The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-17
erATE NEWS.

NoT1Iot from the West-Peanuts
Wne" cotton Seed from the South
anu noddler was robbed Of $40
sae last q week by two negroes. ouo
dGI ZION Enterprise: Blackoerrles are
Ne"soarce and as most OF the land
re! +S SSnli is posted, even those few are
55SSTd to get roooivad a contribu-
Gov: 80 from Miss Bertha Z9ll, of
ton OF &c @. for the benefit of the
TsnS0 ctapleton, a young white man
Nike 81 wears, committed suicide
aOoGT on Tuesday, by drinking II
a.t I5s Of Jamaica ginger.
b0A' otoomboat D. Murchison was
The tIrae miles below Wilmington
burned . week ago. She was valued
Sa 3SI 200 . and insured for $4,000.
SG sanford Express says Moore
Inc ill positively have a candidate
GounSy CONGRESSIONAL nomination at
bf Wv It will be D, E, McIVer or j g..
6IaIA Aiord Home: Not a colored indi-
anal lives in the Shooting Greek
IaLunabip, There are numbers OF ten
oWno i children there who never saw
&c Us1ornor Carr issues a proclamation
NC 800 reward for the arrest of
9lVL : fart. who is charged with burn
"a. tbp harm of Mrs. Mary Dewey near
TSncebOro.
n,o,Io from all the sections of the
- are complaining of the failure
CGu -: GRASS crop. Meadows and pas
VI l.s s' are both very short, says the
PInone Democrat.
r,ons are doing we'll around Dur
prominent farmer said this
I La-nino that tobacco had improved
II-o1nrddprfullv in the last few days, says
fe Durham Sun.
T~rargelist ". R. Gales has just closed
,rooeti6g in Marion with about 80 con
oo-sions and CONSIDERATIONS. Mr.. Gales
viii he in New Berne this fall, says the
New Brine Journal.
Charlotte Observer: The Charlotte
Granite Company is shipping a guam
ftV of stone to Washington, D. c.,
W he used for monumental purposes
mere il none better for this specific
work.
We see it stated that Attorney Gen
oral Osborne is now an avowed Candl-
I,to for the United States Senate.
Same Of the papers are also pressing
the Hon. c. NJ. Stedman for the
Senate.
Twelve hundred convicts r at work
on the State farms. superintendent
Le8zer saws that he expects to report
to the legislature that the penitentiary
has has been entirely self supporting
this year.
Postmaster Blackwell is in a fair
way to get the 500 additional asked
for to improve the Durham postothce.
He proposes to put in some new fix
lures and get the Office up in better
shape, says the Durham Sun.
DR.. A. ]. Austin, of Goose Creek
township, was in town last Monday
and brought the good news that the
Chinch bugs have almost entirely left
the fields in his section and that the
crop prospect was never better.
The annual meeting of the Thomas
vile 0rphanage will be held on the
l0thinst. Rev. DR.. Munday will preach
IN the morning and Rev. E. f. Jones
will deliver an address in the after
noon, The trustees will meet on the
l1Lh.
Murphy Scout: J. P. Cooper, for
merry Of Graham county, and well
known here, met with a terrible and
tragic death by falling into a shaft at
the Mary Murphy mines in Colorado,
last Friday, of which he was superin-
tendent.
Norgant0n Herald: We learn that
AeSsrs. Sprague, Mcintosh and Silver
are about to close a sale of their Black
mountain Alum and Iron Springs prop
cry to aNorthern drug firm, who in
@na 70 erect a large plant to manufac-
ture the product.
NC. L. Price, of Unionville, while
Sol3g out of a piazza a few days ago
I3u tn9 door steps to give way with
am de fell about four feet and had
.TO RIBS broken. AS he has a severe
%ug9 his injury is very painful, says
We Monroe Enquirer.
Tom Hopkins was indicted this week
s tor cruelty beating his adopted daugh-
o %n; de was made to pay the costs,
nv JusIlce Watson suspended judg-
meuV over him. The case was not as
vs. sE56[aVated as was first thought, says
VIC 1arooro SOutherner.
henderson Gold Leaf: Mr.. A. D.
meSter showed us a few days ago the
sSb1o e. curlsity we have even seen in
nooS s1aPe Of a gourd. 1t is of the long
eToA, upper species and measures
its""IEsly 4 feet II inches. The handle
TUtl ID IS inches in length.
tom MT, NJ. R, Upchurch, of Williams
NJ Tf"1Snip Informs the Record of another
h, IInatham's wonders. He says that
Tao LAS a real, genuine chicken that
csnt, Matched out by a partridge, and
pa p'ufed from her while too young to
~ away, says the Chatham Record.
lexington Dispatch: Burwell B.
At '3eLC8 died at his home in this place
! o'clock MOn5ov D,Cr,,iD~ 81 +bo