The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-22
~TATE NEWS.

Wheat from the
and Cotton Seed from the South
The Newton fair begins on the
29th inst,
Bill Nye and family are to spend the
winter in ASheville.
The Dallas Eagle, G.. H. Little editor
and proprietor, has suspended.
Stock law elections are called for in
six townships Of Wilkes county.
A negro was IL over by a shifting
engine and killed at Winston last
week.
Mrs. Eliza B. Dudley, who was born
at Newberne in 1910, died at Winston
on the 18th.
7 w. Birkhead, register Of deeds of
Randolph. is seriously sick at his home
in AShebOrO.
There is an increase of $217, 7S3 in
the valuation of property in Randolph
county owe last year.
Rev. \. II. Starnes, county surveyor,
was married at Asheville on the 18th
to Miss Eliza Penland,
In Cleveland county FOrbis and
Wares distilleries have been seized
by the revenue officers.
The First National Bank of Elizabeth
City has been authorized to begin buSl-
ness with a $50, 600 capital
Trinity College has opened with 200
students in all departments at the old
location in Randolph county.
According to the Concord STANDARD,
there are $50 acres Of land in II body
in Cabarrus county unclaimed.
Asheville M0untdin Home Journal:
Over 1000 children have been enrolled
as pupils in the graded schools.
At Asheville $37, 600 will be expended
in the erection of a COlOred Y. NJ. &. y.
building and a hotel for cOlOred people.
At Asheville last Saturday alderman
Leonard was attacked and badly
bitten by a dog which he believes was
mad.
Oxford Day: Capt. j. B. Hunter,
county manager of Granville cOunty's
exhibit, is hard at work to make it a
success.
Rev. Thos. Dixon, Jr., of New York,
will lecture in Raleigh on Wednesday
night, Sept. 30, on the Almighty
Dollar.
CharIotte's Bingham Mill is under
way, The building will be 77x5O6 feet,
and will have 500 looms, employing
wv 4lC1AAN'C-
Mrs. G. w. Lee, of Harnett county,
has three children and every One born
on September the 1st, during the past
three years.
Work on the new city hall at Ashe-
vile has been suspended IN consequence
Of a lack of funds for the prosecution
of the work.
The State Chronicle says: News
from the East is that the peanut crop
will be short, not more than half a crop
will be made.
Mai. Charles NJ. Stedman and Capt.
Matt Atkinson, of Asheville, are inter
ested in oyster planting at the mouth
of New river.
The Oxford Female Seminary opened
on the 10th with seventy-five pupils.
This number will be increased to over
hundred.
The ceremony of laying the corner
stone of the new building of the Second
Presbyterian church at Charlotte took
place Monday.
Despite the unfavorable weather and
the severe financial strain, Bingham
School opens at AsheVille Oct. LIST on
schedule time.
Mrs. Eliza Goodman, of No. ), has
canned peaches that I fourteen years
old. They are good yet, says the Con
cord STANDARD.
The North Caroline Presbyterian
reports thirty-three additions the week
preceding to the Presbyterian church in
North Carolina.
Rev. DR.. John L. Carroll has left
Asheville for Chapel Hill to assume
the passionate of the Baptist church at
the latter place.
Owing to the refusal Of the Iredell
county commissioners to renew liquor
licenses, all the saloons in Statesville
have been closed up.
The people of Forsyth county will
vote November 20 on the proposition
to issue $50, coo in bonds for a new
court house building.
A gentleman from Cronly tells the
Wilmington Messenger that deer are
so plentiful in his neighbOrhOOd they
go IN immense herds.
On Friday, Mr.. w. R. Albright died
at his home at Graham after an illness
of nearly three months. He was nearly
sixty-three years old.
The largest taxpayers in Cleveland
county the Argus says are the CleVe-
land cotton mill, which pays taxes on
$87, 1O3 worth of property.
The execution of Ben Bostick. col
ored, to take place at Carthage on the
30th inst, has been ordered public by
the county commissioners.
Mrs. James. the mother of T. Redden
James, one of BuncOmbe's best citizens.
died recently aged one hundred and
three years and six months.
The North Winston graded school
building is a handsome structure, fitted
up with the most modern cOnveniences