The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-23

OF Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
North-Stalk Of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the W~est-Peanuts
aad Cotton Seed from the South
A cyclone struck Newport, Carteret
county, n day last week and blew
down three or four houses.
The first severe frost of the season
came Sunday night killing vegetation
completely, says the Newton Enter
prise.
The State Supreme Court afirms the
ruling Of the Superior Court in con-
drming the sale of the New Berne water
works.
The Statesville Landmark learns
that 1redell has twenty girls at the
State Normal and Industrial School at
Green sboro.
The Wilson Advance is informed
that the ginners in Greene county
have shut down owing to the present
low price of cotton.
The Neuse river rOse so high Wed
nesday that it swept away part Of the
dam at the Falls of Neuse paper mills,
near Wake Forest.
A great deal of the low land east is
1890 CIV ALA OAC ~ - SON0IGOs
The loss Of corn and peanuts which
are stacked will be large.
Statesville is making preparations
for the Western North Carolina Con
fernce, which will meet in that place
the latter part of November.
Mr.. II. Fl. Stoddard of Nebraska,
has arrived in Raleigh, and has leased
a large dairy farm, with many cattle,
etc., and will conduct the business.
The statement of the earning of the
railway in this State for the year end
ing June 80, shows a falling off as com
pared with the previous IL months.
Machinery has arrived at the phos
pha-e works at Castle Hayne, near
Wilmington, which will double the
output, and make the latter 100 tons a
day.
James P. Cockerham, Of Wilkes
county, who was in the Union army,
drew back pension money this week to
the amount of $404. says the Winston
Sentinel.
A little son of H G. Irwin, of Char
lotte, while picking at dynamite cap
with a horse shoe nail, Tuesday, had q
part OF his right arm blown eff by an
explosion.
The postofice at Hollis, Rutherford
county, has been ordered removed one
and a half miles east of the old location
after October %; Julius P. D. Withrow,
postmaster,
During the session of the Western
North Carolina Conference, which
meets in Statesville, Wednesday, No
vember %, the Landmark will issue a
daily paper.
At Surry court, Friday, J T. Breach,
o. Pilot Mountain, was tried for wife
murder, found guilty in the second de-
gree and sentenced to ten years in the
p~enitentiary.
Governor Carr hOnors a requisitiOn
of Governor Tillman's of South Coro-
lima for j ] Johnson, who is in jail at
Charlotte, and who is wanted at Spar
tanturg, S, @.
Rockingham Index: DIR. William
sons gin house, in Wolf Pit township,
containing a good many bales of cot
ton, was burned several days ago. 1t
was insured for 81, 900; loss about
So, 500.
Work in the Parmelee Eccleson Lum,
Der Co.'S. mills at Jacksonville will be
resumed in a few days; the work of
Temedying the damage caused by the
recent explosion there is about com
pleted.
Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. w. P. Beard
of this place has a solid gold ring which
has been in his family for 900 years.
The heirloom has been handed down
from father to son and has never been
lost during these long years.
MI. Will Bell showed us the most
peculiarly shaped sweet potato last
week we ever saw. 1t is about five
inches long, and is shaped almost ex-
actly like a human being. 1t is a curl
osity, 8 lys the Concord Times.
Joe. Hendren of the Elkin Times has
been studying catalogy and makes the
following official statement. OF course
the cat is a Wilkes cat: "a cat in
Edwards township Wilkes county, has
given birth to IA kittens in the last
three months. "
Mr.. J. q. Shields sued the town for
50, 900 damages, for being put in prison
where there was no fro, &c. A verdict
was returned last Saturday allowing
him 5000. The town will take an ap,
peal to the Supreme Court, says the
Durham Recorder.
Charlotte News: Mrs. Ida Arnold,
wife of MI. J. D. Arnold, suderintend
ent of the Charlotte Cotton Mill, died
yesterday Of consumption. - Mr..
Frank Clark, q young mechanic of
this city, died yesterday. He was
about 25 years of age.
New Berne Journal: The body OF
Henry Paterson. colored, of this city
who fell from a fiat Tuesday morning
before day, two miles below New Berne
and was drowned was"recovered yes
terday. The remains were expected
to arrive in the city last night.
Jonesboro Progress: Mr.. J. A
Wicker. who lived near Swami sta.