The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-29
CTATE NEWS.

Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Buncombe county cattle are dying OF
diStemper.
LeaksvilIe, has a new paper IN the
Piedmont Herald.
Mr.. Sid Alternately, of Mecklen0urg
county, died Monday, aged IS years.
PRESBYTERIAN evangelist Morton IS
holding a series of meetings at Dur
ham.
Father Gerard, the artist priest of
Charlotte, died Monday OF typhoid
fever.
Beaufort Seaside: Currituck county
has an e~ighU-year-Old boy who weighs
200 pounds.
Business houses are greatly needed in
Rocky Mount. A dozen stores could be
rented at once.
The steam yacht Lille, the oyster
patrol boat, is being put in thorough
order at Washington.
Arrangements are in progress for the
erection Of large cotton mills at Leaks
Vile Chatham county.
Mrs. J. L. Brown, of Charlotte, IS
dead. The funeral was the largest
ever seen in Charlotte.
The number Of students present at
Wake Forest College IS POS, being the
largest number recorded.
The directors of the Raleigh and Gas
ton railway have decided a semi-annual
dividend Of three per cent.
We learn that the High School at
Kernersville, with Prof. tetter as prln-
cipal, has near Is students.
Oxford Dag: Janauschek, the great
actress, VIII appear before an Oxford
audience one night this fall.
Henderson TOmahdlCk: This week
some $50 chickens have been killed by
minks in the corporate limits.
Virginia's~ fOOrspace at the Southern
Exposition viii be 50X15 feet, and there
will also be a large wall space.
A letter received from the Governor
of Kentucky announces hat he will
attend the exposition at Raleigh.
There were more than thirty loads
of tobacco from Pitt county on the
Wilson market last Wednesday.
The Farmers Adcocate, Tarboro,
says that +. 5. Registers guanO factory
at that place Is nearly completed.
Evangelist Sam Jones will commence
a series Of meetings at Wilmington on
October 10th, TO be continued for ten
days.
Messenger: The Lenoir and LinviIle
Railroad has been finished to Chesley
Gap. a distance Of four miles from
LenOIT.
y vein Of rich magnetic iron ore neal
Mt. Airy has recently been struck by
a party Of the United States geological
survey.
The first to pay his State and county
taxes was Alfred Hobbs, cOlored of
BrOgden township, says the GoldsbOrO
headlight.
Mrs. Carpenter, the female envan-
geliSC, began a series Of meetings Sun
day at Wilmington, in the Brooklyn
tabernacle.
Maxton UHion: Some of the cotton
planters Of South Carolina are taking
off cotton pickers by the 0 from
this section.
Mrs. David Walker, wife of a printer,
while walking with her infant baby at
Winston Thursday fell to the ground
and expired.
w. L. Alley, at matchmaker Of
Enfield has elOped with the young
wife Of Carter Carlisle, a prominent
citizen of Enfield.
1t is estimated that S. per cent. of
the people of Charlotte attend church
while only about ) per cent. Of them go
to the opera house.
The last Legislature shortened the
bird hunting season one month. 1t
does not begin now until November 1st
and ends March LIST.
300 nnn VO,,r,, NTOr', Cl11r{1oD
Association building and a $12, 600
hotel, both for colored, will be erected
in Asheville at ice
Two representatives Of the Imperial
Mining Engineer Corps Of Russia are to
go to Charlotte and investigate the gold
mines Of that section.
The Asheville Citizen says that
James ?. Waugh, aged 81 years, one
of JetfersOn,s leading citizens, died on
Tuesday of last week.
The Chronicle says that there is
probability of a telephone line being
built between WiIkesbOrO and Jeffer-
son at an expense Of s., 1000.
Twenty-six cOlOred people were bap-
tised in a pond near Lexington last
Sunday, the result of a revival in the
cOlOred Baptist church there.
a young white girl named Mary
Alternately, ii years old, was assaulted
by a negro last Sunday while on her
way to church in CASTOR county.
Louisburg is developing into a ON
siderable tobacco market. 1t has three
warehouses in operation. A number
of new prise houses are under way.
Chas. Hargrove while engaged in a
wrestling match with Andrew Borden
was stabbed by the latter at Wilson
Thursday and killed. Both are col
Ored.
nh-rCiniann of Charlotte has recniund