The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-01
CTATE NEWS.

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Extensive prr~,plratio@~ far the great
Southern Exposition are SaihS On III
Raleigh.
The grading for the NurircesOoro
railroad has been completed. Track
laying viii begin next week.
TarborO ~.SoutherHcr: Lee station
lost a barn and about 500 pounds OF
tobacco by fire this morning.
The outlook now is that there VIII
he tHn LARGEST attendance at Green's
bOro Female College i'll many years.
We note that ninety-seven additions
10 tho R2Dtist churches in North Caro-
lima are reported in Raleigh Recorder.
A shoe fly train Will be put on the
Norfolk and Carolina road between
Portsmouth and Rocky about Sep
TENDER 1st.
The Watauga Democrat says that
Mr.. James \. SimmOn, of Elk Greek,
has been taken to the State hospital at
M~organton.
An accident on the Carolina Central
railway, near Rockingham Wednesday
night, detained the West bound train
five or siX hours.
The report comes from Edenton that
!. l.. CStAiIIJtll, AANCCNA II VI III LANNAL
ming Lumber company Is over $4,000
short in his accounts.
The increased valuation in real and
personal property in Caldwell county
this year over last year aggregates
1896, $40, says the Topic.
The New Berne Journal tells of an
alligator killed by Capt. 7. c. Dixon
of the steamer kInstOn in NeuSe river
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Boon Democrat: Capt. COffey put
up one day last week thirty tons Of
hay. We hear some complaint that
the potato crop is rotteing.
The Scotland Neck mounted Rifle
men Tuesday had a target practice at
Mr.. 7. w. Fennor'S farm, and enjoyed
the annual brunswick stew,
Col. ToLn D. Cameron has grown at
Asheville, a tomato, the largest ever
heard of in that section. It's weight
was ? pounds and 81 ounces.
Germanton Times: Mr.. Jesse f.
Moore, one of Mt. Airy S most esteemed
and bOuCred citizens, died suddenly
last Saturday in Buffalo, n. y.
Captain James E. Merriam, proprie-
tor 0i Merriam HOTEL viii take
charge Of River View Hotel, Elizabeth
City, on the first Of September.
The experiment of planting rice on
Roanoke river low grounds, which
Is progressing at the State farms near
Weldon, promises to be successful.
GIr. Robert f. Cannon died in Con
cord Tuesday after a long illness.
He was Just % years of age and was
a young man Of brilliant prospects.
At the New Russell Gold Mining
COmpany's works. at ThOmasville. q
furnace has lately been erected to treat
the concentrates upon a new process.
Messrs. c.. s. Bell, of Beaufort. Joseph
PigOtt Of Straits, and Mason Robinson
of MOrehead City, have been appointed
Oyster Inspectors for Carteret county.
On the 24th instant a white female
child was discovered in a well formerly
owned by DR.. J. J.. Rome, at Maruin,
In the western part Of Union county.
The Wilmington Rerieir notes the
sudden death early yesterday mOning
at EIizabethtOwn Of Mrs. Mcdowell,
wife of Hon. 7. d. Mcdowell, of Baden
county.
According to the TarbOrO SOUtherHcr
the crop outlook IS much more hopeful
than 1t was a few weeks back. With
a reasonably late fall many may make
full crops.
The surveyors on the southern ex-
tension OF the r. Ks. Road arrived in
Winston Thursday, having completed
the work assigned them, the Daily
.Se,ttiueI says.
Rocky Mount PhUnir: The tobacco
crop is Tipening III all quarters exceed
ingIy rapidly and farmers I busily
engaged III curing it. LabOrers are IL
great demand.
Last Friday Dennis Heart, son Of
the chief Of police of Raleigh, while
handling d pistol, accidentally shot
himself through the hand, making a
painful wound.
Miss Mary Johnson, daughter Of
Rev. DR.. Johnston, who has been at
Biddle for several years, will go to
India as a missionary, the Charlotte
Chronicle says,
The coIOred Normal school 10 at
F~rankLmton, will be opened at Warren
ton on the 1st of October, the citizens
of the latter place having donated the
use of buildings.
The cars to be used on the West
ASheVllIe and Sulphur Springs Electric
Railway have arrived, and the first
trip was made ver the road Tuesday.
the Citizen states.
Beaufort Seaside Capt. Mark Mason
made the largest hall OF the a this
week in Core sound, catching 500 large
drum. They measured from two to
four feet Ill length.
The crops Of corn and tobacco on the
road between Greensboro and Mount
Airy are very fine. Some farmers,
claim they will raise owe fifty bushels
OF corn to the acre.
The Raleigh Mirror: We were shown