The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15
~TATE NEWS.

North ~ttlEs of Corn ana Grains OF
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CouonS Seed from the South
Winston /, building 4 new market
house.
Mr.. WA. West, the engineer killed
at the S~ta5osvi:ie wreck, had $1,000
worth of insurance.
The Greensboro knitting mills were
sold last Monday for s.. 500. Capt. j.
a. Odell became the purchaser.
Col. Harry Skinner is to address the
Alliancemen at Concord on the last
day of the far, September 18th.
Greensboro Record: Gov. Scales
continues critically i'll, with no per
ceptibile change in his condition.
Mr.. George G. Heck has purchased
from Col. J. NJ. Heck for 1913, 900 thirty
building lots in North East Raleigh.
For the fourth time Donnel Gillian,
Esq. OF TarbOro, has been elected So
Iicit0r Of ~EdGecOmbe Inferior Court.
The tobacco crop in Granville will be
so per cent. less than last year. The
tobacco is small, thin and chatfy, but
bright.
4 report reaches Raleigh that ex-
Priest j. }. Boyle is located at West
POin7, Va, where be is engaged in
keeping books.
Mountain creek overlooked its banks
on September 4th. destroying much
corn. Highest III five years, says the
Shelby aurora.
Moses Baumgarten, a Charlotte boy,
who a year 2 went to Charleston as
reporter on the World, was found dead
in bed Tuesday.
Salisbury Waterman: Welearn that
yb Western capitalists, and that they
Will develop the mine.
Winfield Davis, aged Is, shot John
Jarrett some days ago at Jamestown,
Guilford county. Jarrett has since
died and Davis is in Jail.
A true bill for murder has been found
against Levi EOuSG for hitting another
negro over the head with a fence rail.
The wounded al Is dead.
\ special from Carthage says L. w.
COckman wa murdered lear there by
Willis Shaw (cOlOred), having been
stabben thrO lSh the heart.
StanIy NeWS: One hundred and
three cOOps of checkers and over one
thousand dozen eggs were expressed
from this depot last month.
\ three legged goat just born on the
premises of Mr.. Hinyard Peele IS the
latest curiosity III Pikeville township,
says the GOldsbOrO Headlight.
Raleigh Chronicle: MIR. II. L. Fer
guson, Of North Carolina, has been APP
point d one Of the cadet Iieutenants at
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
While playing with some compan-
ions near GoldsborO, the ten-year old
daughter OF Joe Thompson, COlOred,
fell into a ditch and was drowned.
4 fire at Kivett & Farri'5 bakery
at Greensboro Saturday morning did
damage to the amount of 5000. 1t is
said the fire was Of incendiary origin.
The first bale of new cotton was
received yesterday by MeSsrs. Il, We'll
& Bros, from their plantation in this
county, says the GOldsbOro Headlight.
Last Sunday a man threatened to
shoot us. Now he is languishing in
jail. Moral: Don't monkey with a
newspaper man, says the Carthage
Blade.
In the g~oId-bearing section Of Cabar-
rus county a great deal of work is being
done, the Concord Standard says.
Local companies T operating the
mines.
Lexington Dispatch: The farmers
tell us that there has been entirely too
much rain for tobacco, causing it to
rot. They say it does not cur up well,
either.
Will the cotton pickers strike in
North Carolina? is question n hears
since the news m from Texas.
There are about 20, 900 negro Alliance
men in the State.
Durham Sun: Rev. A. y. Butler
has accepted the call to the ~pastOrage
of the Second Baptist church of this
place. as he so informed the cOngrega-
ton last evening.
The Salisbury Waterman reports an
other wreck on the Western n. G. Rail
road. y freight train was wrecked at
Marion. No one was killed, though
several were hurt.
Newton Enterprise: ~Peopleare work
ing oil their last years cotton very
rapidly. Cotton wagons are almost
as common on the streets now days as
they were last fall.
w. /. Milburn, employed in the pot
tory department of the GoIdsOoro
Brick. lie and Pottery Works, com
mitted suicide Monday by taking an
overdose Of laudanum
The arrangement of the county ex-
hibits 40 the Exposition has begun.
Wake county taking the lead, and
being followed by Warren and Craven.
Buncombe's date is Oct. O.,
D. n. Bennett, OF Norwood, has
bought an interest in the large hard
ware firm of SmiJhdeal, Taylor & Co.,
of Salisbury, aud hereafter the firm
will be Sm.thdeal & Bennett.
We see from a late correspondent
that Auditor SanderIin denies that he