The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-11

heard OF being caught on one planta-
ton this winter was on Mr.. j. e.
Chaney's farm, I'm East Monroe town.
ship, the number caught at last re-
port being two hundred.
Biblical Recorder: Postmaster
Mullen, Of Charlotte, has received a
severe lesson from the President.
He went TO Washington to secure
reappointment, and upon being as
sured that he would be reappointed,
proceeded TO Celebrate in rather
unbecoming style. This was brought
TO the Presidents ears, and Mr..
Mullen will not be reappointed. One
factor in his defeat was a letter from
Editor MoKelway 80 the President
protesting against reappointing him.
The lesson was we'll deserved, and
the President is TO be praised for ad-
ministering it.
Winston Tobacco Journal: Our
attention has been called to an asser-
ton by a contemporary that the
tobacco interests of Winston we're
dead, killed by the trust. Winston's
production of manufactured tobacco
is greater than that of any other
place in the South, and is surpassed
by only two other points in the Uni
ted States. All of our manufactur-
ers are doing we'll. The leaf market
sales are not as large as they have
been, but that is because of q chort
crop and all other markets in Nor tn
Carolina and Virginia are behind for
the same reason.
Mount Airy News: The furniture
factories in Mount Airy are doing an
immense business and making car
load shipments TO all parts of the
South and West. The outlook is en-
couraging for this branch of indus
try for many years TO oome.-Hun-
dreds of farmers in Surry and
adjoining counties are in precisely
the same condition of thousands in
the cotton growing counties of the
State. They have neither feed nor
supplies upon which to make crops
this year. It is not so bad in Surry
as elsewhere, but we have quite q
number of farmers in needy circum-
stances.
The trial of James Wilcox, the
lover and suspected murderer of
Ella Maud Cropsey, will come off
next week, according TO a signed
statement this afternoon by Solici-
tor George w. Ward of Elizabeth
City, who will be the prosecuting
lawyer. Mr.. Ward says in part /:
"The grand jury will meet Monday,
the 10th instant. They will act on
the Wilcox ase Tuesday. If an in,
diotment is returned he will be ar.
raigned. A special venire will prob,
a bly, be ordered and he will probably
be put upon trial Thursday or Fri
day. The name of the presiding
judge is Hon. George A. Jones, from
the sixteenth judicial DISTRICT
Raleigh Post.
Col. Odds: The report of the State
Labor Commissioner, completed,
shows the number of textile mills by
counties. CASTOR is far in the lead,
with 26 cotton mills, 2O2, 776 spindles,
and 4,642 looms; Meoklenburg SEQ
ond, with II cotton mills, one knitting
mill, 125, 242 spindles and 1925 looms ;
Rockingham third, with z cotton
and one wooden mill, 1O2, $50 spindles
and 2,135 looms Rutherford four 5h,
with 4 cotton mills, 1O2, $40 spindles
and 2,476 looms; Alamanoe fifth,
with II cotton, n wooden and two
knitting mills, 50, 598 spindles and
Ash looms ; Cabarrus sixth, with 8
cotton mills, SO, 588 spindles and
1924 looms ; Durham seventh, with
6 cotton and one wooden mill, S3, 1924
spindles md 1888 looms. All other.
counties have under 5000 spindles.
The Richmond Dispatch has an in
teresting story of the presentation,
last Saturday afternoon, in the North
Carolina room of the Confederate
Museum at Richmond of portraits of
four distinguished North CAROLYN
ians: Hon. z. B. Vance, Major Gen
eral W. D. Fender, Colonel Chas. F.
Fisher and Capt. Frank Sheppard.
These portraits were the gifts of the
North Carolina Daughters of the
Confederacy, through Mrs. D. 8.