The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-23
STATE NEWS.

and Cotton Seed from the South
Charlotte had a $50, 600 cotton fire a
few days ago.
The purchasers of the Reidsville o
- mills will enlarge the building u
Increase its capacity.
Half the dam at the Falls OF the
Neuse was torn away by the Dig nooos
of Wednesday.
Todd. the man who passed some
80 nickels in North Wilkesboro got
Months in jail at Greensboro.
Arronoements have been made for
a. Immediate beginning Of work on a
s sp0 GOO cotton mill at Salem, N. @.
DR. w. R. Harper, President of Chi
100 University, will Don visit Wake
ToTosG College and deliver a lecture.
The outlook for a fine fruit crop this
voer was never better. Some farmers
saw it is the best known since the war.
The R tleigh Ice and Refrigerator
has been chartered in Raj
eigh. 1t has just completed a new
plant.
The wheat is small in size so late in
the season, but the farmers say this Is
an advantage, rather than a dlsad-
vantage.
The new First Presbyterian Church
of Charlotte has just been completed.
II cost $50, 600, and will be opened
next Sunday.
The building of the Benk of New
anove at Wilmington was bought
at auction by the Atlantic National
Bank for SIS, 900.
.,- -oE5ohoC on6 R1hhoOnG
formed a portion OF the outward cargo
of steamer Neuse yesterday, says the
New Berne formal.
A new hotel is to be built on Wrights
vile beach. It will be located on the
strip of land between the breakers and
the Banks channel, and will be directly
on the ocean.
R Eames, Jr., of Stanly county, has
struck it rich. Last week he found a
nugget that weighs Z pounds. This is
said TO the largest nugget found In the
State in ten years.
A man has been arrested in Concord
for passing a number Of counterfeit
silver dollars. 1t Is said that there Is
a band of men engaged IN the same
business in that section.
Mr.. John W. Smith, of Wishart's
township, had the misfortune to lose
his stables, with nearly 1900 pounds
of fodder, by fire, recently, says the
LumbertOn RObesonian.
Mr.. @. U. Davis inform Us that there
were about seven or eight couples
united in the holy bonds of wedlock
last week, near Zion, Yadkin county,
says the WikesborO Chronicle.
A special from Murphy, N. c., SAYS
that in a fight in the lower end of
Cherokee county, two brothers named
Cross were killed and Neal Newman
was dangerously wounded, at a dance.
The Yanceyville On. O. News and
the DanvIlle (Va) Journal of Com
merce have combined under the name
Of The News and Commercial" an
eight pagepaper, published at Danville,
Va.
Mr.. James w. Osborne, third as
sistant district attorney of New York,
is to be the alumni orator at the CON
ing commencement at Davidson Col
lege. Mr. Osborne is a graduate of the
class of 70.
Mr.. R. W. Johnson of this city, lost
a fine COW last week. She got her
head fast under the feed trough and
smothered to death. He said he would
not have taken $40 for her, says the
Hickory Mercury.
There is just now a very active de-
m9nd for North Carolina 4 per cent.
bonds al an investment yielding a bet,
ter net return than 6 per cent interest.
Most OF these bonds, perhaps five
slxths, are said to be held North.
Senator J. B. Parsons, who is deputy
she'll fish Inspector, says the New
Berne Journal, will soon start for the
oyster grounds to look after reported
dredging. He does not believe any
considerable dredging is being done.
The bituminous coal mines at Egypt
have started up on full time ana with
a line equipment throughout of new
machinery. Fifty men r employed
n the output is $50 tons daily. In
sixty days the force will be doubled.
Mr., Fl O. Jefferson, of Falkland
township, the past seaso raised, fat.
tened and killed IL, 600 pounds of pork,
against TO- 1876 pounds the previous
year, and made a proportional increase
IN his cotton and corn crops, says the
Vreenvllle r hector.
Since the recent fires in Kinston a
detective has been working up the
case, and Two negroes were caught
sunday night in the act of setting fire
70 the Baptist church. Others are
implicated and it is expected that
further arrests will be made.
Rockingham Index: The hop grow
ing industry promises to be a big item
IN Richmond county. Mr.. Jones.
PRESIDENT of the New York State Hop
Growers Association, has recently
oeen In the county and says the land
mere surpasses any within his knowI-
edge for advantages In hop growing.
A woman by the name of Luther
DrOkR Intn The DAZZLING hnI1an of Mra