The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-12-12

tASDY DSsO1NSu, CuhG 62EzA 7 are
more useful to the country than Law
yers." The question was carried in
favor OF the buzzards. Later on their
subject was Which is the butt end Of
a billy goats" The gentlemen of color
down on Lanes Greek were not far be-
hind their Mooresville brethren re-
Gently when they had public debate
on the question (which will blaze up
the quickest, Lamp Oil or PowderY'
The lamp oil" carried the day.
Salisbury Index: We are informed
that an eff JrE is being made to organ
izs a new cotton mill for Salisbury.
with a capital stock of n hundred
and fifty thousand dollars We
learn that q hundred or more stone
cutters will be put to work in a few
days at Dunn's mountain and neigh
boring quarries. The granite business
Is charging very rapidly.--Two
corps Of engineers have recently gone
over the proposed new line Of railroad
from Winston to Monroe, passing
through Salisbury. From all O
it seems that the Seaboard Air Line
people are DESTROYS of getting into
Western North Carolina, and are NOV
ing in this matter.
The Supreme Court LAST week re-
versed the decision of the lower court
IN the case Of the State vs.. the South
ern Railway, from Burke county,
which was an action to make the
Southern Railway pay the penalty OF
81 600 imposed by the Railway Com
mission act for issuing free passes.
The lower court quashed the indics-
ment against the Southern on the
ground that the Railway Commission
act Of 1891, under which the present.
ment was made, was repealed to take
effect April 4. 1899, and the act Great
ing the Corporation Commission be
came operative on April S. 1899, and,
therefore, that the defendant could not
be convicted on the charge.
SCRtesville Landmark: Col. H. 9.
Oowles yesterday received a telegram
from Marshal Millikin, stating that
William Honeycutt, the Mitchell oun
ty desperate, who killed Deputy Mar
shall G'ier in Mitchell county recently,
mad been arrested in Tennessee. Col
Cowles has sent a certified copy OF the
bill OF Indictment to Tennessee so that
a bench warrant can be issued for
Honeycutt to hold him.--Speaking
Of the big turnips, there ara others.
Mr. Q. n. Johnston, who cultivates
the Key farm, near the cemetery, had
a load up town yesterday that attracted
attention. All Of them we're large.
Three Of the best weighed thirty
pounds, an average of ten pounds each.
This is big turnip year.
The plan OF Mr.. J. F. Jordan, for
fighting the tobacco trust presented at
the Tobacco Growers Convention here
last week is as follows; "Call county
conventions of tobacco growers of
North Caroline, Virginia, South Caro-
lima and East Tennessee and perfect a
thorough organization through a con
vention made up Of delegates selected
by these county conventions. Enter
into an iron-clad contract, which must
be rigidly adhered to, or else W ecannot
succeed in u purpose. This contract
must call for the stipulation that not q
pound of leaf tobacco shall be sold to
the American Tobacco Company, and
I will guarantee to raise the six Or
seven million dollars necessary to han.
die the crop and agree. to pay an ad-
vance of fifteen (15) per cent on the
prices now paid by the trust" Mr..
Jordan's plan was discussed but no
action taken.
United S ,ates Circuit Judge Simon
ton has granted the petition OF the cor
poration commission for a rehearing Of
the railroad tax case. The date fixed
for the rehearing ia December / 9.h, at
Charleston, 8. O. The rehearing was
asked on the ground that the recent
decision of the State Supreme Court In
the case Of Abbott vs.. B3ddingfeld
holds that the corporation commission
has the power to fix the tax value of
railroad property in the State. Judge
Simonton, In his decision shortly be
fore this, held exactly the opposite. A
Federal judge is bound by States
construction of it's own laws. Ooun
sci for the corporation commission say
shat in view Of the Abbott decision,
Judge Simonton cannot now do other
wise than reverse his. opinion on the
question of the taxing power. The
railroads, on the other hand, will con