The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18

Al d Cotton Seed from the SOuEn'
Gastonia is to have a bank.
Oharlota had seventeen deaths in
January.
4 coffin factory has been established at
Burlington.
Col 7. NJ. Holt will rebuild his grist-
mill at Graham.
A spoke and handle factory has been
built at Mocksville.
A light house to be built at Cape
Hatteras will cost 100000.
Twenty two passenger trains arrive and
depart from Greensboro every day.
The streets of Wilmington are to be
improved by putting down oyster shells.
There are about sixty Young Mems
Christian Associations in North Carolina.
Mr.. L. G. Rountree, who lived near
Greenville, died a few dys ago from an
overdose of laudanum. oE:1 2t
Two white men were arrested at Mon
roe last week charged with stealing a
horse in South Carolina. II!
rsmith6eld Herald: We saw a bale of
cotton on our streets a few days ago
covered with bed ticking. 80
We learn from the Chronicle that the
car sheds of the g. G. Road ct Charlotte,
were burned last Tuesday.
MI. Julian Carr, of Durham, has given
the Students Aid Fund of Wake Forest
College a check for $1,000.
Marion is to have q cotton and broom
factory. The machinery for the broom
factory has already arrived.
There have been seven deaths from Ia
grippe reported in North Carolina. Four
of these occurred at Ok ord.
The Wayne Agricultural Works at
Goldsboro sustained aloss of about S 1000
by fire last Wednesday night,
The first through passenger train from
Mt. Airy to Wilmington W. the G. F. &
Y. V. Road will run Saturday.
J. P. Horne, Sheriff of Union county,
yesterday settled taxes with the State
Treasurer, paying Ia $8,O21.71.
The students of the Newberne Collegiate
Institute are studying the geography of
Nellie Bly's trip around the world.
Mitchell county is growing over Ashe,
which has had 40 murders since the war,
while it, (MitcheD has had only 80.
A correspondent writing from Viii
Iamston says that five mad dogs have
been killed in that town within q few
days.
The person in possession of ticket No
448 is entitled to the carpet at w. 81. &
r. s. Tucker & Co.'s. No. 81 secures the
cloak.
The three Cs Road put a negro engineer
in charge of a train on that Road. Several
white engineers at once resigned their
positions.
A prominent railroad man in this State
says hat before long the railroad shops in
the South will turn out their own locomo-
tiEes and cars.
The Supervising Architect of the
Treasury gives Congressman Ewart to
understand that work on the Asheville
public building viii probably begin
about April LIST.
In Mitchell county, week before last,
Moulton Buchanan, who recently shot
one Stanly, was shot and killed by Stan
ly's friends in revenge.
The report is out that the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad Company contem-
plates laying a double track between
Wilmington and Weldon.
The contract for opening and complet-
ing the canal from Roanoke Falls to We'll
don has been let. The outlay for the
work will be about $4,000.
We learn from the Messenger that an
attempt was made to set fire to the
residence of Mr.. Geo. F. TiIley, Of Viii
mington, last Monday night.
Reidsville has just put in a new town
clock. Whether the county commission
ers are in any manner involved on &C.
count thereof, is not stated.
MI. Keeper Denmark, of Goldsboro,
has been awarded $4,000 damages by a
jury for the loss of a leg on the Attain
tic g. North Carolina Railroad.
Mr.. Thos. A. Edison, the famous in
ventor is at Charlotte. He is accompanied
by his wife and two sons, also Mrs.
McWiTiams, of New Jersey.