The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-02

Four sailors have been arrested on the
charge of LARGE ny at Wilmington.
The Mt. Airy Granite Company ship
two carloads a day from their quarry.
It is said that the brown stone quarrles
near Durham are to be worked on a large
scale.
The Elizabeth City Falcon says there is
talk about improving the Dismal Swamp
canal.
Jno. McRae, colored, was killed by a
train at Cronly, on the G. G. Road last
week.
The no ell walters quarrelled about a
waitress at Asheville and one shot at the
other.
The tobacco crop in Stokes county is
said to be the finest ever known, up to
this time.
The Newton Enterprise is much exer-
cised about mad dogs. 1t says "kill the
dogs on sight"
Thirty-eight cases of typhoid fever and
two deaths are charged up against one
well in Asheville.
A negro attempted to burglarize3 the
house of Mr.. J. NJ. Martin, of Winston,
n night last week.
The Kinston Free Press reports COWS
dying in Leroir county from black tongue.
One man has lost ten.
The only tobacco stemmery in the
South is situated at Oxford, N. c., says
the Wilmington Messenger.
Several cases of meningitis have de-
ve!oped near Bethel, Pitt county. Several
deaths have resulted already.
Mr.. J. Van Lindley, of Pomona Nursery,
Guilford county, has just shipped 10000
young trees to Dayton, Ohio.
Elizabeth City will o vote on the
proposition to issue bonds in the sum of
$4,000 for local improvements.
Elizabeth City Caro1inian: IT'S the
"same story" but it is interesting-the
crop prospect the best in many years.
The Elkin town commissioner nave
fixed the liquor tax at $1,000. Nobody
had taken out license at last accounts.
Wilson Advance: Everybody talks
about the exceedingly fine tobacco that
the farmers of Wilson county are rails
ing.
Lincolnton Courier: Henry Cathy,
who we noted last week, had been run
ovar by buggy, died last Saturday morn
ing.
The water works people are expected
to arrive any day now and begin the
work of putting in the system.-Land-
mark.
Weldon NeUs: Twenty convicts six
teen mel and four women-were sent
down from the penitentiary to the farms
Monday.
The shops of Messrs Gee of Pennsyl-
vania are to be located in Charlotte. The
company is engaged in working Iredell
county for granite.
A negro woman, Gussie Ludwig, took
FIVE grains of morphine with suicidal in
tent at Charlotte last Tuesday. The doc
tors pumped it out.
The Oxford Day says: 1t is learned
here that DR.. VIM. Thorp, at his plantation
in Northern Granville, was throw from a
horse and severely hurt.
The farmers unite in the opinion that
the cotton crop prospect is materially
changed for the worse in the past four
days, says the Charlotte News.
The mad dog excitement in Catawba
county continues. The Newton Enter
prise of last week reported the death of
two horses from hydrophobia.
The Duke of Durham has bought two
acres of land on the west side of the south
end of French Broad avenue, Asheville,
for $3.50 and will improve it.
Tarboro Southerner: The rain is un-
favorable for cotton, delaying opening,
but worse on fodder, delaying pulling and
almost running that which is down.
Kinston Free Press: The continued
rains and the cold weather has caused
cotton to shed and rust. The prospects
however is still bright for big crops.
John L. Sullivan passed through the
city yesterday, en- route to New Orleans,
where ne will go in training to fight
reCer Jackson.-C Charlotte Chronicle.
score another for North Carolina.
Matt whites fine trotter, Mary spellman,
won Ine Dig lace at the Cape Charles
Falr, Virginia, last week. Time 2.244