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

NTOrth-StdlkS OL III 0O
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
oDd Cotton Seed from the South
ubo hospital at Concord has been
.,orsni for lack of support.
clO 49, State Board of Medical Exam
liz Ii met at Wilmington yesterday.
IVl white girl, twelve years old, was
aiod in Chatham county recently.
Ie1o rawardi is offered for Jno. Fisher,
ASfanIv, who escaped the p%eniten-
tiary. ,,;14 oui+b
a 2 Nearly all the stock has been
taken.
.orv with a capacity OF 800 barrels
per day.
dor contract at Durham aggregate
Iosonh Armfeld, of K~ernersville,
onod 93 years a very esteemed citizen,
d3ed last Friday.
Can't. John. Richardson, a well
LnoTn and much esteemed citizen of
New Berne, Is dead.
Houston Barker, of Ashe county,
oood Is years, was killed last Thursday
b22 a tree falling on him.
Geo, Hines, colored, of Richmond
county. was killed by lightning, Fri
dav. While watering a mule.
rockingham has subscribed 500
oO0 to a new cotton factory. The loca-
ton was selected Wednesday.
The benevolent ladies of Wilmington
are about to establish a baby shelter
and a Home for working girls.
Several ladies are under treatment
at the Kelley Institute, Greenb pro for
the morphine and opium habit.
The Graham Cleaner says there is
the best prospect for a good wheat
crop in that section in ten years.
The 1891 tobacco crop of North Car
DINA brought SO, O0O, 900 and the cot
ton crop aggregated $15, 600, 900.
Counterfeit twenty five cent pieces
have successfully been passed upon
several merchants at G~oldsbOro.
The Odd Fellows orphan home near
GoldsborO will be opened to-day, Mon
dav, for the reception of inmates.
Mrs. Alphonso @. Measles and her
baby, were killed in BERTHE county,
Friday by a tree falling on them,
New Berne had a disastrous fire on
Friday, sustaining q loss of $25, 900.
The Journal contains list of losses.
Tuesday was a fine day for elephant
hunting. Several fine ones were cap
tured, says the Western Free Lance.
Lock Lier, of Laurinburg, while
foOling with a loaded rifle Monday,
accidentally shot and killed himself.
Minnie Parham, colored, of Granville
county, was arrested Sunday, charged
with burning to death her newly born
child.
1t is reported by the Mt. Airy Ners
that Leonjdas Mcknight, who robbed
Mrs. Taylor, has been captured at
Salisbury.
Jim Epps, colored, was jailed at
Shelby, Monday, charged with Grim
inally assaulting a young white woman,
Mary Davis.
The caterpillars are again showing
themselves in great armies in Bladen
Go. and are stripping whole forest OF
their leaves.
A colored school house in whites
district, BERTHE county, was burned
Tuesday night. The fire was incen-
diary origin.
The commencement exercises of
Chowan Baptist Female Institute at
Murtreesboro will take place May 31st
and June LIST.
Alittle daughter of A. J. Hanchey, at
Maxton, bitten about six weeks ago by
a mad dog, died Sunday night from
hydrophobia.
The merchants of Sanford are very
much encouraged. They say they are
doing a bigger business than they have
eve done before.
The Kimble Stables were sold in
Rockingham last week at auction.
Mr.. D. NJ. Morrison was the purchaser
and $3.50 the price.
White Caps in Cleveland county,
warned Joe Elliot, a negro dealer in
c~ontraband liquor, to leave / fifteen
days or be shipped.
Ed. Whitley, the negro charged with
the murder of policeman Moran of
Charlotte was caught hiding near
Winnsboro, s.. O., Friday.
Salisbury Herald: James Bradshaw,
a young fireman on the Western road,
committed suicide last night by drink
ing three bottles of laudanum.
The Durham graded school building
is being pushed to completion and will
be under roof in the next ten days.
This building will cost $25, 900.
We are pleased to hear that ove
4 $500 have been subscribed towards the
erection of an Episcopal church here,
says the LaurinbUrg Exchange.
The series of revival meetings held
at HObgoOd by Rev. D. H. futile, re-
suited in thirteen accessions to the
y church. The membership now twen5y
six.
Rufus Lipscomb, colored, while cross.
ing the railroad near astonia, Friday,
was run over by a train and had both
legs cut off. He is not expected to
live.
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