The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
sTATE NEWS.

and CottonS Seed from the South
The Davidson Dispatch is II years
old and quite q lively weekly.
Citizens Of Lexington voted down
the dispensary proposition. The town
has been dry many years.
Kinston Is clear of smallpox. The
nest house and detention house have
been vacated and fumigated.
The Baptist Female University will
open September 27Eh. This is the date
agreed upon by the Board Of Trustees
Of the institution.
The Governor offers $3.50 reward for
the capture Of the murderer of Robert
c. Turnage, who was killed near Farm
will, April 25sh.
At Marshville, Union county, a few
days ago, Miss Wilma Little, Is years
old, committed suicide by hanging her
self. She had been sick for some
time.
An election was held in New Han
over county Tuesday on the PROPOSE
ton to issue $50, 900 of bonds for road
improvement. The proposition was
defeated,
Miss Norma Bonniwell, of Hickory,
has located in Raleigh and opened an
architects Office. She is said to be the
only lady architect in the State and is
quite a competent one.
Bishop Key will preside at the next
session of the Western North Carolina
Conference, and Bishop Hendrix at the
next session of the North Carolina Con
ference of the N. E. Church, South.
Mr.. Samuel Brinkley of Big Rock
Creek, Mitchell county, enjoys the
honor of having the longest beard Of
any person in North Carolina, if not in
the United States, says the Mitchell
Mirror. 1t drsgs the ground several
inches and its owner is at least five feet
eight or nine inches tall.
Major n. L. Grant is not favorably
impressed with either the thrift or in
telligence Of the native Cubans and
says their standard ia not higher than
the Southern negro. They are not fit
to rule and Major Grant thinks that it
will be several years before the . aited
States permits them to try self govern
lent.
The shad season ia about over 1t
has been almost a disastrous u to the
fishermen, on account Of the late season
and the numerous freshets. The catch
this season in the Cape Fear at this
point is estimated at not more than
1000, against an average annual catch
Of more than {. 5000. Fayetteville OBJ
server.
The revenue act failed to make pro
visions for license tax on building and
loan associations. The revenue act of
the legislature Of 1897 imposed a license
tax which varied from 5000 down.
There are some thirty four building
and loan associations in the State, and
the license tax derived from them last
year yielded 81. 600. No doubt the
omission Of the tax in tie revenue
act this year is due to an oversight.
Prof. A. Q Holladay, President OF
she Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, will not be a candidate for re
election at the June meeting Of the
board Of trustees. The board Of trus
tees will hardly be prepared to select q
president when it meets here in June.
Among those prominently mentioned
for the presidency Of the institution is
4r. w. s. Primrose Of this city.
a special to The News and Observer
from Marines, n. @. says that what
appears TO be the skeleton of a masto-
don has been cast up by the sea at the
mouth Of New river. A single bone
from the skeleton weighed 600 pounds.
A strong sea current cut away the
shore laying the skeleton, together with
several stumps Of trees bare. A force
Of hands is laboring to save the skele
ton.
At Greenville last Friday night 9th
a terrible fire ragged tor two hours.
twenty-five stores and offices, the
KING House and the postofice and
other buildings we're destroyed. The
total loss is estimated at from one hun
dred to one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, with the insurance at about
forty thousand dollars. The full list
o. individual losses has not yes been
~asCertained.
The Fayetteville Observer a week
ago said So far this season 2, 500 crates
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