The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-05

The G)ldsboro Dispatch has a new edi-
tor in the person of T. G. Diggs.
Charlotte is to have a new eterprise
soon in the shape Of a shoe factory.
A wild man terrorizes the Pleasant
Grove community in Union county.
Three deaths in one family in FIVE days
resulted in Rowan county last week.
The subscription for the soldiers home
at Raleigh has reached the $4,000 mark.
The town of Henderson has voted a
subscription to the Nash county rail-
road.
Waddell is a new p~ostofice in Rocking
ham county. Walter S. Irving is post
master.
Durham has an excellent orchestra,
three members of which are under twelve
years old.
Raleigh claims to be eating spoiled
meat and vigorously demands a meat
Inspector.
1t is said that Wake and M~ecklenburg
prohibitionists will put full county tickets
in the field.
There will be a public Sunday school
picnic at St. James church, Iredell county
August 9Th.
A company has been organized to es-
fish a shirt faetory on a large scale at
Wilmington.
Raleigh is moving to nave the Atlantic
Coast Line extended to that place instead
of to Henderson.
The comptroller of currency has author
lied the FIRST National bank of Gastonia
to begin business.
Mr.. c. W. Denny, of High Point, has
withdrawn from the contest for register
of deeds of Guilford county.
The smokehouse of Jim West, at
Greensboro, was robbed of a quantity of
bacon, lard, etc., a few nights ago.
Scotland Neck is having a new hotel
built and a bank will be opened in it as
5000 as the building is completed.
Edward Mccullough, who became in
sane owe Sam Jones meetings at Char
lotte, has gone to the Morganton asylum.
In the third district Hon. B. F. Brady
was nominated by the Democratic con
vention for Congress on the 178th ballot.
John Young, who has been on trial at
Oxford, for killing Dick Lands, has been
acquitted, on the grounds of self defence.
A shooting ARRAY occurred in an Ashe-
vile bar-room last week. John Melster
and Bunk McTntire, both white, were
killed.
J. J. Reed has been appointed post
master at Little Greek, Madison county,
to take the place of H. A. Holcombe, re-
signed.
When we ask the question what is
the news the answer is cotton and corr
is looking very fine, says the Forest City
Ledger.
A severe wind storm swept over a por,
ton of Chatham county a few days ago
doing considerable damage to crops and
timber.
1t is estimated that the population of
North Carolina will reach 1900, 900
This will give her two additional Repre-
sentatives.
Mr.. NJ. F. King, of Raleigh, had his
face badly cut by a knife in the hands Of
a negro by the name of ALT. Woods, last
Wednesday.
Tom Thompson, an Oxford colored
man, is in Jail charged with passing
saloon check on a blind colored woman
for a quarter.
Guilford county has a musical prodigy.
His name is Price Early, FIVE years old
and blind. He plays almost any instru-
ment with ease.
A Jonesboro hen has laid two eggs, one
has the letter F" on n end and the
other the letter "a" Of course it means
Farmers Alliance"
A negro tramp arrested in Weldon last
week made his escape and while stealing
a ride on a freight train had his arm cut
Oft by a car wheel at Balfeld.
Near Mt. Airy last week a thirteen
year-oId son of R V. VIM Phillips wa,
accidentally shot, while cleaning his gun.
His heart was torn all to peices.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of nron.
erty was destroyed by fire in Winston
last Thursday. Aliens hardware store
was among the property burned.
The capital has been subscribed for the
erectlOn OF a canning establishment anc