The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-12

hI0NOu Oh IlSSO were uuueF y years OIL
age, of which number one was white and
ten co'ored.
Tarboro Banner: Ed Belts, of Wilson
county lost a barn of tobacco by fire on
last Saturday. Besides loosing the barn
he lost tobacco valued at about 5000.
The fire is supposed to have origi ated
from a heated fue. =
Dunn. Courier: Mr.. D. E. Jones, who
lives about a mils from this place, had his
right hand badly cut while feeding an
apple mill last Tuesday morning, losing
his fore finger and crushing part of his
hand about Il e thumb.
Roxboro Courier: We hear the most
~encourag ng reports from the crops in this
county. -- The fine rains last Friday
and Saturday brought out the corn crop
wonderfully. AS we heard a farmer say,
1T ruined many a nubbin."
Washington Progress: Elizabeth City
shows a population of between 5000 and
$500. The Carohniam claims that for
p~artisau purposes the lines of the town
has been drawn in so as to cut of LOCO
people living in the suburbs.
Goldsboro Dispatch: Mr.. Cicero Strick-
land, a brick mason living in Webbtown,
who had been sick for four weeks of
typhoid fever, died yesterday afternoon,
Mr.. Strickland came from Duplin county
to this city a short time ago.
Asheville Citizen: Charles Street, the
negro who assaulted Mary Floyd Satur-
day, had a preliminary hearing before
Esquire c. w. Malone Saturday after
noon. In default of 5000 bond he was
committed to jail to await trial.
Elizabeth City Economist: The Nor
folk and North Carolina Canal Company
has made a deed of trust to the Holland
Trust Company for $1,000, 600, which
sum will be used in improving and deep
ening the old Dismal Swamp Canal.
Concord Times: Thus far only five
candidates have announced themselves
for the county Offices, and four of them
are old officers. 1t seems thai not many
are after the off es this year. The con-
vention is only a little over two weeks
of.
DR.. R. K. Gregory, of Greensboro, has
invented a fluid and bandage for dressing
wounds. 1t is said that this invention
will revolutionize the treatment of all
kinds of wounds. He as been offered
immense sums of money for the inven-
ton.
Messrs. Duke, of Durham, have begun
the erection of a mammoth storage ware
house in connection with their factory at
Durham. The structure will be five
stories high, one of the highest in the
State, and the dimensions will be 200x6O
feet.
Durham San: A new cemetery, con-
sisting of two acres, has been purchased
and laid off in East Durham, just south
Of the Y. and half a mile below the cot
ton factory. 1t will be owned jointly by
the Third Baptist Church and Carr
Chapel.
Greensboro Workman: Miss Tynte
Murrow, of Center, departed this life last
Saturday evening at about APO o'clock
She was stricken about TWO weeks age
with paralysis. Miss Murrow is a siste
of J. s. Murrow and of the late Eugene
Murrow.
Stanley Observer: Last Saturday morn,
ing Mr.. Crave Thompson, an aged citizen
of this township, was found dead in his
bed. Mr.. T, was a well-to-do mau, but
he was fond of the drink habit, and it il
said that he was on a spree the day before
he died.
Concord Standard: Last night about
seventeen negroes with thirteen sho
guns and six pistols were on a hunt fol-
the negro who broke into Albert Ellis
house. They saw him two or three
times, and had him in reach, but let hin
get away.
Winston Daily: Register of Deeds
Stanton commenced figuring up to-day
tie tax list for Forsyth county. Accord.
ing to the returns he says that the taxable
property will amount to about $1,000,
900, which is nearly one half a million IL
excess of last year.
Winston Daily: There are twenty
prisoners in the county Jail, - A report
is current that preliminary surveys o.
two or three lines are to be made shortly
from Wilkesboro to Bristol, Tennessee
which is an extension Of the Winston
and Wilkesboro road.
Henderson Gold Leqf::; Henderson has