The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-18
STATE NEWS.

NQE% Sa.t from the West-Peanuts
vi Cotton Seed from the South
,ot+n ia have q chrisanthemum
"" in November :.
show IL 60 600 hotel is being built at
rtankiin, Macon county;
f[Sontain Edward b; EngeIhard has
.GS;oRRed as chief of the Raleigh Fire
DeP Tbos E Skinner, of Raleigh, is
D aoring for publication a book of re-
PEiVal sermons.
wosbington Progress: g. Lawson
w. have handled upwards of $4,000
IDS of fish the past two weeks.
%ro new $75, 900 hotel at Southern
o. InS is now being completed. The
a.niture forit is being made In Green's
V% me- Cane Fear and Yadkin Valley
II In nm a branch line from Sanford to
W. 4idrich stone quarry-a little over
sheriff Cook, of Guilford, isappointed
tbo court receiver of the Guilford
GG,+ton Mills, formerly the Crown Cot,
ton Mills.
workmen at the Reed mine, in this
,iv are busy day and night. Some
s~n3;d ore is being dug, says the Concord
Standard.
pTs of the old Bank of Mecklenburg
"a still 8foat. A five dollar one was
oossed off on a druggist at Durham the
G5her night.
The Baptists of Hamlet have just
ant a handsome Chandelier in their
EgSErrch which is both an ornament and
benefit thereto.
The Durham Soap Works received
an order a few days ago for five tons
Ttheir soap from a lace manufacturer
IN Pennsylvania.
Mr. J. D. Miller, now a deacon of
Greensboro, is to be ordained to the
~Foiscopal priesthood by Bishop Chesh-
ne September 23d.
The planters in one township alone,
IN Mecklenburg county, are said to
have sold this season, by actual count,
$1,000 worth of melons.
Among the new industries are a
chewing gum factory in Edgecombe, a
Gburn factory in Mcdowell, and a wash
board factory in Yadkin.
We learn that the commissioners
have one lone woman in the work
house ready to work our county roads,
saws the Chatham News.
About sixty families of Italians are
expected to settle between Raleigh aud
Southern Pines at an early date. They
will engage in fruit raising.
G. E. White, of Cana, lost a second
child by diphtheria on last Wednesday.
Still a third is quite sick with this
dread disease, says the Mocksville
Times.
Lieut.. Belrose, late of the United
States navy, committed suicide at
Asheville by holding the hilt of his
sword against a tree and pushing his
body against the point.
Sheriff Griffith took four convicts to
the p~enitentiary on Monday. Yester-
day he took five recruits for Cabarrus
county chain gang to Concord, says
the Lexington Dispatch.
Rockingham Rocket: Ed. Simons,
cOlored, who has served two or three
terms in the penitentiary, was arrested
and placed in jail Tuesday for stealing
corn from Capt. Everett.
Ed. E. McLawhorn baptised Twenty
eight persons at Forbes mill pond on
Sunday morning. They united with
the Free Will Baptist church at Reedy
Branch, says the Greenville Reflector.
A gentleman in New Hope township,
who is near fifty years of age, says he
has never voted but once and then only
for one man. This year he expects to
Deposit a full POpulist ticket, says the
Chatham News.
AdVices from Howellsville township
are to the effect that the ''army worm"
has made its appearance in that section
and are eating the FODDER on the stacks
10 addition to grass, etc., says Lum-
0erton RObesonian.
The Goldsboro Rifles have succeeded
IN making up a fund of $500 for the
purchase Of a monument over the
graves of the Confederate soldiers who
we're killed at the last battle of the
var, Bentonville, Johnson county.
Elizabeth City News: The crops this
year will be the best in twenty years
past. -- There is still right much
sickness IN town. - There were six
gen persons baptized by Rev. DR.. O.
: blackwell at Salem on Saturday
WILLIAMSON Sun: The corn crop
~afCughout the county is in splendid
SSldItIon. Cotton is also doing well.
tle farmers who have crops on the
HHEer low grounds are in good spirits.
5aere has been no freshet this year to
%stroy their crops.
Inc Kinston Free Press gives this
SpS5n; We are told that Mr.. Louis
~.9ueS, on Mr.. Jesse Jackson's land,
~aue ia gallons of molasses from the
"lV grown on a fraction less than half
%acre, without fertilizers. The mo
uses was carefully measured.
M aulSo?ro Observer: Miss Maria Nash
NJ. with a very painful accident on
osgo,o.!!sday night of last week. She was
S SDS ready to retire for the night
W. reached I'D to take hold of a chair.