The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-23
STATE NRWs.

NS%1 SCS1As OF corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the W~est-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
June II, Raleigh votes on two issues
OF bonds 800, OOO for street improve.
ments, and $50 900 for public schools.
Two or three new schools are intended
to be built.
odd Fellows" statistics show that
there are in this State los lodges
with 1850 members, and during the
past twelve months 81. 500 was expen
ded for relief.
At the Agricultural Department it
is learned that the sales of fertilizer
tex tags are as great as they were last
spring. Shipments were slow but
there was finally a rush.
A Montgomery county teacher is re
ported as having asked the county
commissioners to make an order re,
quiring all the people in the county 60
attend his commencement.
Greensboro Record: The Southern is
adding more sidings in and around
Greensboro. The line is being extern.
ded east over a mile from the city IN
the North Carolina division.
At Server, N. O., Thursday R3v. J.
w. Hoggard, for 40 years pastor of
Potecusi and MeheTrin Baptist church
es, died, aged 80 years. He was a man
of great learning, and was beloved by
all.
Salisbury Sun: The case against P.
T. Hendrick for killing A. D. Shipping,
the charge being granddaughter, was
COZ cluded Thursday evening. Shortly
after l o'clock the jury. after being out
about Is minutes, returned a verdic of
not guilty"
J.. 8 Elliott, a well known citizen Of
Marion, was found dead in the we'll on
his premises Friday, 10Th. He had
been drinking heavily and was not in
his right mind He was a successful
business man, and leaves a good estate
for his family.
E ijah Joyney and Cephus Langley,
the two negroes who have been in Pitt
county Jail for the Turnage murder
and arson at Dongola, about the first
of May, were brought to Raleigh Fri
day afternoon and lodged in I'll to pre-
vent l%ynchiug.
Watauga Democrat: The prospects
for an abundant fruit crop in the
CONTAINS were never more fsttering
at this season than at present. The ap
pie and cherry bloom is simply i'm
mense, and if frost holds off for a few
days longer, the crop is sef9.
Baskerville Mirror: MIN Roberts, an
aged man of Yancey county, drank a
half gallon of whiskey last Thursday
night and died from the effects. 1t is
said that he went to sleep as soon as he
drank the whiskey and could not be
awakened. He had been a heavy
drinker for years.
The apple crop over the country is
pronounced one Of the largest for
years. B 1t in some sections an insect
is puncturiDg the twigs containing the
young apples and doing much injury.
We have noticed that the Blackburn
apples are special favorites Of this
pest.-Newton Enterprise.
Says the Hickory Mercury (Pop.):
So far as the Populist party is con-
cerned, the ratification Of the amend
ment would help it. 1t has nj negro
voters and no money to ''buy" them
with. Then a sorry drunken white
man could not run around after an
honest sober white Populist and call
him a negro, as has been done.
Specials from Darlington. Marion
and Cheraw, s. O., announce that a
syndicate with headquarters at Will,
mington, N. c., and said to be backed
by $50 900 900 is buying timber lands
in Ohes serfa Marlboro and Darling
ton counties, nearly 100 600 acres hav
ing been purchased during the past
week.
The trustees of st. Mary's School
unanimously elected to the rectorship
of that school the Rev. 7. d. Bratton,
of Spartanburg, s Q. Mr.. Bratton is
rector of the Episcopal church at
Spartanburg, and holds the chair of
history in Converse College for women.
He is the son of the late Gen. John
Bratton, and both by birth and culture,
as we'll as personal character, is fitted
for the exalted position.
The Raleigh dailies OF goth state that
on Friday the Seaboard Air Line fled
a bond for SIS, 900 in its appeal from the
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