The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-08

Pitt county jail has tour insane IN
bates.
The Raleigh silver cornet band has
been organized.
Gold mines are being found in Union
md Arson counties.
The State Dental Association will meet
next year at Durham.
Raleigh already has six colleges and is
to have a university for girls.
Asheboro Courier: Corn is looking
finely and promises a good yield.
Concord is talking Of issuing $4,000
worth of bonds for street improvements.
A chewing gum factory is to be started
at Southern Pines: Moore county, N. G.
Three men, one of them a school teacher,
we're drowned at Morehead a few days
ago.
1t is reported hat the wagon works of
Mr.. Geo. E. Nilsson will be moved to
Winston.
The State guard now contains 1,54l
officers and p~rivates completely equipped
and clothed.
Work on the public building at Char
lotte is progressing finely. 1t will be
completed this year.
Col. John N. Whitford died at his
home in Jones county Thursday night.
He was 55 years old.
John Griffin and two of his grand chill
dren were killed by lightning IN Forsyth
county a few days ago.
Durham Globe: Durham has taken on
her former character of a hustling town,
and is going to make things hum.
Two boys, aged five and seven years,
were drowned in the Cashic river, near
Potecasi, last Saturday a week ago.
Mr.. J. A. Gruber, an old and well
known engineer on the Charlotte and
Taylorsville Railroad, died last week.
A man named Edmunds and another
named Bruner, were killed in a drunken
row near Pilot Mountain last Monday
W. L. Young, grocer of Salisbury,
made an assignment to Theo. F. Klutz
Wednesday last. Liabilities about $4,000.
1t is estimated that 35, 900 negroes have
left North Carolina the past year, the
majority of whom would be glad to get
back.
Henderson is organizing a land aud
Improvement compa ~. They have Sc
cured 1000 acres of land near the corporate
limits.
Parts of Mecklenburg county are very
dry. In some sections there has been no
rain of consequence in eight o. nine
weeks.
There are two Indians in the State
p~enitentiary. 1t is interesting to note
that only one Jew has ever served a term
there.
The cotton factory of Messrs. F. & H.
Fries, at Salem, caught fire a few days
ago, but was extinguished without serious
damage.
Laurinburg Exchange: After a very
prOtracted suffering, MI. J. G. McEschern
died this morning at the ripe old age of
70 years.
Chadbourn News: Our farmers in this
section feel proud of their harvest. Their
crops present at this season a magnificent
appearan .e.
Lon Bradshaw, of Harris, Rowan county,
was found dead near the distilIery of F.
H. Wallace, in Iredell county, last Sun
day a week ago.
The lighthouse to be built off Cape
Hatteras, on the North Carolina coast, is
to cost more than any similar structure
( ever built in America.
A man supposed to be insane shot a
negro fireman On the Soacoast Road at
J W~rightsville a few days ago. The negro
died in a few minutes.
, Harnett Courier: The reports from
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all over the country are that crops are
g better at this time than ever known at
this season of the year.
Concord Standard: Esquire WilIiford
has obtained subscriptions to the Confed-
crate monument fund to the amount of
s$485 in No. II township.
a The Charlotte News learns that the
white woman Sigman, of Newton, who
pran away with a negro man, has been ar
rested at Greenville, S. G.
Three small wooden buildings with
their contents were destroyed by fire in
Charlotte last Monday. Loss about
1880 with 500 insurance.
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