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i ' ! ' : ' : " "4 1 THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. Vol. 1. FARMERS' CLUBS.- . Progress in the Work of Organizing CEDAR OROVE FARMERS' CLUB. The farmers of South Fork town ship, in this county, held a meeting at Cedar Grove on Saturday last. Twenty-four members were enrolled, but the completion of the organiza tion was postponed until Saturday, the 1st of May, when they feel as sured the roll of members will be largely increased. Great interest is manifested in the movement, and the best of good feeling prevailed. The proceedings of the meeting will appear in our next issue. We learn that in addition to the Cedar Grove Club there were three other clubs formed in the county the past week, but up to the time of go ing to press we were unable to get definite information in reference to them. "We will be able to say more about them in next issue. The good work is evidently progressing in Forsyth county. Meeting at Boyer's School House last Saturday. Meetings at twro points Monday and yesterday to organize Clubs in Lewisvilte-tow nsliip. CATAWBA RIVER CLUB A meeting of the Catawba River Farmers' Club was held at Whisen hunt's School House on the 10th inst. The Club was organized by electing T. P. Cloninger, President, Abel Seites, Vice President, J. W. Mowser, Secretary, A. J. Carpenter, G. W. Seaboch, Marshal and an Ex exutive Committee consisting of the President, Secretary and the follow ing members; J. F. Moore, John Huffman and others. John Robin son, Esq., delivered an interesting talk on the necessity for organiza tion among Farmers. The first Sat urday in each month was adopted as the time for the regular meeting of the Club. Twenty-six members were enrolled. The subject for dis cussion at the next meeting is " The Raising of Tobacco." The monthly meetings of the Club will continue to be held at the same place. Pied mont Press. Farmers' Meeting. The farmers in the vicinity of Tyro, in Davidson county, propose to have a meeting at that place on Saturday, the 8th of May, at 1 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of forming a Far mers' Club, and consulting together for their common good. The editor of The Progressive Farmer has been kindly invited and will be present to deliver an address. addr IN WAYNE COUNTY. The meeting of the farmers of this section to be held in the Court House here on Saturday, for the purpose of organizing a Farmer's Club promises to be a largely attended occasion, as we hope it will be ; for it is exceed ingly to be desired that our farmers necome more unuea in action aim consultation for their common good Let. pvp.rv farmer of this section aJ tend the meeting next Saturday- (roldsboro Araus. t ORGANIZATION OF THE GUIIJ FORD COUNTY HORTICULTUR AL SOCIETY. Pursuant to previous advertise ment several parties interested i growing and shipping fruit, met m Greensboro, Saturday, April 10th, and made a temporary organization by electing A. M. Smith, president, and J. C. Lindley, secretary. Among others who were present by proxy and in person were W. II. McCor niiek, large grower of fruit, J. Tan Lindley, large grower, who is also president of the State Horticultural Society, J. S. Ragsdale and J. R. Ragsdale, large growers, Ward & Young, large growers, and others. The interest was fully discussed re lating to the consignment of fruit, manner of handling, the proper sorts to plant for success, in marketing fruits from this section, the very im portant subject of rates of shipments py express companies, &c. The meet ing adjourned to meet at the court house in Greensboro, on Saturday, April 24th, at 10 o'clock, and it is earnestly urged on all people who are the least interested in growing or shipping fruit in any way to meet arV the court house on the above date, -when permanent officers will be Alected and all matters of interest willjbe fully brought before the or ganization. Greensboro Patriot. CAUTION TO THE WORKING PEO- PLE OF N. C. Raleigh, N. C, April 1G, 188G. It having come to my knowledge officially that certain persons are holding public meetings in different parts of the State in the name of the Knights of Labor and teaching com munistic and revolutionary doc trines, contrary to the principles cf our order and dangerous to the peo ple of our common country, this is to warn all people against them, as they have no authority to speak for the Knights of Labor or to call any meeting in its name. All regular organizers are furnished with cre dentials from the office of the gen eral secretary-treasurer, which are ginned by T. V. Powderly, G. M. W., aiicL Jb redenck Turner, G. S. T., and a blue printed seal, and any person who uyes not display this document has no Viuthority to organize assem blies ofiour order. John R. Ray. State Organizer. All State papers will do the work ing people a service by giving this a place in their columns. THE FORERUNNER OF A COL A ONY. Mr. W. H. Higgins, a capitalist from Sunbury, Pa., arrived at the Central yesterday, and during the day he made the acquaintance of several of our prominent citizens, with whom he discussed the object of his visit. Mr. Higgins is here to secure a loca tion for a colony of farmers from Pennsylvania, and the colonists rep resented by Mr. Higgins are all pro vided with money enough to Ibuy land, stock and farming implements. The" do not desire to lease, but to buy. Charlotte Observer. MR. HEWITT'S TARIFF BILL. What is known as the Hewitt tariff bill, and which has been re ported to the House of Representa tives, is not, as the Baltimore Sun says, "all that the friends of reform could wish," but is such as it is thought a majority of the House can be induced to vote tor. The tree list S made to include wool, flax, hemp, mber, salt and fish. There is a re duction of ten per cent, on sugar, and a moderate reduction in textiles or a high grade. Coal, and the met- s, are untouched. The total re action of tax effected by the bill Is variously estimated at from $12, 000,000 to $20,000,000. PECANS. There is a man in Santa Rosa coun ty, Florida, who has supported his family upon the produce of a few pecan trees. Less than fifty years ago, a man walking over the ground where these trees are, had in his Sockets some pecans sent him from louisiana, and thinking they might grow, made holes in the sand with his cane and dropped in each hole a nut covering it with his foot. The forest thus planted is now more val uable than an orange grove, yielding a better per cent to the owner. The pecan is a hickory tree and the tim ber about as good as the shell bark hickory. It can be grown in all Sarts of the South with profit. Luke llackmer, Esq., Dr. J. J. Summerell, and perhaps others about town, have pecans growing on their premises, though the trees are yet too young to bear fruit. Salisbury Watchman. A few years ago there were sev eral pecan trees, an English walnut and two or three almond trees grow ing in Salem, all of which bore fruit WINSTON, N. C, APRIL 21, There were sold to our manu facturers during the month of March, $52,119,26 worth of revenue stamps. Durham Recorder. W. F. Snider is quite a success ful truck farmer. He has a farm of about 1 acres near the city, in cab bage, that promises well. Last year he cleared $250 on this same land, and the year before $300. Charlotte Chronicle. A Wilkes county man, Dr. D. P. Smith, is now living in the Sand wich Islands, is Lieutenant of the Kings body guard and "has influ ence at court." He is now in this country on a diplomatic mission. Charlotte Chronicle. - D. A. Bodenhamer has pur chased the feed and sale stables be longing R. A. Jordan, and will at once convert it into a first-class liv ery stable. The stables will be un der the management of his brother, Jacob Bodenhamer, now of High Poi nt. Kernersville JTeics. C. B. Brooks has purchased a half interest in the Salem Paper Mill. Chas. Reynolds, by recent improvements, has more than doub led the size of his tobacco factory, near Sunny side, and has put in a new boiler and engine. Salem Press. We are informed by one of our cotton-buyers that the number of bales of cotton sold in Concord since last September exceeds that sold for a whole year previous to that time from September, 1884, to September, 1885. There is still in the country much cotton that is unsold. Con cord Times. Capt. Lee, who has a contract on the Boston and Southern Con struction Company's railroad from Shelby to Rutherfordton, dropped dead yesterday morning while wash ing his face. He was preparing to go forth to commence the labors of the day, when the sudden summons came. Charlotte Observer. Mr. A. A. Springs and family, of Winston, N. C, arrived here last week. These good people will make Hillsboro their home, and we extend to them a hearty welcome. Mr. Springs well engage in merchandis ing and in manufacturing plug to bacco, with Mr. L. C. H. Brown su perintending the factory. Hillsboro Observer. We venture the assertion that Goldsboro has a hen that will take the cake from any other hen in the State. She. belongs to Capt. J. J. Robinson. She has raised fifty chick ens this year, from spring to spring, besides bringing in one dollar and a half to her owner for eggs and she ain't anj'thing but a common piney woods hen either. Goldsboro Argus. Mr. Jas. B. Lanier is building a large distillery, with a capacity of 50 bushels of corn per day, which will produce 200 gallons of whiskey. The new tobacco factory on Council street is going up rapidly, and will be completed by the time agreed upon 15th of May. The tobacco factories here will employ in the neighborhood of four hundred hands, this season, which is double the number so engaged last year. Salisbury Watchman. Mr. Frank Younts is building a new house on his farm in Cotton Grove Township. Two persons met in the drug store one day last week. One was 11 years old and weight 152 pounds, the other was 42 years old and weighed 95 pounds. Five orphans t arrived at the Baptist orphanage at Thomasville, last Friday night and one Saturday night. There are 25 children at the orphanage now and more are daily expected. A correspondent in the southern part of the county says that he fears that the peach crop is a failure. .We are glad to know that the contrary opinion is held by a good many others. Davidson Dispatch. 1886. Miss Lucy E. Mcintosh, daugh ter of Mr. Nicholas Mcintosh, of Wolf Pit township in this county, was severely bitten on the hand last Saturday, 10th inst., by a dog which is thought to have been afflicted with rabies at the time. Rocking ham Rocket. The quantity of lumber, and va rious kinds of machinery daily pass ing over the railroad at this place to different points of Western North Carolina, indicate a rapid increase in enterprises in our section. The village of Clyde station, twenty-five miles from Ashe vi lie, has five nice new churches in and near the place. This indicates well the char acter of the people who inhabit this pleasant vale. Asheville Citizen. The belled buzzard was seen near town last week. This buzzard was caught several years ago in Caldwell county, a bell was fastened upon it and it wTas turned loose and has been heard from occasionally in different parts of the State. It flew over Newton last Thursday. The work of erecting the buildings of the spoke and handle factory is pro gressing rapidly. Mr. Weedon thinks he will start ten or twelve shuttle block saws next wreek. Nation En terprise. Hon. R. Y. McAden, president of the Spartanburg and Asheville railroad, yesterday informed an Ob server reporter that trains will be put upon regular schedule between Spartanburg and Asheville, on June 1st. Gaston county, through Mc- Aden's mills, is supplying plaids to South America. A large shipment of plaids from these mills was made to that country last week, in addi tion to shipments of. plaids to New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Bos ton and Cincinnati. Charlotte Ob server. The proposed Presbyterian church at Blowing Rock it is hoped to have ready for worship by the first of July. -Mr. E. P.Miller had the misfortune to lose, last week, his thoroughbred Jersey Bull, "Gov ernor Jarvis." Mr. John M. Bern hardt, who was at Blowing Rock last wTeek, reports the snow 4 inches deep on top of the mountain Friday morning, the thermometer as low as 20 degrees above zero and the wind howling. At 100 yards on this side there was no snow at all. Lenoir Topic. Mr. A. T. Summey has placed on our table a limb of a peach tree full of bright healthy bloom. And so they are found here and there throughout the town and country. But unfortunately they are in a hopeless minority. Prof. C. D, Smith wTho is at present in the city, showed us yesterday beautiful spec imens of spinal found in Haywood county, and cut in Philadelphia. They are of a rich orange color, pos sessing a rare brilliancy, and sparkle like the diamond and are more at tractive even than the beryls and aqua marines before shown us by the same gentleman. Asheville Citi zen. The gin house and saw mill of Thompson & Blackwood, near Bell wood, caught on fire last Wednes day night. The ginhouse and gin were totally destroyed, involving a loss of about $500, with no insur ance. During the trial of crimin al cases Judge Avery sentenced four prisoners to the penitentiary: John Duncan, burning mill, twenty years; Seborn Jones, larceny, two yearsj; G. W. Parker, forgery, three years, and John Champion, false pretences, four years. -The large tobacco factory of Bostic Bros. & Wright will commence work on Monday with about forty hands, which num ber will be increased in a few days to sixty. This firm expects to man ufacture from ; 150,000 to 200,000 pounds of tobacco this yeai Man gum, Webb & Oats will also, com mence work on Monday with a some what smaller force of hands. They expect to. manufacture 100,000 , lbs. of tobacco this f season. Shelby Sew Era. ' ' , v; . No. 11. Work is --progressing upon the new hotel at Warm Springs, which will be when completed one of the handsomest buildings in the South. Eighty-six feet of the county bridge at Enterprise factory in Ran dolph was washed away by the re cent freshet. The authorities of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley R. R. contemplate building a branch from some point on that road to a point on Deep river which will be most convenient to the irreater num- ber of the river factories. A man by the name of Charles Homey, who lived about seven miles from here, on Deep river, committed suicide Wednesday morning by hanging himself to the limb of a pine tre3. He was in bad health and tempora rily insane. High Point Enterprise. Messrs. Ramsey & Maxwell be gan work for the season, last Mon day morning, at their tobacco facto ry on east Broad street. They start ed with 80 hands, which number they will increase on May 1st to 120. While everybody was away from home, Tuesday, the residence of Mr. Man. Combs, of Concord township, caught .fire, and was entirely con sumed with all its contents. Mr. Combs' crops of wheat, as also his bacon, were in the house, and were burned. Steele's tobacco factory with Turner's machinery in it has been rented by two of the livest business men in this town, who will, May 1st, begin the manufacture of plug tobacco there. The papers were all signed yesterday, and the gentlemen who are to manufacture placed an order, yesterday afternoon, for 100,000 pounds of leaf. States ville Landmark. Tuesday night of last week the Young Men's Local Option Club was organized with a membership of one hundred and twenty-five. -The people of Person county are thor oughly aroused and are strongly in favor of the railroad from Durham to Lynchburg via Roxboro and South Boston. W. G. Couch, of Orange county, is this week putting his crop of sweet potatoes on the market and says the crop will bring him $400 in cash. He has ten barns of tobacco that he don't think, will bring as much as the potato crop will. Wednesday night of. last week the academy at Caldwell in Orange county was burned and with it some 6,000 lbs of tobacco, the property of Mr. H. Y. Harris. The tobacco was stored on the sec ond floor while the first floor was being used for school purposes. The loss on the building was $500, on to bacco $1,000. No insurance. It is said to have been the work of an in cendiary. Durham Plant. Rumor has it that Greensboro , is to have a new tobacco warehouse. The oat crop in south Guilford is reported a failure. Forty . new bills were found by the grand jury at the Federal Court last week. Mr. Warren Davis, a highly respect ed citizen of Mt. Airy, dropped dead last week. Joe Lawson, a negro barkeeper at Reidsville, shot and killed Alex. Simpson, also colored. Lawson is now in jail. The cele brated Brower insurance cases, and ; all other civil cases were continued , until the next term of the Federal . Court. Messrs. E. P. Wharton and Frank Pugh's bid of $3,200 for building the new market house has been accepted and the building will be completed about the first of August.- -Strange to say that the last term . of the -Federal Court, : which convened here on the 5th. inst., did not sentence a single, man to the penitentiary., Reform is tak ing its course.- -The Planter's Bank, with an authorized capital of $200,000, at Mt. Airy, is now open and ready for business. J. M. Math ews is president, Winston Fuller, ; vice-president, G. D. Henslev cash ier. yAt the last term of the Fed eral court here there were 32 con victions and 8 acquittals. Sixteen parties were imprisoned in the coun ty jail for terms ranging from one to four months. Greensbdro Patriot r . . -'" ' ' 1 " .
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