The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-03

in Elizabeth City has been confirmed
by the company in Boston, and work
, will begin this week.
The GOldsbOrO Headlight makes the
: statement hat a certain country mer-
chant of Wayne county took a mort
, gage recently on ten hens. twenty
little chickens and rooster. to secure q
debt upon a neighbOr.
KinstOn Press: Rev. j. G.. McMulleD,
Presbyterian, of GOldsbOrO, preached
at the NJ. E. church here Sunday after
noon and organized a Presbyterian
church with eight members. There
are others who will join.
Asheville Citizen: Col. John D.
Cameron, who went Out to the Sulphur
| Springs yesterday. tells the { 1tizen hat
he saw plainly from the Spring plenty
of snow on Creepy mountain. This Is
the first snowfall of the season.
Mai. Finger and his locating com
mittee of the Normal and Industrial
school for white girlsareat Greensboro,
but hat town has SO many eligible
sites it seems difficult, the Record
states, for all to agree on any II Of
them.
AshebOrO Courier: Judge Armtield
avs. 50 we hear. that if he Is appointed
TO hold Montgomery court lie will
make no charge whatever, owing to
the IS that has been piled up against
the county In consequence Of his sick
ness.
North Carolina Presbyterian: A
telegram from Rev. Egbert w. Smith
announces that the subscription of the
Winston church to Home Mission has
reached $4,000 payable in quarterly in
stalments. This is, indeed, inspiring
news.
At Hickory, just after the circus
performance. a negro woman who had
Witnessed 1t tainted and died. She had
been quite sick for several weeks, the
Lenoir Tnpic says, and was too weak
To go out, but insisted on going to the
circus.
1t is reported that there is not a
vacant dwelling house to REM III the
place. If people are expected to move
here to live, the property owners
| should build more houses to accom-
modate them, says the TarbOrO Ad-
UOcdte
The Asheville citizen is publishing
sketches and likeneSSeS of the prOmi
nent men of its town In addition to
Col. Cameron's sketches Of Gen. ling
man and Rev. Or Nelson have APP
peared. Gen. Clingman was born
III 1912.
y private note from StateSvillp con
Veys the information that the graded
schools OF that place are moving Oh
nicely with an enrolment Of between
three and four hundred Mr.. D. Matt.
Thompson Is superintendent of the
schools.
\ young white man, @ Pollard,
who lives near CLAYTON. went to Smith
field Tuesday to see Il friend III jaIl
Before entering the jail he w~aSsearched,
a loaded pistol was found upon his per
son and he was committed to jail for a
month.
The engine Of the Ajhpmarle Lumber
Company was demolished last week
and the work temporarily suspended.
With customary nergy MeS~rS Kramer
left the same day for the North 10 pur-
chase a new engine, says the Elizabeth
City FuicoH.
It l. reported by the Roanoke Nc3cs
thHtthe Hitch line OF S'eamerSnOW play
Ing ON the Roanoke rIvpr aIiigh up as
Halifax viii run to Weldon. They
viii carry cotton to Norfolk for one
dollar a bale, which is fifty cents less
than the freight.
Buncombe county criminal court on
Tuesday took up the case against
Robert DaUghtTy, for killing William
Terrence. a verdict of manSlaughter
was agreed on. Judge Carter sen
fenced the prisoner to twenty years in
the p~enltentIary.
The Motz boys were taken to Shelby
last Monday evening on the train.
accompanied by all lawyers and
about $50 witnesses and others. There
were over three hundred people at the.
depot when the train arrived, says the
L~incOlntOn Courier.
High Point Enterprise: Mrs. Till
man McGhee died last sunday at her
home in this city after a lingering i'll
ness. - Bob Smith says he has been
paid 50, 700 for hickory wood since last
February by the factory here. All of
it vas cut in Rowan county.
Weldon Neus: Col. Paul Faison,
Mr.. H. J. Pope, Mr.. B. \. Pope and
several members of the board Of di
rectOrs Of the ~penitentiary will to-day
visit the Caledonia and other farms
near TiIlery with a view of leasing
them for work by the c%Onvicts.
LincOlntOn Courier: A discovery of
a red paint" vein has been made at
Cherryville, and it is thought that
there is paint there in great quantities.
There is also a mine" of tire-proOf
clay in the edge of town, but it is not
yet known what quantity is there.
Mr.. Albert Marshall sold his property
in this town last week to Mr.. JnO For
law, and left for parts unknown. He
told no one where he was going, but
said that he would return when he
made half a million dollars. We wish
him success, says the Beaufort Sea-
side.