The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
STATE NEWS.

Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Stanly News: Prospects for an abun
dant fruit crop-W never better than
now.
Danbury Reporter: The prospects
are that there will be an imm. nse crop
of fruit in this section.
A blackberry brier was found on Mr.
Allen Jones' farm recently, 49, feet in
in length, says the Allegheny Star.
The Sentinel says that Winston is
rapidly building up her waste places"
made by the recent destructive fires.
Mr.. Weston R. Gales has resigned
as assistant Y. M. Q. A. State Secre-
tary and will engage in the evangelistic
work.
Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt and her
daughter Mrs. Elliott T. Shepard are
visiting George Vanderbilt at Bit
more.
Nit. Olive Review: A mad dog was
killed on Tuesday at Mr.. Caleb KOrne-
gaV's farm, about four miles from this
place.
The Marion Free Lance says the COZ.
tract for building an iron bridge
across the Catawba river at that place
has been let.
A monument will be erected this
year in Salisbury to the Confederate
dead Of Rowan county entirely OF
Rowan granite.
The Baptist church of this city. says
the EdentOn Fisherman and Farmer,
has extended a call to Rev. VIM. B.
Mccarthy, of Georgia.
When the new addition to the Rocky
Mount Mills starts up, the factory will
give endowment to over 500 hands,
says the Rocky Mount Argonaut.
There = plenty of peaches, apples,
pears, plums, cherries, etc for a large
crop If no more frost comes to kill
them, says the Mocksville Times.
A nine pound baby boy arrived at
Mr.. Pink Lineberger's the 5th inst
He was named James G. Weaver Line
berger, says the Gastonia Gazette.
Last Tuesday night the house of Mr..
James Griffin, in North Catawba town
ship, was burned, consuming all his
household property, says the Lenoir
Topic.
D. ?. Miles, of Madison county, sur
prised SIX negroes who rObOlng
his store. He fired upon them, wound
ing one so badly that he could not
escape.
Rowan Parton was brought in from
Tesenta Saturday evening, and placed
in jail on a charge Of assault with in
tent to commit murder, says the Frank
lin Press.
DR.. R. w. Capeheart at ore haul at
his fishery on the Albemarle Sound
last Friday, caught 6,583 shad-the
largest haul that he has made in over
twenty years.
Asheville Citizen: @. E. Graham
has decided to build his new cotton
mills ar Asheville. He has secured
the site from the Southern Improve
ment company.
The Wllkesboro development Com
pany has decided to give the corner lot
where Andy Gilreath nov lives to the
Methods s, on which to erct q new
church building.
The fruit crop in this section promises
to be good. Very few of the peaches
have as yet been killed and the apple
trees are now in full bloom says the
Sanford Express.
While G. w. Wiles, of Wilkes, was
UtlluIlIS II - dCS4OCLllCI11y
discharged and the ball took effect in
the shoulder of J. 7. Sheppard, making
a serious wound.
There are now in our jail, thirty
prisoners, all men, nine of whom are
charged with murder, eight of them
being cOlored and n white, says the
Rockingham Rocket.
Pastor Broughton returning from
WarrentOn, N. O., reports some sixty
conversions as a result Of pr%OtraCted
services in which. he assisted, says the
Winston Republican.
MaxtOn Union and Scottish Chief:
Mr.. Noah Duncan, an old and respected
citizen died very suddenly at his home
a few miles south of this place, of heart
disease, on last Friday.
Mr.. P. H. Morgan, of Currituck
county, ex State Senator for this dis
trict, has been appointed Inspector of
light houses in North Carolina, says
the Murfreesboro Index.
Rev. John A. Preston, of Florence,
Alabama, was last Saturday called to
to the p~astOrate of the First Presby-
terrain church of Charlotte at a salary
of g, 400 including a manse
Wadesboro Observation-Disclosures
There is a general complaint of the
ravages Of potato bugs. The young
plants are devoured by them as soon
as they get above ground ground.
Smithfield Herald: Cotton plsnting
season Is now on our farmers. Mr.. J.
B. Lee, of Gifts, informs us that the
acreage planted in cotton in his section
will be considerably less this year than
usual.
One of the principal stockholders of
the W~aynesville Creamery informed
US the other day that the establish
ment would begin running again about
the 18th OF May, says the W~aynesville
Courier.
Charlotte News: Mr.. @. A. Carlton.
one Of the Oldest and most prominent
oitiznDC of StotoSuillo Hio6 - ~, Lo-..