The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-17

Payne, has been in progress at the
Presbyterian church in Concord. and
another congregation is now partici
pating.
Frank Buckner, the postmaster al
Granville, Buncombe county. has beer
arrested on the charge of stealing
checks from letters passing through
his Office.
Esquire James Smith was visited by
rogues last Saturday night, and de.
prlved of several fat hens and some
desirable garden sass, says the Licking
ton Dispatch.
One of our young hopefuls was asked
by a gentleman how many children
his father had and replied seven chill.
dren and M gGI," says the Laurin
burg Exchange.
Notwithstanding the backward sea.
son and unfavOrable condition of the
weather for farm work in the early
part of the year, much work has been
done on the farms.
Levi Harrin of Sparta township
takes so far the prize on sample straw,
berries. His specimen brought to ou1
office yesterday was the finest we have
seen in a long time.
It is reported to the Winston Sentinel
that the Richmond & Danville Rail
way will at an early date put on
through passenger trains from Colds
bOrO to Wilkesboro.
Wilson AdUGnce: And now we are
to have electric lights st last The
Wilson Y. M. @. A. is dead and buried.
The gymnasium has been sold to the
Raleigh Association.
Fayetteville Observer: DR.. J. A.
Hodges, of this city, has been commits
stoned by Governor Holt to be Assis-
tant Surgeon-G General Of the North
Carolina State Guard,
DR.. J. M. Hays, who recently re,
moved from Oxford to Washington,
D. O., becomes an assistant surgeon tC
DR.. w. A. Hammond, in the Ham,
mond Sanitarium there.
The Goldsboro Headlight advises its
readers to look out for counterfeit
twenty five cent pieces. It says some
have been successfully passed upon
several merchants there.
The last of the newspapers published
in the interest of the Grange in North
Carolina has ceased to exist. It was
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ecasi, Northampton county.
Durham Sun: Mr.. Robert Jeffreys,
living on West Main street, died this
morning about three o'clock. He was
in the 8Oth year of his age and had
been sick about three weeks.
Newton Enterprise: Wheat is very
promising all over the country. II
will be a little later than usual On &C
count of cold this spring but present
indications favor a fine crop.
Mount Airy Ne1cs: News reaches
this city just as we are about to go tC
press, that Leonidas Mcknight, the
SC )undrel who robbed Mrs. Taylor,
has been captured at Salisbury,
Statesville Landmarks: Geen goods
letters continue to flood the mails and
and have become a chestnut. Hardly
a day passes but some of our citizens
receive the humbugging propositions.
In Mecklenburg county some negroes
became greatly alarmed at a balloon
they saw at night b0bbing up and
down after it had descended to the
earth. They armed to meet the mon
Ster.
Winston Sentinel: The residence o
| MI. George Wilson, near PfafftOwn1
this county, was Destroyed by fire
with contents, yesterday. The los:
was several hundred dollars, with nc
insurance.
Ground was broke Thursday for the
large new tobacco factory at Asheville
E. w. BurkhOlder has contracted tx
have the building completed by Sep
TENDER LIST. 1t will be 50x7O feet, siz
stories high.
Raleigh Chronicles: Five county
c~onvicts, all colOred, made their escape
from the guards at the stone quarry
north of Brookside mark. One, whOst
name is Reddick Britt, has been recap
tured by the police.
An election will be held of the quail
fed registered voters of Winston july
I'd, to ascertain the will of the people
upon the question of the endorsement
of the bonds of the Winston Waite.
Company to the amount Of 800, 600.
Sheriff Wall has gone to Raleigh
with the two prisoners sentenced t.
the penitentiary by Judge Armfielc
last week. Thus leaves but one prison
er in jail who is serving out a shor
sentence, says the Danbury Reporter
New Berne Journal: We wer,
shown specimens of fine potatoes yes
terday from the farm of Mr.. T. J
Leary of Riverdale. The fine weathe
has been causing them to grow yer.
fast and shipping of the earliest viii
soon commence.
Goldsboro Argus: The shipment o
peas through this city from along tn,
line of the A. & N. .. Railroad, wa
the heaviest of the season. and wa,
perhaps the heaviest that will be mad,
during the season, as the crop of pea
is short throughout this section.
Winston Sentinel: Hon. w. B
Glenn, of Winston, who has been al
inmate of the State Hospital here for
year and a half, died in that institu
ton Wednesday morning. He hac
been declining rapidly for some time