The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-09
State News.
7pow CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
ItsmI Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores
UOndsnts and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

Parts Of the State.
T. Co,otor Butler is now a cor
nora+ion lawyer, having been en-
11oved as attorney for a big gold
mining company.-Ex.
Judge Francis D. Winston, of
windsor. last week received his com
mission as Judge and took the oath.
n ill hold his first term of court
st Windsor, August y.
The revenue collections in the Raj
oigb district for the fiscal year ended
TnIv 1st. we're SIS, 554,O 54, against
g. $50. 49S for the previous year. The
June receipts were 1888, 14O.
The United States Secretary of
Agriculture, Mr.. Wilson, is making a
tonr of Western North Carolina and
= accompanied by Prof. j. A.
Holmes. who is thoroughly familiar
with that section Of the State.
The wheat crop in Haywood is
oood-above the average this year.
The apple crop is not so promising.
It Is believed there will be less than
= half crop. Peaches seem to be
better than usual. Corn prospects
are good.-Waynesville Courier.
The barn of Mr.. A. F. Messick, at
Winston, was burned by order of
the town authorities last week on
account of the horses therein having
CHAMBERS. No other horses in the
town had this disease except Mr..
Messick's and the spread of it is
thought to be prevented.
Albemarle Cor. Post: Three ne
groes at KerrsviIle, one mile from
this place, have smallpox. They
contracted it while away working on
a railroad. They were removed to
an isolated house three miles away.
Those exposed are quarantined.
No further trouble is anticipated.
Mr.. John L. Clifton, register of
deeds of Franklin county, died last
week. He was a very prominent
citizen and, according to the Louis
burg Times, the most popular man
in the county. He had been a mem
Der of the legislature and had served
his county in various public capa-
cities.
Oxford dispatch, 1st: Mr.. John
w. Hays, n of the States foremost
lawyers, died at his home on yester-
day morning at four o'clock after an
illness of several weeks, aged 81
years. He was a devoted member of
the Methodist church, and for years
was superintendent of the Sunday
School.
About seven miles south of Smith
field, Johnston county, last Tuesday
evening between three and four
o'clock, jim Bailey, an 18-year-o old
negro boy, assaulted and ravished
Maude Strickland, a young white
girl IA years old, the daughter of
Mr.. j. W. Strickland, a farmer.
That night the negro was lynched.
Kinston dispatch, 2nd: There was
quite a unique marriage at the
Court House yesterday. Miss Birdie
Overton and Mr.. John Hill were
married by Justice j. g. Cox. Miss
Overton, the bride, was u years of
age, while the groom was but Is.
Mr.. Hill senior, was present and gave
his consent to the marriage of his
son.
News and Observer: Maj. Will
liam A. BlOunt, who died Sunday at
his home in Beaufort county, is said
to have been the first president of
the first Confederate Veterans AssO-
citation in this State, and the second
association formed in the South.
This was the confederate Veter-
ans Association of Beaufort county,
organized in 1883 and incorporated
n 1885.
Charlotte Observer: "This, said
ii Northern visitor who was in the
aity yesterday, "is Gods country.
yesterday in New York l saw little
.lildren pant and gasp and suffer
from the heat. Here one never
-1tfers excessively from heat. There
are no floods, no cyclones, no dlsas-
ters brought on by the elements
notIiDy tn disturb the even tenor of
life"
Figures given U by the census
officers show that North Carolina
~ incorporated towns and cities, IN