The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-17
General News.
SPARKS FROM THR WIRES.

@HO NO0guSEA OOGbOu As6O
citation, composed of cotton mill men,
met in Charlotte recently and adopted
a schedule Advancing the price of
yarns.
The Navy Department will ask an
appropriation of $22, 983 100 for the
increase of the navy, and 81, O21, 600
for improvements at the Naval Acad
envy at Annapolis.
D. E. Converse, a large mill owner
Of Spartanburg, 8. O., who died q
week ago, left one-third of his estate,
valued at $500, 900, to Converse Col,
lege, an institution for the higher edu
cation Of women, founded by him in
Spartanburg ten years ago.
A German cotton spinners' trust has
been formed by firms comprising 95
per cant. Of the cotton spinners' estab-
lishments of the empire. The Asso
citation of Cotton Yarn Consumers has
i S led a circular complaining that the
trusts terms are such that henceforth
the foreign spinner will be able to get
German yarns 10 per cent. cheaper
than they a be got in Germany.
Henry M Neill, the cotton statisti
clan, has published another cir cular let
ter, indicating his continued belief in a
large crop and oversupply OF cotton.
He gives his reasons for believing that
the crop will be large and that there
will be an oversuppiy Of the staple,
says the weather during August and
September this year was more favor
able than in 1898 and declares that a
growth of II, 600. 900 bales is now as
sured.
Aguinaldo, in a proclamation says:
IN America there is q great party
that insists on the government recog-
nizing Filipino independence. This
party will compel thu U9ited States to
fulfil the promise made to US in all SC
lemnity AMI good faith, though not
put into writing. Therefore, VIZ must
show our gratitude and maintain III
position more resoluteIy than ever,
We should pray to G0d that the great
Democratic party may win the next
presidential election, and imperialism
fail in it's mad att mpt to s~ubjugate US
by force Of arms"
General Otis has removed the ceDsor
ship ever press dispatches and other
telegraphic matter fled at Manila
and other Offices in the Philippine is
lands. The only restriction now i'm
posed on kilograms fled at Manila
and elsewhere in the islands is that
copies OF them be furnished to head.
quarters at the place Of fling. The
copy, it is asserted, is for reference
only, ehould any complaint be made
concerning information given in the
dispatch. Copies of dispatches which
are sent are not examined, as the IF sc
of censor has been abolished.
The sword voted by Congress was
presented to Admiral Dewey OCT. 3rd,
upon the portico of the Capital al
Washington, the spot where Presidents
are inaugurated. The presentation
speech was by Secretary Long, the
duty OF placing the sword in the Ad-
raira!'s hands ~devolving upon President
Mckinley. A detachmant Of men from
the Olympia marched in the parade tc
the Capital, and attracted great atten
tion. In the evening Admiral Dewey
was given a dinner by the President
the largest that has ever occupied al
the White House, covers being laid fol-
eighty persons.
A bust Of Edgar Allen Poe, the poet
and author, was unveiled at the Univer
sity of Virginia, at Charlottesville
October 7th, the fttieth anniversary Ot
Poe's untimely death. The auditorium
and university grounds were crowded
with college students and prominen0
men and women Of letters. The chic
address IVES by MI. Hamilton w. Ma
bic, of New York, on the relation oil
Poe's writings to American literature
The purpose OF Mabie's discourse wa
to point out distinctly the unique char
acter Of Poe's genius and its product
He found the author of The Raven
to be pre- eminently the artist among
writer's.
A Wilmington, N. @. dispatch, Oct
18Th, says: Spirits of %tupentine or
the Wilmington market to-day was
quoted at Sch. per gallon, which il
the highest mark reached since March
18Th, 1889, when, for a few days, there
were sales here at 5O3;. Naval stores
people are of ths opinion that the mar
ket will hold it's own or even go higher
in the course of a few weeks, as it il