The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-12
State News.
-. TAR HERLs ARB DOING.

Ssgnoat from the West-PeAnut8
~ CottonS Seed from the South
rational bank is being organized
At Greenville'
uon Thomas Settle, a leading Re-
,sIicsn, has declared for the consti-
s,ionaI amendment.
The colored conference, called to
.ast in Raleigh Septembe 9Th and
D;.b, has been postponed.
The Chatham county commissioners
,..t week unanimously refused to
ant license to retail liquor.
d, Cyrus Thompson, PopuIist State
chairman, is out in an interview de,
.Isring that Populists will nominate
RYAN whether Damocratsdo or not.
TIE largest plate glass ever seen in
,bis State are now being put in the
~fndows OF the Tucker building in
Raeigh. The list price of the largest
class is $4,000.
The Wilmington Messenger learns
hat Judge S5arbuck, Of the Superior
C,urt, who is q Republican, favors the
Constitutional amendment. Judge Pur-
nell of the United States Court for the
eastern district, also favors it.
Mr.. Dillon NJ. Luther, a prominent
Young atsorney of Asheville, city at
nrney and president OF the Demo
cratic cub of that town, has written a
letter to the AshevilIe Gazstte taking
grounds against the constitutional
amendment.
The Sanctificationist have pitched
their tent about two miles south of
Pittsboro. Ole of the features of their
services is that negroes worship with
the whites, sit together and sing in the
choir with them. Very few people go
phear them.
The Economist says a young negro
nn was arrested for larceny in Eliza
k.h City a few days ago, some of the
Eolen goods being found in his pCsIes
ion. He got permission from the pc,
lice to step aside for a moment, when
be pulled a pistol from his pocket and
shot himself dead.
The Smithfeld Herald tells how fer
mer Giles Bowers, of Johnson county,
ief9s trusts by refusing to buy tobacco
3Ies because there is a trust on the
ION from which they r made. Hs
n8de his hues of hollow gum trees, but
nuld not get the temperature for his
pbacco above 80 degrees. All the
wne he is clear the trust.
Cngham Citizsn: The greatest
po!igy that we have ever heard of in
the way Of tall corn is reported from
Cspe Fear township. Mr.. Charles d.
Yarbrough says that all of his crop of
corn is unUs tally tall but that he has
one ssalk VIII ca measures As feet to
the tassel. Just think Of a stalk of
corn being 80 feet high to the a and
Is feet ABOVE the year!>
The construction OF a cotton factory
8. Hickory is now assured, Fifty
thousand dollars have been subscribed
and a larger amount is in sight. Messrs.
A. A, Shuford and Q. Gaitner are the
promoters Of the enterprise. Negotia-
tons are also pending for the purchase
Of the Rowe shoal, near Hickory, by
parties who expect to erect a cotton
mill there.
A general meeting Of the stockhold-
es OF the R aIeigh and CASTOR R abroad
Company was held IN Raleigh last
week in the ofh3e of the company on
Haitsx street, and it was decided to
accept the amendments to the charter
granted by the last Legislature, author
zi1g G consolidation OF the various
branches Of the Seaboard Air Line in
tais State.
Pittsboro Citizen: In large sections
Of the county, thee are worms known
"a army worms" eating up fodder
and ell green vegetation. They take
every spear OF grass and have taken
10 tldder from many fields OF corn to
Tar already. The loss Of fodder crop
vii be quite an item 20 many farmers
'era these worms work. In grassy
a;'on patches they have, perhaps,
Teen an advantage.
Rv. ]. E White, Secretary of the
5IptisE Home Mission Board has re-
Wined from al extended trip through
9eEson, Macon, Hay wood Swain and
oI7combe counties. He says that he
'ooad the sentiment everywhere set
ang strongly in favor o. the Copstitu
"olal Amendment. a number of
poni1ent Republicans Expressed them.
s.7ss to him az being for it.