The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-02-19

HS5AO SClAOOAo GuSES were dG a
three negro children to one white
child out, and who knows bat in ten
years the negroes may, with some
whites, get the State and turn that
amendment against us? Our people
should wake up, and they have no
time to lose, either.
Greenville Reflector: There has
been a dreadful outbreak of small
pox in the Speights Bridge section
of Greene county. Notice of the
probable existence of the disease
there was sent to DIR. D. T. Taylor, of
Washington, who is one of the in
spectOrs for the State, and he went
Sunday to investigate. On his way
back he stopped Sunday night in
Greenville. In conversation with
Mayor MOye, DIR. Taylor said he
found fourteen we'll developed eases
of the disease.
TarbOrO SOutherner: Farm labor
in many localities is unsettled. Work
goes on, but several farmers have
been heard to say that they would
not be surprised at any time to see
their labOrers moving away, at
tracted by the alleged higher prices
Offered.-A little girl between 6
and 8 years of age,F Friday, near Pine
top, while playing near a field that
was being burned w had her
clothing to catch fire and was burned
to death before help could reach her.
She was the daughter of a man
named Jackson.
Charlotte Observer: The Char
lOtte correspondent of the Atlanta
Journal sent it an interesting para
graph from the report of Superin-
tendent P. L. Murphy, Of the State
Hospital for Insane at MOrgantOn.
1t was this IAN increasing number
of cotton mill operatives become in
sane out of proportion to the rest of
the population" The New York
Sun reprints the item very prOmi-
nently. What is the reason for this
insanity? Is it the confinement and
close application of the mind neces-
sary to take care of the delicate
work on spindle aud loom? This is
a new point which the advocates of
shorter hours for mill tOilers will
not be long to seize upon.
Statesville Landmark: The ques-
ton whether a grape vine is a fruit
tree came up in Iredell Superior
Court this week. 1t was in the case
of the State vs.. Reavis. Dewitt
Reavis had been a tenant on the
lands of p. B. Kennedy, Esq, in
Eagle Mills township, and when he
moved away he had dug up and car
ried away some grape vines and had
also, it is charged, removed windows
from the house, some fencing, etc.
Judge Brown said the statute men
toned fruit trees but didn't cover
grape vines. Solicitor Rush argued
that a grape vine was a fruit tree,
but his honor evidently didn't see it
that way. Anyway he decided that
Reavis was not guilty.
Newbern Journal: A big rusty
cannon is lying IN Broad street in
front of J. K. Willis marble works.
1t is Il cannon from the p~rivateer
S~napdragOn, made famous in the
war of 1912 by Capt. Otway Burns.
This cannon has been used at Beau
fort for many years as u landmark,
on Front street. A grandson of Capt.
Burns, now Il resident of Chicago,
visited here last summer. He found
that the grave of Capt. Burns was
unmarked by any monument and
obtained this cannon from the town
of Beaufort to be used for that pur-
pose. The cannon Will lie On II block
of Georgia marble in which it will
be PARTIAL imbedded. This block
Is two feet thick and Will rest upon
another block about eight feet long,
3 feet wide and a foot thick. When
the monument is placed over the
grave of Capt. Burns, it Will be Il
handsome and appropriate mark Of
the resting place of the bold priva-
teerSman.
The Executive Committee of the
GuiIford County Good Roads Club
held ii meeting in this city today and
discussed the advisability of holding
an election on the question of issuing