The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06


Rust has made its appearance on the
wheat in CASTOR county.
A movement is On foot to reclaim the
lowlands of the Roanoke.
Cyrus B. Watson, Esq, is the orator for
Memorial Day at Winston,
Whoopiug cough and forest fires are
raging in Sampson county,
Horace We all has been missing from
Asheviae since Thursday last.
Twenty-Five industrial enterprises are
actively at work at Gcldsboro.
The Atlantic Coast Line may build a
branch from Society Hill, S. G.
The farmers of BERTHE county will plant
large quantities of peanuts this season.
The capacity Of the Reidsville cotton
factory will be considerably increased.
Rocky Mount is now quite'a railroad
centre. Seventeen trains enter it daily.
Forest fires have done considerable
damage in Pitt county within the past few
days
Shipments ofstrawberries from Wayne,
lDuplin and New Hanover counties have
begun.
The ReidsviIe ReV5eaO says:ti is runored
that another cotton factory will be built
at that point.
1t is probable thai the Western Insane
Asylum at Norganton will soon be lighted
by electricity.
A monument is to be erected at War
renton to the memory Of the late Capt
John E. Drgger.
1t is reported, that 10000 herrings and
1000 shad we're caught at one haul afew
days ago in Berthe county.
Hon. Caas. N. .Stedmac will deliverthe
memorial address at the 10th Of May
celebration in Wilmington.
The Wilmington Messenger says that
Dunn, Harnett county, is the largest
town Of its age in the,State.
We learn from the Chronicle that Char
lotte is to have another first class hGtel
1t will contain about leo rooms.
The State Treasures report shows
that North Carolina received last year
81, 1884 for marriage licenses
A crazy negro man, aged eightysfve
years, was ruiz over and killed by q freight
train near Re;dsville Iest Friday.
Mr.. D. S. Waitt,.of Raleigh q dealer
in clothing, made an assignment for the
benefit of his. creditors LAST week.
The Arthur Arlington gold mine prop
erty in Nash county, was sold on the 10Th
to a northern .syndicate for $4,000.
The tab and bucket factory Of God
frey & Co., al Elizabeth City has been
destroyed by IRE; loss; over $26,000.
Horace Day and David Hooker, aged
d respectively thirteen and fourteen years,
, were drowned in Neuse river last week
G. S. Bradshaw, Esq, of Randolph,
IL will deliver the annual address at the
+Jonesboro High School commencement
Governor EogIe will be one of the
y Southern Governors to speak in Holly
wood cemetery, Richmond, on May Beth.
Mr.. Mitchell Currin, enc of the Oldest
citizens of Granville county, died on
Wednesday last, at the ripe old age of 80.
If James Gilmare, OF Lexington, had
lived until August he would nave been
100 years old. He died q few days ago.
S, Younts, a wealthy and aged mer-
chant and prominent citizen of PineviIle,
MeGkhnburg county, Nc, died on Sun
day.
,Josephus Daniels, the editor of the
Raleigh State Chron5&e, VII deliver the
commencement address at Graham Col
lege.
The. negroes of Elizabeth City have an
educational association at which they
/ discuss questions of interest to their
race.
Charlotte NeUs. Mrs. L. A. Bonney,
wife of Mr.. F. P. L. BOnney, died at
10:15 O'Clock this morning after a long
illness.
A ent with 5000 capacity has been
provided for the revival meetings which
Evangelist Bill Fife will begin at astonia,
May 4th
During the twelve months ending
March 81, 2O7 buildings were erected in
Wilmington, at an approximate cost of
$4,000.
John Ellis was tried at Lenoir on a
charge of ~assaulting a nine-year-old girl.
The evidence was insufficient and he was
disobarOnd