The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19

Bette, the local longshoremen there
having struck.
New Berne is to have electric street
railway. The company has given bond.
and work is to begin inside of six
months and the cars to be running in
less than a year.
Farmers in Germany are writing
here for information about the MOder1
Tobacco Barn. Capt. Shows inven-
ton is gaining worldwide fame. saws
the Oxford DQy.
Willie Love, a six-year old girl from
Wilmington, an inmate OF Thomson
Orphanage, Charlotte, was burned to
death Thursday. Her clothing caught
fire from a stove.
A well-digger while cleaning out a
deep we'll near Goldsboro, was struck
on the head by a falling bucket and
sustained injuries which render his
recovery doubtful.
The machinery has just been placed
in the Graham cotton mill at Burling-
ton; owned by E. P. Albright, J. L.
Scott and w. J. StOckard. The mill
will make sheetings.
1t is learned to day that the Atlanta
Coast Line has begun track laying on
the extension of the Albemarle and
Raleigh Railroad which it is building
to Washington, N. @.
The Hickory Press and Carolinian
says: The Methodist congregation is
putting the parsonage in order for the
new preacher, Rev. Mr.. Little, who is
to occupy it this week.
At Fayetteville last Sunday there
were two fires. The Murchison house
and residence adjoining were burned.
That night the kitchen Of Mr.. Weldon
iiuske's house was burned.
Charlotte NecS: 1t is reported about
town that Mr.. ST. Clair, editor of the
Chronicle, has accepted a position on
the New York Herald, and that he
expects to go there next month.
Wilson Advance: The attendance
at the white graded school numbers
300. - Rev. r. w. Stancil has ac
cepted a call to the Disciple church
here and will take charge next Sun
day.
On Wednesday Mr.. MorganLong, a
well-tO do farmer of Ashe county, died
of pneumonia, and on the stame even
ing his son, aged II years, died of
grippe and a hurt received from a
saw
Asheville. Citizen: E. 1. Holmes.
Secretary of the Asheville Tobacco
Association, reports that during the
month of December 883, sos pounds
of tobacco were sold on the market for
$40, 401. 81.
A number of standard bred horses,
purchased in Kentucky by L. Banks
Holt and Junius Harden have arrived
at Graham; a Brood mare, a yearling
FLY, Eve weanling fillies and a Shet-
land poney.
t. e shortage of the smashed First
National bank of Wilmington is now
~ascertained to be 1926, 600. 1t is no
wonder that cashier Bowden fed.
He'll never come back, he'll never
come back"
Rev. A. w. Miller, D. D. for thirty
years pastor of the First Presbyterian
church in Charlotte and the most
eminent devine of that denomination
in the State, died last Sunday after a
brief illness.
Notwithstanding the expenditures of
Wayne county for the past year were
SIS, 600 in excess of 1890, there is now a
balanceOf SIS, 900 in the county treasury,
with additional receipts soon dure, ag-
gregating about SIC, 600.
The Hickory Press says that one
"W. H. WrOten," a tramp printer
who has been in these parts, is wanted
in Lexington, Kentucky, for wife de-
sertiOp. Look out for him. He came
here last year from Durham.
Rocky Mount ArgOnaut: We are
sorry to state that the firm of Bum &
BarlO V, merchants of this town, have
been obliged to make an assignment.
We do not know the amount of liabili-
ties, but they + not very large.
Last Saturday J. D. Thompson and
J. r. Starnes took to Charlotte John
Wilson, a negro who last June killed
Sydney Burton, cOlOred, at Charlotte.
Wilson fled Immediately after the
murder and had since eluded the
officers.
The sleet at Greensboro this week
pulled down large trees, broke off
limbs and warped things generally. 1t
was the heaviest sleet, save two, that
the Record remembers ever to have
seen. The shade trees have suffered
very much.
Mrs. Wall presented the Sheriff with
a bouncing young deputy since u last
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business, if however, he cannot De- a
court cryer he can do all the crying
needed at home, says the Danbury
Reporter Post.
Oxford Ledger: John Little, a
most worthy and industrious colored
man, who is employed by Messrs. Bull
lock & Mitchell, had a cannon cracker
to explodein his hand Christmas which
IOoo~o+ad If in a poaHfu1 manner hlOw-
ing off a middle finger.
Mr.. w. M. Morris, of Blowing Rock,
has bought land at Hudson in this
county and will go into the merchan-
disc and hotel business there. His
orders for lumber to build large store
houses and a big hotel have been given
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