The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-11
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The Record reports mad dogs in Chat.
ham county.
A furniture faetoryis in course of eree.
ton at Lenoir.~ - - y ~.
Granville county is to have a large
brick factory; -.,
The negro ran away with the money.
and is wanted.
Concord. new blast foundry will soon
5 End operation.
A basket-faotory is one of the new in
dustries . dSalem.
Raleigh will have a "Bal Poudre 4"
during this month. ',s' AZ
Work has been begun on the French
Broad Valley Railroad. 90.
The Topic sSys there was snow at
Blowing Rock last week. <T:9 =
Work is progressing very ,Gnely on the
Charlotte public building.
Rev. L. F. HUMPHREYS died on the ID
At his residence in Oxford.
Nh. Jno. W. Wadsworth, of Charlotte,
is nursing a case Oftthe grip 4 3r~
Mr.. Mike Dtyaof stshly, bounty, lost
his barn by fire a few days Since. >"
Reports of damage TO small grain by
the Hessian fly continue to come in
The Wilmington police made one hun
dred and nine arrests during January.
1t is said that a vein of gold bearing
quartz has been found near Rocky Mount.
Twenty thousand dollars has been paid
, for tickets at Selma by colored exodus
ters.
Charles Nelson, colored, has discovered
Q gold mine on his land in Guilford
county.
Chatham county boasts a horse with
leg that measures As inches in circum-
ference.
A horse was stolen from the Farmers.
Warehouse at Winston last Wednesday
morning.
Lige Moore was hanged at Greensboro
last Friday. he died protesting his in
nOcence.
Sheriff, Grant, of Wayne county,
brought three prisoners to the penitentiary
recently.
Ten car loads of negroes passed through
Charlotte q few days ago on their way to
the happy land.
Edgecombe county has added eight
prisoners to the number in the State,
penal institution.
North Carolina has 800, 900 acres of
swamp land to sell for the benefit of the
educational fund.
Capt Joe Robson, srailroad man, COM
mitted suicide at Newberne on the 5th by |
cutting his throat,
The grading on the Mocksville branch
road is now completed five miles beyond
the Ysdkn river.
MI. ". J..Sparrow, of Chatham county,
was killed by q falling tree at a chOpping
trolic q few days ago.
The receipts of cotton are about 10000
bales short as compared with last season, F.,
on the Raleigh market. -.
Gen. Robt. Ransom has invited e. F.
Lamb to act as assistant marshal ut the
Newberne Fair Feb. oath,
Capitalists in Baskerville contemplate
the building Of . belt road, twelve miles
in length, to skirt the city.
The Salem Press says that . Forsythe
county farmer sold 500 pounds of tobacco
for $3.50 one day last week.
Mr.. c. n. Wharton, has been elected
Chief Marshal for the next annual COM
mencement of Davidson College.
A destructive fire occurred at Goldsboro
on the 3rd inst. Six business houses
were burned. Loss about $3,OO0.
The Charlotte Chronicle has been pre-
sented with 9 six pound turnip raised by
Mr.. ]. D. Northy, of Meckenburg.
Daniel Blackburn, a native of Lincoln
county, died at the Cleveland county
poor house q few days ago, aged SO.
We learn from the TOatn- City Daily
that Messrs. Leight Bros. viii soon erect
o tobacco box factory ct Watertown.
The Wilmington Messenger Of the 5th
says that about three-fourfhs of the peo-
pie in that city are down with the grip.
The residence of Nj. Ryan, depot
agent at Scotland Neck, was burned
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