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

The English Syndicate has
given up the intention to build a
railroad from Wadesboro to Sails
bury via Albemarle- Concord Times
w. D. Snyder reports chicken
with no bones in it's legs, and says
that as long as it sits down it is all
right. But when it attempts to
walk it is all wrong.-Dduie Times.
Durham will have water works.
No doubt about it. Large quantities
of machinery are here. Seventy five
hands have been employed, and the
work is being pushed with energy.
Durham Plant.
The second crop of raspberres
and June apples seems to be getting
ripe hereabouts. We have in our
office a fine bunch of raspberries
and we'll developed June apple,
ripe and mellow HendersonvHe
Times.
-Seventy-fv lots have been sold
at Walnut cove it is said, and five
steam sawmllls are saving in that
neighborhood and cannot meet the
demand fast enough, though some
of the mills saw 10000 feet of lum-
Der per day.-Donbuy Reporter.
We learn through private let
ter that there will be two corps of
engineers On the Lynchburg road in
IA few days and that meeting will
be held in South Boston at an early
day to for conference with the
North Carolina directors-Rorboro
Courier.
Mrs. Julia Mitchell, in Caswell
county, near Ridgeville has turkey
hen that is carrying u brood of tur-
keys, chickens and partridges. There
are seven young partridges with the
gang. MI. w. G.. Adams is just
from there and saw the whole covey.
-Webster's Weekly.
Last year Capt. }. f. Parrish
sold 9,O62, 1000 pounds of leaf to-
bacco-The graded school con-
tinues to boom. The interest in
the school is very great. The pupils
in attendance number over 400. Yet
there are several hundred more who
ought to be there.-Duvh0m Recorder.
Mr.. Wiley George; of Ivy, Mad
ison county informs us Of a vi cid
Of wheat that has not many equals
in this section. He sowed bushels
of wheat From the product he has
just cleaned up 12O bushels. OfIthe
four bushels one was sowed the f rst
Of September 1t ripened earlier
and was cut and threshed earlier,
and the yield was 38 bushels
AsheoiUe Citizen.
The grading of the Charleston
Cincinnati and Chicago railroad be-
tween Blacks and Rutherfordton is
now completed and a large force of
hands are now pushing the work on
the water course crossings which
will soon be finished A large
quantity of steel rails is expected
daily The Carolina Central Com
pany will next week begin the bridge
over the Second Broad River. Tel
egraphic connection with Ellenboro
will be established in few days.
Shelby Ne,U Era.
The ordnance which has been
used in this internal revenue district
in the past, by raiders in enforcing
the revenue laws, has been this week
shipped back to Washington from the
collectors office, no further use being
found for it. Mr.. |. NJ. Overcast
has been raising hemp in his garden
in small way, and brought us the
other day a plant Of this seasons
growth which was II feet high. He
has been growing hemp for the sake
of the seed, but the birds are so fond
of the seed that he has had little
success in saving any.-ln the
vicinity of Cross Roads Church,
Yadkin county, on Monday, 18th
inst, a young man by the name of
Lakey, shot and mortally wounded
J. Cooley, with whose daughter he
was running away. Cooley objected
to the marriage and pursued the
couple. When he overlook them
Lakey shot him inflicting a wound