The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-10

meets at Wilmington June 20-27.
A negro escaped from the Jail at Green
vile on last Sunday night a week ago.
T. T. Robinson, of Forest Hill, Cabarrus
county, was stricken with paralysis We'd
nesday.
Northern capitalists are to build another
2OO-room hotel at Asbeville, at a cost of
$4,000.
The judicial convention of the Raleigh
district has been called to meet at Smith
field July 1st
The Concord Standard says that Mr..
Monroe Dove, of Csbarrus, had cotton
squares on May 10th.
Charles Loven, of Morganton, and Miss
Carrie Adams, of Conover, were married
at the latter place Sunday.
T. F. Pierce, of Beaver Dam, Union
county, has been arrested charged with
making counterfeit money.
1t is expected that rack -laying on Mr..
Vanderbilt's roads from Asheville to
"Biltmore " will be completed in a few
days.
Tarboro Southerner: There is no ques-
ton that the crop prospects are very
bright, with possibly the exception of
tobacco.
The MT asles at Forest Hill seem to be
getting more severe. Several have died
recently from the effects, says the Con-
cord Standard.
Mr.. G. A. Camp, OF Scotland Neck, will
plant twenty acres of rice this season to
only two last year. He is satisfied that
it is a paying crop.
Architect Leary, of Charlotte, has been
awarded the contract to build Trinity
College at Durham. The buildings will
cost about $125,000.
SINNERS mill, at Greenville was burned
last Wednesday night. The Reflector says
there was insurance on the property to
the amount of 5000.
The Charlotte NeUs says that Mrs.
Jackson will spend the summer in Vir-
ginia with her grandchildren. She will
spend some time with Mrs. Mcclure at
her country residence.
Morganton Herald: There is, we are
glad to know, a bright prospect that Nor
canton will have an elegant opera hall
before the year closes.
w. T. Howard has been appointed
postmaster at Red Oak R. Brem at Swain
Quarter w. Q. Denton at Tito; J. 81.
Edwards at Battleboro.
Mr.. J. R, Moody was accidentally
thrown from his buggy Sunday and had
the misfortune to break his collar bone,
says the Windsor Ledger.
Morganton Het aid: There is, we are
glad to know, a bright prospect that
Morganton will have IN elegant opera
hall before the year closes. =
Henderson T0mahaVk: The old pupils
of Capt. John Digger, of Warrenton,
nave raised money to erect a monument
to his memory at that place.
Sam Cloninger, a boy about II years
of age, disappeared from his home near
Dallas about Easter and his whereabouts
are still unknown to his family.
Ike Williams, who was jailed at Raleigh,
charged with the murder of Lemuel
Bryan, has been released by Judge J. J.
Davis, on a writ of habeas corpus.
Mr.. J. E. Burns had a hand badly
mashed while coupling cars at High
Point, last Friday. He came here this
morning for medical treatment.-Patriot.
Walter Taylor, an employee in the fac
tory of Holmes & Miller, at Salisbury.
dropped dead while engaged in a fight
with a negro last Monday in that town.
The citizens of Poplar Tent, Cabarrus
county, will raise money to erect amonu-
ment in memory of the twenty dead SOL
diers buried in the cemetery at that
church.
Mrs. George Shaw, who was badly
burned by an explosion of a kerosene can
near Centre a few days ago, is not ex-
pected to live, as is learned from the
Patriot.
Wright Battle, colored, of Nash county,
wishes to announce himself a champion
boxer and to challenge any colored man
from any of the adjoining counties to a
prize fight.
Jim Cauthen, col, was committed to
Jail on Monday ca a charge of stealing a
sack of -four from Mr.. H. M. Broom's
store. He admitted his guilt, says the
Monroe Enquirer.