The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-15
State Stel,,s.

"A friend tells us that while in
the country the other day he saw a
lady 81 years Of age gathering
chinquepins. She seemed to be
having good H1lsboro o.
serUer.
-Thomasville farmers are making
some good tobacco in spite of the
unfavOrable weather. A few days
ago, in Mr.. D. T. Lambeth's store,
the editor saw some very fine speci-
mems of the gold leaf.-Davidson
Dispatch. ......
The farmers are busy cutting
and curing tobacco. We learn that
there has been great come out
in the weed on the hills, and we may
expect very good crop for the in
coming year.-ReidsUille Times.
The news from Eagle Mills
the largest-tobacco growing town.
ship in the county-is that the
crop is developing finely and that
cutting and curing will soon begin.
-iStatesrille Landmark.
Mr.. Elliott Whitehurst brought
us on Wednesday a sample stalk Of
tobacco of his experiment. 1t was
large-leaved and of delicate fibre
and looked good enough to eat
Elizabeth City Economist.
Mr.. J. w. Smith, of Chicod, tells
us of an ear of corn gathered on his
place the other day, the cob Of
which measured 81 inches in length,
81 inches in circumference and con-
tanned 941 grains. 1t is a peculiari-
ty all around GreenuiUe Reflector.
Hog cholera is prevailing Curri-
tuck, Hyde county. Tolomon Nor
than has lost 40 hogs.-A cannon
ball of 27 pounds, shot from the
river by the yankees, was found on
the farm of NJ Alligood recently by
negro grubbing.-W Washington Ga
zette. ......
In the burning of Sheriff Leo
nard's stables, Davidson county, on
the 1st instant, Jerry, the beautiful
black stallion owned recently by
Pfohl & Stockton of this city, per-
ished in the fames- Winston Re-
publican.
Mrs. Sallie Forster, of this
county committed suicide by shoot
ing herself through the head with a
revolver. She had been suffering
with fever which had affected her
brain. She leaves a husband and
five children.-Danbury Reporter.
"A man at Gold Hill was 700
feet down in the mine, he says that
he did not feel the earthquake. A
squad 400 feet down said there was
a terrible racket where they were,
and they called to be drawn up
Concord Times.
The work on the G. F. & Y. v.
R. r. bridges and Stokesburg is
being pushed with all rapidity.--
There are twenty odd carpenters
and workmen busy at work on six
new buildings north of the bridge.
-To,on Fork Ne,Us.
"A report reaches us Inat MISS
Wall, of the Lilesville neighborhood
was so terrified on the night of the
recent earthquake that she was
stricken speechless and has not yet
recovered the power of articulation.
-Wadesboro Intelligencer.
Mr.. P. A. Coulter, who lives
about miles south Of Hickory, has
recently cut the second crop of clo-
yer from four acre patch, which
yielded 12a bushels of clean clover
seed The first cutting was cured
for hay, and is worth more than the
crop of seed. The latter at the cur
rent price are worth $75. Estimat-
ing the crop at $3.50, the yield was
$40 per acre. Hickory Press.
There was a colored man in
town this week from Laurel Hill
township, asking aid from the county,
who is said to be ITO years old.
And 'aunt Ritter Covington,"
colored, is said to have been born
four years before the Declaration of
Independence, which, if true, makes
her now ia wears d.-ROckinghdn