The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-20

Mount AIRY Is after announcer Quiet "
the seacoast.
The Standard estimates Concord's popu-
lation at 1000.
The Goldsboro Paint Factory will soon
be in operation.
Salem Academy is having an electric
hight plant put in.
Extensivei Improvement are being made
at Cumberland Mills.
T. W. Sharpless has been elected presi-
dent of the Asheville Gun Club.
J. P. CASTOR, who lived near Asheville,
died suddenly Tuesday, aged 60.
A, V. Dockery is erecting a canning
and picking factory at Carthage.
An effort is being made to establish a
chair of History in the University.
Anegro has died in Rockingham county,
in this State, from the bite of a cat.
Mrs. Emma Evert dropped dead at
Salem. No cause has been assigned.
The Salem Female Academy will soon
graduate the largest class in its history.
A hail storm has been doing business
il Beaufort county and did much damage.
A land and improvement company has
been formed at Kernersville near Win
ston.
The next meeting of the State Press
Association will be held at Durham July
23rd.
The Enterprise says there is universal
complaint about rust on wheat in CatawRa
county.
A land and improvement company with
a capital of $3.50, 900 has been organized
at Oxford.
Mr.. Robert Combs, aged 70 years and
Mrs. Ava Gilmore, aged So were married
at Goldsbero.
The Golden Belt bag factory of Dur
ham will put 100000 bags on the mar
ket this year.
The commencement exercises of Green's
boro Female College vii be held on May
p, % and 20.
Frank Lemon, a negro, shot Mr.. Sterl-
ing Ooley, white, near Tarboro last week.
Coley will recover.
The commencement exercises of Green's
boro Female College will be held on the
9th and 28th inst.
Convicts are putting the finishing
touches on the ground to be used for the
Governors mansion.
The Franklin Press says that wheat
crops are looking fine in Macon and Oates
are coming up nicely.
The nomination of G. D. Smith, as
postmaster at Hickory, N. c., has been
confirmed by the Senate.
The one-year-old child of Mrs. Stock.
ton, near Lexington, fell into a we'll ant
was drowned, last week.
The crop outlook in the Ringwood sec
ton of Halifax county is more promising
than it has been for years.
Work will begin at once on the south.
ern extension of the Wilson & Florence
Railroad from Fayetteville.
A Reidsville doctor is seeking fame by
writing a book entitled, "The History O
the Grip in North Carolina"
1t now seems certain that Morgantol
is to have electric lights before the sum
mer season is oVer.-Herald.
The closing exercises Of Cedar Rul
Academy will be en- May Both instead o
31st IS announced last week.
A Smithfeld colored man Is in jai
charged with selling meat from "a hos
that had died a natural death.
Mary Thomas, a little colored girl, wa
burned to death about seven miles from
Greensboro one day last week.
An accurate survey of Goldsboro is be
ing made by a competent engineer, VIII,
will draft a system of sewerage.
Lottie Walters, aged II years, wa
burned to death at Durham last week b,
the explosion of a kerosene can.
The turpentine distillery of Mr.. J. E
Carlyle, near ~Lumberton, was destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 18th.
Shiloh Methodist church, near Monroe
was burned last week. 1t is supposed t.
have been the work of an incendiarv.
The Newton Enterprise reports a lot O
thieVing by negro boys in that town. Tn
principal articles stolen were clothing.
Goldsboro Dispatch: Manufacturers O
our native woods are among the best an
most profitable industries for Goldsborc