The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-18
STATE NEWS.

~North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
Fayetteville's water works have been
completed and accepted.
Bingham Mill hands at Charlotte
struck for a new president and superin-
tendent.
The Grand Ledge Knights of Honor
of North Carolina will meet in States
vile August I'd.
Canteloupes are now leaving New
Berne at the rate of from n to two
thousand barrels per day.
The two banks at High Point have
declared a semi-annual dividend Of 4
per cent. to all stockholders.
Burglars continue to work Charlotte,
and the efforts of the police to cage
them seems to be without avail.
A large amount OF building is in pro-
gress at AshebOrO, and several import
ant industrial enterprise are projected.
A g boy in Mecklenburg county
swallowed a needle twelve years ago.
A doctor cut it out Of his side a few
days ago
According to the Record, Chatham
county has an egg sucking pig. When
he hears a hen cackle he strikes a trot
for the nest.
Something over $50, 600 pounds of
tobacco was shipped by the Blackwell
tobacco factory last week, says the
Durham Sun.
The planning mill and dry kilns of
Leavitt & Leavitt which were de-
stroyed by fire at Aberdeen some days
since will be re built.
@. V. Darlington, a native Of Gran
Vile county, n. c., died in Dallas,
Texas, a few days ago. He was a
young man and highly esteemed.
The North Carolina board of public
charities is preparing designs for Dun
try houses for aged and the infirm at
the request Of a number of counties.
Governor Carr has commissioned
forty physicians IS delegates repre-
senting North Carolina at the Pan
American Medical Congress at Chicago.
Typhoid fever has become almost an
epidemic at Gibson Station and we are
Informed that there are four cases in
one house, says the Rockingham
Rocket.
DR., J.. II. Hodges, of Wilmington,
has been rendered and has accepted
the chair of Anatomy in the College
Of Physicians and Surgeons of Rich
mond, Va.
Clinton Democrat: The huckleberry
market has held out unprecedently
well this season. It opened at 10 cents
per quart here and has ranged from
that to 6 cents.
Tony Rodgers, whose sentence the
Governor refused to commute, but who
was granted a respite of. thirty days on
account of his i'll health, died last week
at Rockingham.
The hot weather of last week was
almost unbearable. The thermometer
reached 1O2. This hot weather pre-
vailed all over the South, says the Tar
boro S~outherner.
While A. F. Lutz, Of Lincoln county,
was in his field cutting oats lightning
struck his reaper upon which he was
sitting, badly stunning him. The reaper
was practically ruined.
Work on the University of North
Carolina buildings and grounds IS
rapidly progressing. Between seventy
five and one hundred hands have been
busy for a week or more.
Mr.. J. B. Cleaver, of New Jersey,
will preach the dedicatOry sermon at
the dedication Of the Disciples church
here on the first Sunday in August,
says the KinstOn Free Press.
Shelby Review: Farmers are said
to be disappointed at the turn out"
of the wheat that has been threshed so
far this year. The turnout is at least
% per cent. less than was expected.
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track on the Caldwell & Northern
railroad arrived in LenOir Thursday
evening and the work is being pushed
rapidly ahead, says the Lenoir Topic.
Charley evans, colored, aged about
thirteen years, was accidently drowned
in the Cape Fear river about seven
miles below here, while in bathing last
Sunday, says the Fayetteville Gazette.
Our brother, J. M. Dougherty, of
Bakers Gap, Tenn, is over with us.
He is well up in weight and tips the
scales at $40 and sees US about five
pounds better, says the Boone Demo
crat.
Mr.. J. T. Harrison, Of Vance town
ship, reports two curious chickens
Matched at his home last week. One
had four legs, the other a bald head
and 10 eyes, says the Kinston Free
Press.
Grave fears are entertained that
Capt. John Ireland of Beaufort is lost.
He left SwansbOrO on the schooner
Charles over a month ago and nothing
has been heard Of him or the vessel
since.
During the year ending last Friday
over 5000 persons registered their
names at the State Museum, at Raj
eigh. These represented twenty-seven
different States and a number Of foreign
countries.
A gentleman from the country said
toa News reporter, to day ''Ifnothing
happens to the corn crop there will be
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