The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

Two thousand visitors a,e at AsheVlue
justn5w. .1
Reedsvills wants to issue. bonds n
erect waterworks.
New cotton factories will soon be built
at Greensboro and at Davidson College,
Durham .G1o6s: The Golden Belt bag
factory does a business of over 100000
a year.
A $4,000 court house and four miles
of electric street railway are to be built in
Winston this spring.
The coal mines at Egypt in Chatham
county are now being worked, the output
amounting to 40 tons per day. Il.
Mr.. Venson w. Long, editor of the
Winston Sentinel has b en- elected Secre-
tary and Treasurer of the town of Win
ston.
The Graham Shoe Company of Ashe-
vile, says the Democrat has azcapital Of
$50 600 and turns out 800 pairs of shoes
per day.
Greensboro's boom seems to be phe-
nomenal. Real estate to the value of
800 600 has changed hands there within
the past few days. 49,: p rs.
A counterfeit den was discovered by
some boys near Raleigh in an old mill. A
man, who was in the mill, ran away and
escaped recognition.
The firm of Norris & Carter, of this
city, made an assignment on the 4th inst
The liabilities are estimated at $25, 600;
assets about $4,000.
Prof. Woodrow Wilson, a North Caro-
lin an and former student of Davidson
College, has been elected to a professor
ship in Princeton College, N. J.
In Rockingham, Friday, a freshet de-
stroyed the stone dam of the Robecdel
mills, causing a loss of $4,000. Two
hundred operatives are thrown out of
employment.
At Monroe, Monday, Haley Sehorn
pointed a pistol Gust for fun" at john
Medlin with whom he was playing cards,
when the trigger exploded aud Medlin
was instantly killed.
A young couple in Sampson county
were married on Tuesday. The lady's
name was Miss James Henry and that
of the groom was Mr.. Henry James.
Talk about condolences
Bryant Philips, Allen Philips and
George Burroughs, all white, citizens of
Chatham county, were arrested a few
days ago charged with constructing.
A detective nabbed them.
Henderson had a fire on the night of
the 4th. A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle
4 states that the stables of Mr.. Richard
u Switzerland were destroyed. Ten horses
and a car load of hay were burned.
In Lincoln county, Friday, an eight
year-old son of Pinckney Smith fell and
his teeth cut his tongue. Bleeding began
and it was impossible to stop it. In a
short while the child bled to death.
Some one fired into a street car in
Wilmington a few nights since, but
fortunately no one was struck. Two
policemen were on the Car and jumped off
and gave chase, but the rascal escaped.
The Wilkesboro Extension is now
complete to Rockford and the t~ransporta-
ton company have recently received the
road to that point. Regular trains will
run. through to that place in a short time.
A negro died near Whitakers recently
of a disease which the physicians pro-
nounced leprosy. The disease appeared
a short while after he slept in a blanket
which had been used on a diseased horse.
W. w. Kitchen, Esq, of Roxboro, who
is attending the Supreme Court, tells the
Chronicle that it is expected that the
Durham 4 Lynehburg Railroad will be
completed to Roxboro within thirty days.
The recent cold snap greatly damaged
the truck in the eastern part of the State.
Many of the pea vines, which were in
bloom, were ruined. Cabbages were
injured also, but the potatoes came out
al right.
The Durham Sun of the 9Th says: "Mr.
J.. P. feathers had his left hand badly
manged, two of the fingers being cut en-
tirely of, in a saw mill neal this place
this afternoon. DR.. Julian Smith attended
him and dressed his hand"
A special to the Charlotte Chronicle
says that on Thursday night White Caps
surrounded a boarding house two miles
from Rockingham and severely whipped
three women. two colored and one white.