The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-05
STATE NEWS.

49, state ETOSo
cream OF the pioa from the East-Clusters
and Grains Tobacco Stems from the
of Grape C+aIts of Corn and Grains of
NorI Last from the West-Peanuts
W. cotton Seed from the South
ton Sentinel: The farmers are
WIS ILsV o1er their fine wheat crops.
iuoh"u Salisbury Waterman says the
the .oIIer mill there will be built at
onC0. Oxford Dog reports slight
inc ines from the recent heavy rain
tauS' ,sboro wi celebrate the 4th
6 fTIT on the first Monday in next
%sarIotte has a dead beat organiza
On" 70 bovcott the merchants, the
TGr8 reports.
1ordered a 600 pound bell for the
Ppros5vterian chuch.
DID Springs Comet: The splendid
Inc we are having have improved
t%a crops very much.
The grape yieldin the central part of
ha state will be less than last year,
though an average crop.
Mrs c. A. Williams, aged % years,
,iod of heart disease at her home in
TITbam Tueaday afternoon.
At Salisbury Saturday night an
oIantric storm set a house on fire caus
ing a loss of nearly one thousand dol
lars.
rockingham Rocket: Richmond
county is now in its harvest season
and the small grain crop is reported
good.
Miss Susie W. Mcdonald, a bright
and beautiful young lady of Charlotte
died at her home in that city Sunday
aged 20 years.
A very destructive hail storm passed
over portion of No. 6, on Friday. The
cotton was badly damaged, says the
Concord Standard.
It is now reported that the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company will
nush it's road from Winston south by
WVav of Townsville.
Wilmington, following the excellent
example set by Raleigh, is putting up
the glass-front key boxes at the fire
alarm telegraph DOXoS.
It may be stated as almost among
the Certainties that an electric railway
will be constructed from Wilmington
to Wrightsville at an early day.
Heavy rain and wind storms are re-
ported to have damaged crops con
siderably in Forsyth, Guilford and ad-
Joining counties Monday evening.
A party of masked men visited the
house of J. E. Harrell in Surry county,
Tuesday nighta and riddled the premises
with bullets. Nobody was killed.
Kinston Free Press: Mr.. J. l. Vause
tells us that he knows from personal
experience during the past year that it
pays better to raise hogs than cotton.
The Reflector hears that some of our
farmers will begin curing tobacco
printing next week. Pitt is always in
the lead, says the Greenville Reflector.
Thos. Nicholson and Roland Walker,
two young men about eighteen years
Of age, while bathing in Tar river on
Saturday afternoon last, were drowned.
congressman Jesse J. Yeates,
of the First district of North Caro-
lima, is very sick in Washington of
Bright's disease and is not expected to
live.
The residence of Mr.. P. M. Bern
hardt was struck by lightning and
burned a few nights since at Salisbury.
The WatchmaH says it was fully in
Sured.
Concord Standard: A Federal pen
%sioners, living in this county, has
been notified that it is impossible to
pay until the treasury has something
to pay.
From the Rutherfordton Banner we
learn that Mr.. Will T. R. Bell, Jr., has
been licensed to preach by the quar-
terly conference of the Methodist
church.
The building committee, on account
Duke, postponed receiving the Trinity
College building at Durham for the
present.
A deputy sheriff Of Burke county
was fined S. by Judge Bynum last
week, for drinking out of the water
pitcher instead of using a tumbler
near by.
Irish potatoes r now selling in this
market for sixty cents per bushel, and
snap beans at from forty to fifty cents
per bushel, says the Wilmington
Messenger.
The six-year- old daughter of John
Mask, in Arson county, was brutally
assaulted Tuesday, by a negro farm
hand, Jim Williams, who made good
his escape.
Salisbury Waterman: Mr.. A. L.
Hobbs, a well-to do farmer near David
son College, lost a fine horse and his barn
was set on fire by the lightning and it's
contents burned.
A terrific storm passed over the
Organ Church section of Rowan county
last week. The Salisbury Waterman
reports considerable damage to growing
crops and timber.
Capt. @. NJ. McLoud, one of the
most prominent lawyers of Western
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