The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-22

"@oHlhS among the HardShell
Baptlsts of Davidson county took
place at Piney Woods, Davidson
county, yesterday. A crowd of per
haps 100 or more we're in attendance
from Salisbury and all were i'm
pressed with the solemnity and earn
estness with which the ceremony was
carried out.
Since the barrooms were closed
here, malt extract has become a
f~avOrite beverage with many people.
1t is sold extensively at a number of
places, and some claim that tits only
pure lager beer under a false label.
The authorities are investigatiOng
the matter, and it is probable that
malt extract" will be placed under
the "ban. Greensboro Cor. Char
lOtte Observer.
TarbOrO SOutherner: The manu-
featuring fever is becoming epidemic
hereabouts. Whitakers, it is re-
ported, is soon to have a knitting
mill, and the people of Conetoe are
confident of a cotton factory 1t is
said that they promise of northern
capital for half the amount necessary
to erect one A gentleman from that
place has assured the reporter that
the mill will cost at least SO, 900.
The case of Henry White VS.. the
Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company, which has been on trial in
the Superior court of BuncOmbe
for several days, terminated last
Thursday in a verdict for the plain
tiff, the jury assessing him damages
at 81, 500. The plaintiff lost his leg
while acting as switchman on the
road near the Asheville depot. The
case will go to the Supreme court.
A Progressive Farmer correspond
ent says: Probably the oldest per
son in North Carolina lives in the
southwestern part of Wake county,
Mrs. Ollie Byrum, of Buckhorn
township. She says she was born in
1898, making her 1O7 years old. She
insists that she distinctly remembers
seeing George Washington in Raj
eigh. Her general health is com
paratively good but her hearing and
eyesight are both affected.
Rev. John E. White has declined
the Presidency of the Baptist Female
University, which was rendered him
two weeks ago by unanimous vote of
the board of trustees. DR.. Blasin-
games resignation takes effect on
June 18th, and it is necessary to
select a new president by that time,
if possible. Two names prominently
mentioned in connection with the
position are Prof. J. B. Carlyle, of
Wake Forest, and President F. P.
Hobgood, of Oxford Female Semi
nary.
Charlotte Observer: Our news
columns tell of the death, yesterday
morning, of Col. Clinton A. Cilley, of
Hickory. He was a native of New
Hampshire, of a distinguished family,
was a colonel in the Federal army in
the civil war and was shot all to
pieces. Immediately after the wal
he was assigned to a Federal com
mand in North Carolina, and while
serving in this capacity was APP
pointed military judge. His duties
as such he discharged in justice and
acceptability to our people, at a
period when all men in such posi-
tons we're not Just. Upon the eX-
piratiOn of his term he became a
citizen of North Carolina and re
manned a true citizen until his
death.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer,
10Th: The local sensation is the
marriage of a postgraduate student,
John Birdsong, of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, to Miss
Sims, of Macon county, "a student at
the Baptist Female University here,
at Hillsboro yesterday, she being II
and he 10. The register of deeds of
Orange, who issued the license, has
gotten himself into deep trouble, it
seems. The Code is quite particular
as to the marriage of girls who are
at school. They are held to be under
guardianship and the register must
know that there is consent. Mar
-riage must he performed by a duly
ordained minister or a justice of the
peace, but the violation of the Code