The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-18

rso contract for the Charlotte city hall
been let. 1t will cost over $4,000.
coIored man was badly injured al the
n.1aiob cotton seed oil mill by the burst
mo of a aue last week.
Raleigh has organized a land and i'm
.,ovement company with Mayor A.
Tbompson as President.
Gao Gowan accidentally shot aud NOR
..Iv wounded himself while hunting near
Asheville a few days ago.
Gen, J. S. Clarkson, ex-Assistant Post
MASTER General, is staying at AsheVille
for the benefit Of his health.
Mr.. u. Christophers, the oldest Mason
North Carolina died in Raleigh a few
d.vs since in his Goth year.
The W~iIkesboro Chronicle has found a
..disb t at measures IL inches in length
and weighs nearly FIVE pounds.
The Second Presbyterian congregation
~ Charlotte will build a new church to
oost between 5000 and $35,
The revenue officers of the fourth dis
trict have brought suit against a news
nsper for $1,000 damages for libel.
The vote on the two judicial tickets in
CssweI county was a tie, each ticket get
tine 1902 votes. This will hardly happen
again.
Some Of the students at Chapel Hill
will soon begin the publication OF a semi
monthly paper to be called The Chapel
lillian.
It is reported that English and Ameri-
can capitalists have purchased 285, 900
acres of marble, coal and iron lands near
Murphy.
The peanut market is on the decline
The Virginia crop is said to be tremer-
dous, and this is the cause of the decrease
in prices.
The proprietor of the Johnstown food
scenes and his associates left their board
bill unpaid when they departed from the
Tarboro Fair.
Mr.. D. J. Ewing, of Montgomery
county, has shown the Troy VIdette a
potato that weighed nine pounds and
three ounces.
Our local sportSmen are keeping the
fields alive with the reports of their guns
but are not bagging a great deal of game.
Milton Advertiser.
A Moore county girl is charged with
having said: If a cart wheel has nine
fellows, it is a pity that a pretty girl like
me can't have one."
Mr.. Alfred Plummer, of Middleburg,
was robbed by a negro on the streets of
Wsrrenton n plight last week. The
negro has been arrested.
Mr.. W. P. Brooks, of Randleman, N.
c., is trying to raise money enough to
build tabernacle at Randleman large
enough to hold 1000 people.
A mine has been discovered near Ok
ford which yields titanium, a most valu-
able metal. 1t is worth $32 an ounce and
plenty of it is said to be there.
They came very near having a serious
row in Greensboro a few days ago. The
police and citizens had a general row with
negroes, but no one was killed.
The ladies of Mount Airy have sent to
the Soldiers Home $55 made up by them.
The Home being now open, funds are
needed for it.-Farmer and Miner.
Mr.. Luther Bost, of E6rds Mills, this
county, showed US a spur taken from a
chicken rooster that measured 81 inches
IN length, says the Stanly Observer.
Work on the new tobacco factory near
the depot, is progressing rapidly. We
only wish a few more like this n would
Oe Quilt, says the Lexington Dispatch.
n machinery for the StatesvilIe Roller
flour Mill has been received and is in the
mouse. A man to put it up is expected
Snortly, says the Statesville Landmark
John Glenn's store at Stoneville, Rock
"8nam county, was broken open and
fO0Oed Of SIS OF $50, besides an unknown
amount OF silver, says the Salem Press.
An effort will be made during the ses-
sun OF the Legislature by the Whining
WI anu Weldon Railroad to lease or buy
Ue Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad.
Rev S. D. Franklin, a weT-known
~0'noolst minister of the Rowan Circuit,
was thrown from his buggy n day last
week near Winston, and instantly killed.
The house of Mr.. J. D. Brevard, six
- south of Asheville, was burned to
I' ground last week. The loss is said to
'0 ABOUT l,0OO, saws the Asbeville Demo-