The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-29

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twelve, which is twelve too many.
There used to be under MoKinley's
first term about sixty. Several we're
tried for larceny.
Col. Odds had this to say of the
State Fair: There are 41O fakirs
here by count, and they have come
from Buffalo, Buoyrus, o., Detroit,
Hagertown, Richmond and heaven
only knows what other places. It is
the biggest gathering of them ever
seen in the South save at the Atlanta
Exposition. Really it looks like a
reunion or congress of fakirs. Mrs.
Fakir is there in force; likewise the
little fakelets.
The list of State pensioners and
pensions was completed by the State
auditor Wednesday. First class
$63 annually, III pensioners, total
$7,344; second class-$5O annually,
275 pensioners, total $13, ESQ; third
olass-$4O annually, 535 pensioners,
total $21, 900 fourth GLASS and wild
ows-$20 annually, 7,70O pensioners,
total 1854, 600 grand total s, 1927 pen
sioners, $196, 1874. The number of
pensioners is over 1000 less than the
auditor expected.
Judge Thomas G. Fuller, aged 20,
Associate Justice of the United
States Court of Private Land Claims,
to which be was appointed by Presi.
dent Harrison, in 1890, died in Raj
eigh a few days ago. He was a mem
Der of the Confederate Congress and
was elected TO the United States
House of Representatives immedi-
ately after the Civil War, but was
not seated. He was taken sick over
a year ago when returning from a
sitting of the court at Santa Fe.
Wilmington Messenger The fourth
GLASS at Annapolis has 148 members.
The list of these new cadets for the
navy appears in the Baltimore Sun.
We find four from North Carolina,
as follows: Louis P. Davis, John N.
Furguson, John J. London and Alex
ander S. Wadsworth, Jr. The last
named is a great grandson of the
late Commodore Wadsworth, of
Massachusetts,, and kin also to the
famous New England poet Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow.
Durham Cor. Post: Last night
Luther Bowles and Mrs. Mary Cole
were united in marriage in this city.
This is a love sorape entirely out of
the ordinary. Last week young
Bowles secured license to marry Miss
Minnie Cole, daughter of his present
wife. There we're objections on the
part of relatives of the bride and
groom. So strong was this objection
that the license was returned to the
register of deeds the next day. Yes
terday afternoon late he secured
license to marry his girls mother
and the event was solemnized about
10 O'Clock last night.
There is a great deal Of kicking
here on account of what some term
the "hold-up" by John Robinson's
circus. From time immemorial the
charge for reserved seats has been
twenty-five cents and the largest
shows that ever came to the State,
like Barnum's and Ringling's never
charged more than that. But when
the people got into Robinson's yes,
terday they found the price of re-
served seats had been raised to fifty
cents, making the actual cost of
seeing the circus one dollar. The
circus people said that was a "North
Carolina price," and imposed only
in this State. The Legislature has
put a heavy tax on cirouses, and this
is the way in which the CIRCUS PEG
Dle retaliate.-Raleigh Times.
Col Odds: Superintendent E. NICK
Goodwin, of the school for deaf
mutes, at Morganton, is here. He
SAYS there are 222 pupils present,
and that there will soon be quite a
number more who are now kept at
work on farms by their parents. He
has a farm near here, on which an
English expert is making search for
graphite beds. The expert says he
finds over 100, OcO tons practically in
sight. This morning a gold nugget,
weighing a pennyweight, was picked
up on his farm, and he exhibited it.
Superintendent John E RAY, who
100, wbilo Ea1kiDC with Prof.