The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-10
STATE NEWS.
Cream of the State Press-DrOps of Turpentine
and Grains of Rice from the East-Clusters
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
and Cotton Seed from the South

or grapes and Tobacco SCemS IrOm Lne
North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the
and Cotton Seed from the South
Mr.. T M Hawkins, of Buffalo,
killed aPoland China hog that weighed
sos pounds, says the Lenoir Topic.
A negro girl was hurned TO death in
Montgomery county recently. Cloth
ing caught from the fire place, says the
Durham Recorder,
The new two story school building at
Ronda, Wilkes county, was burned
Tuesday evening, the fire having caught
from a defective fue.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. w. J. Lip
fert had So, 900 insurance on his dwell
ing and household property which
were destroyed by fire Monday after
nOOn.
Whiteville Star: Died, on Tuesday,
the goth, Mr.. Britton S. Jones, at the
residence of Mr.. s l. CLANCY, Bogue
township, where he had lived since
the war.
Last week in New Castle township,
Wilkes county, the clothing of Mrs.
VIM. Gray, caught fire and she was
burned to death, says the Charlotte
Observer,
Mr.. Will Robinson now has only one
animal of the COW kind, since the
h~ydrophobla wave, and this n was
bitten but is recovering, says the Con
cord Standard
Burlington NeUS: The Windsor cot
ton mills r putting up sixty new
Compton looms. which will greatly in.
crease their capacity and give more
labor employment.
Some Greenville gentlemen offered
to pay for all the barbecue a hungry
looking darkey would eat The darkey
cleaned up a whole pig with bread IN
proportion. The dinner cost his back
ers 50 so.
Concord Times: Mrs. Laura Edgi-
son. wife of Mr.. Jacob Edgison, of No.
5 township, was burned to death last
Sunday morning about 11:3O o'clock.
Mrs EdglsOn was 81 years old. A sad
life ending.
An s.. 900 farm within three miles of
a Coast Line depot in Nash county has
brought for the last three years an an
nual rental of SIS, or less han enough
to pay taxes on the property and insure
its buildings.
Goldsboro Argus: At the present
writing it appears hat GOldsbOrO will
1 hoFC OAI4y SiA UdG 1OOLLlS uOIL1S OuS11SSS
here next year, under the $500 pTlvil-
| eye tax, which went into effect Mon
day morning.
At Kings Mountain, on Friday, Lee
Ware, the eighteen-year-old son of A.
+. Ware. was shot and instantly killed
by Mike Sellers, and Edward Harmon,
brother in-law of the latter, was seri
ously il jured.
The steamer Carolina is sunk at
| VancebOrO. The accident was due, we
are informed, to a leak caused by her
moving against sheets of ice during the
recent severe weather, says the New
Berne Journal.
Elizabeth Young, a negro wOman OF
Union county, was recently tried and
found guilty of murder. The supreme
| court granted her q new trial and it
has been ascertained thai she Is en-
Cirely innocent.
The Rome, Ga, Tribune, of Wednes
day contains this account of the mar
riage of Judge Geo. A. ShufOrd, of
Asheville, to Miss Julia Dean, of Floyd
county, Ga which occurred on Tues
day of last week
On Tuesday of last week Julius
Smith, 10 year old son of Mr., Cornelius
Smith, of Baton, shot his left arm off
while hunting rabbits. DR.. Houck
was called in and amputated the ARM,
say s the Lenoir Topic.
Meckleuburg Times: A dog belong
ing to Mr.. g. s. Hall, of Sugar Creek,
went mad last Friday and bit a daugh-
ter of Mr.. J. @. Boyle; also a cow. The
dog was killed. The child suffered con
siderably from the wound.
LenOir Topic: Onr merchants have
had orders always ahead of the supply
on the market and the consequence
has been high prices and a o salts
| factory season for our mountain friends
| than they have experienced for several
years.
Last Thursday evening, Mr.. Thos, J.
| Outlaw made an assignment to Mr..
| Hugh Dortch. Liabilities 81, 300 with
| about equal the amount of assets. His
creditors are now endeavOring to set
| the assignment aside. says the Colds
boro Headlight.
Greensboro Record: A young gen
| tleman % years old, living near Browns
| Summit, had to run away from his
parents the other day to get married.
| His secreted all his Sunday
clothes, but this made no difference for
he made the trip anyway.
Charlotte Observer: Mrs. L. E,
Johnson, of Lucia, CASTOR county, has
last seasons tomatoes in perfect PreSer-
walton. Her plan is to pull up the
vines while the tomatoes are green and
store them away in a cellar, where the
fruit ripens slowly but retains its
flavor.
Raleigh Visitor: Gen. w, G. Lewis,
| engineer to the State Board OF Educa-
ti1n, SAYS the survey of swamp lands
| during the past season has covered
nearly 70. 900 acres in the counties OF
Craven, Jones, Carteret and Pamlico.
| About 1876, 600 acres remain unsur-