The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-12-19
State News.
TAR HERLs ARE DOING.

-..r from the W~est-PeAnutB
80 cotton seed from the South
Winston will soon have a knitting
mill.
The Fayetteville djspensary Melted
1913 last month.
A IS 600 pipe organ has been set in
Greensboro Presbyterian church.
The Greensboro Lumber Company,
canitel $40 900, was chartered last
week.
Ex-Congressman Tom Settle, and
Collector D mean had q scrap in Raj
eigh last week.
The postcfhce at Lumberton will be
come presidential January next, salary
OF postmaster 81, 100.
Mr.. M. H. Justice, of Rutherford is a
candidate for Governor on the DINO
cratic ticket next year.
Ex-Congrassman Richard Pearson
seems 10 be in the lead for the Rspubli
can nomination for Governor.
Several of the sick at the Normal
have recovered sufficiently to leave
for their homes. Only two are now
very i'll.
Rev. DR.. A. M S!mms, for more than
six years pastor of the R aleigh BIptist
Tabernacle Church, has rendered his
resignation.
Eighty six barrels of .Whiskey, worth
50 5000, were seized by revenue officers
in Winston last week for alleged
Irregularities.
Toe nev owners Of the. Porter gold
mine of Wake county have put in a Is
stamp mill and will soon put in a
hydraulic plant.
Mr. Sam S~mitherman, of Montgom
cry county, last week sold the stand
ing timber on 1 800 acres of land near
Troy for $36 600.
State Treasurer Worth is calling
upon the sher ifs to settle as he figures
that hell have to pay $435 600 and now
has not 6 fourth of that sum.
Toe State Treasurer was 6szed when
he would pay the 800, 900 appropriated
to the puoIic schools of the general
fund, and replied: Whenever the
morey GENES in 1 will pay"
The Charlotte o OBSERVER says that J
J. Watts, son of Nj. Joel Watts, of
Mecklenburg, who belonged to Com
pany G, Fourth Artillery, stationed
in Washington, was arrested in Neck
lenburg last week for desertion.
Toe counterteiting case against A. J
Marshall, a Wilmington lawyer, in
which a true bill has been returned,
will not be tried in the Federal Court
until after the holiday recef He ia
in Wilmington under S.. 900 bond.
In J 0hnston county some days ago a
cigarette carelessly thrown down By
some boys started a fire which burned
three barns, two buggies, a horse, a
COW, a crop of corn and shu3ks, some
cotton and cotton seed, a lot OF harness
and farming tools.
Mooresvilfe is to have another cot
ton mill. At last accounts about $780,,
900 had been subscribed and it is TX
pected that the capital stock will be
SIS 600. The new mill, it is stated,
will De under the same management as
the present mill in that town.-Ex
Al the recent term OF Randolph
Superior Court at Asheboro two days
were spent in trying the case OF the
State vs.. Prof. Amick, charged with
cruelty whipping the six-year-old child
Of j. II. Burgess, cf L berry. After
ten minu5es' consultation the jury re
turned a verdict Of not guilty.
According to the recent decision Of
tle Supreme Court, as interpreted by
the Attorney General, the school law
passed by the last Legislature is IN
constitutional and all county school
boarCs who held office under the law
passed by the fusion" legislature are
entitled to retain their Offices. This
decision does not affect Iredell county
Rs the school board IN this county has
always been Democratic. L andmark.
Rdeigh Correspondence Charlotte
Observer: One of the queer sights at
the Federal Court here (Which by the
way, looks like a moonshiners'conven
tor ia a man dressed in Woman's
clothing. Hs wears a big black hat,
has a mous5ac1e, wears a dress made
all in one piece like that a child wears,
has white stockings and heavy brogans
Akodak fend would go into raptures