The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
STATE NEWS.

Of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
During the year J. E. Calhoun says
Rocky Mount has put 500, 600 into
buildings.
Mrs Mary G. Gudger, wife of Judge
J.. G. l. Gudger, died in Asheville
Wednesday evening.
A careful estimate was made yester-
day that $3.50 would cover the damage
to buildings by Wednesday mornings
fire.
Forty convicts are sick with grippe
at the State farms near Weldon. At
the Caledonia farm eight deaths have
resulted.
Gastonia Gazette: A company for
establishing a new cotton manufactur-
ing plant in GastOnia was organized
last Thursday.
During the year just ended 179 mar
riage licenses were issued in Chatham
county; IS more than in 1890, the
Record states.
The bingham mills building at Char
lotte, which has oeen under construc-
ton for the past six months, is now
about completed.
Senator Vance is at his home in
Buncombe, Gombroon. His son. Mr..
Charles N. Vance, is with him Mrs.
Vance is in Washington.
Work on the GoldsbOro cotton mills
still advances and the building, the
Argus states, grows in hansome pro
portions and impressiveness.
J. Nj. Guyer has retired from the
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and is succeeded by j. T. Robertson,
late CT the Burlington NeWs.
Salisbury Waterman: Gays Chapel,
a Methodist church ON the Wilkesboro
road, about six miles from Salisbury,
was burned Tuesday morning.
Our excellent contemporary, the
Ashevllie Ctttzen, appears III a reduced
size. 1t is a handsome, ably conducted
daily and deserves fine success
A gentleman who came from Chat
ham county yesterday said he was
informed the fire in the Egypt coal
mine had not yet been extingulshed.
Murfreesboro Hnder: Track laying
on the MurfreesbOrO Railroad vas com
pleted Tuesday, and the road is nov
being leveled up and prepared for use.
Hillsboro Observer: Mrs. Sarah J..
Bradshaw, wife of Mr.. T. 2. Bradshaw,
died at her home in Bingham town
ship on the morning of December 18th,
Greensboro Record: Fielding Man
gum. an old Confederate veteran, and
well known to our citizens, died near
the city Christmas morning with the
grip. ~
Durham Globe: The preachers of
all denomination must sooner or later
learn that buck shot are plentiful, and
that husbands generally will kiss their
own wives.
Rev. DR.. II. G. Hill, of Maxton, is
at the bedside of his dangerously sick
son, sMr. Ell. B. Hill, who is attending
the business college at Poughkeepsie,
New York.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: From the
information at hand from parties who
know, there is more poultry shipped
from WilkesbOro than any n town
in the State.
Between SO and 100 diamonds have
been found in Mcdowell county. One
of them, the largest ever found III the
South, was on exhibition at the Paris
Worlds Fair.
Allegheny Star: Mr.. Allen TOlliver
of this county, died on the night of the
SUIl. dU UIC IlDCO ~ dSC VI LAAAAC0y VI D
He leave a widow that Is now ninety
SIX years old.
Rev. J. 1. Goodman, who has long
been pastor of the Lutheran cOngrega
ton at Winston, will very probably
accept a call to a church near Kansas
City, Missouri.
Kinston Free Press: We learn that
Mr.. VIM. Alphin, of Chinquepin town
rlSo T,7o- a,,TnEU n Fnn1nH dead very
suddenly Sunday morning. He was
about so years old.
One of the latest additions to the
collection of portraits OF prominent
North CarOlinians In the State library
is the portrait of Gen. William CASTOR
Lewis. State engineer.
Mr.. T. J. Jerome, of the law firm OF
PemberUOn & Jerome, Albemarle. Is
here to read the proof sheets of adigest
of the laws of North Carolina which
that firm is preparing.
It is now asserted that the South
Bound railroad is to be extended from
Columbia. S. c., to Monroe and at the
latter place form the Northern connec
ton originally contemplated.
The Raleigh Chronicle has kept track
of the matter and now says the Oldest
mule in the State is owned by j. u.
Capps, of Johnston county. 1t Is So
wears old and still a good worker.
Rev. r. G.. Pearson writes a long
letter to the Asheville Citizen from
Burdighera, Italy, under date of Decem-
Der 3D. and winds up by quoting a few
lines about Home Sweet Home"
Eames & Earnhardt, of Salisbury,
f1]rniture dealers, havemake an assign
ment for the benefit of creditors, The
Liabilities are about 81, 900 and the
assets will not reach that amount.