The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-04
State News.
FROM CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items OF Interest Cleaned From our Cores
pondents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.


church voted for bar rooms, and on
Wednesday night following, the
church withdrew fellowship from
them without a dissenting voice.
Governor Aycock last week issued
a commission to w. H. Neal, Esq,
of Laurinburg, as Superior Court
judge IN the eighth judicial district,
and to L. D. Robinson, Esq, of
Wadesboro, Arson county, as solicit
tor.
The Association for the promotion
of University Education for Wo-
men, Baltimore, has given it's foreign
fellowship, valued at $500, to Miss
Virginia Ragsdale, of jamestown,
n. G. She is a graduate of the
Salem Female Academy and of Bryn
Mawr College. She IS a mathema-
tician who has studied as Gottingen.
She has received a very distinguished
hOnOr.-Ex.
The Wake county treasurer, Capt.
B. P. Williamson, is advertising the
sale of fourteen thousand dollars
worth of county bonds, bearing in.
terest at five per cent. and running
thirty years. This means that four
teen thousand dollars will be spent
for something for the county. TWEEN
ty-One thousand dollars in interest
will be paid to somebodyfor nothing,
and then the county must redeem
the bonds. In other words the
county must spend thirty-fve thou
sand dollars for fourteen thousand
dollars worth of something.-Raleigh
Caucasian.
Winston-Salem Cor. News and OBJ
server Mr.. h. L. Tilden, represen-
tative of the United States Galleries
Steel and Iron Company, of Balti-
more, was here to-day comforting
with business men relative to build
ing a proposed railroad to the iron
mines in Stokes county. He says
the road will be built to either Madi-
son or Walnut Cove; that if sufi-
cient inducement is offered by Win
ston-Salem, it will come to the latter
place. Mr.. Tilden claims that inves-
tigation made by experts shows that
the Stokes mines will yield 124 mil
lion tons of bessemer iron r
A sensational affair developed in
the case of Long VS.. the Southern
Railroad IN the Superior Court of
Iredell county a few days ago. 1t
was charged that the jury had been
tempered with by agents of the
railroad, and Judge Brown, after
hearing the evidence, sentenced J.
A. Gorham, law agent of the South
ern, to jail for twenty days and fined
him $50, imposed d fine of $50 upon
Juror Brown, and sentenced R. a.
Ramsey TO Jail for twenty days. All
three appealed to the Supreme Court.
1t is an ugly affair, but it is not the
first time that juries have been
tempered with in North Carolina.
-Webster's Weekly.
Col. Olds: H. F Seawell says the
floods have literally swept away the
earth in his section. Yesterday a
tenant went into JOnesboro to tell
the landowner of the loss of the crop.
"Replant, he said. The tenant repli-
ed :oBut the trouble is that the land is
gone" That is the story on many a
farm-the land is gone.-JOhn S.
Cunningham came to-day tt attend
the meeting of the Board of Agricul-
ture. He says one of the heaviest
items of loss by the deplOrable floods
is that of fertilizers that the farm
ers spent five million dollars for
fertilizers and that half of all put in
the ground is ir~reparably lost-on
level ground absorbed that is, gone
out. of reach of the plants, and on up
lands literally swept away.
Governor AyoOck has appointed a
State Board of Elections in accord
ance with the provisions Of the new
election law. The following Ire the
appOintees Wilson @. Lamb, of
Williamson, Martin county Robert
7. Claywell, of MOrgantOn, Burke
county Hon. R. A. Doughton, of
Sparta, Allegheny county; Clarence
Call, W~iIkesboro, Wilkes county A.
B. Freeman, of HendersOnville. The
first three members of the board are
appointed upon recommendation of
Senator Simmons and the appoint