The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-12
STATE NEWS.

OACAiOp - lAldlI HAS U0Gl III Jilc lIlltl-
istry for fifty years.
Mr.. VIM. Alphin, of Jones county,
fell dead on Sunday last.
Ed nton is trying for a $50, 900 knit
ting mill stock, company.
Charlotte is much stirred over the
license question In her bOarders.
Judge Schenck and son David were
acquitted in the Schenck-Ff case.
Gov. Holt has respited the negro
burglar Alfred Dawns to Jan. 18th.
Mr.. John Cathey died in Mecklen
burg county, Monday, of heart dis
ease.
A very rich asbestos mine has been
found near Rich Mountain Watauga
county.
Governor Scales is not improving
any. but he is growing gradually
weaker.
A. w. Ellis & Co., OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
at EFarmmgtOn, Davie county, have
assigned.
The Baptist church of Cove Greek
in Watauga was buraeu by an in
cendiary.
s. D. S~uttenfield, dealer in general
merchandise at Reidsville, has made an
assignment,
The Journal reports a cotton stalk
from PantegO, measuring nine feet and
eight inches.
John @, Davis, the false p~retense
man Of Wilmington, had his bail bond
fixed at 500.
The penitentiary authorities claim
that the institution paid a profit of
$4,000 last year.
President Winston states that a bust
ness department will be established at
the State Universitg.
Over forty new houses are under
erection at Burlington, which will
amount in value to $50, 600.
A man left his wife and thirteen
children and elOped with another
in Chatham county.
1t is reported by the Burlington
HuUGeye hat the are 200 cases of sick
ness in the Haw River vicinity.
There were sixty-two deaths in the
corporation of Oxford for the twelve
months ending December 3Ist 1891.
Eighteen degrees below freezing at
Raleigh two or three days ago, The
lowest this winter in Wilmington is 26
degrees.
1t is reported that the Charlotte
Erenjng NeWS will SOC be changed
to a morning paper with press dis
patches.
Carthage Blade: Died at her home,
at Coles Mill on Wednesday night last
of la grippe, Mrs. Cole, wife of Harbard
Cole, ESQ.
At Clinton Sam Matthews was shot
through the head and killed by Sam
Wilson. The latter fed but was soon
captured.
The racket store man Of Burlington
failed for more than he was worth last
week and his store is now in the hands
of the sheriff.
Many heavy failures are reported
over the State on account Of the hard
times, Such depression has not been
known in years.
Mrs. Mai. @. CIudger, wife of Judge
J. @. l. Gudger, Of Waynesville, died
at Z O'Clock Wednesday last, Of grip
complicated with pleurisy.
In the liquor question the Day says
Oxford is in Charlotte's wake. The
town commissioners have refused to
issue license to bar keepers.
Goldsboro Argus: The death of Mr..
Harris H Crawford, q long sufferer
from paraIy sis, occurred at his home in
this city on New Years day.
H. J. Whitmore, baker and con-
f7ctioner, of TarbOro, has made an
assignment. Liabilities 81, 200. The
Southerner thinks he will pay out.
The Cozart property at Oxford was
sold Monday. The handsome Cherry
Hill mansion was bought by r. w.
Lassiter for SIS, 600, the Dag states.
In Granville Eli Marable knocked
his father in law, Peter Marable, in
the head with an iron pan handle
and ne will probably die. Both ne
groes.
The county commissioners of Meek
lenburg, Vance, Granville and Person
counties decline to give any more
liquor licenses. Now IS the time to
fill your jug.
w. T. Blackwell. for years the best
known resident of Durham, and whose
name IS very familiar to people all
over the country, now lives at Wash
ington, D.. Q.
The editor of the Atlanta Journal
made g. f. King a Christmas present
of a fine gold watch, as a token of APP
probation Of his work in North Carolina
and the South.
DR.. Stephen B. Weeks, late of Johns
Hopkins University, Is preparing q
complete autobiography of the His
torical Literature of North Carolina"
with a~nnOtatiOnS. 1
Asheville Citizen: r @. Pearson
and wife reached New York on their
return from their European trip on the
28th inst. and will arrive in this city
tomorrow afternoon.
just before going to press we learn
that Mr. w II Raff1n died this CIhIITS-
day) evening, at his residence, about
tmn mills from InniShIro lie WAS