The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
State News.
FROM CURR1rUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items Of Interest Cleaned From our COrres
uondents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

DOndeuts ana E4CAeA6SS
Parts Of the State.
Mar Ia Grange last week a negro
was 1vnched for attempted assault.
The snrvey of the soil of Alamanc
ooDntv has begun. 1t began at Bur
lingtOn.
wilmington dispatch, 18th: A
ff+v +bousand dollar bond issue cleo
+ion for good roads in New Hanover
county was held to-day and carried
nv q few votes.
Charlotte News: In Duplin and
Samson counties they chronicle
births after this wise: "The latest
addition to Mr.. BIS household is a
fine little berry picker"
Sheriff Page of Wake county, says
Il seems to him that this is the worst
year for farming since 1857, when
the crops almost failed-if indeed it
does not equal that bad year.
If is said that the report of i'm
Deachment trial in the case of Judges
Furches and Douglas will probably
he in print August L. There are
many inquiries for the report.
Arrangements have been perfected
for the unwilling Of the monument
at Beaufort, August 1st, to Capt.
Otvvav Burns, of the noted ~privateer
osnap-dragon," of the War of 1912.
.Jndce Walter Clark will deliver the
address.
Col. Odds: The State text book
Commission has adopted Hydes'
lessons in English, , books, one at p,
the other at 40 cents, the second
book as supplementary; Webster 8
dictionaries Mines standard and
elementary Moses first reader, pro
vided the price is under 10 cents.
The taking of evidence in the
FowIer-Thomas contest for the posi-
ton of Representative from the
Third Congressional district is COM
Melted, and everything is in readiness
for the hearing before the Congress
ionaI committee next December.
More than a thousand witnesses have
been examined.
Mai. w. A. Gattis, one OF Dur
hams prominent and well-knOwn
citizens. died at his home in Morris
street last Wednesday night. He
had been suffering from heart disease
for several months. Maj. Gattis was
a member of the tobacco warehouse
firm of Lea, Gattis Company. He
was a steward of Trinity Methodist
church.
Winston Journal a steam thrash-
ING machine on Trade street last
night created much interest among
the farmers. 1t was the property of
J. W. Spease & Co, and just arrived
here yesterday evening. 1t is said
to be the first of its kind ever brought
to the county. 1t is a self feeder,
self Dagger and wind stacker and
cost $4,000.
Charlotte Observer: The gold
miners who have been operating a
hydraulic plant in the Catawba river
have made the discovery that the
black sand in the bed of the river is
rich with gold. An assay of a guam
tity of this sand recently made,
shows a yield of 1920 per ton. This
is an extraordinary rich yield and if
all the the sand in the company's
workings hold up to it, the result
will be a veritable bonanza.
The current issue of the New York
Literary Life" says: Marshall de
Lancey Haywood, of Raleigh, N. c.,
now temporarily residing in Balti-
more, has in preparation a volume
covering the life of William Tryon.
Tryon was successfully royal Gov
ernor of North Carolina and New
York. He was a Encouragement OF
lOvalists in the War of the RevOlu.
ton and became Acknowledgements
IN the army of Great Britain.
Sanford Express An election was
held here last Monday to decide the
.uestion of issuing fifteen thousand
dollars in bonds to extend and com
plete the Sanford water works. Out
of a total registration of two hun.
dred and twenty-three the total vote
for bonds was n hundred and
eighty-three. Only one vote was
cast against the measure. A number
of our citizens who voted against