The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-18
STATE NEwS

VhRRf from the . oAAS
and Cotton Seed from the South
The A. and NJ. College commence
nont will be held Juue 95h. The gradu.
ating class numbers seventeen, Mr..
waiter Page will deliver the literary
address. Mr.. Page, a native OF North
carolina, is the distinguished editor of
the Atlantic Monthly.
Lincoln Journal: A regular pitched
hattie occurred at a negro church Near
Iron Station on Sunday a week ego.
There were about 80 C lord men in the
row all of whom came out Of it o
or LEES badly 0unged up Warrants
have been issued for about Is Of the In
surgents and il they can be hived in
time they will be tried at this term of
the court
The Asheville Citizen says the most
unfgvorsble reports as TO sue condition
Of the wheat crop comes from all parts
Of Western North Carolina. The yield
this year, it thinks, will be nothing
like that OF last year, b fact being
due TO the combined influence of the
bitter cold Of the latter part Of the
winter and the continued vet weather
siDCs that time.
Washington, April Is The Pr,sl
dent today again appointed Hamilton
G Eart United States judge for the
Western District of North Carolina.
This has become a casus celebre, as
this is his third appointment, the Sen
ate having failed TO coUfrm HIM for
reasons folly set forth al the time. The
Presidents safest sd Visers nave urg d
him strongly not co repeat this nOmi
nation, but political necessities have
proved nexoraole.
Gssconia G. .ze5te: A Meckls nburg
man denies to The Charlotte Observer
that the blsckOerries ave all been
killed. O. course the berries are not
killed. We are something OF a black
berry expert ourself, and rise to re
mark that it is not even TIme for tnem
TO bloom yet. Unless something hap
mems later on, we may expect the usual
crop of b~lackberrIes and taxes In this
wear Of grace 1899. This is CficIal.
Press dispatches say it has been dis
covered IN New Y rk that sec md hand
clothing infected with disease is being
sbIpued from that city to Southern
poinrs. ACHING on this information
the board Of health of Raleigh has or
dered all second hand clothing stores
in tue city closed up until the stock
has been dislnfecJed. Future ship
mpnts OF second hand clothing must o.
accompanied by a certificate from the
health authorities of the city from
which the Shipment is made.
Nj. Tappsn Adney who has been in
DawsIn City. Kl0ndIke, for over one
year Ia % a Visit Co his mother Mrs
R. @. K ,Dney, of this place. H. vas
IN tn KDudIke as a reporter for HAr
pers" Of Ns~ York, both as a writer
and artist H mad quite a long trip IN
coming pack by way OF B bring sea
Many improvements have be n made
in transportation especially since he
first vent to KlondIke Then you had
to pay A cents a pound freight on bag
gag aud this is reduced TO 8 n g
pound Chatham Citizen.
News and o server: The sale o.
fern zsr tags this sess9n is about II
per cent. less than iC was al this time
last year. This ia accounted for on two
grounds: Decrease in the cotton
acreage and the back Rardness Of farm
work bv reason of the cold weather
and continued rains. Officials at tn
Agricultural D parCmenC expect thI
falling off TO be more than made VI
later IL the season. There has been {
large increase IN the tobacco acreage
OF the S ate, and sales Of fertilizers fol
that purpose have not yet we'll begun
II reports from Union Mine, neaI
Salisbury. are to be believed, iG is tn
richest deposit Of copper In the word
An immense vein of gold and copper
bearing ore runs through the MIN
property for over halt a mile TIE or
at the surface runs about 8 per cent
copper. &c water level it is 5 per cent.
at ABOUT 500 feet 10 per cent, and still
deeper it reaches from Is TO 40 pc
cent , copper until at the bottom there
ara large sheets of native copper. Tn'
gold contents of the ore averages from
IS to 81 so per ton. Mining experts sal
there are some ten or twelve miles o
copper. gold and silver veins on tn
property, every foot Of which can b
probably worked. Interested partie