The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28
STATE NEWS.

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NoLSn from the West-Peanuts
vi Cotton Seed from the South
o,rcombe Prohibitionists have set
county ticket.
W Uborlotte has a man on trial for sell
CCIinuor to minors.
pg tier and cheese factory is to be
ihabIisbed at Murphy.
@~%-oo prisoners are in Person county
- he tried for their lives.
m;roton is to have two new cigarette
smoking tobacco factories
~oHtord's new bank-the Bank of
UanyiIle. will open September LIST.
%Sncorner-stone of the new Methodist
,L-cb at Mt. Airy was laid Monday.
~ BEAUFORT lightning struck a col
conan, and also a schooner in
y TLo Emitting mills of Scotland Neck
LIZ Thinning night and day to keep up
With orders.
u" tuo.vear old child In Meckleburg
..Lrtv weighs nine pounds and has
hut one tooth.
Hog cholera, or something like it, is
., me in this section, says the Samp-
IN Democrat.
rbo crops in the eastern part of the
c.atn are the finest within the mem
Nv Of the land owners.
!regbanv Star: The barn of Capt.
mt near Jefferson, was entirely de.
yroyed by fire last Saturday.
The North Carolina Car Wheel
works at Raleigh which begins work
SOtember 1, will employ ~ men.
The WiIkesboro Chronicle says that
Il. county has already contributed over
T0 to the Vance monument fund.
The annual re union of Rowan Vet
s,ans will take place at Salisbury on
the second Thursday in September.
Wurfreesboro Index: Sally Wynns,
ooored. died near Lincolnsville church
in this county last week, aged ITO
years.
At the Egypt coal mines 100 men are
employed. September 1st the coal
mtput will be increased to 400 tons
daily.
Goldsboro Argus: There are now
fifteen prisoners confined in the county
Jail here, the largest number for some
time past.
Ashe Pioneer: 1t is estimated that
there will be more corn and better corn
made in Ashe county this year than
any previous year.
The Raleigh chamber of commerce
appoints six delegates to represent it at
the Southern Business Mems meeting
at Washington City.
Five prisoners escaped from the Pitt
county jail at Greenville last Tuesday.
1t is supposed that they are delegates
to some convention.
At Burlington, Wednesday, Bertha
Thomas aged IL years, was killed by
lightning and at Ayden, Pitt county,
two children we're killed.
Several protracted meetings are in
progress in different parts of the county,
and there is general religious awaken.
ing, says the Chatham Record.
Mr.. Will Honeycut, a farmer near
Hickory Grove, had a fine milk COW
killed by lightning last Wednesday,
says the Charlotte Peoples Paper.
Goidsboro Argus: Our farmers tel
US that cotton is shedding very badly
On account of the wet weather. They
also say that it is opening rapidly.
1t is said that over 5000 people at
tended the Elders and DeacOns' Insti
tuteo of Fayetteville Presbytery, which
has just closed it's sessions at Red
Springs.
Warrenton Record: The CROPS in ole
Warren are all right this year if NJ
disaster should overtake them anC
tney are so near maturity that none il
a~pprehended.
Gullford College has recently come
INTO possession Of a valuable tract Of
and IN the city of Boston. It was
eequeathed by a prominent friend, and
RWorth SO, 900.
The old white oak at Grove Hill
mat CORVALLIS dined under is dead
some think the tree must have beer
one hundred and fifty years old, says
We Warrenton Record.
L. d. Cobb, a bar tender at Ply
mouth, n. O., killed himself in hi
sVOn with a pistol Friday night in
m91 dIspondency. He had a family
Ala came from Virginia.
special to the Asheville Citizer
from StatesVille, N. c., says the South
IN W Hallway Company bought The
meStern North Carolina railway there
ltne 20th inst, for $500, 600.
J3hnT Roach of r Rockingham county
las been appointed to a position in The
Sosernment printing Office, the ap
gS~Atment being credited to the in
Aueuce OF ex Congressman Williams.
Al Goldsboro a series of entertain
~ %slV5 are IN progress to obtain fund.-
~ a. q monument over the graves of thu
SS~uederate soldiers who are buried a
GGuoaVllle, the last battle ground o
'1a3fal Joseph E. Johnston's army.
. af' Jabez Myers, who was recently
sros and dangerously wounded whil'
ST5mg to attack Mr.. Fred Oliver il
S SauaTlIotte, Is rapidly getting we'll. H.
0ito, oeen removed to st. Peters Hos