The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28

my OLOuSu, VI CAl 1WeLI cJuQty,
is 102 years old.
Fourteen passenger trains pass through
Weldon every day.
Wilson proposes to buid a $4,000
tobacco warehouse.
A sassafras oil factory will soon be
established near Charlotte.
Prof. W. A. Blair has been elected
President of the new bank at Winston.
There was a big forest fire in the long
leaf pine region near Hamlet, on the
18th.
A negro girl was killed by a train
between Winston and Greensboro, last
week.
It is said that IS. OOOZnegroes have left
North Carolina during the last few
months.
The Goldsboro Headlight tells of q col
ored woman in that city who wears num-
Der IA shoes.
T-... .-
The Tarboro Banner is a year old. 1t
is a lively paper and we wish it many
more years of prosperity,
At Washington, N. O., fire broke out
in Farrow's S~hip-yard, causing a loss Of
$780, 900 with no insurance. ~
Mr.. W, S. Keaton, one Of the Oldest,
and a highly respected citizen of Colds
boro, died on the goth inst.
DR.. Gentry, of Wilkes county, is re-
ported to be dangerously sick, so we
learn from the Lenoir Topic.
We learn from the NepOs that the grip
has invaded the Mecklenburg county Jail.
Several prisoners are suffering.
Rev. G. T. Bailey, D. D., of Raleigh,
has been re- elected Director Oxford Or
phan Asylum fora term of five years,
NJ. o. Sheriff., agent for the North
Carolina Soldiers Home, has received
subscriptions amounting..to nearly $4,000.
The Asheboro Courier says: "Dr. J.
NJ. Worth has been able to be up and
around on our streets for several weeks
Marion, N. c., according to the Free
Lance, is becoming quite a winter resort
for Northern and Western health seekers.
The Lexington Dispatch tells of the
suicide in Davidson county of William
Bowers. No cause is &scribed for the
act.
Mr.. H. A. Deal, Business Manager of
the Charlotte Chronicle, has resigned his
position to go into the job printing bust
ness.
MI. Milliard F. Cook accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting near
Whiteville, Columbus county, on the
10Th.
The sloop Nelly May, owned by Capt.
Geo. N. Ives, of Newbern, was wrecked
while trying to enter New River last
week.
We learn from the Evening Journal
that Asheville's new opera house will be
completed in the spring at a cost of
100000.
We learn from the News that the Ed
son Electric Manufacturing Company has
established its Southern headquarters at
Charlotte.
We learn from the Newberne Journal
that Mr.. Noah Avery, of Pamlico county,
was killed a few days ago by a tree fall
ing on him.
The capital stock of the Salisbury cotton
mill has doubled its capacity as to number
of spindles and increased the capital stock
to $4,000.
The Journal says that two young men,
aged 18 and 20, arrived in Asheville a.
few days ago, having walked all the way
from Arkansas.
Carthage, Moore county, is growing
rapidly. The Blade knows Of at least a
dozen dwellings to be built there during
the next few months.
North Carolina has been divided into
five districts for the purpose of taking the
census, and a supervisor will be in
charge of each district.
Concord Times: The doctors of Lex
have formed a "~trust," and agreed
not to go to see any one whose name is
on their delinquent lists.
The Asheboro Courier says there isnot
another place of its size in the State that
can compete with that town in the
amount of lumber produced. |
The Morganton Herald learns that a
movement is on foot to secure the cree
ton of a building at Rutherford College /