The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28
Stair NEWS.

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Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and COttonSeed from the South
The smallpox scare is abating.
The Waynesville Courier dominates
r D. Gilmer, E q for the next Demo
cratic State Attorney General
The trustees of the Baptist Female
University meet here on April 18th for
the purpose of selecting apresideng for
that institution.
The Legislature gave Greensboro a
.dispensRry. Now it is reported that
the liquor men are using their influence
to get prohibition in the county.
The Oiell Manufacturing Company,
is now building at Concord the largest
weaving mill 10 the State. 1t will be
equipped with five hundred looms.
1t is said that DR.. Abbott has about
decided to abandon his purpose to con-.
test the right of Mr.. Bsddingfeld to
the office of Railroad Commissioners.
The heavy rains last Saturday the
18th did great damage in the West.
The French Broad river was higher
than 10 twenty years. The Yadkin
was also very full and did much
damage.
a site has been selected fer an or
phanage to be established in lleigh
by the North Carolina Methodist Con
ference. The buildings to be erected
will cost $50, 900. The site is donated
by the city.
The commissioners Of Alamarca have
passed resolutions requiring every per
son living within n mile of Burling
ton or Graham to be vRccinated under
penalty of fine of $40 or imprisonment
thirty days for each refusal
Elkin Times: A man from Wilkes
was in u Office recently who said he
was 55 years old and had never in his
life spent one cent for postage, never
wrote or had any letters written for
him. 0! course we did not secure his
subscription.
Mr.. ]. Q. L Harris says the Republi-
cans propose to test the constitutional
ity of the amendment at the earliest
opportunity. He thinks that an in
junction will be asked in the Federal
Court to restrain the State Board of
Elections from holding an election on
the amendment, says the Post.
W. E Breese the Asheville bank
wrecker recently completed his bond
and was released. He left at once for
Brevard, his country home. His bond
was for $50, 600 aud the bondsmen were
Mrs. NJ. A. E. Woodbridge, Miss J.. w.
Hume, T. A. Lance, M. L. Sumner, j.
E Duckworth, Mrs. A. r. Cartmell.
Professor Gus Ritschell, the globe
trotter, with his wheel barrow, arrived
in Henderson a few days ago, from
New York city, on his way to Van
couver, British Columbia, on a wager
of S., coo. The limited time for the
trip is two years. He had Travelled
1 600 miled when he reached Hender
son averaging 20 miles a day.
The com munity of Cedar Creek,
Cumberland county, on the Cape Fear
river, was shocked last week by a de
plorable and fatal accident. The boiler
of David Clifton's shingle mill explod
ed, wrecking the machinery and tear
ing the building to pieces. D. Clifton
o. b. Wheeler, R Watson, E and Y
Edwards, and a negro workman named
Edwards, were all more or less injured
two or three Of whom will probably
die of their wounds.
Speaking Of people who have pecu
liarities or oddities, Mr.. Thos. A Kerr
of Fallstown township, tells The Land
mark Of one Of his n%eighbors, which il
a case worthy or record. Mr.. JohI
ass is "a years old. He never in hi
life bought q box Of matches or a gallon
of kerosene oil, and never carried al
umbrella nor a fan. He has two mule
and one Of the mules is 50 years oil
and was never shod nor trimmed
S~tatesville Landmark
Newbern Journal: Mr.. George N
Ives who has just returned from nj
fruit farm at Newport, Carteret ccun
ty, brings glowing accounts of thu
peach crop prospects at his farm. Tn
peach trees have escaped all iDjur!
from the winter and the yield of frui
promises to be large. A letter to Mr.
Ives from Sourthern Pines, N O.
states that peaches as a crop are a fail
ure. No trees were killed, but the!
had a narrow escape, the Temperature
falling to 6 degrees below zero.