The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-08
STATE NEWS.

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~North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
At Marion last week Mr.. Flemming,
the proprietor of the Flemming houso,
died of Bright's disease.
Oxford LEDGER: Our Baptist friends
are taking active steps for the cree
ton of a handsome new church this
summer.
The foundation Of the new county
court house at Wilmington has been
laid as high as the street level and the
work is progressing nicely.
The Concord Standard says there is
no doubt there is a decrease of at
least one third of the chattel mort
cages this year over last year.
T. H. Vanderford and J. B. Lanier,
of Salisbury, have bought a gold mine
from Judge McCorkle and others for
$40, 600. The Herald says they will de
velop it.
A telegram to the Wilmington Star
says it is a settled fact that the Oxford
& Coast Line Railroad will without
doubt have Rocky Mount as its ter
minal point.
Kinston Free Press: Mr.. D. R.
Jackson, of LAGRANGE, was in Kinston
a few days ago.. He told US that more
cotton would be planted around La
Grange this year than usual.
Kings Mountain NeWS: The news
comes to us that Wesley Huffstetler
killed a negro man in Lincoln county
this week. This makes two homicides
for old Lincoln in the last fortnight.
Greensboro Record: DR.. T. A. Brooks,
a distinguished physician of Chatham
! county, died Saturday at Sller, in the
63d year of his age. He held important
places of trust during the war and
since.
Lexington Dispatch: Two Juveniles,
of about 13 years, have gotten hold of
$50 and a 80 calibre revolver and under
cover of darkness ran away from their
homes at the cotton mills last Monday
night.
Creswell & Brothers store in Char
lOtte was robbed of many jars of brandy
breaches. and the safe Which contained
81, IT'S was battered, but the burglars
were unable to effect an entrance to
the safe.
GoldSboro Argus: A petition is
being circulated and is being numer
ously signed, praying Gov. Hold to
commuteth death sentence Of Weight
ma Thompson to imprisonment IN the
penitentiary for life.
Abel Bell, a colored brakeman of the
A & n. @. Railroad, whose home is at
Wildwood, accidentally fell between
two cars of the freight train Thursday
and was crushed to death, says the
New Berne Journal.
The executive committee of the
Western North Carolina teachers as
ISOLATION met at Asheville Saturday
and decided that the next annual meet
ing of the association should be held at
Waynesville, On June IA II.
Durham is going forward steadily.
%hen work begins on the new Trinity
church, the ley hotel, and that already
going on DR.. Carr's new office, you will
see some moving around in this part of
town, says the Durham Sun.
Charlotte NeW8: Bishop Lyman will
conduct services in st. Peters EpiscO-
pal church tomorrow morning, and at
st. Michael's at night. Bishop Lyman
yesterday confirmed a class of ten; at
St. Marks church, in this county.
Charlotte Chronicle: There are 200
students at the Biddle Institution
the largest number since the school
was established. - There are now so
inmates at the poor house. This is ten
more than was cared for last winter.
Smithfield Herald: Two convicts
to the p~enitentiary from this county
this term of the court. Sam Privett,
an old negro preacher, for two years
for stealing cotton and Tom Barnes,
colored, for two years for stealing
meat.
Kinston Free Press: Sheriff Sutton
showed us a very deceptive counterfeit
half dollar the other day. 1t appears
all right to the eye, but does not ring
when dropped. Counterfeit silver
coins are said to be in pretty general
circulation.
Raleigh Chronicle: Upon request,
Gov. Holt has ordered an exchange of
courts between Judges Bryan and Shu-
ford, whereby the former will hold the
Spring terms of Iredell and Dare, and
the latter will hold a two weeks Spring
term of Nash court.
A safe blower broke into a store at
Flowery Branch, on the Air Line Rail
road, Saturday night, and robbed a
safe of 800 in small change. The rob-
Der was captured yesterday in a neigh
boring town. He had drilled a hole in
the safe, and shattered the bolts with
powder.
Marion Free Lance: MI. J. A.
Swan, who lives about three miles
from here, has a daughter four years
and six MOI tbs old who is three feet
two inches high and two feet four
inches around her waist. Her waist
measurement lacks only 10 inches of
being her height.
New Berne Journal: Owing to the
heavy track caused from the rain fast
time could not be made. The first was
the $500 race in which Frayley's gray
horse from Salisbury was the winner.
Time 2.4O. Second race was for a $3.50
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