The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-15
erATE NEWS.

Cation Seed IFOm
Ioonic Grand Lodge met at
~bsrlOtte. n Link has been elected
CsR" of Durham
!GsaoSIdsboro last week
&6Ol 20 selling at five cents a dozen
Eggs IN North Carolina towns.
oman Iameg B. Long died near Chat
rev. a few days ago. ageu S0V0n'y
pne ysS - Morehead City, May 9Th, de,
Fire o" \ B, Bells warehouse and
broyeqb bindings. Loss $50, 900; insur-
s sTS, $1,000. 4oo borauoro
,Isrs Charlotte, have assigned
5a?;as5iitfes about $500
D@a~ three negroes were baptized In
FLY uoar Salisbury a few days ago,
sGFes aino converted during a recent
revival D,mor has rocom
UO 3esa Editor Robertson, of the North
5gganEosboro News, for postmaster IN
tHa' ~orro bow at Statesville recently
4 p sE5 in bills and then, fearing de-
do? burned the money up. He is
now in jail.
t ~ oirI in Pamlico county, Tuesday,
VIII og the parents absence. A posse
[ofter them.
#, W. Lilly, of Fayetteville, has
w. the Green Hill Cotton Mill at
S1S4 5irv, and J. Fl. Sparger the Mt.
IIiv, Wooden Mill.
rro Asheville butchers, Sherman
! 'TcIntire. have been sentenced to
s sna year on the county roads for libel
io another butcher.
r r. Fletcher, a New Berne bar
v. who had been on a debauch,
SaSmSmitted suicide Wednesday morn
mo BY taking morphine.
Anew IBerne bull dog bit a police
non m a street there one day last
week The policeman was not asleep
after the biting was done.
Mr. John A. Leach says he has the
hest cotton in the lower end of Rich
mord county. Five leaves to the stalk,
@Tg the Laurinburg Exchange.
Smithfald Herald: It is estimated
that only ABOUT tWo-thirds the amount
dcotton is planted in Johnston county
This year that was planted last.
Aswarm Of bees pitched into Mr.. J.
Hicks Bunting's drug store yesterday
and for a while kept the force lively in
smoking 'em out, says the Wilmington
Star.
One of the Worlds Fair judges
writes Mr.. Robinson, Commissioner
Of Agriculture, that North Carolina
ranked sixth as to agricultural ex-
hibits.
Paw Creek, Mecklenburg county,
has a monstrosity in the shape of
a caIf which has no hair on it's body,
has nc eyes, and its skin is hard and
cracked.
In many sections of the country corn
is being plowed, and farmers say ex,
cpt the dry weather, they never saw
better times for crops getting an early
start at growing.
An issue of 5000 copies of a well pre-
pared and Illustrated handbook of Raj
agh will be made in a few days. 1t
was prepared by the Secretary of the
Chamber Of Commerce.
The POpuli8ts of Cleveland and Gas
Ton counties will hold their township
meetings Saturday. Cleveland county
convention will be held Saturday, May
HiO, says the Shelby Aurora.
Ripe old field strawberries were put
VI Inc market to day by the army of
5%atnererS who CLEAN the fields every
!8ar, They now sell at 10 cents per
quart, says the Charlotte News.
The Columbian Mining Co., will
satt their fine Crawford Mills in a few
N.Y., turning out the yellow gold bugs.
suS5 capacity will be SO tons of ore
%uay' says the Carthage Blade.
s3ESl9kiah Cook, colored, postmaster
NJ %1UOeTlln, a town near Raleigh, is in
~, charged with making false re.
4 91uS as 10 stamps sold, and using
a %nP' IN the purchase of merchan.
sH U", !. ). Carr had his ten Shropshire
s1S 8 as9 yesterday, and got from
S ham, ana a half to ten pounds of wool
# 1S9 ~ Sacn, These imported sheep are
Go ip0 nhe8t breed, says the Durham
e, as Pleasant, Cabarrus county, is
Hss ' noH the cheapest place to live.
sIs,ER 'i TAX Is 80 cents; the mayors
Fear ry ~ 20 a year; the fines for last
Inv so we're 81, and there is in the treas
he SV e5lIoe.!c canal is being cleaned out.
ns ssttOaectlon of moss in the canal is sc
Safs, az 70 impede the flow of the
gowtb Aid winters always cause this
S qtberrooL moss, says the Tarborc
aoH tuaps the oldest man in Sampson
eg tGu Is 4r. Payton Rackley, of Tur
&e Tva%dDshlp- He isnow nearly ninety.
mts 3s@Fs Of age. M. Rackiey is by
ahs T tcaa a |heelwrightan and ret works
lsprJ9as3o \. Ives received a telegram
CDitoSe stating that rnproharg 0f H.