The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-22

A mad dog was k lied on the streets of
Raleigh last Tuesday morning.
Nearly 1000, OCO feet of lumber were
used in Greensboro during May.
Lexington will soon be illuminat d by
twenty-six gasoline street lamps
Will Saunders was killed by ar un-
loaded pistol in { abarrus county.
The cultivation. of grapes is becoming
one of the chief interests of Wake county.
Wood Krider, the newly appointed
sheriff of Rowan county, is but % years
old.
Mr.. D. H. Reeves, of Clayton, Johnston
county, was killed by lightning on the
18th inst.
A typographical union was formed at
Asheville last Tuesday night with p
members.
The thermometer in Lexington has
lately frequently reached the 100 mark
in the shade.
The electric plant at Winston-Salem is
about ready and the railway will begin
operation soon.
DR.. Dixon will receive $4,000 as his
salary as President of the Greensboro
Female College.
The well known Shocco Springs in
Warren county are to be revived with all
the old-time eclat.
A scaffold fell with several carpenters
at Mt. Airy and one of them, w. A. Boil,
was fatally injured.
Geo. A. Thomson fell dead while fish
ing near Salisbury. He was afflicted
with heart disease.
The West End tennis club has been or
ganized at Winston with Clarence R.
Brown as president.
Monroe is to have cotton seed oil
mill. Nearly $4,000 have been sub
scribed for that purpose.
The homing pigeons, liberated here
last week, made the best time On record.
Says the Concord Standard.
1t is said that Mr.. J. A. Sanders, who
ran the excursion from Raleigh to Win
ston, made about $500 clear.
The Lenoir Topic says there is plenty
of wheat straw in Caldwell county, but
hardly a half a crop of grain.
The lady friends of the Wilmington Y.
NJ. c. A. have presented that institution
with a handsome upright piano.
1t is authoritatively stated that Father
Boyle has gone to Scotland where he
will enter a Trappist monastery.
The Troy Wdette says that one blast at
the Tebe Saunders gold mine last week
threw up 500 worth of gold"
Track on the w. N. c. R. R. has been
laid to within five miles of Murphy, and
it will be finished in a few weeks.
North Carolina will not be represented
at the London exposition, for the reason
that there is no desirable space left.
A Republican convention in Surry
county broke up in a row. A delegate
knocked the chairman down with a chair.
Rowan county has not had an ex-sherif
for fifty years, every sheriff for that
period having died in ofic e.-Landmark.
Oxford has granted the franchise for a
street railway to a corporation composed
Of Baltimore, Raleigh and Oxford bank
ers. "
South Greensboro, with a population
Of 5000 has had no census taken, and a
township in Guilford county had no emu
merator.
Raleigh Chronicle: Mr.. Calvin H.
Weathers died at his residence, 324 South
Blount street, yesterday morning, aged
65 years.
Sanford Express: 1t is reported that
some of the census enumerators of this
county have been ordered to do their
work over.
The North Carolina Tobacco Associa-
ton has announced that its next annual
meeting will be held at Morehead Citv
August 9TH.
The Methodists of HendersonvilIe have
sold their old church building to the
negroes who will remove it. A new one
will be erected.
ElmOre Weaver, the child that was in
jured by falling from a swing upon a
broken chair at Greensboro, died Wed
nesday evening
The late DR.. T. NJ. Jones had more than
5000 young ladies under his tuition dur
ing his lifetime. OF this number 493
were graduated.
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