The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-29
STATE NEWS.
Jream Of the State Press-Drops of Turpe1tine
and Grains of Rice from the
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the VVos+ Doo--

wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
The Sentinel says a crazy man is
roaming around in the woods south of
Salem.
Appel's saw mill near Greensboro,
was burned Saturday morning last.
Loss S., 1000 insuran; e, one half.
A horse was sold here last Saturday
for ten cents. This is getting horse
trading down pretty fine, says the
Carthage Blade,
Washington Progress: The boys who
went to the Worlds Fair with Col. E.
g. Harrells party are not we'll pleased
with its management.
The Davie Times says that the report
that Deputy Marshall Will L. Alison,
of Cleveland county, had been killed
by blockaders is false.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: Interest.
ing revivals of religion have been in
progress for more than a week at
Elm Grove church and Doziers school
house.
Fay etteville Gazette: The announce
ment that the Fayetteville Independent
Light Infantry Band is completely re-
habilitated will afford genuine pleasure
in this community.
Mr.. Arthur Prempert fired at the
wrong window when a burglar was
in his house in Wilmington Satur-
day morning, and the burglar tore a
blind off the other window in his
haste.
Martin Richmond, colOred, was shot
and killed in Old Town, about eight
o'clock Saturday night, by Frank T.
Hine, q citizen Of that place, says the
Winston Sentinel of the 21st.
Mr.. Cal. Kesler of Davie county was
knocked in the head, had his throat
cut, and was thrown into the creek,
by an unknown person on the even
ing of the 18th. 1t is thought that he
will ecover.
Three negro girls named Maggie,
Arment and Georgia Lee, attempted
to burn the residence of Mr. @, S.
Hauser, or Main street, Salem about
5 o'clock this morning, says the Win
stOn Sentinel of the 21st.
We would not be without our seventy
years memory of Nag's Head and
Roanoke Island for a thousand dollars
in white metal, for that would soon
take wings, but the pleasures of mem
Org are wingless, says the Elizabeth
City Economist.
Charles Saxton, colored, shot and
killed Sue Cooper, a dissolute colored
woman Saturday morning the section
of Wilmington known as ''Dross
Neck" 1t appear to have been a
cold blooded murder. He maintains
that he thought the woman was ap-
preaching to do him violence when
he fired
Mr.. Washington, of Alamance,
whose arm was broken recently by
being hit by a COW tossed from the
track by an engine, is going to sue
the Air Line for So, 900. He says the
COW, when she had regained conscious
ness and when he had not, dragged
him down to the creek and nearly
drowned him.
Henderson Gold Leaf: After long
and deep study upon the subject, we
have hit upon an intirely original and
altogether practical method of solving
the financial problem and relieving the
stringency in money matters, as for as
we are individually concerned. 1t is
for every person who Is in arrears on
subscription to the Gold Leaf to come
in and square up.
Greensboro Recorder: Dr.. Reid, the
new President of Greensboro Female
College, we are glad to learn, has
secured donations sufficient to furnish
the college grove with twenty five nice
lawn s%ettees. This will add much to
the beauty and comfort Of the college
hill. DR.. Reid says the prospects for
patronage at the college for the fall
term are very good.
Durham Globe: Saturday Night has
at least twenty letters from people
who were done up by Harrell, and the
further fact that the editor Of Saturday
Night in his biggest type calls Harrell
a humbug and a fraud. " It is said
that apples are being sold in Chatham
county, N. O., at Is cents per busheI,
and that dealers are buying all they
want of them at that price.
Richmond T~obacconist: North Caro-
Iina's sandy and black soils are said to
be the finest in the world for raising
bulbs, hyacinths, tube rOses etc. The
SO per acre land there is as productive
as the So, 900 per C soil of Holland
and France, yet we import bulbs by
the hundreds of thousands. We hope
to see the day yet when North Caro-
lima planters will make tea and licorice
root enough to supply the nation.
Jno w. Moseley, the colored man
who committed suicide last Thursday
was a defaulter for a considerable
amount to the Virginia Life Insurance
Company in whose employ he had
| been for several years, as collector.
His shortage, so far as asscertained, is
| about $50. He had a policy on his
own life for 500, which will be paid
his family after deducting the amount
of his de~talcetions, says the Whining
ton Star.
An exchange tells a story of a boy
! who was sent to market with a sack OF
roasting ears and after lingering around
town all day came home without sell
ing them. When his mother asked