The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-11


Va.
Col. Davis has decided to suspend hi;
military school at Is Grange for a Ehort
while on account of the prevalence of the
grip.
Reidsville had a $1,000 IRE last Wed.
nesday. The RevieW saws there wasfin-
surance on the property to the amount Of
So, 700. Fl
The tobacco house of Wilson & Day,
at Durham, was broken open a few nights
since and about 80 ponds of tobacco
stolen. y, a.
Lewis Hogan, a negro who was run
over by a train hear Rleigh on the night
of the 3rd, has since died from hisin
~juries. " ~
The Charlotte lNeWS says that awhile
man from s. c., was robbed of 500 at the
Trade street depot in that city one. night
last week. - 81 -" Z,
The Monroe Register learns that the
contract for grading the entire railroad
from Salisbury to Norwood, Stanly county,
has been let.
The Rocket tells of a strange "varmint''
that is stirring up the people about Gov
ington, that county The Rocket thinks it
is a wild cat. @''ES,
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The Charlotte Nes0g,has a yarn abeHta
Mt. Holly citizen finding apaftridgsusst
with three eggs in it. It is rather aerly
for such business. !:
Mr.. W. N. Cecil of Davidson. county,
has not worn but one pair of shoes in
FIVE years and has not worn a.coat1i in
twenty-three years. 4.
The Supreme Court Saturday granted
licenses to practice law to twenty. one
young men. Three applicants failed to
pass the examination.
An effort is being made by our relief
committee to have the orphan children of
the late ]. Kearney Terrell placed nathe
Oxford Orphan Asylum.
There will be a meeting of the, bee
keepers in Charlotte on Thursday, Feb
ruary 18th, for the purpose Of organizing
a bee keepers association.
MI. Nat. A. Gregory, of Greenyille
county, sent to the State Museum last
week a moderately fair specimen of as
bestos found near Kittrells.
We learn from the. Charlotte Chronicle
that two negro boys engaged in a fight
in that city on the lst inst, and one. of
them cut the other severely with a knife.
The Falcon says that charges were pre-
ferred against a prominent Baptist divine
st the late conference held at Elizabeth
City. Hope there was no woman in the
case. s. .-.
The gin house, press and four bales of
cotton belonging to Mr.. Berry A. Parks,
of Saulston, were burned last Sunday
night, so we learn from the Goldsboro
Headlight.
. 1t is reported that Mr.. B. 81 Thompson,
of Beaufort county, killed a hog recently
that weighed 853 pounds. This is a
powerful big hog " a big lie-one or
the other.
The store of Mr.. Sion Holleman, of
was broke open and robbed of
about $25 worth of goods one night last
week. A colored boy has been arrested
on suspicion. g.
1t IS stated that Col. A. NJ. Waddell's
book concerning certain men and events
in North Carolina is in the bands OF the
and will probably be out in four
or FIVE weeks.
Still they come. The Chatham Record
says that it is rumored that Mr.. DEW. |
McIver was fishing in Rocky river last
week and caught a catfish and an owl on
the same hook.
Mr.. J. P. Ratlif, of Arson county, lost
his gin house and all of its contents few
days ago. Nearly three bales of seed
cotton and about $50 bushels of cotton
seed were burned. ~
Alfred McElrath, who killed another
Oolored boy at AsheviIle a few days ago,
has been tried and convicted of man
slaughter. He was sentenced to two
years in the pe~nitentiary.
The Press vnd C~arOzjniun says that the
business of the Piedmont Wagon Com
pany has grown 50 that it has become
necessary to put electric lights in SO that
work can be done at night.
On the evening of the I'd, Nj. T. L.
Dunn, of Wake. Forest, went out driving
D spirited horse. The bits broke and the