The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-25

A young Spectator was roDoeo OF
$l.36O by a woman in AsheVll4e.
IA sand bank caved in and buried two
children near Wilmington last week.
J. e.. Lenhardt, of Lowell, Castor
county, made an assignment last week.
The Central Hotel, of Charlotte, served
ripe strawberries in abundance last week.
Four convicts were received at the
p~enitentiary last weekfrom Ireden county.
The Davidson Dispatch is advised that
there will be frost on the Sd and 4th of
May.
DIR. R. NJ. Norman, of Lumberton, has
mad. an assignment for the benefit of his
crditors. la
Drummers report business better in
Eastern North Gaolina than they had
expected t. find it.
j. P. Davis, the murderer of Mr.. John
A. Horton will be hung in ,Pittsboro on
the 28th of next month. . .
Eighty white emigrants from Union
county passed through Charlotte, last
Wednesday, for Arkansas. =.
Melville D. Landon, otherwise known
as cell Perkins," lectured at Wake Forest
on tn evening of the 18TH :
- Capt. E. R. Page, ex-member of the
House of Representatives from Jones
county, is seriously i'll at his home.
mThere are 24O ministers in the North
Carolina Co ference Of the Methodist
Church and 90, 900 church members.
There are rumors that Mr.. Julian s.
Carr intends building an u~ndenomina-
tional college at Durham for females.
Efforts are being made to defeat the
confirmation of A. W. shafer, whe has
been appointed postmaster of Raleigh.
The Iorganton Heald learns that the
snow wasa foot deep at the "Old Fields
of Toe" in Mitchell, week before last.
Rev. DIR. W. H. Bobbitt lies very i'll at
the residence of his son-in-law, Rev. G.
W. Byrd, at Fayetteville. His condition
is critical.
Miss Connie Pfohl has resigned as
teacher in the Salem Academy and her
place has been filed by Miss Jane Ward,
of Raleigh.
h. A. Williams has been appointed
master of trains on the G. G. Il A. and G.
& G.. roads, vice Mr.. Nichols declining
the position.
Negotiations are in progress for a large
increase of the capital stock and in the
operations of the Wetmore Shoe and
Leather Company.
After regaining his Office Of deputy
collector for Wilkes county and holding
itfour days, the head of MI. E. o. Msstin
wa again chopped of.
The Charlotte NesUs says that twelve
hundred jurors have been summoned to
the next term of Davidson court to try
the lynchers of Berrier.
The gin house of Nj. r. A. Brown was
burned last week near Concord together
with 20 Oales of cotton, four tons of acid
and 1000 bushels Of cotton seed.
The News says that three Mecken5urg
county township constables were run in
by the Charlotte police one day recently.
They got too much painted liquor.
The Sampson Light Infantry has pre-
sented Capt. Faison with a beautiful gold
headed cane. The presentation speech
was made by D. B. Nicholson, Esq.
The TOain- City Daily denies the state
ment that Mr.. Pepper, a Prominent Win
sion merchant has been sued by a young
lady for breach of promise of mirage.
Bob. Kerns, colored, plead guilty to
manslaughter in the criminal court at
Charlotte last week. He was on trial for
the murder of Sam Davidson, also colored
Prof. Edison has engaged rooms in
Charlotte for n year. He says he came
here because ne considers North Carolina
the richest mineral country in the world.
The Savings Bank at Goldsboro, after
two years existence, has closed accounts,
paid of the depositors, and gone out of
business, Lack of patronage is the
cause.
~.
Mr. Jno. Kirk, Of Montgomery county:
recently bought the Tebe Saunders gold
mine for $4,000. He has since sold a
half interest to a New York Syndicate
for 100000.
Archie Brinkley, a soldier from North
Carolina, recently died in California. He
left a small estate which goes to a sister,
living somewhere in North Carolina, if
she can be found.