The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
STATE NEWS.

ALtA ~ Ill ~ A%lCC vi NAN -'N
Of grapes snd Tobacco Stems from the
~NOrJh-Staiks OF Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanute
and Cotton Seed from the South
1t is said the recent McDougald trial
cost IS, 900. /
CAPT. l.. w. McLaurin, a promin' Mt
citizen OF Laurinburg, died Tuesday.
Five large flats or apartment houses
are III course of construction at Salem.
Two young ladies died at the Greens-
pore female college last week OF the
grippe.
Efforts are being made to put the
suspendtd bank at Clinton on a good
foOun5.
The discovery of green sand in
New Hanover county Is one OF great
Importance.
Much pork VIII be put up in John
stOn county this season, the SmIthheld
Herald says.
J. W. summers, Esq, a prominent
lawyer OF Mecklenburg, will make
AsuevIlIe his home.
The new band of the Fourth Regi-
menU, at AshevIlle, Will be regularly
enlisted In u few days.
A railroad is being surveyed from
Red Spring to a point on b Wilson
Short Cut, near Mt. TABOR
A SpecIal train carrying the Ema
Juch Opera Troupe was wrecked near
Oxford last Wednesday afternoon.
MIR. Jrthro Howell, of Fork town
ship Wayne county, from four acres
has gathered 2,O57 pounds OF lint
cotton.
Henry Grady Lodge. No. 102, |. O.
0. f., was ORGANIZED at Oxford Tues
d.. evening. Mr.. =. +. Crews is Noble
Grand.
Gov. Holt has pardoned Robert
Smith, who was sentenced from
Wayne county for five years for
larceny.
The people Of Sampson county are
reforesTIng, by protecting the young
pine trees, a million OF which are
growing
Owing to his continued i'll health,
Nj. CUvIngton retIres from the edI-
tOrial control of the Farmer and Scot
fish Ctief.
AS vet there is no new as to the
whereabouts of Cashier BOwden, OF
the smashed First National bank at
Wilmington.
MISS Laura Thacker, a pupil at the
Greensboro Female College, died last
Thursday night, after an illness OF
about Two weeks.
1t Is stated on good authority that
Mr.. B.. l.. Duke, of Durham, will put
$50, 600 IN the mauUZ .cture of plug
tobacco at Mt. AiryNak
Moore Bros. of fOaks, general
mercn ants, have -four Fl, They also
dealt IN turp&nfsjxneS4e preferred
debts tgsres2&e $1,000 =,
w. B. WA rold a big load at
GraveIl'5 F&ff!mnletrs Warehouse last
Saturday at an average Of $2I, says the
Rocky Mount PbGn5C.
An Asheviile paper states that 6 552
guests registered at the Battery Park
Hotel since January !, 1891. The MOTEL
has now about 80 guests.
Mr.. Robert Morrison, a prominent
business man of Wilmington, died there
suddenly Sunday in the 60th year OF
his age. of heart disease.
Two hundred and forty dollars is
what the entertainment given at Char
lotte Monday evening by the amateurs,
Melted the Queen City Guard.
the dwelling of Mrs. NJ. Z. O'Berry,
near Dudley, was burned Sunday.
Only a small quantity of furniture was
SdNSu llltlS az LIZ
]. @. Ramsey, of Greensboro, dealer
in TOYS, CONNECTIONS, &c, has made an
to James + Boyd. The
assets aud liabilities 7 unknown.
Mr. H NJ. Buffers, Of the town of
Hub, has put $25O.OOO IN the lumber
industry in North Carolina His big
mills now cut 100, 600 feet OF timber
daily.
~ oaeao D,,51ov~ VVovpa
county. Will be in charge the the Colds
bOro Hpndiiqbt states, Of a negro
woman. the wife of J. +. Baker Of that
place.
The barn of w. M. Hawkins, with
1.4IU bushels of rice, 1870 bushels of
corn. &; were destroyed by fire Sat
urday 1T his farm six miles from Wi
miugtOn.
Jno. Cook, of St. Johns while OF
his way t. town was thrown from his
wagon aud received a big cash on the
side al his head, says the Concord
Standard
The Methodist Episcopal Church at
Ashrviile is undergoing repairs and
improvements aggregating Il cost of
$4,000. 1t will be reseated with fine
opera chairs.
On Sunday evening near TarbOrO a
negro woman was knocked from the
track by an Albemarle and Raleiyh
Railroad engine and her injuries are
probably fatal.
II. & L Wright of Salisbury who
have assigned, bare assets of $I3,O0O
litbltIties $i1, 600, and have surrendered
all their property, not even reserving
the homestead.
Max Chambers, colored, on Wednes-