The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06

over county, on the 22nd. Mr. Craig
was a well known pilot of the Cape Fear
and stood we'll in this community. He
was SO years of age.
The clerk of Wake Superior Court
Saturday received a check for $I5, 600
from MAJ, W. W, Vass, Treasurer of the
Raleigh & CASTOR Railroad, for the taxes
due the State by the recent agreement
in the railroad tax matter.
1t is probable that the Yadkin Silver
Valley and Pee Dee Railroad will be
built from ThomaS7ille, to the Yadkin
river, just above Milledgevilh, thence
down the river to the Mario VS., and from
the Nar-ows to Wadesboro.
The FALCON, ot Elizabeth City, says that
a catch of over i 900 blue fish was made
at Nsgs Head q few days ago, The aver
age weight was about three pounds each,
and the totaI weight g ,00C, at 10 cents
per pound, would bring $4,000.
The Greensboro Workman says that a
few nights ago Baxter Mangum, a student
e. Thompson school, sHer City, from
South Carolina, attempted suicide by
drinking laudanum. HIS rashness was
discovered in time to save his life.
The Roanoke Beaoon says. The three
colored boys that were confined in jail
here, charged with the killing of a girl
near Creswell, last summer, were tried
on Tuesday. One was discharged, while
two go to the State prison for ten years,
each.
Messrs Whiting Bros, Of Raleigh, hege
secured a most interesting curiosity in
the shape of a turtle which will soon be
shipped to them. Tt has six legs and
two perfect heads, and, is altogether, a
morstrosity in the way of a sea "Ear-
mint"
We learn from the Concord STANDARD
thet some miscreant shot at Mrs. j. F.
Beatty, of Mt. Pleasant, as she was going
from her husbands store to her home
one night recently. She was not hurt,
| but narrowly escaped, the shot cutting
/ her dress.
{ Secretary Wilson has fixed the date
fer the next State Fair, to commence
5 October 18th and continue until the tT7th
inclusive. The exhibition will contain
= some unusual and most interesting .fea-
1t1res and viii be- fully up to any that. has
proceeded it.
= Henderson E~0rsahaaUk:: There was a
general Jail delivery here Saturday night.
1.-THE colored jai!or was ~eleo5ioneering
FOR some of the town candidates-got
drunk and nine prisoners confined for
t larceny broke jail, and are now "non
Foomeatibus in swampo."
: The catalogue of the University for
t The years 1889-'e0 shows an enrolment
of two hundred students. Nhis, we
think, is q slight decrease from last year,
E but it does remarkably we'll VIXEN we
take into consideration the shortage of
crops for the last sew years.
E The Henderson Gold Leq| says The
'bill allowing ar appropriation for the
Henderson public building, has been
!, tavorably reported on by the committee.
=. The amount has been reduced from $751;
eco, as provided By the bill, to $2G. 900.
It is very likely this will pass.
The Henderson Gold Leqf says: Mr..
, 4 Collin Parham, who lives up on Flat
: river, in Durham county, was here this
+ week, and tells us there is a great scarcity
of tobacco plants IL his section. Some
of the farmers are blowing up their to-
baoco land and putting it in CORE.
.Goldsboro Argms. Our farmer friends
report that the recent frosts have played
fatal havoc with lowIand corn, that was
just getting under good growing head
way. 1t will all have to be planted over
again, and many are already blowing the
ground for the work o. r~eplanting.
The Raleigh correspondent of the vii
mington Messenger is authority for the
statement that MessrS. ". Duke, Son &
Co., tie big cigarette manufacturers of
Durham, have boyootted the Richmond
& Danv.lle Railway and are hauling their
freight through the town and then ship
ping it G7ia the Durham and Northern
Railway.
Charlotte Chronicle: Counterfeit money
was floating around quite plentifully in
the city yesterday. -- The, strange wild
animal that was creating so much excite
ment in the Reedy Creek community
some time ago has not yet been captured.
He has been chased a number of times,
and Il L. nom datnrnninnd that TIA animal