The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-31
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If GRAPES and Tobacco Stems from the
North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Burglars have been at work in Ashe-
vile in the past week.
A proposition is pending to build
Knitting mills at Asheville employing
THE firemen of New Berne are worked
M over an attempt to destroy their
steam engine.
Elders Collins and Fender baptized
six persons last Sunday In Little River,
a Y the Sparta Star.
The Rockingham Rocket says the
late storm blew down the Presbyterian
church and a residence at ClarktOp.
The Green boro Patriot says that
Wallace Wharton shot into a gang of
English sparrows and killed SO. A
big shoot.
The Edenton Fisherman and Farmer,
which recently had its Office burned,
has come out as a four page paper and
is much improved.
Our neighbor, Guilford county, finds
taxes hard t collect. Rockingham is
not enjoying a picnic along this line,
saws Webster's Weekly.
Rev. ". T. Jones, of Wilmington has
been called to the passionate of the
Second Baptist church of GoldsbOrO
and has accepted the call
The Edenton Fair holds on the 9Th,
9Th. 9th and 10th of November. Two
thousand five hundred dollars in purses
and premiums will be given away.
MI. S N. Swanson sends us the boss
sweet potato we have seen yet. 1t
weighs eight pounds and is Of the
Hayti variety, says the L9noir Topic.
North Wilkesboro News: Messrs
Finely Bros. handled 264 watermelons
raised by Mr.. Ransom Hickerson, that
weighed 5000 pounds and netted
$43 So cash.
The official report of the velocity of
the wind at Southport during the re
cent blow shows it to have been 115
miles an hour, the highest figure ever
reached there.
Young Robert keenan,, two miles
from AshevIlle, was shot and killed
from ambush by a man named Burt
Justice. He is in jail. He says he
fired az a sheep.
Davie Times: When it comes to kill
ing game w. A. Griffin always takes
the lead. Last week he killed 1877
SQUIRRELS and it was not a good week
for squirrels either.
Mr.. Andrew Wilson has the honor of
being the largest man in Catawba
county and one of the largest in the
State. HA is 6 feet % inches tall and
weighs ga pounds.
In the flood yesterday, Hovis &
Browns saw mill was swept away.
The mill belonged to Mr.. VIM. Long,
he having recently purchased it, say 8
the Charlotte News.
Railroad Detective Haney, who killed
Batson at Greenville, S. O., the other
night. has been released on 81, 900 bail
The cOrOner's jury returned a verdict
of iustifiable homicide.
Four hundred persons have made
application for admission into the
State Normal and Industrial School
Greensboro, and still other applica-
tions are going IN daily.
The Lee meeting at Maiden closed
last Friday night. About 80 professed
conversion, and there have been large
additions to the different churches,
says the Lincolnton Courier.
The report is current that the Gran
berry Company has sold the entire
property and railroad to the Iron
Trust Company for n million dol
lars, says the Boone Democrat.
Newton Enterprise: Walnuts are
very scarce this year, and hickory
nuts are not plentiful, but we learn
that the chestnut crop in the moun
tains is an unusually large one.
The Eienton Fisherman and Farmer
tells of Mr.. M. II. White of Hartford
winning the 2:4O trot for a S4O0 purse
at the Richmond Fair. He also won a
purse of 5000 at the Suffolk Fair.
Moses B Inn, a col red man, near
town, became insane a day or two ago,
it is supposed, from religion, as he
Joined the church a few weeks ago,
says the Rocky Mount Phoenix.
The Asheville Citizen says: Col.
John D Cameron is very seriously i'll
at his home on Cherry street, This
announcement will be distressing to a
great many persons n Asheville.
We heard a man say the other day
that he had been housekeeping for so
years and the present time was the
closest he had experienced during all
that time, says the Lexington Dis
patch.
Thad Langley, a colored man of this
county, was killed aI FdFn0I0 MOhody
A pile of lumber fell on him INJECTING
such injuries as to cause death in a
short while, says the Greenville Re
Hector.
Davidson Dispatch: We heard the
sheriff say the other night that he had
been at five precincts for the purpose
of collecting the taxes for 1898, and
hadn't, at that time, collected mary"
a cent.
Maxton Scottish Chief: Maxton has
contributed $33. 60 to the Brunswick
sufferers. -- The Baptists are getting
rno1u fOw tho PnhoCnn Association