The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-04
STATE NEWS.

WI NIUIIs OL INIOo HUH JIG NasU-OIU5UoI1
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South -
Mr.. H. B. Steele made "a bushels OF
wheat on one acre, says the Lenoir
Topic.
Hattie Ponders, colored, shot and
killed herself at Asheville Monday
night.
M. R. Lang, of Greenville and Viii
son, has made an assignment. Liabili-
ties $40, 1000.
The Whitakers Peoples party club
is steadily gaining ground. Push on
the good work, says the RATHER.
Grover Cleveland, Ben Harrison and
Jim Weaver have all been enrolled as
pupils of the Concord graded school.
Mrs. w. II. Landin, of Wilmington,
attempted to kill herself Saturday with
Iaudanum but failed, the dose being too
large.
1t is estimated that the cotton crop
OF the State Is the poorest grown for
the past ten years and probably alonger
period.
A colored woman, wife of Lum Hall,
Of Rowan county, while blowing with
an oxen, Tuesday, was gored to death
by the animal.
J. S. Poythress who accidentally
shot and killed a colored woman at
Henderson recently, came back Mon
day to stand trial.
Mr.. Eugene L. Harris, who went
from this State to Alabama, has been
called to the Robson county secretary
| chin of tho IN ~
0. M. Cawthorn, the white man who
shot and killed the negro Sam Tully,
at Hickory a short time ago, has been
captured at Selma, Ala.
Harrison Lee, of Watauga county,
acclden' ally shot and killed his friend
named Featherstone while both were
squirrel hunting on Thursday.
Mrs. Catharine Williams, of Bladen
county, while in a state of mental de.
rangement, Saturday, committed sui
eide by drowning herself in a canal.
Raleigh Visitor: The total expenses
of the penitentiary for the quarter end
ing August 31st, were $40, COS OF. Total
earnings $23, $50. 80. Expenses over
earnings $16, O42.
The old man who was killed last
week near Pearson's bridge, and who
was buried unidentified, has since been
identified as a man named Justice, who
lived in Rutherford county.
DR.. W. D. billiard told us last night
that Edwards, who was cut at the
depot Saturday night by Cowan, is i'm
proving and hat he might pull through
all right, says the Asheville Gazette.
DR.. Harry Williams informs us that
E. H. Britt, who was injured by a
wheel barrow falling on his his head a
few days ago, Is improving and will
soon be out, says the Asheville Gazette.
Mr.. r. Long, of GreenvilIe, has made
an assignment. His liabilities are esti-
mated at about $40, 900, but he will
probably be able to save his creditors.
Preferred amounts were something
over 500, 900.
Greensboro Record: A little girl
about eight years old, child of Jordan
Hunter, being on the Cape Fear & Yad-
kin Valley Railroad track just beyond
the waterwOrks, was killed by the Mt.
Airy train this afternoon.
Sanford Express: A rattlesnake was
killed on the plantation of Mr.. D. E.
McIver, two miles from here on yester.
day, which had seventeen rattles. A
very large n was killed near the
same place some months ago.
Oxford Ledger: We are glad to an
nounce that all difficulties in regard to
the Oxford aud Coast Railroad have
been adjusted and it's early completion
assured. There has been a complete
re organization Of the company.
Reuben Norman, a colored man who
lived near Wolfenden's farm, died Fri
| dow NIGHT from ON IN rnrnn1 TnT1wu rn
ceIved the previous night by falling in
a railroad culvert a little below James
City, says the New Berne Journal.
Burglars last night entered the store
Oft. ID. SCruggs, a merchant at Moores
boro, on the Western Division of the
Carolina Central Railroad They broke
open his safe and got away with $7OC
in money, says the Charlotte NeWs.
The flag of the Cleveland Guards,
captured by the Ninth Massachusetts
regiment at the battle of Hanover
Court House, May 81, 1862, was brought
back to Shelby Thursday by a Boston
delegation amid imposing ceremonies.
On last Friday, the 18th, Mr.. S. A,
Salmon, of Ellington, N. O., had his
entire mercantile establishment de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 81. 600; insur
Mr.. Salmon was in Wilmington at the
time.
Mr.. Rufus Smith, the man who was
so badly hurt by an Air Line train
yesterday morning, was brought to
the city last evening on a hand car,
and transferred to the hos pital. He
was still living this afternoon, says the
Charlotte MeWS.
Tarboro S~Outberner: Ben Sasser, g
a negro brick mason employed on the
railroad bridge. died suddenly Sunday
morning. Hehad been drinking heavily.
Sunday morning he called for some
milk and o o after began foaming al
the mouth and died.