The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-15

this year, he will only can tomatoes, and
bis factory will have q capacity of put
ting 10 2 900 cans a day.
NashviIe Aygonaut:: Mr.. Amos Kicks,
aged abou1 IS years, and who was ap-
parently in good health. after eating a
hearty dinner last Thursday, took a seat
i'll a chair. An hour or two afterwards
it was found that he was dead.
Pittsboro Record: 1t is stated that the
iron mine at Ore Hill, in this county, has
been sold to the G eensboro Bessener
Steel Company for $3.50, 600, of which
amount $50, 900 were paid in money and
$160, 900 in the stock of the company.
Greensboro Workman: A new cotton
factory is going up at Franklinsville.
Looms for it will arrive the first of next
week. Mr.. O.. R. Cox is treasurer. The
stockholders are Miss Maud Curtis, ".
NJ. Curtis, T. G. Worth and DR.. Redding.
Elizabeth City Econ2mist: Prospects
for a good season at Mays Head are
blight. The new hotel will be commo-
dious and convenient. Mr.. Shipp isnow
engaged in constructing anew pier, much
larger and stronger than the former one.
Newton Enterprise: Mr.. J. Polk
Glenn, a well known citizen of Gastonia,
died Wednesday morning, in the 10th
year of his age. His death occurred dur
ing the night, and was wholly unexpected.
He went to sleep, and awoke in eternity.
Newton Enterprise: Mr. Pink Shu-
ford is engaged in washing gold on the
Holler place, between Conover and Hick-
cry. He showed US some very pretty
specimens last Saturday. He has not yet
found the vein, but he feels sure it is
there.
Charlotte Chronicle: Sunday after
noon, as the north-bound train passed
the woods near D. P. Hutchison's planta-
ton, the brush was set fire to by sparks
from the engine, and extended over a
wide surface before it could be extin-
guished.
Winston Journal: The internal reve-
nue. collections in this (5tL) district
amounted to $l3O,288.l3. OF this amount
Winston contributed $50, GAO. 41.-For-
ty-four darkies arrived here to-day from
Lynchburg, Va, to work in the tobacco
factories.
Durham Globe: The engineering corps
Of the L.. & D. Railroad were seen south
of Durham yesterday surveying the pro-
posed extension of the road. The obiec-
tive point is not yet known, but it will
60 through the iron and ccal deposits of
Chatham.
Goldsboro Argus. The shipments Of
early truck from the South through this
city northward is very heavy at this time,
both by express and freight, and would
seem to indicate that Notwithstanding
the recent widespread cold snap a large
crop is in vogue.
Reidsville Review: A family of II
was registered at the Exchange last night,
hence we dispense with publishing the
hotel arrivals o-day on account of their
length. The family is mostly girls, who
have come here from Salem to work in
the cotton factory.
Asheville Journal. Rev. W. A. Mel
son, pastor Of the First Baptist Church,
has just received a check for $500 from
j.. D. Rockefeller, of New York, to be
applied to the completion of their Mis-
sion church, in West End, near the old
depot, in this city.
We learn from the Concord Standard
that a thief entered Mr.. Ed. Cooks S ore,
near Concord, n night last week and
stole a number of articles, among other
things all the candy In the store. Miss
Claude Grier had left a valise in the store
and it was stolen also.
Cadet Cowles, son of Congressman
Cowles, of the 9Th North Carolina dis
trict, was killed by the accidental dis
charge OF a pistol IN his own hand last
Tuesday at Oxford. He was orderly
sergeant Of the cadets and had discharged
his duty that morning.
Hickory Press and Carohn5an: A
rumor is floating around that another
large hotel will be erected in Hickory.
1t will be built at a cost of $4,000 and
will be furnished and fitted up with all
modern improvements and will have
about one hundred rooms.
Hickory Press md C~aroHnian: A
rumor is floating around that another
large hotel will be erected in Hickory.
It will be built at a cost Of $4,000, and
will be furnished and fitted up with all
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