The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-02
STATE NEWS.

NorCn-SCalks OF Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Mr.. L Shrier, of Wilmington has
assigned.
E.. L. Wilson waslast week appointed
postmaster at Davidson.
@. G. Watson, merchant, of Morven
Anson county, has assigned.
Mr.. A. w. Watson, dealer in crock
cry. and glassware, Wilmington has
assigned.
John @. Graves, of Davie county
has been appointed watchman at the
capital in Raleigh.
The distilleries of J. B. Lanier and
L. d. RosCman, near Salisbury, were
seized by revenue officers last week.
Mr.. Chas. Holt, son of ex Gov. Holt.
Is to be married on the oath of Janu-
airy to a daughter of Gov. Jones, of
Alabama.
At Jonesville, Yadkin county, Christ
mas morning, a negro named Lomax
shot another negro named Shaffner.
The wound may prove fatal.
Hon. Chas T. Messerve, of Lawrence,
Kan, is to be the new president of
Shaw University, Raleigh, succeeding
Rev. DR.. II. M. Upper, deceased,
DIR, j. L Eggerton, of Henderson
vile, who was arrested charged with
a conspiracy to burn his store, w6s
discharged after a preliminary hear
ing.
A block of wooden buildings, occu
pied rs stores, &c, was burned at Mt
Holly, CASTOR county, on the morning
of the Doth, Fire supposed to be in
cendiary.
Rev. J. T. B. Hoover, the Alliance
Lecturer, who is also q Methodist
minister, preached at Olivet church in
this county on last Sunday, says the
Concord Times.
New Berne Journal: Mrs. Julia
Smith, of Pollocksville, who was badly
burned Friday morning accidentally
at her home. died from the effects
about twelve hours afterward.
Rufus Batten was carried to the
Insane Asylum at Raleigh last week
from this county. He had been con
fined in the jail here for about two
weeks, says the Smith1eld Herald.
Warrenton Record: We are informed
that a peddler was badly beaten in
Halifax county a few days ago ana
robbed of $165 and $S5 worth of goods,
by one white man and two negroes.
Two small negro children, twins,
were found dead In bed one morning
last week near West End. It is said
that they were accidentally smothered
to death, says the Sanford Express.
A young white man applied to MI.
Geo A. Brown, Register of Deeds, this
week for license to marry a thirteen
year old girl, but the Register refused
to issue the necessary papers, says the
M~urfreesboro Index.
A new postoffce has been established
i'm Craven county across Neuse river
from the city. 1t is named Askins,
Miss Laura Askins as Postmistress. 1t
is directly on the Washington road
about five miles this sideof Ernul, says
the New Berne Journal.
Goldsboro Argus: We regret to learn
that our esteemed friend, Mr.. w. S.
Uzzell, of Lenoir county, had the mis-
fortune to lose his gin house and con
siderable cotton last week by an acci
dental fire. His loss is estimated at
1000 with an insurance of only $500.
Deputy Sheriff r. P. Scroggs adver-
tised a hog, the property of a citizen
Of F%alIstown township, for its owners
taxes, but before the day of sale the
citizen butchered the hog. Whether
the deputy got his taxes we are not
advised, says the Statewide Land
mark.
Among the many churches estab
lished by Rev. John Alspaugh, who died
afew days ago at the age of 81 years, was
Centenary M. E Church, which was
first organized under a mulberry tree
at Old Jerusalem, near the Davis
Military School, says the Winston
Sentinel.
Mr.. Langtry, an ~Englishman spent
Saturday and Sunday here. He had
lust arrived from England and was on
his way to Bennettsville, South Caro-
lima near where he thinks of purchas
ing a large farm and going into the
stock raising business, says the San
ford Express.
Charlotte News: A sample of the
kind of gold ores produced by the
mines in this section, was left with
Willie Eagle, at the Central cigar stand
Yesterday, by Mr.. E Motz, of the Brewer
river. It is a fragment of white flint
rock, the cracks of which are filled
with pure virgin gold.
Wikesboro News: It is with sadness
that we chronicle the death of Mr.
Willie Bryan, son of A. @. Bryan, Esq ,
of Traphill, which occurred last Sunday
night. 1t seems that he had been inn,
bibing too freely in the flowing bowl.
His body was found near his home the
next morning frozen stiff.
Last night Bose Lyon, who is in
prison for breaking into Barbee's store
several nights ago, tried to get out OF
iail. He broke out of his cell and
found a Ratchet with which he tried to
make a hole through the brick wall,
and would have succeeded if he had
hnd mora time saws the Durham Sun.