The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

strict as it is, nothing like as strict
as Virginia's, and if they are to be
entirely disregarded our factories
and ~canneries will soon have to close
their doors. This Is no idle deolara-
tion.-Elizabeth City Carolinian.
Wilmington Messenger The sports
men report that game of all kinds is
plentiful this year. Mr.. A. Ell.
Holmes, the veteran deer hunter,
says there is more deer than usual
and that they are in fine condition.
He has killed five this season. He
tells us that quail are also plentiful.
Rice birds are plentiful and fat and
there are large numbers of ooots,
but they have not gotten SO plump
as yet.
DR.. J. r. Brooks, writes that he
will probably return to Reidsville
from Baltimore this week. He says
he has been benefited some, but not
as much as he had hoped to be. DIR.
Brooks, as presiding elder of this
district, and as pastor of Main Street
Methodist church, has won the
esteem and love of all our people
who devoutly hope that he may yet
be restored toperfect health.-Reids-
vile Review.
Charity and Children: We are
told that at Davidson College the
sentiment is so strong against the
brutal practice of "hazing" fresh
men that the students themselves
expel the hazers from the classes
without carrying the matter TO the
faculty at all. All honor to David
son! 1t is not brave nor manly to
~perseoute those unable to defend
themselves, and a gentleman will
never do it.
The State Agricultural Depart
ment has issued it's annual list of
cotton mills in North Carolina. It
says this is as complete as it is pos
sible to make it through volunteer
correspondents. It locates the mills
by counties. There are 285 mills.
CASTOR leads with %, Alamance hav-
ing 20, Mecklenburg 10, Cleveland
Is, Lincoln and Randolph Is each.
There are mills in 50 counties. There
are Is wooden mills and three silk
mills.
News and Observer: President
Chas. D. McIver of the State Normal
and Industrial College, who is in the
city, is in fine spirits over the excell-
emit opening of that college. Every
place in the college dormitory has
been taken and two nearby resi-
dences have been rented and filed.
He says it would have been easy to
fill fifty per cent. o dormitory
room so that the attendance instead
of being 400 might just as easily
be 900.
The report of the finance commit
tee of the penitentiary directors was
made public Thursday. It shows
that the Day administration cost
$16,O 79 a month, that the present
board has been running the pen at
an expense of only $1O,3 9O a month
that where Day claimed a surplus in
earnings of $34,45O, there is really a
deficit of $35, 495-or in other words,
that in his annual report there was
a shifting of about $4,000 to the
wrong side of the ledger.-Ex.
Asheville Citizen: The next Gov
ernor of North Carolina will be a
western man. No Western North
Carolinian since Vance has enjoyed
gubernational honors. Jarvis, Scales,
Fowle, Carr, Russell and Aycock
we're all Eastern North Carolinians,
except Scales, who came from
Greensboro. Not a Governor within
a quarter of a century. Certainly
that part of North Carolina west of
the main line of the Southern rail-
way, running from Charlotte to Dan
vile. will demand the next Gov
ernor.
Greensboro Record: Major Joe
Morehead exhibited in our sanctum
this morning a smooth-bore, flint
and steel buck gun, five feet eleven
inches in length and whole stocked
that is, the stock runs TO the muzzle.
This was the property of Caleb
Crows, of Granville county, and was
used by him at the battle of Guilford
Court House in 1881. There was also