The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21
.evrRAL A NEWS.
.ad from our Exchanges.

,r,.at is knee high IL Irede}l county.
:, oxford Loig-r is now issued semi
FesHy. =
= the 10th inst.
lamps during 1889.
rba Grand Lodge of Masons met in
aIsigb on the 18th.
~ hoard of directors of the State
..nitentiary met on the 18th.
Caldwell county farmer cleared
1000 on IS acres of tobacco,
n. EIam Caldwell, of Harrisburg, has
.,+on I'D and growing nicely.
n, JnIian Carr denies the report that
!. Durham Bull company has sold out.
N.vberne has voted $4,000 for a
.1road from that place to Wilmington.
ur ". K. Benson, of Rowan county,
!. showing a turnip weighing eight pounds.
The Grand Lodge in Raleigh last week
,..e1ected the old officers for the ensuing
year.
Two negroes were fatally injured while
....ling rides on a freight train near Char
lotte
The knitting mill at Charlotte is to re-
anne operations about the 18th of next
month.
An attempt was made to rob the store
If Mr. J. W. Pernell, at Pernell, on the
night of the 18th inst. ..
Mr.. Boyce Kelly, a convict guard near
Charlotte, accidentally shot one of his
feet off last Tuesday.
North Carolina made 4,492,O00 bushels
Of wheat, 6,941, 900 of oats, and A $50 900
bushels of corn in 1859.
The Grand Secretary of North Carolina
states that there is $4,000 Masons in the
State and $50 active lodges.
A tabernacle to hold 5000 people will
be built in Charlotte this spring for Sam
Jones to hold his meeting in.
An unknown man was killed on the
18th inst, near University Station, be-
tween Raleigh and Greensboro.
Archibald Brady, postmaster at Char
lottee, has renewed his bond in the sum
Of $4,000, says the Daily NeaOS.
The weather is so mild down on the
coast that young men were surf-bathing
Wrightsville Beach last week,
The Wilmington Star says that the
crop Of peanuts is about one-third less
than usual, but the quality is good.
The Elizabeth City CaroZiniau says:
Our fishermen are already making
preparations for the fishing season."
A little o of Mr.. George Freeman, of
Cleveland county, broke his leg while
baseball one day last week.
The stockholders of the N. G. Wagon
Company met in Raleigh last week and
to increase the capital stock.
Brown and Henderson, the postofice
at Charlotte, get three years each
N the p~enitentiary at Columbus, Ohio.
Mr.. Jno. Wadsworth, of Charlotte, last
week dumped 5000 pounds of spoiled
neat into the compost heap on his farm.
1t seems that the farmers in every Sec
ton of the State have lost more or less
neat from the continued warm weather.
From the Times we learn that Mr.. II.
D. King, of Hendersonville, killed a pig
p months old that weighed 500 pounds.
Last week while Mr.. W. G. Grams, of
Roxobel, was trying to shoot a cat, he
accidentally killed his own son 5 years
DID.
The residence of Mr.. Wash Barnett, of
Clear Creek township, wa burned on the
18th. The NewS says the fire was acct
Col. Julian Allen, near Statesvile, owns
mineral spring the water Of which is
to be an excellent specific for certain
DR.. Thomas E. Skinner subscribed $5,-
100 for the Baptist Female University on
condition that it should be placed at
We learn from the Salisbury Herald
hat the Misenheimer mine in Cabarrus
ounty has been purchased by New York
capitalists.
A gold mine has been sold in Mont
county for $2l, 900. J.C. Spooner
81. F. Taylor, of Wisconsin, are the
urchasers.
The St~atesville revenue Office, during
"a month oF nooo-Lo, oonoo&oJ A1EO