The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
sTATR NEWS.

OF grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
N~orCh-Stalks Of Corn and Grains of
wheat from the West-Peanuts
ndCottonS Seed from the South
Tea raised on a farm near Fayette-
vile, sold for 80 cents a pound in New
York lately.
The second crop of green peas is now
being shipped from the truck farms
near New Berne.
No less than So, 900 is offered in race
purses at the East Carolina fair New
Berne, next February.
Messrs. G. 81. Farintosh and Alfred
:. Amer, of New York, have leased
the Butord Hotel, in Charlotte.
Miss Jennie L Smith, of Greensboro
q Mr.. d. M. Lucas, of Washington,
N. G., were married in Charlotte Mon,
day.
Morganton Herald: The Valdese
hosiery mill is now running on full
time and producing some excellent
goods.
Mrs. Fannie Rountree Woodland,
wife of Hon. Fred A. Woodland, died
IN Asheville on Sunday afternoon,
Oct. 81.
Mark ~Forney~was shot in Kingdom
on Monday night while in a row. No
particulars can be had, says the Lin
colnton Courier.
The Southern Railway Freight
Warehouse at Asheville was destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 9th.
Loss $50, 900, 1t was insured.
Durham Sun: Mrs. Tassie Parham
Watson, wife of Rev. N. M. Watson,
of Chapel Hill, passed away peacefully
at her home Saturday night.
DR.. VIM, J. Hawkins, a prominent
citizen of Raleigh, is dead. He died
at the Jefferson hospital in Philadel
phia, Sunday night, the 28th inst.
Nine prisoners escaped from the
Madison jail a few nights ago, among
them George and William Cody, SEN
fenced to be hanged for burglary.
The Washington Gazette reports the
killing of a two hundred pound bear
within two miles of the town a week
ago, and the mate to the one killed has
been seer In the ~neighborhood.
The sum of $68, 900 is being disbursed
this week among the settlers on the
Cherokee lands in Jackson and Macon
counties, this State, under the provis
ions of a recent act of Congress.
n uCSIO "Ou1dh 10 LII JdIl dCCuSOO VI
stealing 5000 from Capt. Robt. Wescot.
There are some sensational develop
ments in the case, says the Washing
ton Gazette.
The State Farmers Alliance is MAX
ing an effort to manufacture their own
shoes 1t is a step in the right direc
ton, and means success for our State,
says the Nash County Sun.
There is no scarcity of tramps in
Charlotte. Six were arrested in that
city Thursday. Two were released on
account of youthfulness, being under
Is years of age, says the Concord
Standard.
Laurinburg Exchange: Mr.. Geo.
M. Stedman died at his home In this
place Thursday evening at 6 80 o'clock.
Mr.. Steadman was stricken down with
typhoid fever about three weeks pre-
vious to his death.
The remains of the first wife of the
late Senator Vance have been removed
from the old Presbyterian grave yard
and reinterred in Riverside cemetery,
near Asheville, in the same plot with
the Senator's remains.
Tarboro Southerner: We under
stand Mr.. w. G.. Harrell, postmaster
at Old Sparta, is some $500 short in
his account with the government, and
learn he is now in a 81, 600 bail for his
appearance at the Federal Court.
Greensboro Record: News was re-
ceived here this morning Of the death
at his home near Egypt, of DR.. Charles
D. McIver's father, which occurred yes
terday morning at s o'clock. Paralysis
was the immediate cause of his death.
A number of boys from Eldorado
killed q black bear last Thursday.
They chased it from the Coggins mine
several miles and shot it seven times
before killing it. It's weight was $50
pounds, says the Lexington Dispatch.
Monroe Journal: Mr.. Philip Whit
ley, of Buford township, so far as we
have heard, has broken the record on
sorghum making this year. He made
], 5S2 gallons, an average So gallons
| per day for the time. Counting this
at 80 cents per gallon the amount is
$474 80.
Reports to the Synod which has just
been held in Greensboro, show that
the total number of additions to the
| Presbyt erian churches Of the State
was about 2 700, bringing up the total
membership to over 80, 900, a gain of
| LOCO since the spring report to the
General Presbytery.
There lives in Granville county a
father and daughter who only reside
ten miles apart that have not seen
each other since the war. The strange
part of it is there is NJ enlargement
in the family and the daughter says
she would not know her father if she
met him in the road.
The dwelling house of T. B. Evans,
colored, near Red Banks meeting
house, was destroyed by fire on Sun
dav night. Oct. 2lst. Everything de-