The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-25

upon vegetables and %frniE>, but will DO
much to save small grain from the raVages
of insects. t.' :
J. D. Austin, a merchant at Polkton,
has made an assignment. He owes sew
ersl Charlotte firms small amouuts, so the
Chronicle says.
Monroe is moving to build a cotton fac
tory. Union is a greet cotton growing
county and a factory there well managed
would pay well.
The fourteen-year old step daughter of
Samuel Lawing, of Paw Creek township,
Mecklenburg county, was badly burned
on the 10Th inst.
A woman named Phoebe Wilson, in
Harnett county, is one hundred and nine
years old, has been twice married, and
has 800 descendants.
A Stanly county man married three
times, is the father of thirty-two children
eleven by his first wife-nine by his
second-fourteen by his third. H
A merchant of Fayetteville tells the
Chronicle that 1925, 900 have been invested
there in the last six monthsi in small manu-
features. The old town is booming!
Over 1,l75,OOO feet of lumber were
sold in Greensboro during the month OF
February. Over {, OOO,O 900 feet, it is esti-
mated, will be sold during the present
month.
A fire at Thomasville on the night of
the goth destroyed a number of business
houses. All the buildings and stocks of
goods were insured for t%wo-thirds of their
value.
The Durham Globe says: We have it
in definite shape at last. Mr.. W. Duke
will give Trinity College $4,000, and
Mr.. J.. s. Carr has given the site that cost
him $4,000.
The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail
road bridge over the Cape Fear river at
Fayetteville is in many respects the finest
and most substantial structure of its kind
in the South.
The shirt and drawers factory, operated
in this city by Messrs. John Rodderick &
Co., is one of the new Industries of
Fayetteville, and starts off welL.-Fayette-
viHe Observer.
The Charlotte NeoOs of the 18th says
that a little child of Joe Henderson, who
lives on Mr.. Lewis Sloop's place, in Nal
lard Creek township, was burned to death
last Monday.
W. R. Crawford, Jr., was elected Stew
ard of the Raleigh Insane Asylum and
Mrs. Annie Goodloe was chosen matron.
The salary of the steward was reduced
from $1,000 to $3.50. J
The S>atesviIle Landmark says that DR..
J. J. Mott and Messrs. J. ], and J. G.
Sullivan and G.. S. Daniel have determ-
ined upon the building of a roller process
-four mill in that place.
The Reidsville correspondent of the
Danville Register reports that the brick
yards of Reidsville are unable to supply
the town with brick and they are now
5eing shipped from DanviEie,
The Chatham Record says that two
negro children were burned to death on
the farm of Mr.. Mike Crawford, in Hadley
township, last week. Mother and father
went away. Same old sad story.
The town of Oxford has assessed the
two railroad companies having depots
within the corporate limits an annual taxa
tion-Oxford and Henderson $4,000, and
the Oxford and GAINESVILLE $4,000.
Mr.. Frank Fries, of Salem, N, c., con-
templates erecting a large cotton factory
at Madison, N. c., this being the present
terminus of the Madison branch of the
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad.
Mr.. Joseph Swindell, of North Caro-
lima, who has been policeman at the
national capitol for some years, has been
removed and Mr.. Brewer has appointed
one of his constituents t. fill the place.
Winston is to have a fertilizer factory.
Mr.. R. J. Reynolds, one of the Twin
City's largest tobacco manufacturers, is at
the head of the enterprise. The fertilizer
will be made of tobacco stems, phosphates,
etc.
J. II. & R. L. Holt, managers of Glen
coe and Carolina Cotton Mills, of Ala
nance county, have purchased a site for
a one hundred thousand dollar factory and
will erect the same at once at Burlington,
N. G.
The WaynesviIle Courier complains of
the mails in Western North Carolina.
There never was a time when the people