The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-29

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md Grover Cleveland will be invited.
DR.. R. ! Brevard will be Chief Marshal
at the 20h Of May celebration in Char
lotte.
Nine prisoners made their escape from
the jail at Henderson on the night OF the
Dist
Il is stated that the Governors man
sion in Raleigh will be finished in thirty
days.
w o. Reddi k, of Gainesville, N, G.,
has been appointed a cadet at West
Point.
1t is. sale the Cranberry iron mines have
been sold 20 an English syndicate for;S6,-
900, OoO.
A German colony is to be planted on
10000 acres of land in Montgomery
county.
AYou1g Mems Christian Association
building will be erected at Davidson
College
The first strawberries Of the season
were shipped from the eastern part Of the
State last week.
1t Is said that Rutherford College has
received an addition to it's endowment
fund Of $4,000.
The river and harbor bill a~ppropriates
100000 for the Improvement of the
streams of this State.
Col. W. H. s. Burgwyn of Henderson,
will deliver the annual address at the Uni
versity in June next.
The Senate committee has reported
favorably on the bill to erect & $65, 900
public building at Fayetteville.
Four railroads will centre at Madison.
Then not even Greensboro car boast Of
better connection .-Madt8on Nelvs.
Wheat is booming along finely and the
farmers faces fairly beam with smiles as
they speak of it.-NeaCton Enterprise.
Oxford Day.: The Odd Fellows are
getting matters in shape for the erection
of their splendid new building this sum-
mer.
MI. JEFF Fowler was cut nearly in
twain near Hillsboro on the 2lSt inst.
He was working at a saw mill and fell IN
the saw.
The nomination of Sylvia Drake, col,
for postmistreSs at Rocky Mount, has been
withdrawn, and that of Lee Person has
been substituted.
We learn from our exchanges that
meningitis has appeared in various sec
tons of tbs State. A number of cases
have proved fatal.
New Berne Journal Good oysters
are very scarce. The weather has Seen
so warm thai the goose is about cooked
for the lusciaus b~ivalVe,
Sites for @wo canning factories have
been sold at the terminus Of the A and P.
railroad, near Pantego, and the factories
will be erected at an early date.
It is said tnat Salem, HiIlsboro and
Salisbury are tie only towns in the State
that can boast of having buildings that
were in the Revolutionary war.
The Fayetteville Observer says that
forest fires destroyed about 200 cords of
wood for Mr.. D. McWilliams near Spout
Springs last Sunday a week ago.
The rolling stock on the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad is being repaired
and put IN proper order for the anticipated
heavy travel the coming summer.
Two negro women had a fight near
Scotland Neck recently and one cut the
other with a razor. The Democrat says
the cutting was done in self defense.
Jesse Brown who was convicted of
numbering a .colored woman of Wake
county and sentenced to hang has his
sentence commlted to life imprisonment.
The Pennsylvania county commission
ers have ordered an election in June for
an appropriation oE S5O,OOO to the French
Broad Valley railroad company.-AsheviNe
JarnaL
The emigration agents are still getting
in their work at Scotland Neck. One
who made himself extremely Objectionable
to the white citizens was beaten by n
of them.
The Ttgtn- City Daily says that the sub
scriptiOns for the $15O,OOO hotel at
Winston have reached the amount ne-
cessary and that the building of the hotel
is assured.
Civil Engineer J. L. Ludlow has filed
in the Office of the Henderson town clerk
his acceptance and bond in the sum of
$4,000 for a complete system of water
works for that town