The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07

was a twelve page illustra ted edition. CIV
ing cuts of the p incipal business plants
and public and p ivate buildings IN that
Or. g~ressive town, with a history Of It's
business growth. The paper shows up
well for the enterprise of the publishers
and for the town.
"It was learned here yesterday says
the Ne,Us and Observer Of the 25th, THAT
the Aberdeen and West End Railroad, of
which Mr.. A. F. Page, the lumber king,
of Moore county, is President, was thor
oughly organized a day or two ago, ae-
cepted the charter and authorized the
issuing of the bonds"
With last weeks issue the Henderson
Gold Leaf entered upon its ninth year
and celebrated the event with an illus
trated number of some of the industries
Of the town. The Gold Leaf is a capital
paper, well edited, and is doing much in
building up the industries of the section
in which it is published.
The distress in Northampton and Hall
fax is very great. One farmer who
planted 125 acres, made only one bale OF
cotton. Another who used four tons Of
fertilizers and planted for twenty bales,
did not make enough to pay rent and has
left the State. Another who expected
100 bales, only made eleven.
The Morganton Herald says coal ha
been discovered on the lands of. Mr..
Daniel Brown, near Bridgewater, and
there is an iron mine on the property, the
ore of which yields SO per cent. of iron.
Mr.. Brown will have his mineral interests
examined by experts, and developed if
the Investigations are encouraging.
The Rutherford Banner chronicles the
sale of 5000 acres Of land in that county
to parties from Maine who will imme-
diately begin the opening and %colonizing
of it. The Wilmington Star is right when
it says: "This is a pretty large deal and
a matter of considerable Importance not
only to that county, but to the State"
The Wilmington Daily Star, one Of the
very best papers in the State, has just
bought new type and other material The
work of transformation will begin next
week. and everything will be in readiness
for a bright particular " Star on January
10th. May this useful journalistic orb
continue to shine throughout our State.
According to the New York CONNER
cial Bulletin, the rice crop in North Caro-
lima is better than was expected. The
yield in this State, according to the B~Ue-
tin, is $500 barrels. The quality of N.
G.. rice is said to be very fine. The total
product along the Atlantic coast will be
100000 barrels, against l45, 900 last year.
With last weeks issue the Tarboro
Southerner closed its 81 h and began its
68th year. The SowtherneT is an excel
lent paper, and though it has often
changed hands, it shows no disposition
TO "peg out" The number of papers that
live to get grey-headed are so few that
we cannot refrain from giving this n ar
extended notice.
A meeting was held at Burnsvllle,
Yancy county, recently, relative to secur-
ing a railroad through that county. Ad-
dresses were made by representatives of
several railroad companies. The Three
C's Company has determined to change
it's route and run from Johnson City,
Tenn, through Yancy to Mcdowell.
The Durham San tells about the finding
of a diamond near Bundle Mountain, in
Montgomery county, by Clay Morris. He
offered to swap it for a plug of tobacco
but the tobacco man refused to trade. He
finally sold it to a man named Brown,
who has since been offered 5000 for it.
The diamond is about the size of a buck
shot.
A young man from Caldwell and a
young lady fir m Lincoln went up to
Lenoir to get married last Saturday night.
She cautioned him of the danger Of her
changing her mind if she found out that
he drank. On Sunday he got fool drunk,
Monday she took the train for home, he
going along trying to persuade her to re-
consider.
A correspondent of the Elizabeth City
Economist writing from Creswell, Wash
ington county, gives an account of the
burning of the barn of Messrs. Alexander
& Mckay on last Friday evening, together
with 600 barrels of corn, 5000 pounds of
seed cotton, rice, hay and fodder. The
insurance was $3.50. Loss above insur-