The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-09
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable News From the
ERrth's Four n Selected
and Condensed tor Pro.
gressIve Farmer
Readers


The citizens Of Hampton county,
South Carolina, cay the Mormons must
De made TO go-by lawful means pre-
ferably, but they must go.
The price OF thread has gone up.
The J 6 2 Coates company, the Will
mantle Company and the others q
the thread trust have raised prices.
The United States Senate has agreed
to begin the discussion of Senator
P~ritchard's resolution touching the
North Carolina Amendment next Mon
day.
Governor Roosevelt in his message
to the legislature, recon nends the re
peal of the Horton Boxing Law, per
uniting prize fighting IN Ehe Safe of
NV Y ,rk.
Preachers of the African Methodist
Church IN New Jersey propose to urge
d. fpiGe action among the colOred reli
gious bodies of the State to stay tbs in
crease of crime among that people
Penal Statistics of the State SHOW that
in It's prls ms the average Of white
coavicts 10 as 1 to l 463 If the popula
ton, while colored prisoners are in
the startling proportion OF 1 60 100.
4 recent Chattanooga dispatch say g:
Hard ware dealers ell over the South
to day received the following telegram
/ fuN~ OA1nn-4. SsDHSnn rn5lo ord
wire advanced % cents per hundreh,
t Elective this morning, December 81
Deals by mail American Steel and
Wire Co" ALI kinds cf shelf hard
ware was advanced IL Ger cent to day
and another advance Is expected. The
advance ia due to the steady advance
in all kinds of iron and steel.
Sena'o or KYLE, of South Dakota,
who was formerly a Populist, has an
nounced that he will vote for the gold
standard at the first opportunity in
the Senate, Mr.. Kyle still declares
himself a bimetaI'Is5, and will make
an IF Drt to secure an amendment to
the Senate financial bill calculated to
renew the eff Ort to secure an interna
tion8l agreement. When this effort
has failed as he believes it will, he
will declare hims II for the gold stand
ard.
Last week in the kentucky Demo
! cratic Senate caucus, Senator HAROLD
created a se satlon by making an 81
legged exposure of the anti g ,ebel lead
ers, de ;laring TIA he he'd been ap
preached by J q VIVA len, of Louis
vile, and PAID 81 500 TO remain ouE of
the caucus. The money, he said. had
been placed in a box with the Louis
vile Trust Company, the key to which
was passed up to Senator Goebel, who
was presto ing He ended the speech
by declaring that he had entered into
the deal for the purpose Of exposing
Wh8llen
81. B Frissel. principal of the Hamp.
ton, Va Normal and Industrial Insti.
tute, before the Industrial Conmis-
sion Friday, said that in many sec
Uions of the South the condition of the
negro is no better than in slavery days.
Although the South has spent one buu-
dred millions of dollars on public ed
ucaGion for negroes, he said, q third
of the race ia where it vas at the be-
ginning of the war and the remainder
have advanced. Negroes, he said,
have been taught tnaS their salvation
will be found through political means
rather than by hard work.
The political opinions of Golfers
weekly are thus set forGa: In a Presi-
Dental contest, the Republicans seem
almost certain to carry the Empire
commonwealth, so long as the dema- d
for the free coinage Of silver is not dis.
avowed by the Democratic party. No
sucn dieavowal need be looked for next
year, out it may come in 1904 should
the Democrats be once more beaten.
When the God Democrats regain the
control of the parry machinery Which
they possessed before before 1895 it is
by no means impossible that Grover
Cleveland may again be put forward
as their standard bearer.
TIE last report of the Interstate
Commerce Commission thows that the
total number OF railroads in the United
s iates is 2.O47, the total number of
miles of tracks in operation PAT, 523
Toe-e ere necessary SO 234 engines and
l 326 ia cars. The totalLumber Of pas
senRers carried for the year was sol :
O66 6s1, which is an advance of IL OOO,.
600 over the previous year The freight
carried for the year mounted up to