The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-29

Ocracoke during the storm. Houses
were blown down, crops destroyed,
and in some instances the people were
compelled to take refuge in trees to
escape the water. We hear Mt. Pleas
ant, Hyde county, is nearly a total
wreck. Reports from the fishing crews
who were encamped near the mouth of
the river are as yet meagre. No lives
have as yet been reported lost, but all
the fishing paraphernalia has been de
stroyed or badly damaged.-Washing
ton Messenger.
A correspondent writes: The people
Of Liberty we're delighted on August
the S3h. The Liberty Normal College
opened with an unusually large num-
Der of pupils wen beyond the expecta
tons Of the most hopeful. From pres
indications it is destined to become one
OF the leading colleges of the State.
The local patronage is very large,
which is a Jul sign of the increasing
favor with the people who best know
the faculty and work of the college.
Prof. Shaw, received hearty welcome
back to his native community. Ths
patrons are delighted to have him
connected with the college.
E ]. Young, coIored, general secre-
tary for the Peoples Benevolent and
R lief association of North Carolina,
with headquarters at Charlotte has a
plan for solving the race problem. He
proposes to organize a colonization
&C ciety in North Carolina. The society
proposes to buy up waste land where
it can be secured in large tracts, far
away from any railroad and to divide
this land into 10 acre and 90 acre farms
and settle families there where they
may thrive by honest toll. He desires
that the a. follow more generally
agricultural pursuits that the idle of
the ace may be put to work, believing
that putting men to work will leave
no time for crime.
Bert Smith was logged. in Waynes-
Vile jail Sunday on a charge Of rape
The victim is the 9year old daughter
of Ira Smith, of Iron Duff township,
and a niece OF the accused. Smith is
ABOUT Is years old. He denies the
charge, and claims that he was in an,
other part of the county at the time
he is accused of committing the crime.
No further particulars can be learned
at the time OF going to press, says the
Waynesville Courier LATER. On
Friday (25th) at noon the Governor re
ceived a telegram from Solicitor J. w.
Ferguson, at WaynesviIle, saying that
there were threats of lynching Smith.
The Wsynesville military Company
was, at Mr.. Ferguson's request placed
at the Sherif's disposal This is the
first time, since the Wilmington riot,
that the assistance Of the State Guard
has been invoked to prevent trouble.
News from Wayesville (27.h) says all
is quiet, and it ia believed there has
been no real danger of lynching.
Rev. DR.. W. 8. Greasy, pastor of
Centenary Methodist Church, Win
ston, died suddenly last week at a pri
vate sanitarium in Baltimore, where
he had been under treatment for sew
eral weeks for some brain trouble. He
was 50 years old and was recognized
as one of the finest pulpit orators in
1 49, O&nk1 Thn w0~NnTnr "nwN uon% RI
his old home above Mt. Airy for inter
ment. DR.. Greasy had, during his
service as a minister Of the Gospel,
been pastor OF the most important
State. He had served as pastor Of the
First Methodist church of Wilmington,
Durham, Charlotte, Winston and else
where. He was an able preacher aud
q man of deep piety and cor s%3cratlon.
h had served as delegate to the Gen
eral Conference of his church and had
been other wise honored in his denomi
nation. He was well known through
out the State, and his death will be
widely mourned.
The Fayetteville correspondent Of
the Raleigh Post says: The new Gum.
berland mills are now receiving their
machinery daily, and experts in such
matters assure your correspondent
that it is all Of the very highest class
none superior to be found anywhere in
the State. When completed, the fac
tory will run about 1000 spindles,
with Wrappers and Winders, and will
be fitted up especially for coarse yarn
from No. 8 to No. II 1t will consume
about 8 900 pounds of cotton per day.