The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
STATE NEWS.

and COIbD1l CCC4A 4On LIZ
U1bin Times: Click & Q. made a
.binment of 10, 900 pounds of dried
fruit last week.
T3itor Deal, of the Wilkesboro
c~bronicle. has been appointed post
easter at Wilkesboro.
s75 900 hotel is to be contracted
Southern Pines. The financial ar
~ongements are completed.
The board of trustees Of the Fayette-
rTIe graded school have elected Mr.. j.
y MRrover superintendent.
Regular passenger trains are now
inning on the Wilmington, New
Pnrne and Norfolk Railroad.
Macklenburg will build a house for
+bn insane OF the county who cannot
%o accomodated at the State Hospital.
Western fat meat is now selling at
12I cents a pound Better raise your
own nork, saws the Warrenton Gazette.
The North Carolina Presbyterian
rnDorts twenty-five additions to its
Cburch in North Carolina for the
week.
Sheriff Griffith had a barn of to
bacc0 destroyed by fire in Arcadia
township Friday, says the Lexington
Dispatch.
We are very near the point now
where it requires o bushel Of wheat to
buv a pound of coffee. says the Dan
bury Reporter.
Gen R F. Hoke has discovered a
large bed Of kaolin or porcelain clay
upon his property on Beown noun
+oiD S%Okn0 county n. {.
This wear the field trials of the
Eastern association are to be held at
Newton and not at High Point where
thew have been held for years.
Weldon News: Mr.. H. L Joyner,
dealer in general merchandise at Sea
board, made an assignment last Satur-
day for the benefit Of his creditors.
Mr.. J.. Il Griffin, of Rock Rest, re
ports that he killed a snake, a few
DAYS since, which measured over six
feet in length. 1t was a coach whip.
The first National Bank of Winston
which Suspended sometime ago. re-
sumed business last Monday. J. O..
Buxton, Esq, is president of the
bank.
Allegheny Star: An eel was caught
III LllC AN+IlI OIhs CtG UI1C DCCp HOIu,
last week measuring three feet and
some inches and weighing twenty
pounds
New York men are planting a 100
acre vineyard at Southern Pines en-
tirely in the Niagara grape, which
thrives in that sandy soil to a wonder
full degree.
Kernersville News: Since u first
writing we have learned the total loss
produced by the cyclone exceeds
first calculation. Il will doubtless
reach SIS, 600.
Washington Gazette: Mr.. J. D. Cor
don has another big black bear. This
one was caught in Hyde county by Mr..
Robt. Jennett. The bear will be shipped
North as was his predecessor.
Las week w. w. Tellery caught a
sturgeon on the fish slide near the
Little Falls. He was a fine one, weigh
lngabOut one hundred and fifty pounds,
says the Rocky Mount Argonaut.
Work has been commenced on the
Presbyterian church at Danbury, we
see from the Reporter. 1t will be a
house Of considerable dimensions,
church IN front and school room in the
rear.
We have been shown a clock by Mr..
Kennedy, the jaweler, which is made
after The style 1892, and is something
OF a curiosity, having only four wheels
and one hand, says the L;nColntOn
Courier.
a special from Asheville to the
Charlotte Observer says: DR. S. West
ray Battle has purchased a tract of
LanQ comprising 100. 900 acres in Bun
comoe, Henderson and Pennsylvania
counties.
We are having much rain and we
iiear That the corn crop, which was SO
oaoIy blown IN the late storm, will be
seriously damaged. Buckwheat crops
are badly damaged, says the Boone
It's said that owning to the rainy
ana cloudy weather tobacco is turning
green again in some sections. 1t is
alSo SAID that some cotton is sprOuting
~ the boil and that some is r0tting on
A minister Of the gospel in this
county has applied for a position as
~a.oteAeepcr and gauger. In his appli-
G"'lon 70 the collector he states that
Te IS a minister, says the StatesvilIe
Landmark.
Loin Duffy, the man who had one of
ms K,oneys extracted" or ''ampu-
Eaoe4 q few weeks since, isnow work
ny III shop in Gastonia, g. well man.
@9 was IN Charlotte Saturday night,
wiiilie Star says Mr.. Robert Baugus, Of
~ TfIAe8c county, has about 10. OGO pounds
~ money, nearly 5000 of which is ex-
TT oo- lie has sixty four stands of
c Co09 HIS Is vouched for by our
'UuHsfyman, Mr.. II. R. Richardson.
!jAe Plttsboro Record tells of an old
PPfldge that vas taken m in that COUNT
~ some road hands under which was
1 TI;lQ5 tEenty-two highland m~occasins,