The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-07

The Richmond and Danvllle road Will
b,,iId a handsome depot at MOrganton.
Mr. James Thomas, of the Stoneville
section, died Wednesday in his 93d year.
Counterfeit fwo-dollar bills are circu
lating promiscuously about Wilmington
The personal property of Charlotte has
increased in value 100000 since last
year.
Bob Young, colored of Charlotte, shot
himself in the leg with a A calibre pistol
last week,
The revenue collection at the Durham
stamp Office last week were $l8,9l4.48.
So says the Sun.
Evangelist Fife will commence to hold
a series of meeting o o at Randleman, In
Randolph county.
Capt. W. J. Ridge, the manager for the
Greensboro Furniture company, is getting
ready for business,
Griffin & Glenn, wagon and buggy
manufacturers, Of Oxford, are putting IN a
large new Ell CINE and boiler.
The old Phifer cotton mills at Lincoln
ton will resume work next week, after a
suspension of twelve months.
Oxford Day: Davis & Gregory are
employing nearly one hundred men and
$500 - +bc;r rrojipO rOOpo
Major Richmond T. Long, the Oldest
man in Richmond county, aged 81 years.
died in Rockingl am last week.
Two gentlemen of Greensboro are
making arrangements to ride their bicycles
to Raleigh during the State fair.
The cost of the Tabernacle at Whining
which has been erected for Sam Jones
meetings, will be about $1,000.
Morehead City is to have a large shuck-
ing house. The oysters are to be shipped
in barrels and canned in Baltimore.
The number of convicts now in the
p~enitentiary proper is only two hundred,
eleven hundred being at work outside.
The first session of the new Western
North Carolina Methodist Conference
will meet at Concord on November 26th.
The Raleigh cotton mills are shipping
1900 pounds of yarns a day and the de-
mands is greater than the mills can sup
ply.
The contract for grading the encamp-
ment grounds at Wrightsville has been
awarded to Mr.. A. P. Holland, of Colds
boro.
Arrangements for a free mail delivery
system at Durham have been effected, and
service will go into operation November
the first.
Theodore E. McCrary has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Lexington, N. c.,
and Lambert A. Bristol postmaster at
Morganton, N. G.
Rufe Bird and Jim Caster, both colored,
of Union county, fell out about a woman.
Both men drew knives and pistols. Bird
killed Caster dead.
The directors of the Greensboro Female
College have decided to equip the build
ing with improved heating, lighting and
laundry appliances.
They started the new cotton compress
at Charlotte n day last week and ii
nipped off three toes for a negro as
smoothly as you please.
W. learn from the TWjn- City Datls
that the work at the Halle gold mine is
turning out well. The out put is now
about $4,000 per month.
A bale of cotton was shipped from
Wilson to Wilmington last week, tina
contained a piece of scantling five feet
long, weighing nine pounds.
Two weeks ago, Lige Wallace, a white
man escaped from Capt. Hamlet's quarters
on the Egypt and Osgood Railroad and
has not been heard of since.
The time for the meeting of the com
mlttee for revising means for retaining
the Roanoke Lands has been set for DC.
tober 18th, at Scotland Neck.
W. R. Lawrence of Tarboro, made an
assignment Saturday for the benefit Of
his creditors. His liabilities are about
$1,000 90, and assets unknown
ASheville Journal: Enquiry has been
made by letter from Car ton, Ill, relative
to purchasing stock in the Asheville
Natural Gas and Mining Company.
Nh. M. A. Propst, of Cabarrus county.
owns a hoe said to be over two hundred
years old. The Standard says he will
nave 1t on exhibition at Concord Fair.
Greensboro Workman: Prof. J. J.
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