The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
STATE NEWS.


NOrth- from the West-Peanuts
WIZ cotton Seed from the South
@~oonohoro board of aldermen
The UJ5 own the mayors salary from
tSOO" State Convention of the Kings
the oro will meet in S~tatesvllle May
Dlss5 17Sh and 18th.
l6tD' pritt of the Oxford Ledger is a
MI: for appointment in the gov
cs so1S printing office.
ernm at Greensboro was find s., SO
UT t{ing a weed called Cow itch"
for p hack of a mans neck.
~. Sol Fur, of Cabarrqs, is again
Dr.. He is II years old, and his
par rpnt wife-his fourth-is 45.
pE%a ~Poautiful Herald says the two
inc recently taken near there
FhslS55t the lucky fishermen about
81 thief stole two very fine Berk.
sui NOS from Mr.. A, j. Nelson, of
aSutor5 township, Union county, a few
8.norts from reliable persons in
Sp county are that the cotton
J onnSUoIt there will be one third less
tSsn last years.
- Kemp P. Battle, of the State
HUn has been elected CORE
Uaanding member of the Maryland
Historical Society.
II Walton, general merchant at
nor Wake county, has assigned,
q'i . Gully being the assignee. The
SSsfnre is a small one.
novid McAllister, a wealthy mer-
AOUt If Wade, fell or leaped from the
tIaI floor of a hotel at Fayetteville
and was fatally hurt.
Tbo Aurora cotton mills, at Burling
en- already quite large, will be doubled
!" giZa The addition will cover about
nnahalf acre of land.
Hapdersonville Times: The welcome
,ono of the street car is again heard
4non upon our streets after nearly
three months of silence.
Nath Stephens says that he killed
t@ rats one day last week and there
anneared to be plenty of them left still,
saws the L%aurinburg Exchange
forest fire recently came very near
destroying the Waldensian settlement,
in Burke county. The buildings were
univ saved by the hardest work.
Mr.. A. F. Page, who invited Mr.
Moody, the evangelist, to visit Raleigh,
has a letter from him in which he says
his engagements will permit him to
come.
Anew DAYS ago a negro attempted a
dsstardly outrage on a mere child, a
daugher of Mr.. John Morris who lives
near Vandemere. says the New Berne
Journal.
We have it from reliable authority
that it has not failed to rain in this
section, between the 18th and Goth days
of AprI, for rs years, says the Monroe
Enquirer.
A gentleman from Sampson county,
who was in the city yesterday, esti
mates that the huckleberry crop sus-
tanned 100000 damages during the
recent cold snap.
The chain gang force will pitch it's
tent next week about two miles from
town. The hills between here and
White Hall are to be cut down, says
VIZ " OOCbnNolOs
Nj. James Boylan, of Raleigh, is the
owner of colt for which he was offered
1850 before it was a day old. Such
horse flesh as hat is valuable and it is
worth while to raise them.
Ayoung white man, Willie Manning,
Of Wilmington, has been arrested on
t1e charge of attempting to murder his
vile BY putting powdered glass in
Wead which she had to eat.
Rev. J. F, MOser has been invited to
GelVer the bacCalaurate sermon before
me graduating class of LenOir College,
a. hickory, N. O., on the 23rd of May.
VnaS accepted the invitation.
DI1e News says that Mr.. John A.
o&CGWelder, of Concord, was in Abe
matI5 last week trying to interest the
gVoPle there IN the erection of a cotton
1aCory on the installment plan.
Two persons have been arrested for
%V murder of Ben Mckenzie, who was
HuV' down IN his door in Moore county
%ss week. There is also some circum
party
pIle Llnc0lntOn Courier tells of a
~ %rs, Bean, of Lenoir, who is "a years
N age and has So living descendants.
pr r05S are Is grand children, 80 great
sb15 children and 2 great grand
bsaa MRS. Thos. Culpepper of Dare county
nns Presented her husband with a
E~i1,Itet--tour bouncing boys. The
sora nOeth City Economist tells the
GstSb and challenges the State TO
pa HTpe Elias, who has been so promi-
Da 1ny Spoken of as a candidate for the
IN EGocIratlc nomination for Congress
NM TS Ninth district, now says he will
co1po ertnl6 his name to go before the
bIogg 0tatesville Landmark gives the
YeS3omIi53g: The fruit is not all killed.
tbs% a4aaty a gentleman brought into
o. pb 6nilce a twig from an apple tree
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