The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
STATE NEWS.

e Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
The chain gang has greatly improved
the roads in Cabarrus county.
The stock law has been carried in the
upper part of Caldwell county.
The firm of John A. Bovden & Co.
of Salisbury, made an assignment
Friday. The assets exceed the liza
bilities.
Granville has no bonded debt, does
not wv a copper, and has money in
the bank.
Andrew Fullenwider. colored, of
Dallas, walked over to Gastonia last
Thursday. He is 100 years old.
The Washing on Gazette says there
were thirty-t NO thousand bushels of
Hyde county corn on the market last
week.
Oxford Day: There are ten schools
for white children in Oxford. This
does not include the Oxford Orphan
Asylum
The Lenoir and Linville Railroad.
which runs about eight miles from
Lenoir, is developing saw mills all
along its length.
D. D E. Cameron. general merchant
at Manly, Moore county, has assigned.
His liabilities are $4,000, SAYS the
Rockingham Rocket.
Richard Moore, hardware dealer at
Charlotte, has assigned, with liabilities
aggregating SIG, 900, which the assets
are believed to cover.
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Pythias, the only colored lodge of this
order in North Carolina, was instituted
at Wilmington last week.
Greensboro Record: NJ. S. L. Trogden
has been appointed clerk of the U. s.
District Court at Greensboro vice Col.
John w. Payne, deceased.
Charlotte Chronicle: Farmers in
from Steel Creek yesterday report that
they r still picking cotton, some
having several bales in the fields.
Southport Ledger: On Monday
morning at 4 o'clock, Mrs. Martin
Parker, sister of Capt. Joseph Arnold,
died at her brothers house, in this
city.
Col. Wilson A. White was in Lenoir,
Thursday, and reported that humps.
measles and grip have got Little River
township by the throat, says the Lemon
Topic.
Mr.. William W. Connljey, aged about
Sc years, died at his home in Connolly
Springs last Wednesday morning Mr..
Connolly was IF the leading citizens
of Burke county.
In several portions of the county, we
hear of rabid dogs. Dog owners can't
be too careful in looking after these
indispensable, domestic, nice pets, says
the Hickory Mercury.
Charlotte Chronicle: w. A. Gil
lespie, of Lemley's township, had his
hand caught In a gin yesterday between
the belt and pulley, and bad laceated
His arm was also torn.
Raleigh NeUs and Observer: Gov.
Holt Yesterday offered a reward of
5000 for John. McInnis, who is wanted
for the murder of G. B. HorneT, Janu-
airy Sd, in Moore county.
Mr.. John Parsons, Of Allegheny
county, died suddenly. He was car
rying a stick of wood to the house, fell,
and was dead before any n could get
to him. He was eighty years old.
Scotland Neck Democrat: A gun
exploded IN the hands of a colOred
man on the river one day last week
anu lDJuE0u HUH very po1AAtuAy' IL
Pope was sent for to dress the wound.
B. B. Lewis who lives in No. 9 town
ship had two barns, with all produce,
stables, shelters and other houses de
gtroyed by fire Friday night. Loss
about $3.50, says the Tarboro Adro
cate.
Raleigh Visitor: We were shown
TO-DAY one Of the best limitations of a
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seen. 1t had a ring much like the
genuine, and was calculated to de
eeive.
Oxford Dag: The Oklahoma fever
has broken out among the cOlored
people of Oxford. Quite a number, it
is reported. have signed a paper agree
ing to emigrate to that distant Terri
tory.
Henderson TOmGhGack: Died at his
home, near M~iddleburg, on Wednesday
night last. Mr.. Green Twisda1e, of CON
gestion of the lungs, aged about SO
years. He had only been sick about
@ week.
Charlotte NelCs: King Young, a
negro who escaped from the Mecklen-
burg county chain gang, when the
county stOckade was burned a couple
of years ago, has been captured In
Atlanta.
Tarboro SOutherner: Reports from
the country are to the effect that in
some sections farmers + very back
ward about getting to work. The
reason assigned is inability to get the
money to pay labor.
Durham Sun: Rev. J. L. White, of
the FIRST Baptist church of this place,
j. conducting a meeting at Rocky
Mount. The news we have from there
is hat up to Wednesday there was
fourteen conversions.