The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-21
STATE NEWS.

Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
Requisition is made by Gov. Carr on
the Governor of Tennessee for Eli Ram
sey, wanted in Madison county for
false ~pretences.
The net receipts of the Masonic pic
mic at Mocksville last week were about
six hundred dollars.
Burglars raided six residences in
Wilmington n night last week, but
got nothing OF much value.
Whiteville News: Farmers say that
cotton has been greatly damaged by
the heavy and continued rains.
The Elkin Times says that an old
mar by the name of Harris, who lives
near Roaring Gap, is 100 years old.
There Was a severe storm a few miles
north of town last Friday. Some fields
or tobacco were badly damaged. There
was hail in some localities.
1t is said that DR.. Chas. J. O'Hagan,
OF Greenville, is being prominently
mentioned as the Democratic congress
sional nominee in the First District.
Major r. s. Tucker, who died in
Raleigh some days ago, left a will be-
queathing everything to his wife. The
estate is worth between $500, 900 and
81, 600, 600.
There is talk of a roller Touring mill
being put up in Lenoir, and it is not all
talk, either, as some of the best farmers
in the county are interested in it, says
the Lenoir Topic.
1t is reported that the young man,
named Chatum, who was sent to the
penitentiary last year for abducting a
girl near Collision, has made his escape,
says the Chatham Record.
A shooting racket occurred on Mr..
Jas. Walter McLaurin's place Sunday
night between two colored men. One
of the darkies was shot in the foot, says
the Laurinburg Exchange.
Anegro man accused of an attempted
ravish on a little colored girl near
Johns Station was brought in Tuesday
by two colOred boys and lodged in jail,
says the Laurinburg Exchange.
Louisburg Times: The farmers are
making splendid cures of their tobacco.
MI. Ben Meadows had the misfOr-
tune to accidentally shoot a pistol ball
through his left hand last Saturday
night.
Henry Meacham caught his first stur
geon Of the a at his fishery last
week and had it on the market here
Thursday evening. 1t weighed $50
pounds and sold readily, says the Rock
Ingham Rocket.
A chicken with four bills-two above
and two below-and three eyes was
exhibited in the Landmark Office Tues,
day. 1t was the property of Mr.. w.
w. Miller, of Rowan county, says the
Statesville Landmark.
Under a new order the thirty com
panies of State troops are allowed 5000
each annually in ordinance of quarter
masters stores from the United States
appropriation. The State reserves
s., 900 for ammunition, etc.
The trial of Sam Caldwell, charged
with the murder of Bob Nelson resulted
in a verdict of guilty of granddaughter.
o'clock last night, and at II o'clock the
verdict was rendered, says the Char
lotte News.
President Holiday, of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, has re,
turned to Raleigh from a visit to the
western part of the State, and says the
number Of students next term will be
so great as to tax to the utmost capac
ity of the college.
An executive reward of 800 is Of
fered for Sam Oxendine, a noted and
desperate Croatan of Robson county,
who burned the Atlantic Coast Lines
depot at Buie. He was arrested, but
to kill several people.
Weldon News: The enormous yield
Of fruit and forms upon the cotton
plant strikes one as an agricultural
curiosity.-Mr. W. J. Riggs, of Pitt
county, died suddenly at Shaw's hotel,
Littleton, on Friday last, aged about
so years-cause, heart trouble.
Sanford Express: The friends of
Judge McIver will be glad to learn that
he has almost entirely recovered his
wonted health.-A very rich vein of
new coal was recently discovered on
the line of the Glendon and Gulf rail
road. This coal is of a superior quail
ity.
Roxboro Courier: We are informed
that a little o of Wesley Adcock,
about eight years old, living near Col
lier, in this county, by some means got
hold of a dynamite cartridge and
placed it on his gun and fired it. The
boy was badly mutilated from the ex-
plOsion.
R. L. Keesler went out to the coun-
try to clean up the Intervals Of a
church organ. He found a regular
museum in it, The ground squirrels
had built nests in it of leaves, cotton,
and shucks and had them filed with
acorns and nuts, says the Concord
Standard.
Kinston Free Press: Professor s. J.
Guyer has accepted, as principal, the
management of the LAGRANGE Male
academy and will begin teaching Au-
gust 20th.-We hear that the crops
in Jones are very badly damaged by
/ tho roinS IL maa too met for tho orons