The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-23
STATE NEWS.

lege, is writing a history of North
Carolina.
Mrs. John R. Wolff died at her home
in DobsOn. She leaves a husband and
five children.
Three ~convicts escaped from the
county stOckade near Salisbury last
Thursday night.
The State Medical Board at it's re
cent session in Raleigh licensed AZ
young physicians.
suit was tried in Salisbury fOr$1 25,
and the costs, exclusive OF lawyers fees,
amounted to Y $25.
Bertha Harper, aged fifteen, while
playing On the creek bank near Lenoir,
fell in and vas drowned.
A Mount Airy News man saw a horse
sold for IS cents at Da bury during
the recent term of Stokes court.
Mr.. w. L. Ragland, of Granville,
was burnt out of house and home last
week. He saved a little furniture.
Oxford Ledger: We learn that there
is O good grade of iron ore On the
lands Of W. J. Barnett, in Oak Hill
township.
Mcdowell county is to have a prohi-
bitiOn election on the 18th of June, and
several townships will hold elections at
the same time.
Several gentlemen from Maryland
are prospecting at Fayetteville for the
purchase of lands for trucking on an
extensive scale.
A school is to be established at Pilot
Mountain which will be under the
management of Trinity College. 1t
will open June 1st.
Mrs. Walters, aged eighty years,
who lives near MaxtOn, carded and
knit a Counterpart during her spare
moments last year.
During the time that Hon. Jefferson
Davis's body lies in state at Raleigh
the capitol building IS to be heavily
draped IN mourning.
North Carolina has probably more
old people than any state in the union
Seven men in one township have passed
the age of 108 years.
Watauga Democrat: Our people re
port the small grain crop as promising
well and unusually forward. 4 large
corn crop will be planted.
Wayne DuplIn Review: Mr.. John
Morgan, aged sixty years, a highly
esteemed farmer of Grantham town
ship died last Sunday evening.
AshoviIIe Democrat: Our old friend.
Tom Wilson, had his Ill pound bear
hanging up in w. NJ. Hill & Co.'S. mar
ket He has been "a mighty hunter
before the Lord"
We stated last week that Mr.. J. NJ.
Currin had set out so, COO tobacco plants.
Since then he has gone that number
100, eco better, making in al 200, 900,
says the Oxford Ledger.
Jonesboro Daily Journal: 1t is said
that there is a cOlored man in Chatham
county, named Frank Aston, who is 6
feet, s inches tall and he was too young
to voc at the last election.
Sarah Starnes, the oma who was
so dangerously shot some weeks ago,
is said to be getting well. 1t is a strange
case, as the bullet is still in the woman's
body, says the Lenior Topic.
A white woman living at Kings
Mountain, CASTOR county, gave birth
tOremarkable freak ofnature last week.
The monster has the head, body, limbs
and color of a large bull frog.
Mr.. Dickens. superintendent Of the
electric light works at High Point,
made his rounds one day and got
ninety-eight English sparrOw's eggs
cut Of the hanger boards of the lamps.
Rockingham Spirit of the South: Mr.
Daniel @. Stewart, aged 81 years, died
at his home. near Laurin burg, on the
23d ult. His death was rather sud
den, his illness lasting only about two
days.
Roanoke Beacon: John Hopkins,
the murderer of Mack Butler, appeared
before Judge Bynum on Monday and
pleaded guilty Of manslaughter, and
was sentenced to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Elizabeth City Carolinian: Farmers
report a good, healthy stand of corn.
- AS to the fruit prospect, the early
pears were damaged by the cold, but
the apple and peach trees promise a
fair yield.
Cards have been issued for the mar
rage Of Mr.. Benz. O. Barnes, of Hen
Vance county, at POpar Creek creek
church Wednesday afternoon, May 81,
at 5 o'clock.
Rev. G. P. Hopper, of Shelby, is
charged with an assault upon the per-
son of a young lady who has been liv-
ing wit his family. He was tried and
fined $25 last week, but appealed to the
Superior court.
Our Sapona correspondent says hat
the negro, Hence Barnes, who broke
from Jail mere last week, is in hat
neighbOrhood, breaking in houses and
doing all kinds of mischief, says the
Lexington Dispatch.
VIM. Bugher, while fishing in the
Water Works, or Belo's Pond, Thurs
day evening last, landed a bouncing
eel that measured 3 feet, 2 inches, in
length and weighed A pounds, says the
Winston Republican.
Sheriff Wall of Arson Co., brought
a negro by the name of Harris, here
last week for safe keeping. 1t was