The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-25

Of Wheat from the West, and Peanuts.
al d Cotton Seed from the South,
A shell road is being built at South
port
There are 81 inmates in the Shelby
poor house.
Fort7-two counties. of North Carolina
have, no fence law.
The Lutheran Seminary is Charlotte's
latest achievement.
The religious controversy at Charlotte
continues undated.
MI. J. N. Biggerstaf, of Forest City has
made an assignment.
Nj. Henry Fairly has been appointed
postmaster at Falrly's.
Two thousand five hundred Indians
live in North Carolina.
There are one hundred hands at work
on the canal at Weldon.
The Oxford Orphan Asylum has be
tween $50 and 300 inmates.
Mocksville now "sports" a private
telegraph line says the Times.
Capt. s. V. Pickens is building a street
railroad line in He~ndersonvilIe.
The average elevation of the State
above the sea,level is 600 feet.
Work will begin on the waterworks at
Henderson in about sixty days.
Governor Gordon will be commence
ment orator at Davidson College.
A wagon factory with a capital of $780,
OlO is to be erected in Greensboro.
The fruit crop has been damaged all
over the State by the recent freeze.
MI. Harris of Williamson has been ap-
pointed railroad agent at GAINESVILLE.
There is talk of renewing the mail route
between Southport and Little River.
The railroads of the State are estimated
as worth $40, 600, 900 to $l2, 100000.
Mrs. W. o. Green, of Franklin, has
passed away at the ripe old age of 80.
Gov. Holden has had another stroke of
paralysis, and is in a critical condition.
The Salisbury Presbyterians have re-
solved to build a new house of worship.
People of Halifax county are unable to
obtain help on account of the negro exc
dus.
Four hundred convicts are at work on
the G. F. & Y. v. Railroad above Mt.
Airy.
Winston is to celebrate the Fourth of
July and is taking steps to advertise the
town.
There are 1000 visitors at Asheville
who spend on an average six dollars a
day each.
Southport is attempting to live on the
same piece of land with a newly organized
brass band.
A storm in Reidsville Tuesday of last
week unroofed the bank and did much
other damage.
A Mrs. Chambers was accidentally shot
by her little son one morning last week
near Ashevil1e,
Marion expects to have a cotton factory
soon. Il is proposed to make the capital
stock 100000.
Rev. F. W. Eason, late of Fayetteville,
is now pastor of the First Baptist church
of st. Joseph, Mo.
Judge Spier Whitaker has rendered his
resignation as Chairman of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee.
The Baptist denomination in this State
gives upwards of $3O,OOO annually to
benevolent purposes.
Jesse Brown, who shot and killed Fora
Ann Harris, in Craven county, is to be
hanged On April 4th. y
Wake Forest College had the largest
representation at the Y. M. G. A. Con-
vention in Goldsboro.
Evangelist Fife conducted a meeting at
Concord last week, and a hundred and
fifty professed religion.
The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley is now
engaged in building a branch road to the
q~uarries near Mt. Airy
We learn that Mr.. T. J. Meacham will
soon commence manufacturing mattresses
in Kinston.-FTee Press.
Rev. A. W. Crabtree, of Longwood, has
added thirty members to his churches
during the past few months.
The Gazette says that the surveyors are
at work between Leaksville and Madison
on the Danville & East Tennessee Rail
road.
Rev. Jesse W. Siler has entered upon