The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
STATE News.

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Morganton will soon nave electric
lights.
A Cumberland county farmer last
year raised 400 bushel of ice,
J. H. Sanford, of Lalrinburg on
Tuesdays made an assignment.
J. a. Privett, of Wilson, has made
an assignment. The Liabilities are
small.
The citizens Of Salisbury are de-
termined to develop the tbacco trade
there.
The iron bridge over Lumber river
on the Atlantic Coast Line is being
erected.
Professor. w. R. Skinner, Seven
Springs, viii open a military school at
Clinton soon.
Afae at Asheville Friday completely
destroyed Mr.. }. M. Cayver's house,
c8using 50, OuO loss.
The Dunn Times reports that Geo.
n. Lee has a goose 80 years old, and
saws HI is the oldest in the State.
Several squares in North Wilkesboro
we're burned last week, everything on
them being entirely consumed by the
Aames.
% to February 1st 81, 900 bales of
coh0l had been compressed at the Char
bHe compress, 100000 to same date
last year.
TIKI inst regular train commenced
% ruin ove the Roanoke and SOuthrn
Rad from Roanoke to Winston Salem
On 4th inst.
: P. B. Humphrey & Co. lost So 600
BY fire at Wilson a few days ago. A
l6sOf 81, 900 was inflicted on the John
sion building.
Mr., w. Robinson, of Martin county.
who recently died, b]equeated s., 600 to
the Oxford Orphan Asylum, says the
wilson Mirror.
Rutherford Banner: The farmers
Of this county almost altogether express
determination to raise less cotton and
more home supplies.
Ashington Gazette: We have talked
w many farmers is this section and
tLey all say the acreaged in cotton this
year viii be greatly reduced.
Ia borO SOutherner: If Edgecombe
raBei 2, 900, 900 pounds of tobacco last
year, she will raise 10, 0O0. 900 this year
even if the yield is no better.
, Sem Press: The parties who are
bGhg for the Oil near Walnut Cove
1--we reached a depth of over one hun
Vad fe.t in the new location.
The whooping cough among the
&ildren, of which we have heard so
much, has proven to be nothing but
hduenz4, says the Hickory Mercury.
IN BERTHE county there are twenty
eighs candidates for county superin-
iteldent of public instruction. North
ErGtiLiaus do not want eff .. Oh, no!
A with viii h eaAmSnv ;.eo :!
b Esve been afflicted in ani around
E community is subsidiM to a great
Gt4nt, says the LexingtH Dispatch.
Pla1s for the new Presbyterian
&ur,h al S~tatesville haAe been ad-
pt.H by the committee The esti-
mated cost of the buildinA is about
5000.
In a short timethe educaticN pal board
of 5he Methodist conference5\ in this
]Sta e, will hold its annual hbeeting,
Bishops Galloway and Duncan Awin be
present.
Jonesboro Lender: Mr.. Cesley
Thomas. an esteemed citizen Ut, this
cOrlmunity, died at his home,( NEAR
Buffalo, on Friday morning last, aged
, years.
ut Is SAID a wealthy New YorkerNby
Ad nane of Peckham is making plains
dr the building of q handsome h ptAel
&C. Tk4pel Hill. for the accommodation ut
them visitors.
Deputy Sheriff Hyatte and Diarnondt
fIVblli IgtOn cOlOred, got into a dispuNG
er some taxes Monday evening AMI
Fneg exchanged a few blows, says tho
Tatblro Adr0cdte.
Thf present enrolment at Honor
Ipl ]. of Oxford, is 134. EThe open
Or the spring term IS lalger than
before known in the his Of
Famous school. h~
alan tells the Rockingham
bed 30U rabbits this seaSN
8naii island in Pee Dee and wOe
IN 4;1tten the rest had not the freshet
s3 j them away.
(r aOrd Dag: Died, at three o'clock
Us hOrring, at his residence in Ok
H BRooert Fl. Hobgood, of heart dis
az The deceased was proprietor of
l9 Exchange hotel
4 1iv IL '.scrape" was engaged /
2 ave Lexingtonians last Friday
iPIa and as a result $50 was added
tAs to vn treasury on Saturday, says
e lexington Dispatch.
ae0oro Courier: A tract of land
dining III acres, lying on CaraWay
81 r1ain. was sold here Monday Tor
p 1ollars and twenty five cents. This
4. tb0ut FIVE cents per acre,
Is.3 Fayetteville & Albemarle Rail
project is not dead, as many PEG
saem to think, but it is probable
Ills year will witness its compile
r. rom that place to Aberdeen.
ms Nos. 9 and 10 on the Western
a. Railroad, between Salisbury and
Rock, and sleepers between
Rboro and Knoxville we're dis
GaI1ed on the 9TH of February.