The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-04

p1nnVlllG Cdu1C hCoA A~'S
FIRE one day recently.
Mr. Robert Oates, Jr., of Charlotte, will
mild a knitting mill at an early day.
Railroads run through all bit twelve Of
,be ninety-six counties in North Carolina.
# is believed that the Stokes county
tobacco crop is the finest eve grown
there.
ARRANGEMENTS nave been made whereby
-. street railway of Wilmington will run
by electricity.
The TiOin City Duly says that 245, 95l
,ornds Of tobacco was shipped from that
place last week.
It is thought that Gen. Manning is to
h. the appointee of collector of the port
Of Wilmington.
The Presbyterian O~rphansge is to be re-
voved from Charlotte to Barrium Springs,
Iredel county.
Saturday night in a fight in Madison
negro barber named Williams was killed
BY another negro.
J~onesboro Leader: John N. Sloan has
been appointed storekeeper and gauger in
the fourth district
Belgian blocks from a granite quarry
rear Mt. Airy are to be used in paving
the streets of Winston.
The charlotte knitting mill won the
gold medal at the Raleigh Fair for the
best exhibited underwear.
The Concord Standard tells of a pump
kin vine that grew inside a pumpkin
somewhere in that region.
The Franklin Times tells a yarn about a
partridge Matching a chicken and raising
it during the past summer.
MI. Chas. Eagle, of Cabarrus county,
was shot in the leg by unknown parties,
near Concord night last week.
The Murphy Scout says that Mrs.
Lillian Gould will eventually return from
Buffalo to reside there permanently.
A coIored fellow, Osborn Collins, died
of eating too many oysters in Durham
Friday night. They must have not been
Iipe.
Two trains on the R. & D. Road, at
Raleigh, coIlided last Tuesday and smashed
up things to some extent. No one was
hurt.
The Elizabeth City FLlcOn is after the
church members of the Fair Association
there for allowing gambling in the Fair
grounds.
The Oxford Land and Improvement
Company has decided to build a NAM
moth cotton factory at that place to
cost 800, 900.
A small house containing a bale of cot
ton was accidentally burned on the farm
Of Mr.. H. G. Watson, IN Richmond county,
afew days ago.
Roxboro is to have a new bank. 1t
will be opened on the 1st of November.
J. A. Long is President and J. S. Merritt
Vice President.
Mount Holly News: We have it from
areliable source that the talked-of spoke
and handle factory, for Mount Holly, is
an assured fact.
A Dallas, Tex, paper says that the peo-
pie Of that city are being held spell bonnd
BY the piano playing of Mrs. Jeo. Person,
Of North Carolina.
Some expert mineral men say that the
whole bed of Valley River in Cherokee
county, on eaca side is underlaid with
marble of different kinds.
A little negro was knocked off the track
oy a train on the Raleigh and CASTOR road
last week while trying to pull his dog off
the track. He was not killed.
We learn from the Rockingham Rocket
that a young mar by the name of Hart
accidentally shot himself through the
hand at Pee Dee a few days ago.
A Cleveland county farmer attempted
to steal a kiss from a married woman and
II cost him forty dolIars-a bale of cotton
for the ~ofense, yet he got no kiss.
IN the Durham FIRE, J. F. Slaughter,
cashier Of the Fidelity bank, escaped
'nrOngh a window by a ladder from his
slept.
Inc Copper Knob Company, after a
IsS' OF several years, has resumed opera
"on' at its mines at Gap Creek, Ashe
tounty' and is employing a number of
hands.
Aincolnton Courier: Bishop LYMAN
'OunFned eighteen persons at the Epis
OOPAI Church here last Sunday a week,
Il Ten OtharS IN De- Wy ID w."