The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

cream of the State BreSS-DrOpS OF IurpenJlne
and Grains of RICE From the East-Clusters
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems From the
N~orth-StaIks of Corn and Grains
of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
Senator Pritchard has selected
William F. Hyams as cadet for West
Point under the recent increase pro-
vided by Congress.
The State has chartered the Gran
vile Gold Mining company of Gran
vile county. It's paid-up capital is
500. 900 authorized capital 81, 900, 900.
It will mine gold and copper.
Senator J. A. Francks, Republican
has resigned as a member of the
State Board of Elections. Upon
Francks' request the Board named
J. B. Freeman, of Henderson county,
his successor.
The iron mines and furnaces at
Cranberry, the property of a Penn
svIvania company, have been shut
down on account of the slump in
iron. This action throws about 200
men out of employment.
Lieut.. Danie1R. johnson, a nephew
of the wife of Governor Russell, and
a member of the Thirty-Eighth In
fantry, U. S. A, recently distin-
guished himself in an engagement
with PHILIPPINES, near Manila.
Negro Postmaster G. w. Battle
was convicted of embezzlemept in
the United States District court at
Raleigh on the 9th and sentenced to
n year in Jail. He is the third
negro post master to be convicted at
this term.
So far this year no reports have
come to the State veterinarian of
anv outbreak in North Carolina of
the splenic fever among cattle. Last
year there were several outbreaks
and the veterinarian was kept on
the move.
The butchers of Winston have
served notice on their patrons that,
on account of the scarcity and high
price of cattle, the price of round
steak is advanced to 1917 and Is
cents per pound and other cuts in
proportion.
In Cumberland county a few days
ago a revenue officer, z. F. Long,
put a $55 revenue stamp on a barrel
of whiskey and then turned around
to attend to something else. When
he anne back to the barrel a goat
had eaten the stamp.-EX.
The Constitutional Amendment,
as amended by the Legislature at it's
special session, is now being printed
and distributed. Two hundred
thousand copies of it will be printed
and distributed by the State for the
information of the people.
Walter H. Page, who is nov a
member of the Doubleday-Page Pub
fishing Company, passed through
last week from New York to visit
his brothers and sister at BiscOe and
Aberdeen. He will also spend some
time at jackson Springs.-AshebOrO
Courier.
Winston Dispatch, goth Presi-
dent Henry Fischer, of the National
Tobacco Workers Union, has union
lied the large tobacco factory of P.
H. Hanes & Co., of this city. A
saIaried secretary will be stationed
here to look after the unions inter
ests. The Hanes factory is the larg-
est with which the tobacco workers
union has yet established relations.
Greensboro has decided to install
ID new water works system, to be
owned and operated by the city. The
board of aldermen offered to buy the
plant of the Greensboro Water Sup
ply Co., for $74,833. The company
refused the offer, and now the city
is to erect it's own plant. Unless
some compromise is effected, Green's
boro will be the only town in the
South with two systems of water
works.
We referred last week to the mex
cusabIe murder of a negro near Ok
ford. This statement of the case is
given out: "At a colored gathering
Il colored man accidentally stepped
against a white girl 8 Or 10 years Of
age. The girls brother, a boy 16 or