The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-16
STATE NEWS
FROM cURRIrUcK TO CHEROKEE.
Items of Interest Cleaned From Our Correspondents
and Exchanges.

mittee will meet in Raleigh March II to lame the
time and place for the meeting of the Democratic
State Convention.
The Supreme Court last week licensed t~hirty-six
new lawyers, seven of the forty-three who applied
having failed to pass. Four of those who failed
were negroes. One negro passed.
Geo. K. Pritchard, of Mitchell County, brother
of ex-United States Senator J. G. Pritchard, has
been appointed United States Marshal of Indian
Territory. Salary, $4,000 and fees.
Tabor correspondent in Whiteville News: Our
strawberry friends from the North are calling on
us every day. We are glad to see them, but the
strawberry plants look very sorry compared with
the same time last season.
The Dukes built their last large mill in Harnett
County, far from any town, to get the benefit of
a splendid water power that has been idle too long.
They built the railroad to it and will carry the
railroad on to Durham, and every particle of
water power along the line of that road will be
harnessed.
Goldsboro dispatch, 18th: In the courtroom
at Wilson this morning, through their counsel,
Bass, Whitley, Rich, Pittman, Allen and Ward
plead guilty of manslaughter in the case of Percy
Jones. An agreement was reached between coun-
sci for the defendants, solicitor and counsel for
the county and town, that ten months in State
Prison should be the limit of punishment.
Col. Olds: Some of the judges are saying that
there is a great increase of crime in North Caro-
lima. An investigation of the criminal statistics
will show that this increase of crime is not in ex-
cess of the increase in population; in fact, does
not really quite keep pace with it. The records
of the Supreme Court show that while in 1880
there were on it's dockets eighty criminal cases,
there were in 1890 only thirty-two, and in 1900
there were ffty-one.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer: The question
was asked the police whether the dispensary had
reduced the amount of drunkenness, it having been
in operation now over a month. In reply, it was
stated that during January there were only forty
arrests against one hundred and forty for the
same month last year. There were only thirteen
arrests for drunkenness. A veteran police officer
ventured to remark that the dispensary had abated
drunkenness IS per cent.
Charlotte News: The movement among the cot
ton mill men for a partial shut down as a curtail-
ment of output on account of present stringent
conditions is growing more pronounced and 1t
seems probable that in a short time many more of
the mills will begin to drop off one or two days
each week. Captain F. Delling, of Kings Noun
tain, has recently begun running his mills on short
time. One mill is now running five days in the
week and in the other a part of the machinery
is idle.
Louisburg Cor. Post: The farmers are very
busy these days hauling fertilizers and making
other preparations necessary to the successful cul-
~tivation of a large cotton crop. Our farmers arc
making every effort they can to make a bumper
crop of Scotland. This county can't make and
gather much more cotton than it is now produc-
ing; labor is too scarce. Speaking of cotton,