various war taxes, which
went into effect in July, 1898.
Winston Journal: W. A. Sossaman,
Of Chatham, Va, spent Saturday in
the city. He is a thorough believer
in the unlucky 49," having had Ok
perience along that line. He left
Roanoke some weeks ago for Charlotte,
arriving there on the 18th day of the
month; he boarded at a house No. 313,
there we're 10 persons in the house and
the number Of his room was Is Shortly
he broke out with smallpox and was
taken tt the pest house. He recovered
and DR.. Long, the specialist, came in
and dismissed him, but he refused to
go-it was again the 18th day Of the
month.
The Ninth Annual Sunday School
and Baptist Orphanage pic mic will be
held at Mocksville on Thursday, July
q. The annual address will be deliv.
cred by Prof. John E Ray, Superin
tendant Of the school for Deaf and
Blind, Raleigh, N. @, at II a. m.
Music will be furnished by a good Cor
net Band. Dinner, such as the best
cooks only can prepare, will be served
at II 80 p. m. A chapter of Orphans
from the Thomasville Baptist Orphan
age will be present and by songs and
recitations add to the pleasure and in.
terest of the occasion. Rev. J. B.
Boone, General Manager OF the Orphan
age, and others will deliver short
speeches.
The Washington Post truthly says:
TO one who has e e the mountain
region of North Carolina it seems in.
credible that Cd many thousands Of
people, in quest OF pure air, magni6-
cent scenery and healthful surround.
ings, should annually fcck to the Ad-
irondacks of New York and the White
Mountains of New Hampshire. These
latter resorts do not compare in any
respect with the North Carolina coun-
try. Their so called mountains are
dwarfed by those Of the Old North
st to, while, as for lakes, trout streams,
hunting grounds and landscapes at
once gracious and majestic, there is no
approach to a comparison"
A dispatch from Rad Springs, July
21st, says: Thomas Atkinson, town
marshal, was shot twice and almost
instantly killed at 5 p. M, by Charles
Monroe, colored, while trying to arrest
John Monroe, colored, for breach Of
the peace. Crowds of armed men gave
pursuit, but as it occurred in a lRrge
swamp at the town limits the assassin
had time to escape. Three bloodhounds
arrived at 1870 and r now on his
track. Great excitement and indig-
dalton prevails. The deceased leaves
a wife, five children and numerous
friends to mourn his death. The shoot
ing must have been premeditated, as
parties believed to have been accom-.
plices were along.
A Dispatch from Wadesboro, July
goth, Gays: A telephone message from
Albemarle tells of an e9sault by a
negro upon a Miss Saunders, of that
place, this evening. At the request Of
the Albemarle authorities parties were
dispatched to the State farm for blood.
hounds, and they will be carried and
placed upon the negfo's trail immedi
ately. The locality IN which the crime
was committed is reported as being