The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-15

gold was dug from Concord town lots.
Rockingham Rocket: We learn from
the Exchange hat the La1rinburg cotton
seed oil mill has closed operations for the
season, having consumed all the seed on
hand.
Charlotte Democrat: Mrs. DIR. Shear
er, of Davidson College, has presented
the students with a handsome cabinet
organ, to be used in their chapel SER
vices.
Winston Ssnttnel: The Laneback
peach orchard, containing twenty seven
a res, in West Salem, has been sold to T.
B. Crawford, W. E franklin and Others,
for $4,000.
Mr.. W. 7. Caho will deliver he annual
address before the Ladies Memorial Asso-
citation, at New Berne the 10Th of May,
and Gen. @. A. Battle has been made
chief marshal.
G~oldsboro Dispatch: A little six years
old colored child of G. Houston, was so
badly burned on Tuesday last that she
died this morning at her fathers in the
old fair ground.
Rocky Mount Phenir: The Rocky
Mount Mills have ordered a lot of pre-
paratory machinery and will put in 5000
spindles, making them the largest cotton
mill in the State.
Lincoln Courier: James Black of
Cherryville, got one of his legs broken
last Monday by being caught by a pile of
lumber falling on him. He is getting on
very well, so far.
Charlotte Democrat: Mr.. J. J.. Sims,
Of this city, had 100 acres of timber land
burnt over by forest fires in Paw Creek
township last Friday, which caused con-
siderable damage.
Raleigh Recorder: Rev. DR.. John. W.
McCown, of Knoxville, Tenn has accep-
ted the call to the pastorate of the church
in Leaksville, N. c., and entered upon
his duties on Sunday last.
Mocksville Times: Early yesterday
morning, Mr.. Joe Eaton saw a large gray
wolf lurking about on his farm. Mr..
Eaton says that he is not mistaken, but
that it was certainly a wolf.
Greensboro Patriot: A. M. Smith,
applied to the City Commissioners Friday
night for privilege to construct a street
railway. The matter was referred to the
street committee on street railways.
The Reidsville Review "notes with
pleasure from several of its State ex-
changes that Judge T. B. Womack has
| given universal satisfaction on the bench
so far wherever he has held court"
We learn from the Charlotte NeaUs thai
a white man named J. R. Edwards
stabbed and it is thought, fatally injured
a negro named Jim Orr in Sharon town
ship, M~ecklenburg county, last Tuesday
Washington Gazette: The canning
factory, we believe, is an assured fact
The terms for the location have beer
agreed upon, the site surveyed, and we
learn that the papers are being drawn
up.
Rocky Mount Phenir: 1t is reported
in Rocky Mount that B. J. Keech, O.
Tarboro has stood the bond of Sylvi;
Drake, the new appointee to the p~ostofice
and will put his son in charge of the
Office.
Greensboro Patriot: We learn tina
an ice factory company was organized
here last week with a capital stock O
$4,000. With two ice factories in op.
Grafton we ought to be able to keep COO
this summer.
The Gazette says that Will Johnson
alias Primer, was stabbed with a poke
knife, at Stoves bar-room, a few miles
from G~astonia Tuesday evening of las
week, by John Baldwin. He died abou
two hours later.
The Knights of Pythias of Raleigh are
arranging for an excursion of three day.
to Morehead City on June 10Th to 21st
The lodges of Durham, Fayetteville
Goldsboro and Greensboro will be invited
to join in the trip.
Oxford Day.: Some of our best citi.
zens have recently received letters from
New York offering to sell them counter.
felt money. 1t is the old "saw dust
game, exposed time and again by the
New York newspapers.
Concord Standard: We are rather
surprised to learn from the sheriff tina
taxes are better paid this year than last
This is especially the case with people il
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