The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-02-13
STATE NEWS.

md Grains Oh pa Tobacco Stems from the
cf Grspes IL of Corn and Grains OF
NortnI,t from the West-Peanus
Vines sCottop Seed from the South
'nuS have sold 1866 Bibles in
I%T this winter. uonoa ono
DurbawT week. Nobody killed.
pight la, dIiyencer says that the small
TIE orcitement in LAS
sbatsoa,; oriff D. P. Leonard, of David
p8n9[,,rrl died Tuesday. He was
tsDS whitfield has resigned as super
Dt. MtL Of the Odd Fellows Orphan
~ At Goldsboro. un~
age rrpssman Bower is working hard
CODgTeaon appropriation of SIS, 900
secu,b1ic building at Winston.
tE durham police raided a colored
The Dui house and arrested several
gsnO,ln3 Guiding the proprietress last
negroes III
week, pocord says the farmers of
The viii buy less pork this year
Cha Gb9'D they have bought any year in
tTens ;,;, Ripple: Mrs. Kestler died
lauhlDb home near Kappa, Davie
at nsr last Sunday week. She was
sS oaII? 100 years old
H0 "..on Barrett, q policeman at Ger
UL5Tn eloped with a Mrs. George
Inanv maek, The woman leaves a hus-
5aSo and four children,
OI mo- small colored boys were caught
IT w. Garden seeds in the drug store
SteSlLn1 p. Bobbit, Raleigh, Wednes
G o. y night and were arrested.
10" Iorston FRY, one of Davie county's
5 hOuI and best citizens, died Wednes-
g que Jigbt of last week at his home near
G Hoyyn @H He was 81 years old.
Tank Hunt was accidently killed
last Saturday on Little river, Transyl-
E IaS, county. Atree on which he was
shopping fell on him and broke his
neck.
Ron Smith, a Reidsville boy who
,oaoiyAd a cut on his face in the
Bostain's bridge wreck, has recovered
RG0 damages from the railroad COM
p8ny.
Still thew marry. When the parents
oo willing and sometimes when they
oro NOT, Two sisters of a family near
Selma ran away last week and are
married.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. Cyrus W.
Alexander. one of the oldest and most
respected citizens of Concord, died
Saturday morning at about ten O'Clock
in his SD year.
John Maze, burglar, was shot at
Hickstown, Durham county, by Deputy
Sheriff Gates, of Orange county, while
resisting arrest, last Tuesday. Maze
died in a few hours.
Charlotte News: The grain crop
prospects in Long Creek township is
the best for years. Farmers are divid-
ing their attention more and looking
after grain and pork.
While the family was absent one
day last week. an unknown thief broke
into the dwelling of Mr.. L j. Dixon,
Kings Creek, and stole so in gold,
says the Shelby Review.
Editor Daugherty has returned from
bis trip to Caldwell, but is unable to
get out Of the house on account of a
severe pain in one of his hip Joints,
says the Boone Democrat.
G. NJ. Freeman, who resides near
LOgan's Store, Rutherford county, had
three pigs which had eighteen feet,
with distinct hoois. The pigs were
raised aud made good pork.
We were shown yesterday, at Gal
la.ghers drug store, an egg laid by one
othi3 hens on A5he Wednesday, which
has on the small end a large capital G,
says the Washington Gazette.
Fayetteville Observer: A very sad
aeatl occurred in this city Friday
morning. Mr.. Thomas O. Whaley, a
p9paIar young man, dropped dead in
LIZ IaFher S store on Hay street.
II Is rumOred that in all probability
Ge State will purchase the Roanoke
.!yer 1arms on which it now has an
GS lI and which have been so success
Nuay cultivate for the past few years.
naGton Chief: We learn that there
was a challenge to fight a duel rendered
oIu accepted by two prominent men
u sliS county last week but friends
'TTFIered and prevented the meeting.
concord Standard: Rev. J. D. Shiny,
ra1Stuent OF North Carolina College,
oPelI Jay IN the city. He speaks very
oounSSOIIraglngIy of the session. The
Taao IS much larger than last
r. TMIIsO1ro Observer: The residence
~ ~o0 "m. Clark, in Bingham township,
H HaS destroyed by fire last Monday.
tins IS lamliy was away from home at the
thing. Dl0 anu loSU nearly Ver
8D greensboro Record: The Southern
n r,r1snlng Mill is running night and day
will win with two full sets of hands. This
t p~ uo, but we hope to have still bet
ista nT"S one of these days not far
G1gIiaotort Herald: Mr.. Matthew P.
FifGEFIe informs US that Mr.. Geo. L.
Ion -"S caught a founder 80 inches
iDr5 5 u inches across the back, 9
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