The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-26
STATE NEWS.

Trbaat from the West-Peanuts
md Cotton Seed from the South
Mormon elders are said to be
Winding their doctrine in Davidson
county. C .
"pnn1blican electOr in the Fifth
district.
iii with 5000 ~spindles, making the
with cotton mill.
Morcanton Herald: A great deal
.,oro Ray will be made in Burke this
rnar than ever before.
Torboro SOutherner: 1t is said that
4born is a movement to erect another
elton factory in TarbOro.
The debt on the Teachers Assembly
uaII st Morehead City, has been fully
naid. The amount was IS, 900.
The Charlotte Brick and Tile Manu-
occurring company has obtained it's
charter. The capital stock is 800, 600.
The town of Salisbury has con-
+ractpd with the Salisbury Sewer
company for a complete drainage
system.
Asheville Journal: A couple Cf doc
tors had a slight fist cuff on the
streets last night, but no serious dam
age was done.
Maxton Union: The continued rains
are working injury to crops. The
watermelon crop of this section is
said to be poor.
Forest City LEDGER: We never saw
corn crops look more promising. Cot
ton is looking well. wheat very good,
oats an average crop.
W. 7. Langley Of Wilson, has been
arrested in Winston charged with the
enlightenment of funds from the Singer
Sewing Machine Company.
Windsor Ledger: Owing to the
recent heavy rains the crops are badly
damaged 1t is not thought that more
than half a crop will be gathered.
Newton Enterprise: Upland corn
is looking as fine as w known in this
section, but there is too much rain for
the lOwlands. 1t is not doing we'll.
A meetin will be held by the citizens
on the 23d inst. to consider the reor-
ganizatiOn of q company to erect a
100 Darrell flour mill at Charlotte.
Norwood Vidette: Mrs. G. D. Suggs
killed a chicken a few days ago, and
iii N1OSoA1lS IL ~ I'LL JCLOlC 1OlAL1u q
needle. How it got there is the mys-
terry.
Newton Enterprise: Wheat thrash
ing has begun, but the rains have re-
tarded the work very materially. A
large part of the wheat is yet in the
field.
The High Point Enterprise says Mr..
J. c.. Welsh made 404 bushels Of wheat
on sixteen acres of land. On five acres
the average was over forty bushels to
the acre.
Chatham Record: The friends of
Mr.. John 7. Mann will regret to hear
of his death, which occurred at his
residence in Baldwin township on last
Tuesday.
Scotland Neck Democrat: The heavy
rains last week before injured the
crops a great deal. The prospect is
nothing like so promising as was too
weeks ago.
New Berne Journal: Two thousand
five hundred packages of truck went
off on the steamer Neuse yesterday.
Catalogues largely predominated in
the cargo.
John IgelStroem and J. L. Ritch are
endeavOring to organize a company to
establish lithographing works at Win
ston. Over $4,000 has already been
subscribed.
On Tuesday and Wednesday Of last
week heavy storms prevailed in various
parts of the country. We have heard
Of some harm done by freshets, says
the Lenoir Topic.
The Winston water works company
has decided to issue 800, 600 thirty
years ) per cent. bonds for the purpose
OF increasing the water supply and eX-
tending the mains.
The cotton compress now under way
of construction at Hamlet is said to be
about the largest in the State. 1t will
be ready for work by the time the
cotton season opens.
The Marion Record announces the
sale of the Charleston, Cincinnati and
says that work will be resumed by
August 1st on the line between Marion
and Johnson City, Tenn.
Lenoir Topic: AdIaid E. Stevenson
Vice President candidate, is a near
relative of the wife of Presiding Elder
ScrOggs, aud of Messrs. S. NJ. and G..
K. Clarke, of this county.
Charlotte Observer: The shipments
IN 04N pCoCAN0 44Ou1 OOuOL vol
DINA are tremendous. Yesterday 115
cars went through here, in seven sec
tlons, and two car loads of peaches,
Durham Sun: Mrs. Sarah Hopkins,
aged about As years, living on South
street, died about six o'clock yesterday
afternoon from heart failure princi,
pally, though she had been sick for
some days.
Carthage Blade; Is it not a singular
coincidence that the Republican mass
meeting and the Third party conven-
ton will meet here on the same day,
August 6th7 1t strikes us as very
significant.