The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01
STATE NEWS.

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vines Cotton Seed from the south
'pu auries are selling in Raleigh
sSS cents per quart
-Four oS SeI last week.
pear ' %poo T, Peay has been renomi-
VI; t I'm mayor of Durham
psted ~ 4ouring mill will be built in
o!A1s 55 at once to turn out ~ O"rreiS
FrdSy. fire came very near destroy
AtorSW7T aIdesian settlement In Burke
sSsSo DUTY recently Il 1.++,o ,.. boeD elected
Hon. ahn 9 member of the Maryland
Hs"l ~ McAllister, a wealthy citizen,
DavIa leaned from a hotel at Fayette-
t 1Ss sGd was fatally hurt.
rDs aua are now going off in large
Cao1 .'eS the shipments are up to
gg ssptIS3 }, 900 packages a day.
SEu' TooIen mills at Leaksville have
the "%od their financial difficulties
. %. s thew will soon resume work,
t@S Free Press: Levi Pipkin.
An STO Of Trent township, said to be
eio roors old. died week before last.
49, T!.ro was snow on the mountains
I gSl0 of Hickory, Grandfather's
nOi'n ntbers, last Saturday and Sunday.
'Da !, said that the county of Neck
u 10 will realize sos, 900 by the sale
s g tba Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio
railway.
od Rackle quarry near here will
~ - opened by a party of Michigan
capitalists.
Tbo town of Lumberton has voted a
.,5Dcrintion of 500 900 to the capital
ssock Of the Lumberton and Lumber
River Railroad.
Norganton is making big prepare
ions t0 entertain the press convention
IN Nav A $500 banquet will be one
Of the features
Fire destroyed the storage factory of
" Farrar, and damaged the resi-
5epces of Sheriff league and g.. E
Miller, of Winston.
Worphead City is making earnest
Efforts to induce the authorities to order
the encampment of the State Guard
there next summer.
Cornpl,a Evans. a demented woman
h the Durham county work house, has
tried to kill herself twice in the past
two or three weeks.
lis said that many Raleigh property
owners are dropping the insurance in
the Southern Tariff Association and
taking insurance from brokers.
The Beaufort Herald says that pieces
Of wreckage washed ashore near Cape
Lookout Indicate that a large vessel
has gone to week on the shoals.
We are requested to say that while
we will haveno peach pie this summer
We WillhaVeapple dumplings and black
berry tarts, says the LenOir Topic.
A d8rkpy was heard to make the
wish to get in the guard house here a
few DAYS ago 80 the town would feed
him, says the Lqurinburg Exchange.
There are IS Mormon preachers in
the State. No danger is apprehended
IN this section, as it's as much as a
man about here can do to support one
wife.
1.-THE oats crop does we'll there will
oeteed enough made this year, F 8 there
Is a larger crop sowed about Boone
than ever before, says the Boone
Democrat
lawson Howard, the negro who
Killed Z. D Jones of Cleveland county,
was tired and convicted of murder in
we hrst degree at the present session
otCourt in Cleveland.
StatesvilIe Landmark: Governor
vance did not join the church until
ser MS wife's death. She was the
laughter of a Presbyterian clergyman
ana an earnest Christian.
d. R Armfpld. of Marshville town
sip had a very fine blooded colt killed
slVH days since. The colt attempted
" Jump a fence and snagged itself,
S!s the Monroe Enquirer.
No. sIIl was IOuQQ O0aO
tS VIo Hundred. The coroner learned
saas Ine girl came to her death from O
m1ste whipping administered by her
o'anulather. John Robinson.
Al Garner, on the North Carolina
S SairtGad' a mule a away with Archie
EgEI5Lns and threw him out of a cart.
f ~ Is about II years old He died
y LIS injuries in a few hours.
n ASquad Of hands under the direction
M I Ut A & Britt. has been at work
VOL Lue lar ground for more than a
s sVTA, q and a lot of work has been done,
'e Lumberton Robesonian.
vo moashington Progress: A coIored
smo a gave birth to a strange child
m 1pt uayS ago in this city. It had a
Vas aSi acne about an inch long when it
n O'rn. 1t died in a few hours.
StsII5j are sorry to learn that O. P.
s%ctiollgs who is well known in this
tromO was sent to the penitentiary
arcar1C asWeII county last week for
NJ My, says the Hickory Mercury.
has 4, J b, Davenport, of this place,
TRa 'os largest cOl5 we have ever seen.
birth o'g measured nearly four feet at
three average height of a colt is