The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-14
STATE NEWS.

Wheat from the
and Cotton Seed from the South
Charlotte had twenty nine deaths in
October. EsHs
7. B Rice & Co., Reidsville, have
made an assignment.
The Gleaves Hardware Company at
Wilmington has made an assignment.
The Raleigh Advocate reports 265
additions to the NJ E Church IN North
Carolina.
The Topic a y that within a month
TpnOir will have a bank open and
ready for business.
Craven county will purchase Nelson's
and STR cts ferries near New Berne
and run them free.
The Bible Reader will be revived in
Richmond. and edited by Rev. E. L.
Peli, formerly OF North Carolina.
Mr.. J. P. Clayton, of Walnut Cove,
made an assignment last week, liabili-
ties about 81. 600, assets unknown.
T. NJ. Jernigan, who disappeared in
Johnston county, has been found dead
in an old well. Suicide Is evident,
L9ui7burg Times: The laying Of The
corner stone Of the new Baptist church
at FranklintOn took place YESTERDAY.
NJ Frank, of Wilmington, dealer in
general merchandise, has made an
assignment, with liabilities Of about
S. 600
The Gleavea Hardware Company, of
Wilmington, has failed and has gone
into the hands Of Col. T. w. kerchner
as receiver.
The North Carolina Conference of
tho Methodist Protestant Church will
he held in LAGRANGE from November
22d to the 9th.
SNAP beans and green peas formed
q Dorrion OF the cargo OF the steamer
Npuse Yesterday, say s the New Berne
Journal OF the 9Jn-
W~hiteviIGe Sun: The Sun regrets
much - learn Of the resignation Of
Rev. J y Smith as pastor Of White
Vile Baptist church.
Mr. H. \. Norwood, Of jackson
township, reports that he has made
Q32 gallons of mOiasses this year, says
the Monroe Enquirer.
At Marion, n. O.. a horse belonging
to Nr. Z Z Justice, accomplished the
wonderful feat of running at full speed
across a railroad trestle.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College football team on Novembr 9TH,
defeated the University Of Tennessee
team at r aleigh by a score OF y to 6.
William Cameron colOred was pretty
badly cuc last Friday night by a negro
named Mccall. His injuries are nOt
serious, says the Laurinburg Exchange,
Winston Sentinel: Rev. J. T. Jen
kin9, of Wilmington, arrived in the
city this morning, He assisted in a
revival meeting at Salisbury last
week.
Vlneland Star: Several old rob
berries have been committed Doth in
Vineland and WhitevIlle lately, and
each time the guilty parties have
escaped.
Mr.. Frank Hargrave has sold his
two nice bay mar to eXGOv. Holt
He got somewhere in the neighbOrhOOd
of $3.50 for them, says the Lexington
Dispatch.
The authorities are arranging to
have the main building of North Caro-
lima College re covered but this time 1t
will be covered with tin, says the Con
cord Standard.
The boy. VIII McCIeese, who came
so near killing DR.. Chear5 sometime
z was tried on Tuesday and sen
fenced to five months in jail, says the
Roanoke Beacon.
Game is very scarce. We hunted
all day last Thursday, and only killed
two sparrows. But a famale woman,
down near Cameron, came near shoot
ing US, says the Carthage Blade.
There we're but few signs Of drinking
at our court except red faces. We did
not see a single lawyer lying in the
gutter on his back feeling up for the
ground, says the Danbury reporter.
An attempt was made by some of
the prisoners in jail to burn out 4
night last week. But the fire was dis
covered by the jailOr before much
damage was done, says the Alamance
Cleaner.
R NJ Johnson and his wife, Matte
Johnson, were arrested during the
Fayetteville Fair for passing counter
felt dollars, and Jailed to await trial
III the United States Court at Raleigh
IN December.
Alamance Cleaner: The Big Falls
Cotton Mills property was sold here
Tuesday. 1t was knocked off to Mr..
LoRoy Springs, of Charlotte, at $50. 900,
a little over One-third Of what the
property cost.
The Baptist Sunday, school at Frank
linton last Sunday raised $40 toward
pulling the new church. 1t really
looks now as if they will realize the
500 they resolved to raise, says the
FranklintOn Weekly.
Rockingham Rocket: The prelimi
nary trial Of f J. Mcdonald for the
shooting of Zeb Bethune, which oc-
Cured on Saturday night a week ago,
resulted in binding Mcdonald owe to
courC n the sum of 800.
By B F. Long, of Warrenton, has
l0und the gold watch stolen from him
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