The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06
State News.
,gAT TAR BELLS ARB DOING

4 tns state Press-Drop II Tnrpent1ns
araius of Rice from the East Clusters
trapss and Tobacco Stems from the
a-tb-staI of Corn and Grains Of
zaeat from the West-PeAnuts
md CoCtonS Seed from the Soutb
The Prohibition party Of North
Ca, Ina will hold a s ate convention
In .le bury May 22L
urs S4lie Sawy or Ayres, of Wash
;roron. has presented the great seal of
me Confederacy to the State Univer
sity Library.
Concord Times: B 9TH the Wisca g.
satt and the E ird cotton mills at Abe
marie psid a semi-annual dividend of
8 ne. c, Mt. last week.
Il is expected that next Monday,
vhen the Supreme Court will examine
~spulIcants for attorneys license, that
Is viii be present from Law schools.
Mr. J L Adcock, q we'll known citi
an, died near E field, Sunday, 90 n,
sgec 81 years. He was q member of
t6e NJ .s5plc Lodge at Enfield and had
a host Of friends.
Two weeks ago the Baptist denomi-
nation started out to rails $S5 900 to
mee- existing 90 igations OF Gne BIO.
tisr F male University. Todste "a, 600
Of this amount has been secured
secretary Mebane, or the North
Carolina Teachers Association, ssys
the selection Of MoreheaG City as the
Mace AND Juoe IL b as the date of the
next meeting of b assembly are con
ditIonal upon the giving OF satisfactory
rates by the railroads and hotels.
A GIdsboro last week Thos Smith,
eolored. was conv!crod Of the murder
of Cawthorn, in JIhnston county,
more than a year ago and sentenced TO
be hung March 9Th Smith was tried
once before am convicted but the Su-
preme Q urt gave him a 9 trial.
R,v J E. Tut lie, q well known Bsp.
tisr mrni4Cer. died recently at his home
at E ,berh CIty Mr.. futile wac
formerly pastor &C Salisbury He was
a one armed Confederate veteran and
vas esteemed by those who knew
him. D ssth was due to pneumonia.
The Raleigh NJ vs. and Observer says
that thus far IN the new year 90 char
tiers have been granted to ne corpora
tions BY the Secret ary Of State since
January; the first seven, or nearly
one third of the number, being cotton
mills. while over half are factories Of
q s11t IT another.
r -. Isaac ". Avent, Of the North
1 Oaroiua Conference, who died e
\ Gently. left hIs library, consis ling Of q
valuable collection of books, TO the
library of Trinity College Mr. Avent
also beuueaGned Co the North OArolIna
Conference, for educational and mis-
sionary purposes, his entire estate,
subj act to the life tenure of his wife.
Sratesvile Landmark: Toe revenue
off era found a blockade distillery in
operation Wedne sday on the lands Of
Mr. John Patterson, in Eagle Mills
township Three men we're at the dis
tllery, but they es'aped A wagon
and team and two barrels of Whiskey
we're br, ught TO town. The still and
about 700 gallons OF beer we're de-
stroyed
One thousand of the citizens of Robe
son county have petItioDed the Gov
erDor II let he law take it's course in
the R obpn R So case. A meet
ing YES held Ieet week at BIie's Greek,
the home OF Mrs Ingram, and resolu-
tons pa. sad asking the G vernon to
let the negro be hung. But why was
not the ALLEGED outrage reported till
a month after its occurrepce7
AT .vettevilIe dispatch says: OF
cers NJ rrissey and Msultsby have Cap
tureo Harris. an old Cfen er in moon =
shining. illicit liquor selling, etc. He
was taken at his home, near B 'lton's
On Eureka Springs, and has for a long
time both eluded and defied the Law
he ia more than half Indian, and hiR
nature is a combination OF the stolidi Y,
daring and substlety of that race.
Newton Enterprise: The prospects
Of another colt q mill in Newton are
very good. --There ia q good prosper
Of a tannery being put up in Newton
this year --Messrs. Freeze and cone,
Prominent cotton mill men were 10
Hickory Tuesday inspecting the sight
Of the proposed big cotton factory Cd
The Oetawba river. It is also rumored
N Blckorv that Mr.. August Belmont.
the Nav Ynrk banker il intereated in