The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-02-27
STATE NEWS.

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W. cotton Seed from the South
v,i Perkins lectured in Durham last
W%ednIbo colored insane asylum near
Az ,m Monday one male patient
GG 91oS another patient.
fDIo- roovement for a reduction OF to-
the acreage in this State is quite
bacco and very earnest.
gepk ont for a strong campaign this
LOo oags are only worth 8 cents per
talm0s laws the Hickory Mercury.
doS@a 1;t whiskey stills are being broken
DhTi oyor the State. Scarcely a day
up Oh that several seizures are not
made ~ Gold bovo hoon
L8ISp pacently in Ca6arrus county.
touna aiece weighed so and another $50
Pe1 bordeaux, an aged and re-
farmer near BurgaW, com
Ipeet,od suicide by cutting his throat.
No cause stated.
w " Cuthrell & Bro merchants OF
eoId and Rocky Mount, have made.
EDnOs,unment. Liabilities about 800
an S0o' assets not yet known
Wm Gore. colored, at Washington,
.,;nrad and fell in the fire. HIS face
l @no burned to the bone and he was
S% before assistance came.
No. auiance store at Chapel Hill has
,,nn soId for rs per cent of its paid up
.sook Troubles among the stock
s'T ~ made the sale necessary.
Tbiaves took about four hundred
.,n5s IF meat from Mr.. B. /. Slmp-
p IoU Of Sandy Ridge township, last
Fridsy night, says the Monroe Journal
four thousand dollar distillery
1,re a been made by revenue Off
oors in Person county. The property
rs seized for Irregularities and will
be sold.
Tobn l. Weber, ex school commits
,ioner- of Charleston, s. O., now Pro
ioSaor in Trinity College, is charged
9TH being a defaulter in the sum
Of $1,000. =.
linn W. Cotton, Grand Master of
Nosons. has appointed Judge Walter
CIark orator. and he will deliver the
annual address at the next meeting In
Raleigh.
VIM. L. Kennedy of Falling Greek
add q ten months old colt in Raleigh
iasF week for $500. The sale was by
auction. This shows how breeding
stock pays.
Watauga Democrat: Old Mrs. Rich,
commonly known as Granny Rlch,"
and who was perhaps, the oldest woman
in Caldwell or Watauga counties, died
at Globe last Tuesday.
Thee. B. Lyman, Jr., of Asheville,
has sued his wife for divorce, charging
adultery. She files an answer in which
she charges him with being a f~alsiier,
q drunkard and a brute.
Prof. Blair, superintendent Of the
Winston graded school, expelled sew
eral pupils for going to the DeGraH
hanging, as he announced in advance
he would do if any attended.
Carthage Blade: Rev. s. D. Adams
was a natlve of South Carolina, having
first seen the light in Marlboro county
He has been since 1858 a member of
Of the North Carolina Conference
Vim. Causby was murdered near
M~organtOn Saturday by Phillip VIII
liams and Sylvanus Morrow, who
ChOked and beat him to death while
under the influence Of corn whiskey.
Mrs Naomi Moore, who was injured
in the Bostain bridge accid mt, near
StatesvIlle, has died. She never re
covered from the shOckof the death of
her only daughter, who was instantly
killed
Wilson Advance: From present ap-
pearances it does seem that General
Ransom has not a ghost of a chance
Tor re election. Then, who's We think
1t not too soon for candidates to be sug-
gested.
Concord has just had a census of the
CITY taken. 1t shows 8, 480 inhabitants;
1886 white and 1, $40 cOlOred. In 1890
the population was 4,339, this makes
an increase of 1,147 in three years, a
good showing.
A preacher who says it is wrong for
q minister to go into politics, and will
JoIn a political club, is very incOnsi5-
vent Of all people in the world
PREACHERS should vote as they pray,
says the Hickory Mercury.
Asheboro Courier: The barn of Mr..
=. A; Spencer, seven miles south of
As3eooro, was burned on Wednesday
LienU OF last week, together with a
tal8S Quantity of feed and grain, and
'"oIarge mules and a fine horse.
We hear that Mr.. Jacob Johnson
aIu vile, Of the Catawba county,
IaIose mysterious separation we pub
n notS " weeks ago, have gone to-
S S. as man and wife again. Well,
'uIs Is indeed a strange experience.
We are glad to see that the farmers
"o sowing more oats than usual this
%SiasOn' This is a move in the right
~ %IecCl II. The land needs a change
vi tcFrops and there is no better feed for
f ForsI. Chan oats, says the Smithfeld
aoT we we're shown a counterfeit half
5 3olIaf by Mr.. Scott Fillman the other
e epE which was found among the coin
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