The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-17
STATE NEWS.

Mr.. y. u McN66ly, a pfOLlllGIlC ltlOl
chant of Salisbury, died on Monday OF
typhoid fever.
jackson Fur stabbed Frank Altman
fatally in Stanly county Il night last
week. Fur escaped.
Odd Fellows at Oxford admire their
new building. 1t is an ornament 10
the town, the Day states.
The w. G. T. U. is building a temple
at Waynesville. 1t will cost Sf,OOU,
and the seating capacity IS 2,OOO-
Mrs. Mary Love, wife of Mr.. Thos.
T, Love died at Wilmington Thurs
day. it is supposed Of heart failure.
Mr. J.. w. Perry, of Princeton,
Johnston county, lost his gin and
several bales of cotton Monday by
fire.
The Asheville improvement lands
will be Withdrawn from the market if
they are not sold by Friday of this
week.
Mr.. Alfred Morton and Miss Alta
MOffitt. both of High Point, were mar
ried at the Benbow House in Greens
bOro yesterday.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of James II. Ramsey, postmaster
at Salisbury, too Miss Mary Miller,
November 18th.
The Peanut Mills building is goingup
RAPIDLY. When completed it will be a
handsome fOur-stOry building, says the
TarborO AdrOcdte.
Mr.. Ed. Welch's barn, near High
Point. was burned Saturday morning
at 3 o'clock, together with his horse,
buggy, cart, COW, etc.
Last week the store of Baltimore &
Mowery. in DixOnville, Rowan county,
was burned, all their goods being lost.
The stock was insured.
While feeding a cotton gin in Stanly
county, Thursday, Rufus Maulden had
his left hand caught by the saw teeth
and torn from his arm.
Joseph Cass, who several months
ago killed w. G.. WOOten, in Iredell
county and escaped, was arrested n
Tennessee on Thursday.
Invitations are out for the marriage
of Mr.. Frank w. Hancock, of New
Berne. TO Miss Lizzie HObgOOd, of
Oxford, on the 18th inst.
The none for the electric light
plant at High Point has been secured,
and the Enterprise hopes soon to hear
the hum of the dynamo.
At a family gathering on the 81st
birthday of David Wagner, in Watauga
county on Sunday, 90 of his children
and gr~eat-grand children were present.
In a negro settlement of over 1000
people. named Oberlin, near Raleigh,
there has for years been no fight
ing or disorder and no cases in court.
The Governor has offered a reward
of $500 for Henry Jones, the negro
H. -,O,-I,,OFa poncOnO Oil a nTsOnOI-
nent white man, in Franklin county.
Lenoir Topic: We think it is a fake
about Mrs. Bert Clarke, Of Hartland,
being bitten by a tiger at Morganton.
It certainly is not true that she was
killed.
The four-year-old son of David Dea-
son, Of Union county, while being left
alone in the house was so severely
burned Monday that he is not expected
to live.
Mr.. DuBrutz Poisson died of cry
sipelas Thursday at Wilmington, aged
IS years. He was the second of the
three o II of the late Major e. D.
Poisson.
Raleigh Chronicle: The penitentiary
authorities are arranging for the lease
of. 600 acres of land in Northampton.
This will furnish employment for 700
cOnvictS.
Mrs. Jerome Dowd died at the home
of her father, Judge McCOrkle, at
Newton. last Tuesday night. She had
been i'll for a long time with con
sumption.
F. Page, of Aberdeen, Moore county,
who has a large interest in Raleigh,
will at once build a handsome hotel on
Nash square, facing the new passenger
station there.
Henderson TOmahalUE What seems
p~aradOxical to us is, how a building
and loan ASSOCIATION can lend money
at 6 per cent, and pay its stockholders
81 per cent.
While returning to his home from
Carthage Friday, Archie Currie, of
Moore county, vas thrown off his
wagon by a run away horse and almost
instantly killed.
Goldsboro Argus: The foundation
has been laid for the new cotton factory
under construction in the northern.
part of the city, and the work is now
progressing rapidly.
Hickory Press: Mr.. Rays has
gathered Ill! bushels of corr from
two acres of land. 1t was raised on a
hillside, well MANFRED and stood very
thick on the ground.
Mr.. John D. Davis, Clark of Carteret
Superior curt, tells the Morehead
Seaside hat up to date 800 oyster
licenses have been granted to individ-
uals, and '275 for boats.
Mrs. s. B. Taylor, of Onslow county,
while out driving Thursday, the horse
ran away and he was thrown from
the buggy and so seriously injured,
that 4 died soon after.
In a collision of two freight trains
on the R & g. Railroad, which Oc-
CURED near Summit Thursday NIGHT