The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
STATE NEWS.

Tarboro sold in 1891, 153, 900 pounds
of tobacco.
The grip has begun to affect horses
several sections.
Mr.. James A. CASTOR, of Mecklen-
burg, died Monday last, aged II.
Bryan & Co, and Mann & Co., of
Jonesboro have made assignments.
There are now 1877 children at the
Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville.
The 10Th instant, Lees birthday"
is a legal holiday in North Carolina.
1t is said that there are many Illicit
distilleries in operation in CaswelI
county.
Lenoir College will in the future be
the name Of Hickory former Highland
College.
At Durham, Thursday, Mr.. o. K.
Ferrall and Miss Lucy A. Couch were
married.
Dogs killed and wounded seventeen
head of sheep owned by r L. Walker,
near Graham.
Mr.. David T. BostaIn, one of the
oldest citizens of Concord, died MOndey
of pneumonia.
Rev. r. T. Vann, of Edenton, has
taken charge of the Baptist church at
Scotland Neck.
All the wires on the Richmond and
Danville road were down last week
during the snow.
Judge Walter Clark sold his valuable
farm on the Roanoke near Tillery, to
Mr.. John g. Powell.
John s. Forester 6 Son, of North
WilkesbOrO, general merchants, have
made an assignment.
The commissioners of Clinton have
refused to grant license to retail liquor
in that town, says the Caucasian.
Work was resumed several days ago
at the Egypt mine, and coal is being
taken out in large quantities, the Record
says.
Alderman W. F. Buchanan, of Char
lotto slipped on the icy pavement
Monday. His leg was broken near the
ankle.
Mrs. Robert Murphy died last Satur-
day at Walnut Cove. She was a
daughter of Mr. a. H. Joyce, of
Danbury.
The Granville county commissioners
have put off the liquor license matter
until their next regular meeting, in
February.
The Tarboro SOutherner says plainly
that the law in regard to the removal
of labor by agents is unconstitutional
and worthless.
In portions of Surry county the
grippe is very fatal. 1t appears to be
worse in the Piedmont section than
anywhere else.
A special train was wrecked on the
Western North Carolina road. six miles
from Salisbury, last Monday. The
damage was slight.
Smithfield Herald: Welearn that Mrs.
Phereby Goodwin died at her home in
Meadow township on last Saturday, at
the age of 70 years.
The commissioners of Bladen county
have snuffed the saloon candle. Liquor
licenses expired last week, and they de-
cline to renew them.
Rev. w. B. Morton of Weldon has
declined the position to which he was
recently elected, secretary Of the Baptist
Sunday-school Board.
The office of the late E. T. Speed, in
EdgecOmbe county, together with his
medicine and instruments have been
burned by an incendiary.
Rev. T. A. Bishop, pastor of Main
street Methodist church, of Durham is
at Wilmington, where his mother Is
quite i'll with pneumonia.
Ladies Of Oxford got up a petition
against the licenseing of bar rooms,
which they presented to the county
commissioners Wednesday.
Marion Free Lance: Mica mining
is booming in Mitchell county. One
company cleared $1,000 in two weeks
recently, so we are Informed.
Near Harrisburg, Cabarrus county,
the one year old daughter Of Mr. r. ".
Query caught fire from a broom and
was so badly burned she died.
Charlotte, N. Cross & Adams, the
largest book firm in this city, made an
assignment today. The First National
bank is the principal creditor.
Police officer Mabry of Roanoke,
Va, who died Sunday of injuries re-
ceived while making an arrest, was
buried al Ridgeway yesterday.
At Littleton Thursday Nh. William
Brooks and Miss Matte Pearson were
married by Rev. r. P. Troy at the
residence of the brides parents.
From what we learn a good deal
more wheat was sOwn in this county
last fall than usual. 1t is indeed good
news, says the WarrentOn Gazette.
A writer in the Baltimore Manu-
fact1rers' Record strongly urges the
establishment of a line OF steamships
between Wilmington, N. O., and Balt1-
more.
DR.. H. f. Manning, a native of Hall
fax county, but now a prosperous
dentist of Fargo, OAK, is visiting his
old home for the first time In twenty
years.
The distilIery warehouse Of Jeremiah
Bowles, in Iredell county, with all its
contents, has been destroyed by a fire,