The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-13
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soon to be married.
The Review says ReidsVille is red not
for another railroad.
Three thousand dollars hiss been col
lected for the soldiers home.
The Monroe Register is in favor OF an
Alliance cotton factory at Monroe.
It is believed that a valuable gypsum
bed has been found in Fayette vile.
The Chatham Record reports the wheat
and oat crop in that section as being very
poor.
The Free Press says corn has not been
so scarce before in that section for sew
eral years.
Another company has been formed at
Salisbury to work the granite quaries in
that vicinity.
The Baptist University located at Raj
eigh, will be opened about the first Of
September, next.
Five negroes were put in the peniten-
tiary last week, all of them citizens OF
Granville county.
Mr.. Geo. Vanderbilt is spending four
million dollars on his recently acquired
estate in Buncombe.
John Inman and other parties are con-
templating the erection of two half million
dollar hotels in Asheville.
Mr.. Joe Thomas, of Arson county, has
become insane and has been carried to
the asylum at MOrganton.
Hon. G. W. Sanderlin, State Auditor,
will deliver the address at the Salem
Female Academy commencement.
An effort is being made to organize a
land and improvement company at
Greensboro with a capital of 100000.
The ReviaeU hears that the ReidsviIle
Times is to be reinforced by capital and
run as an aggressive prohibition paper.
The Gold Leaf says that four of the
nine prisoners who recently escaped from
Jail at Henderson have been r~e-captured.
Asheville is talking about building a
dummy line on her streets. Concord
was the first town in the State to build
one.
The Mecklenburg Times says it begins
to look like Capt. S. B. Alexander would
be nominated for Congress by acclama-
ton.
Rocky Mount Pb@nir: Miss Temp
Britt, who had been sick for about a
month, died on Monday morning at 4
o'clock.
The Sanford ErpreSS says that Mr..
Gavner Watson, of that vicinity, has dis
covered a rich gold and copper mine On
his land.
The residence of Mr.. D. F. Stevenson,
Of StatesvilIe, was destroyed by fire n
night last week. Most of the furniture
was saved.
A canning factory will be started in
Raleigh during the present month. 1t
will can both vegetables and fruit on a
large scale.
A citizen of stokes county who was
wounded in the leg during the war had
the wounded member amputated at Win
ston last week,
Capt. J. NJ. w. Alexander, of No. l
township, Cabarrus county, was seriously
hurt one day last week by being thrown
from a wagon.
Durham Sun: The Burlington bank,
a branch of the Morehead bank, of this
place, will open for business at Burling-
ton tomorrow.
W. J. Peele, Esq, of Raleigh, will de-
liver the literary address at the closing
exercises of the Sanford High School on
the 23d of May.
A thief entered the store of Mr.. Nc
Gee, of Seven Springs, Lenoir county, a
few days ago and helped himself to a
quantity of goods.
Lee Hawkins was drowned at Eliza
beth City a few days ago. He was in
toxicated, it is thought, and fell over
board from a boat.
A son of Mr.. W. G. Broadhurst, of
Lenoir county, was bitten by a snake a
few days ago A pint of whiskey coun-
teracted the poison.
Mr.. Palmer, amerchant at PalmersvilIe
in Stanley county, lost 500 in a registered
letter. This makes the third lost by citi-
zens of that section.
The Randleman manufacturing com
pany has put in new looms and is now
prepared to turn out 6,OO0,O 900 yards of