The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-11

FFaNueuS VI WIlI1IlREOD, Will De nOn1
mated for governor by the Democrats
next year. There are a number of
prominent gentlemen looking with
longing eyes to this honor and it is too
early yet to predict who will be the
nominee. Winston Journal.
Barnes Bros who made + q lowest
bid for the S late printing and were first
awarded the contract. are suing the
legislative committee on printing and
Eiwards & B.oughton and E NJ. Uzzell
for the enforcement Of their contract.
Judge Brown, decided that he did not
have jurisdiction, claiming that it is
really an action against the State. The
case has gone to the Supreme Court.
The city of Raleigh has employed
two physicians, who will make a house
to house canvass and vaccinate all who
are willing, reporting the names Of
those who refuse. What will be done
to the obstinate ones is not stated. Not
one half the negroes in this city are
vRcCinated TneY are the really dan
gerous class. Vaccination is quite
general among the whitea.
The career OF Charles Babo, one OF
the two men who Aped from the
Custer massacre, is about to be cut
short, according to a report from
Havana contained in a letter to a sol
der at Fortress Monroe. BAbo is a
regular from North Carolina, and is
now under sentence of death, pro
nouuced by court martial, for killing a
policeman. His step.tather, D, A.
Ksuipe, OF North Carolina, has enlisted
Senator Pritchard's sympathy in the
case.
Reports to the Weather Bureau here,
for the Weekly Crop Bulletin, show
that great havoc was caused in the
trucking section of the State by the re-
cent frosts and the snow storm. Much
Of the early produce was entirely de
stroyed and all of it received a severe
setback. Conservative estimates place
the damage to the strawberry crop
along the Wilmington and Weldon
Railroad at twenty five per CEN Of
the whole crop. Although many far
mers covered their crops and sustained
practically no loss, others failed to
cover and suff cred heavily. The crop
was looking extra fine before the
freeze.
SsatesviIle Landmark: The r cord
says Chatham county sells more coun
try producs-psrticularly chickens
aud eggs-than almost any county in
State. That paper says many persons
in Chatham make it a regular business
to travel about the county in wagons
buying u chickens and eggs and haul
ing them to RGleigh, Durham and
o.her~ neighboring towns, and it hears
that one mau who ran two wagons for
this purpose last winter made 81, 100
clear profit on eggs alone. II seems
that the chicken and egg business IN
Chatham surpasses even the rabbit in
dustry, which has made that county
famous
The following is sent US with r request
to publish: We want to make a sug
gestion to our farmer friends and
readers. Merely a suggestion and we
leave you to act according to your own
sense of duty. 1t is just this: That you
select this year q rich spot on your
farm, plant it in what you think can
be raised most profitably, tend it care
fully and conscientiously and send the
proceeds or the produce to aid in the
support of the 215 orphan boys and
girls in the Oxford Orphan Asylum, or
the children in some other o~rphanage
in North Carolina. This is done in
! other States and / know the farmers in
our W State are as charitably IN
clined as any that the SUD shines on
Wilmington Messenger: During the
first quarter of the present year several
very useful, popular and gifted, and
some distinguished North @ IrolInians
have passed away. We recall the fol
lowing by whose death the State is a
decided loser: Major Archibald A.
Capehart, R,v. DR.. jesse A Cunning
GIN, Colonel JJhn A. Mcdowell, Fred
erick Rheinstein, Captain Q. Rankin,
DR.. George a. Foote, Hon. John Man
ming, LII. D, RYv. B 'nnetE Smedes,
D o., Robert SC Ales Bethel, R v. A
W. Lineberry, Captain William CASTOR
Bald win, a gallant Confederate DE-.
A. B Huntley, DR.. w. L Bro Wn, ex
State Com missioner of Agriculture
John Robinson and DR.. F R Gregory.
We learn from a dispatch to the Raj
eiph Post that rich deposits Of copper