The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-03
STATE NEWS.

ToTfh-SLdlAb VI
Trbaat from the West-Peanuts
"ond Cotton Seed from the South
,.bn Tockany, of Laurel Hill, acct
OH nIT shot himself last week.
nSa Methodists of Hickory will build
tondsome brick church which will
%,o first green peas of the season
u ohinped from New Berne Monday
: steamer Neuse.
ProI Buck Blackwell, of Durham, is
of the students at the Kelley In
ifr1te at Greensboro.
The next event of religious interest
,tnFe place at Greensboro is the Epis-
nal convention, May 20.
Mr. Frank [card, of Newton, has 100
,-os of wheat now over knee high,
Us the Hickory Mercury.
less guano has been sold in Halifax
IA the adjoining counties this season
han in any year since 1866.
Row. 7. N. Ivey, now of Roxboro, en-
~ the faculty Of Trinity College in
he fall as associate professor of Latin.
The evidence in the trial of the ex-
n John @. Davis, at Whining
m, appears to show that he is insane.
Warrenton Gazette: On Tuesday
ight last dogs killed all of Mr.. Alec
F9tzenstein's sheep, fourteen in num-
er.
The Washington Gazette says that
oore than a hundred thousand cells
ave been shipped from there re-
emily.
DR.. w. H. G. Lucas is the delegate of
baden county Alliance to the Alliance
Inference to be held at Raleigh
Nay II.
Alittle girl, grand daughter of Mr.. o,
\ Hanchey, the butcher died last
Sunday of hydrophobia, says the
RObeSOniGn.
Albemarle NeUs: Mrs. VIM. Whit
ock died on last Sunday night from a
severe attack of the measles, at her
home near here.
The Reformed church is the first in
Hickory to use unfermented wine for
he holy communion, says the Hickory
Press and CGTOLiniGn.
A beautiful and substantial four
wheel hose wagon for the Goldsboro
lire department has just been turned
but there, the Argus says.
Revenue officers have been making
things lively in Person county. Two
.iistilleries are reported to have been
seized, says the Alliance Echo.
The board of trustees of the colored
4. & NJ. College met at Greensboro
yesterday to accept site, elect a presi
dent, and attend to general bushes,
Rev. DR.. Walter Moore, of Hampden
University, Va, will preach the
Daccalaureate sermon before the senior
class of Salem Female Academy, May
I'D.
Lewis Henry White and Governor
colored, were drowned in Hyde
county while attempting to fish shad
nets in a small skif during a strong
gale.
Mount Holly Ners: This week Mr..
NJ. Jenkins brought us in one of the
finest specimens of iron ore we have
ever seen-we have een some very
fine ones.
The Fayetteville postofice is now in
The hands of negroes. The three as,
to the new postmaster, Ben
Henderson, r all negroes, and arehis
The Henderson Gold Leaf states that
Mr.. II. 7. Jenkins is organizing a stock
company for the purpose of operating
another smoking tobacco factory in
Henderson.
Salisbury Waterman: The recent
cold snap is said to have killed most
If the peaches, though there will be
some left. The other fruit crops will
not be hurt.
The colored Alliance in Halifax
county numbered nearly a thousand
not long ago, but it is re
ported now that they are rapidly leav,
ng the order.
Charlotte NelUs: The first passenger
rain from Charlotte to Atlanta over
he new route through Monroe, left
Charlotte this morning with a good
passenger list.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Mr. John
Staten died at his home about seven
from Scotland Neck Saturday
morning, 10Th inst, at two o'clock
aged 43 years.
Winston Sentinel: Mrs. Julia E
Wilson, wife of judgessThomans J. Viii
,on, after an illness of several months,
oreathed her last at 1o'clock this morn
of heart disease.
The Elizabeth City Economist i.
to hear that oyster commits
homer Lucas has changed his opinion
pd now favors allowing dredging fol
.ystdrs in deep water.
The Elizabeth City Economist re
Sorts that Messrs. Creole and Wahal
AVE sold their South Lake farm, IL
hyde county, to some Northern PEG
lie for fifty thousand dollars.
Statesville now has an organized
;reamery company, with DR. j. j
lott president and w. G. Lewis sec
etary. 1t is backed by many of the
strongest farmers in the county.
Concord has voted a subscription Of
rs, 900 to the building of the Concord
youthern Railroads.&c. votes for tt
My ID against, out of a registered vote
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