The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-21
STATE ENEWs.

wheat from the W~est-PeSnutB
and ottons Seed from the South
Eight colored prisoners took French
,save from the jail at Kinston Tuesday
night.
The Raleigh Christian Advocate is a
handsome s page paper excellently
edited and conveniently arranged.
representative Trotman, whose death
vas announced in last weeks Progress
i've Farmer. was from Gates county.
Mr.. Walter II Page said in his lect
ture at Greensboro a few days ago that
loci Chandler Harris is the only writer
of the South who is immortal.
The impression has gone abroad that
the Legislature at its recent session re
duced the price of marriage licenses to
one dollar. The fact is, that it still re-
ouires three dollars to enter the state
Of matrimony.
The queerest legislative act is the
one to make it a misdemeanor to kill a
fox in Allegheny county for two years.
Another act torbids hunting on the
lands Of another in a certain county,
this not to apply to fox-hunters with
more than three dogs.
The last Legislature adopted two
amendments to the divorce law. Both
allow absolute divorce; one for cruelty
outside of the State on the part of the
husband; and the other for desertion
or abandonment for one year, instead
Of two years as formerly.
Among the counties named in the
acts prohibiting public drunkenness,
there are MeckIenburg, lthertord,
CASTOR, Hayw wood and Cleveland. In
these counties it is provided that
drunkenness shall be punished as a
misdemanor, and not as a violation Of
town ordnance, as formerly.
Upon advice of counsel. Mr.. Ham
rick, Commissioner of Labor Statistics,
has declined to surrender the office TO
Mr.. B R. Lacy, recently elected by the
legislature The case goes to the
courts. LATER-Mr. Hamrick volun
tarily surrendered to Mr.. Lacy, who
took charge Friday evening.
The case of W. L Breese. the Ashe-
Vile bank wrecker, was given to the
Jury Wednesday and later they re
turned a verdict of guilty. The court
was opened and Judge Purnell sen
fenced the prisoner to ten years in the
penitentiary a. R lleigh. An appeal was
taken, and the prisoner was placed
under a bond of $50, 900 Failing to
give it, he was returned to prison.
Thus says the Raleigh correspondent
of the Charlotte o Oserver Dsm.): A
prominent citizen informs me that he
has heard that there is a movement on
foot to require every grown male negro
in the State to contribute 81 towards
defeating the constitutional amend
ment. But" he added, this will
hardly cou~nterbalance the loss Of 90.
900 iHiterQte uOtes under the neU eEec-
ton laUU."
Hon. John 8. Henderson tells US en-
gineers have been at work for a while
surveying the Yadkin river in the
neighborhood of the NarroWs for the
great electric power plant OF Mr.
Hambley and his associates, by means
of which they intend to transmit power
to Salisbury, Concord, Charlotte anc
other adjacent points. Work on the
plant ia TO begin Immediately after the
survey is finished .-Salisbury San.
DR.. Henry F Long of Statewide hal
been appointed by the STATE Board o
Health as State Inspector Of Smallpox
Injected Districts. His duties will IN
c,ude the visiting of the infected local.
ties for the purpose Of ~instructing tn
local authorities how to proceed Will
the work Of disinfection, operation o
the quarantine laws and the genera
mOdug operandi of proceedings with RI
spect to suppressing the disease am
preventing it's spreading into othe
localities, etc.
A special to the Post from Reidsville
\. G., March IA, says: On the quet
ton OF issuing bonds to the amount G
$25 900 for w~aterWorks, submitted t
the popular vote, the decision was a
most unanimous in the affirmative
only seven votes being cast IN oppos
ton. 1t is expected that early actlo
will be taken to costruct a standar
waterworks system, q survey haVln
already been made. 1t is probabl
that the plant will be installed and l
operation by August.