The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-16
STATE NEWS.

Wn0aC from the 6St-P6anuCS
and Cotton Seed from the South
Five or six persons have recently
been killed by lightning in this State.
William w. Johnston, of the Ninth
district is appointed a cadet at West
Point.
DR.. ]. NJ. Templeton of Cary, has
been nominated by. the Prohibition
party for Governor.
The Greensboro Record is told that
IN July there were 81 interments at
Winston and II at Salem.
William M. Shelton, on trial for his
life in Madison county, died in his cell,
Saturday night, of heart disease.
A one-half interest in Pamlico, the
noted trotting stallion, has been sold
for so, 600. This is a Raleigh horse.
The Asheville shoe company has re
moved its plant to Eliz%abethtown
Tenn, for want of railroad facilities.
Mr.. Thomas Williams, who has been
merchandising in New Berne for fifty
years, is dead. He vas of English birth
and a Methodist.
J. Wallace Cook, of Forest Hill,
made 100 bushels of Irish potatoes
from one half an acre planted, says the
Concord Standard.
The outlook for the tobacco and corn
crop is said to be gloomy from the
Forsyth line as far as Wentworth, the
county seat of Rockingham.
The G%reenvilIe military company,
which was disbanded some months ago
by the Inspector General for failure to
comply with regulations, has been re
organized.
Southport Leader: The rice fields
at Orion and Kendall plantations con
tinUe to make an unusually fine ap
peararce, and the crop prospects are
for a heavy yield.
Charlotte Observer: DR.. Montana
way resigns. The pastor of Tryon
Street Baptist church takes his con
gregatiOn by surprise. The resigna
ton referred to the church.
Winston Sentinel: Mrs. Samuel
Hege, of Pleasant Fork, this county,
dropped dead late yesterday afternoon.
The deceased was returning from the
spring. She was about 80 years of
age
Wheatis turning out we'll and several
big crops are reported by the thrashers.
We want to get a list of the biggest
crops. Mr.. Nicholas Sinkens raised
over 400 bushels, says the Lenoir
Topic.
Rockingham Spirit of the South: A
man by the name of E. B. Butler was
brought up from Laurinburg Tuesday
by constable and lodged in jail, charged
with stealing nearly a cart full of vari-
GUS things,
Winston Sentinel: Farmers who
come to Winston from Stokes ard
Rockingham report the cops in those
counties as looking, exceedingly fine.
Corn and tobacco, they say is the best
seen for the past forty years.
The new pipe organ, costing 81, 900,
was tried for the first time at St. Paul
M. E. Church Sunday morning and
found entirely satisfactory. A large
congregation attended the services,
says the Goldsboro Headlight.
Mr.. T. B. Smith, of Laurel Branch,
this county, tells us that he found a
bee Tree last week from which he took
one hundred pounds of honey. The
comb extended along the tree for eight
feet, says the Allegheny Star.
Our Enterprise correspondent writes
that Mr.. Eli Zimmerman, of thatplace,
is the owner of a horse that is 80 years
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much work now az it could % years
ago, says the Lexington Dispatch.
During the storm Monday in Cald-
while letting down a window, was
struck and killed by lightning. Some
of the family were affected, but none
seriously, says the Hickory Mercury.
While Mr.. Dupe Clodfelter, the clever
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the other morning, the knife slipped,
and he inflicted a painful wound on one
of his fingers, almost severing it from
the hand, says the Lexington Dispatch.
A colored man by the name of Baze-
more vas killed in the log-way at Mr..
R. H.. Smalls camp on the @. g.. r.
Railroad Saturday. He was loading
wagons and a log rolled on him crush
ing him to death instantly, says the
Windsor Ledger.
Mr.. John Broom, who lives four
miles south of town, we learn upon
reliable authority, is the owner of a
chicken which at four days old, began
Growing, and is keeping it up. It now
crows like an old stager, says the
Monroe Enquirer.
Hickory Press: The Miller mine in
Watauga has been purchased by Leven-
thrope, Gwyn & Co., and is being re-
opened under the supervision of an ex-
pert, who pronounces its richness in
magnetic ore fully equal to the famous
Cranberry mines.
Tarboro Southerner: Mad dogs have
been raging in the vicinity of ". D.
Lancaster's store, in No. Z township.
One presumably mad was killed by
Billy Williams, but not before it had
bitten a hog, which now shows the
symptoms of rabies. e.
Washington Gazette: The light
house tower at Hatteras is the tallest
in oviC+onOo 100 foot Tho 100 foo