The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30
bo nonnIation of Nashville is 4O7.

1t is rumored that Durham is to have an
electric street railway system.
A bed spring factory is a new industry
soon to be started in Dmham.
Sixteen young men from Texas have
entered Bingham Schoo! this session.
High Point has orga, lied a develop
ment company with a capital OF $3O,OOO-
Cabarrus county has 239 insolvents
76 of these are white and l63 are col
ored.
The barrel and keg factory of Duke &
Miller, of St~atesvilIe, was burned last
Monday.
An unknown man was run over and
killed on the W. N. G. Railroad n day
last week.
Jas. Fleming, colored, of Greenville,
has been found guilty of burglary in the
second degree.
1t is rumored that Northern capitalists
will build a large hotel at Beaufort on the
old " Atlantic"
Wilmington Star: Mount Airy apples
retail at 40 and SO cents a peck in the
Wilmington market.
The store of Mr.. Lee Setter, Of New
ton, was robbed of about $65 worth of
goods a few nights ago.
The census gave Selma a population of
PIP A census taken by the chief of po-
lice of the town, gave it 673.
The Coffin factory at Burlington was
burned last week. Two thousand collins
were burned. Loss about $1,000. {.
1.-THE Durham Fertilizer Company has
purchased a hundred and fifty horse
power engine for its new factory.
The chewing gum factory at Kinston is
in full operation, and gives employment
to four men and eight or ten girls.
In the western part of the State there
are some pure blooded Indians. One of
their preachers is named Suate Owl.
Cass Hill, colored, was badly cut by
two white men on train at WrightsviIle.
The names of the men are not known.
Charlotte Chronicle: The bonded debt
of Mecklenburg is to be refunded on No
vember LIST. 1t amounts to 100000.
There are rumors in the air of the early
extension of the Danville and New River
Railroad from Stuart, Va, to Mt. Airy.
The grand jury of Wake county found
a true bill for murder in the case of police
man Hogue. The trial is in progress this
week.
Mr.. Thos. Cole, a farmer living near
~Bentonville, was so badly injured by be-
ing thrown out of a cart that he died a
few days after.
The entire family of Mr.. J. F. Jordan,
Of Greensboro, were recently poisoned
by eating custard favored with vanilla.
None of them died.
The Political BrOGdGre is the name of a
new weekly Journal published at Randle-
man, in the interest of Prohibition in the
approaching nvas
The ladies of Asheville, N. c., have
formed a Housekeeper's Union to pl otect
themselves against the incompetency and
unreliability of servants.
Kinston Free Press: Mr.. J. B. Smiths
turpentine still, in Pink Hill township,
was burned about ten days ago. He
thinks it was set on fire.
The demand for Asylum brooms is so
great that we have been obliged to
seriously consider the enlargement of our
factory Orphans Friend.
Mr.. S. W. Pearce, of Franklin county,
was shot in the abdomen by a negro boy
aged Is a few days ago. Mr.. Pearce
may die. The boy is in Jail.
A lot of 125 bales of cotton from the
Yadk1n river wreck was sold at auction
l Charlotte Tuesday to o. P. Heath for
$40 a bale Concord Times.
John Koch, charged with the murder
OF Joseph Ramsden at Wilmington, has
been found guilty of manslaughter. Sen
tence has not been pronounced.
Monroe Register: A Land Improve
ment Company has been organized at
Norwood by Messrs. D. N. Bennett, s.
>. Pemberton and G. D. Bennett.
Chatham Record: A colored child was
Sccloentally killed near Green's mill on
0St saturday, by a tree falling on it,
"nlon Its older sister was cutting.
newly married couple has been ar,
rested at Charlotte. They claim to be
Ootn negroes, but there was a grave sus-
p'olOn that the bride was a white girl.