The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-09
STATE NEWS.

Oh 0rapeS and Tobacco Stems from the
North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
Wake Forest College will play no
intercollegiate football games this sea
son.
Rev. w. @. Norman has been elected
President Of Greensboro Female Col
lege.
The Charlotte electric light company
has been absorbed by the electric street
railway.
Some gentlemen in StatesvilIe are
talking of establishing a snuff factory
in that town.
There will not be many chestnuts
owing to the lateness of the crop most
of it will be frost bitten, says the
Watauga Democrat.
The late r.. r. Gwyn, of Elkin, left in
his will 81, 600 to the Missionary Board
of the Southern Methodist Church, to
be used for missions.
The Hickory Press and Carolinian
says that the Methodists have bought
a lot there and will in the near future
erect a costly church edidce.
People are busy making molasses.
They expect to have something for
their ''chaps to waller their bread in"
says the Wilkesboro Chronicle.
The Charlotte News says corn and
cotton are badly damaged by the
storm. Corn was blown to the ground
and cotton knocked out of the hollis.
W. H. Hardin, the Democratic can
didate for sheriff of Watauga county,
has withdrawn from the race owing
to the dissatisfaction as to his can
didacy.
The Odd Fellows Lodge has been
reorganized in LenOir and several of
young friends have been getting
into the mysteries of the order, says
the Topic.
Samuel E. Grant, whose wife and
child were killed in q runaway acci
dent at Bryson City, is said to have lost
his mind through grief over the dread
full occurrence.
George Vanderbilt has sent 80, 900
worth of giant palms and ferns to his
estate at Biltmore, N. @. where a hot
house, with a dome sixty feet high, has
just been finished.
The saw mill of Jordan & Co near
Gulf, Chatham county, has been to-
tally destroyed by fire. The fire was
accidental. The loss is about IS, 900
with no insurance.
Deputy Sheriff J. S. Wilcox took
three cOnvicts to the ~penitentiary at
Raleigh on Monday, result of criminal
convictions at court last week, says
the Elizabeth City Economist.
Farrow Neal and other fishermen of
the banks, made a haul in the surf at
Mays Head last week Of 432 jumping
mullets of large size, and other mixed
fish, including two small sharks.
Mrs. A. T. Baxter's residence was
broken into Saturday night, but only
a small amount was stolen, the only
things missed are a rubber coat and an
umbrella, says the New Berne Journal.
Mr.. e. M. Pardue, Of this place, re-
Gently came into possession of q silver
half dollar, which his SOL e. B. Par
due, marked before spending it seven
teen years ago, says the Wilkesboro
Chronicle.
Holly postofice in Rutherford is to
be discontinued. The mail should be
addressed to Garnett, N. C.-distance
only one and a fourth miles from
Holly. Hollis in Rutherford is not
discontinued.
The little child of Adam Cook, in
Watauga county, was burned to death
last Thursday. The child's clothing
caught from the stove and her sister,
in trying to put out the fire, had her
arms and hands badly burned.
Saturday night a bull dog was chas-
ing a cat in Mr.. r M. Starkey's yard.
The cat jumped up On the well curb,
the dog sprang up after her and both
went down the well together and were
drowned, says the Greenville Reflector.
Charlotte News: About six weeks
ago a party of $50 darkies left this sec,
ton to work in the coal mines of Ala
bama. The promises were alluring
and they went off in high feather.
Now, all but ten are back and they had
to walk home,
The dispatcher's office of the South.
ern Railway, which was removed from
Durham to Greensboro three or four
years ago, has moved back. Mr.. A. P.
Connolly is train dispatcher, his as.
sistants Mr.. III. B. Connolly and Mr..
Sheriff., the Sun says.
A curiosity in the shape of a wild
potato was shown us to day by Mr.. j.
w. Lumley. 1t was % inches long,
about 10 inches in circumference and
weighed 144 pounds. It was found
upon the land of Mr.. Augustus amuels,
in the Clemmonsville section, this
county, says the Winston Sentinel.
Mr.. Burwell Deea, who lives about
four miles north of here, in attempting
to go out of his house last Friday night
foil ont tho 6OOr oU6 oI1t O vnrv coVoPc
cash i in his head. He is seventh -four
1einfnE DR., ". D, Pemberton dressed
the wound and at last accounts the in
jured man was doing well, says the
Monroe Enquirer.
Mr.. A. Y. Sigmon had a dream the