The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-18

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Great Eastern Railway is generally
credited Is being the cause of the
failure. Money was heavily ad.
vanced to build the road, and the
road was not collateral against over
drawn accounts. There is a report
that the Vanderbilt interests would
absorb the Great Eastern.
What has become of all the copies
of the Bragg fraud commission re-
port on the especial tax" bondsP A
State official wants a copy. He was
told yesterday there was not one in
the library. A lot of people, good,
bad and Indifferent, were more or
less interested in getting that report
out of circulation. There is a supply,
but a limited one of the Ship "fraud
commission" report, but these have
for years been secured and destroyed
whenever practicable.-Ex.
Col. Odds: Governor Aycock to-
day received a letter from Miss Hen
rietta Aiken Kelley, now in Italy,
and also a number of packages of the
seed of the white Italian mulberry
(the best for silk worms), which she
requests the Governor to distribute
through the Agricultural Depart
ment to the people of the State, with
a view to the promotion of silk worm
culture. 1t is a wonder that the
people in North Carolina do not de-
vote more time and care to this in
dustry.
Bishop Cheshire in his annual ad-
dress to the North Carolina Episco-
pal convention, which met recently
in Durham, stated that the total
number of clergy in the diocese is
now As, with cures embracing 5000
souls. St. Mary's school for girls,
he reported to be in such a flourish
ing condition that it is now an i'm
portant question how the students
shall be accommodated another year.
The debt on the property has by the
energetic efforts of the financial
agent, Rev. A. A. Pruden, been re-
duoed to $1,000, in the past two
years.-Ex.
Wilmington Messenger The Mes
senger's Raleigh letter of yesterdays
paper gave a statement made by a
person who had made calculations as
to the cost of the penitentiary, and
he is probably accurate or not far
from the mark of expenditures. He
said that eff the money which the
legislature has in the last 80 years
expended on the penitentiary had
been applied to the public debt, it
would have entirely extinguished the
latter, including the 81, 500, 900 mort
gage on the North Carolina rail
way"
Salisbury Sun: A corps of experts,
consisting of eight men, sent out by
the U. S. Agricultural Department,
are making a soil survey in West.
ern Rowan. The gentlemen now
have their headquarters in Salisbury.
They examine the soil in different
localities and classify it. The object
is to find what kind of fertilizers are
best suited to various soils and what
crops are most adapted to the soil.
Samples of the soil are taken and
sent to Washington for analysis.
The corps is working in connection
with the State Agricultural Depart
ment.
Rowan has set a good example to
the other counties of the State in
building a county asylum for the
care of it's insane who cannot be
gotten into the State Hospital at
MorgantOn. 1t is on the jail prem
ises but apart from the Jail, so that
none of the ~opprObrium which at
taches to Jail confinement will attach
to the inmates of the asylum. 1t
appears that provision for all the in
sane in North Carolina will never be
made by the State, andin this case it
behooves the counties to look around
and determine what they will do
themselves about this class of their
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Observer.
At it's recent meeting President
Winston, of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, made report to
the board of agriculture, showing
that the enrolment was 302, repre-
senting 81 counties and the States of
VIRGINIA West Virginia, South Caro-