The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05

The MorgantOn News says an aver
ace of 20, 900 feet of lumber per day
i being delivered at the Morganton
depot for shipment.
Rev. VIC. Tyree, of Durham, who,
# is stated, was virtually rendered
the presidency of the Baptist Female
University, has declined the honor.
On the 25th of June the national
convention of Agricultural Commits
sioners is to meet in Raleigh, pur-
suant to the arrangement agreed on
at New Orleans.
President Blasingame of the Bap-
fist Female University has accepted
d position as Superintendent of
agencies for North Carolina for the
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York.
The News says that a citizen of
Morganton reports having seen in
Cleveland county recently a ID year
old boy who is ~ feet high and
weighs 21O pounds.
Greensboro Telegram: Perhaps
the biggest law suit Randolph county
has ever had and one of the biggest
in the State is now on at Asheboro.
The suit is a contest over the will of
the late DR.. J. NJ. Worth.
Editor Bailey, of the Biblical Re
corder, speaking of the Southern
Baptist Convention at Little Rock,
Ark, says the Baptist women of
North Carolina led those of all the
States in the matter of money col
leCtiOnS.
Nashville Graphic: E. W. Lyon,
Esq, passed through the city Tues
day afternoon en- route to the gold
mine. We learn that rich fields of
the precious metal is constantly be-
ingfound and extracted. The mineral
interests of Nash are becoming more
widely known throughout the South
for their richness and cheapness of
extraction.
In Franklin county a few days ago
five children of Daniel Person, col
ored, were left at home by their
mother, while she went visiting. On
return she found only the ashes of
the house and the bones of her chill
dren. The children were from one
to seven years old. 1t is supposed
the house caught fire and hat the
children were too small to extin-
gUiSh it.
TarbOrO SOutherner: Farm all
parts of the country come amusing
Incidents connected with the eclipse
and the colored people, who not I'M
derstanding looked upon the phe-
nOmenOm as unnatural and forboding
evil. Wherever they were they
gathered together, unable to endure
alone the, to them, mysterious dark
ening of the light of the universe.
At several places they left their
mules at the pillow.
Baxter S~hemwelI, the rich Ashe-
vile druggist who has been fighting
against e~xtraditiOn to Tennessee,
where he. was charged with swind-
ling Il Knoxville bank, has com
promised the matter. He has been
IN hiding and could not be found,
despite the searches made by Ten
nessee and North Carolina officers.
Once they nearly got him. tits said
he viii now return to ASheyille, as
both the civil and criminal suits viii
De dropped.
The Lexington Dispatch says that
while Mr.. T. S. Cross, of Cotton
Grove township, Davidson county,
was blowing a few days ago he acct
dentally drove his horse over his f
vear-Old daughter and the child re-
ceived injuries which are believed to
be fatal. The little girl had gone out
to watch her father at work and had
seated herself in some bushes. The
father, not knowing she was near,
plowed into the bushes and the horse
stepped on the little ones head, frac-
turing her skull.
Raleigh Christian Advocate There
Is q serious Lesson for the State in the
CumnOck affair. Some years ago
Labor Commissioner Lacy drew a
Dill which was passed by the Legis-
iature, requiring regular inspection
OF mines. The Legislature which
passed the bill refused to appropriate
anything for the expenses of such
inspection. Each succeeding Legis-
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