The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

other negro who was standing at the
door.
Nashville Arsonaut:: Our farmers hav-
ing their time taken up with their tobacco,
hav' picked out very little cotton as yet.
The fields are white and need picking
badly.
We are pleased to inform our readers
that the latest information from the
French Broad Vally Railroad is ola very
encouraging nature, says the Brevard
CarOEinian.
There are now 200 convicts in the
p~enitentiary. Of these twenty-five are
engaged in the brickyards. The making
of brick is profitable and is done on an ex-
tensive scale.
F. T. Banks, who lives near Arrapahoe,
Pamlico county, was bitten by a rattle
snake while helping a neighbor to raise a
barn a few days ago. He is very low and
not expected to live.
Work on the Kenilworth Inn, in South
Asheville, is progressing rapidly. 1t will
be one of the most elegant hotels in the
South when finished, and will ,ost over
8 quarter million dollars.
The cotton gin of MI. Samuel Watts,
on the Louisburg road, four miles from
Raleigh, was burned together with six
bales of cotton, last Wednesday. Loss
about $1,000; insurance $500.
Charlotte Caronicze The white graded
school starts off with 662 pupiles enrolled,
on the third day of the session. Last
session at the end Of the fourth we, the
total enrolment wa only 6l3.
,Goldsboro Dispatch: Fish are running
heavy on the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad. This morning there were owe
200 boxes transferred over that road,
averaging from 100 to $50 pounds each
Mr.. H. H. Ransom, a former student
of Catawba College, who has many friends
in Newton, has been elected superintend-
ent of the city schools of Monroe, Louis
lana, at a salary Of 81, 8OO.-Newton
Enterprise
The Asheville Democrat tells a yarn
about a hog belonging to Mr.. Jas. Davis,
of Buncombe county, staying in a hollow
log 81 days without food OF water. The
suferings of the animal must have been
very great.
The COW of Mrs. Martha Hedgecock,
of Abbott creek, David, on county, leads.
There has been sold in the Winston mar
ket, from the 10th of May until the 10th
of September, flour months), 80 pounds
of her butter.
Just as we 60 to press we learn that in
a drunken row, Monday night, in the
vicinity of Adderholt's distiIlery, John
Hobbs was cut by John Jolly and will
probably die. Jolly has run away, says
the Lenoir Topic.
The verdict in the case of the State VS..
Wheeler, which was tried at the present
term of Randolph court, was manslaughter,
1t will be remembered that Wheeler
killed one of the guards at the stockade
about a year ago.
Two hundred and ffty-six convicts
have been sent to the Yadkin railway, or
which the State has taken large contract
for grading. Over a hundred of these
were transferred from the Roanoke anC
Southern railway.
Salisbury Waterman The Stone Noun.
tain Granite Company is a bigger thing
than most of our readers suppose. They
employ from forty to fifty hands all thu
time, and their pay roll foots up in th'
hundreds every month.
Carolina Banner: In a difficulty a
Centre Bluff, Pitt county, on last FRIDAY
R. w. Smith received a painful stab il
the back from a knife in the hand o
Howell Hearne. Mr.. Smith is not serious
ly hurt and is improving.
Raleigh Chronicle: There are eigh
Raleighs in the United States not includ
ing Raleigh, N. G. There is a Raleigh il
Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ken
lucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and We
Virginia, and North Carolina.
Through service on the Lynehburg 4
Durham Railroad from Lynchburg t
Durham began on Monday. By thi
route the distance from Milton by rail t.
Durham and Raleigh is lessened at leas
sixty miles.-M1Hon Advertiser.
Roxboro Courier: Roxboro will hav,
a new bank and ten prize houses read,
for the n, W crop of tobacco. With tw,
banks, two warehouses apd plenty o
storage houses, she will be ready to handl