The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11
STATE NEWS.

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Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Forty two couples were granted
license to wed in Forsythe county dur.
ing November.
Anthony Davis who died in Lenoir
county, Sunday, ~bequeathed his entire
estate of $50, 600 to the county.
Elizabeth City C~arolinian: Mr..
Charles @. Ewes, Of Salem. this county,
died on the "a inst, aged 38 years.
In a quarrel over a shooting match
at Lenolr, N. O., Wiley Wilson was
shot and instantly killed by John Fox.
Major Winder, late vice president of
the Seaboard Air Line, has resigned
his position because he was tired of
railroad life.
Mr.. J. G. Foushee has been ap
pointed postmaster at Gtendon, the
southern terminus of the Gulf & Glen.
don railroad.
Tobacconists say that this years
crop of the weed is very little better
than the 80 crop. This year it is some
brighter but has a poor body.
T. F. Smith, with one horse, raised
a corn crop this year of 597 bushels on
the farm Of 7. A BrunU, near Farming
ton. says the Davie Times.
The fve-year old daughter of Mr..
Adiso Owen was burned TO death near
Burlington, Wednesday, by her dress
becoming ignited from a spark.
The "City Fathers" of Winston have
notified the merchants not to purchase
fireworks az they will not be allowed
during the Christmas holidays.
Three negroes in the guardhouse at
Polkton, N. c., attemp ed to burn
their way out and were burned to death
the fire getting beyond their control.
The saw mills are turning off lum-
Der for completing the wood work of
the immense new cotton mills at Bes
semer City, says the Gastonia Ca
Z9tte.
Will Morehead, colored, accidentally
shot and killed a little colored girl,
aged 6 years, in Greensboro. It was
the usual case of didn't know it was
loaded"
We learn that a Pittsburg firm will
soon erect q 800, 600 plant on North
river, Carteret county. It will be a
saw mill with manufacturing con-
nected with it.
A nine months old child of Lola
Montgomery colored, was burned to
death in Mecklenburg county, Friday,
while tied to a chair in front Of the fire
and left alone.
The G~oldsboro Headlight tells of a
curiosity in the shapeOf a Bible printed
in 1873, making it 316 years old. 1t
has been given to the presiding elder
of that district. .
Cotton inspector Roark was crippled
to day by a bale of cotton falling on
him. His left foot is painfully hurt
and he is confined to his home, says
the Charlotte News.
A certain Republican who was op
posed to fusicn before the election got
on a drunk after he saw how things
were going and hasn't been sober
since, says the Raleigh Press.
Greenville Reflector: Mr.. G.. E.
Taft, one of our county's very best
citizens, died at his home eight miles
from Greenville on Thursday night of
last week. He was about so years
old.
Allegheny Star: Elder William
Hawkins died at his home in Grayson
on Thursday. November 22d. He was
Moderator of the Mountain Primitive
Baptist Association-he was an able
preacher.
There is a prospect on foot to build a
railroad from Mooresville to Mocks
vile, about IS miles, to connect two
branches of the southern system. We
hope the project will be contaminated,
says the Lexington Dispatch.
Mrs. W. A. Jones, who about three
weeks ago was accidently burned, died
of her injuries last Friday, and was
buried in the old family burying
ground near Hurdle Mills On Satur-
day, says the Roxboro Courier.
Mr.. Simeon Smith told us the other
day that he killed three pigs eight and
a half months old that weighed: One
261. another 228 and the third 213,
Right good sized pigs, wasn't they? He
has some fine ones, says the Lenoir
Topic.
Hillsboro Observer: The crop of
acorns this year is one of the smallest
on record. The great frost and freeze
late in April is said to have been the
cause of the short crop. There are also
few hickory nuts, walnuts or persim-
moDS.
Durham Sun: The total collection
this month was $50, $50 90, and the ex
port tobacco and cigarettes, which are
not included in this, amounted to
about SO. 600, making a total Of nearly
500, 900 that Durham pays in this
month.
George W. Vanderbilt has just
completed the purchase of another
piece of valuable land adjoining his
already large estate, lear Asheville.
1t was bought from W. j. Cooke for
$40, 900 cash. The tract contains some
344 acres.
Elizabeth City Carolinian: Cap
tain Murphy and hisson were drowned
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