The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-17

county are wide open not single
prisoner therein. Our jail has been
clear Of prisoners since last court,
there being but one then.-Person
County Courier. u ''2a'i'5+ ~
'tr' 1t is reported that in Buncombe
county a trapper found @bee tree"
It contained column of honey four
feet in diameter and ninety-five feet
higb.- Charlotte Democrat - EtH#~
learn from the Greenville
Reflector that some of the farmers
of Pitt county discouraged with the
low price Of cotton are going to
try tobacco this year. If they sue
ceed others who are watching them
will follow. ua y..Hrns -s4nlfaau-
The Commissioners Of Ruther-
ford county have signed the $780,
900 Of bonds voted to the railroads
and placed them in the hands of
Col. Frank Coke, trustee. Ne,oton
Enterprise. ...,.
I2 "A new cotton factory is to be
erected on the Catawba River,
about ten miles from Charlotte, on
the site of the old Rock Island
Wooden Mills. The proprietors are
/ Capt. John r. Erwin and s. III.
Hilton, ESQ Charlotte Democrat.
THE Monroe Enquirer says that
Mr.. James Belk, whose remarkable
longevity we spoke about a few
days since, he having died at the
age of Ill years, was native of
Union county, and that the fact of
his age is we'll authenticated. 2n.a
From the beginning of the
year up to this time, the record of
the Registers office shows that a
greater number Of mortgages have
been registered than in any SIM
liar period in the history Of the
county. -AsheUiUe Adudnce. 20 ~
The North Carolina Coach
Material Company is a new corpo-
ration recently organized under
the laws of North Carolina, with
capital stock of $5O,0OO. 1t has
purchased the business and plant of
the Greensboro Handle Works"
Greensboro North State. w ,ot*
The Winston National Banks
represent an, aggregate, capital of
$1,664,439.O8, and otherwise make
showings highly creditable to the
management Of the institutions and
the business interests of Winston
Salem which they represent
Union Republican. lt ...sa,.t.a a,.a
Mr.. Calvin Pitt, of Edgecombe
county, killed a hog the other day
that weighed 823 pounds. we are
informed Mr.. George P. Sugg and
Mr.. Martin Gardner, who live in
the same neighborhood, killed two
some time since, that weighed re-
spectively, 7O1 and 722-Wslson
AdUnnce. ~ afE.#@" Is i~ra.5H
The price Of meat is keeping
even pace with that Of cotton in it's
fluctuations; one day it is up and the
next III Is uOWu. koO lOHS DIS our
farmers look to the West for their
meat supply, instead of raising their
own s'hog and hominy," SO long will
they be exercised over the market
quotations. ''-Goldsboro, ,Argus.
The fine, stallion belonging to
Mr.. Johnson of. New Hope town
ship, fell and broke his neck few
days days ago while playing about
the lot. Rev. A. H. Perry tells
us that the dogs got among his
beautiful little flock of sheep few
nights ago and killed all his lambs
but one and wounded that. They
also killed five out Of nine improved
ewes. This was all done in one
night Chatham Home. Is,d "a
The State Superintendent of
Public instruction, Hon. s. NJ. Fin
ger, reports that in the sixty-fve
counties of the State from which
he has information, there are thirty
Thousand pupils on the rolls of the
private schools, academies and col
feges.l This indicates number for
the whole State, as great probably
as forty-five or fifty thousand, which
is nobad showing. Raleigh Ns'csaad
| Observer. ljiHoi115ssf f--tssf,I esii
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