The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-02
STATE NEWS.

N~SS OA NSoASAANA0s 80
J. r. Terrell, grocer, Raleigh, has
made an assignment.
Three stores were burglarized in
GAstonia one night recently.
Wake County Temperance associa-
ton has been organized, with a good
MEMBERSHIP.
Governor Carr has appointed E F.
Bramen of New York a commissioner
of deeds for North Carolina.
Albert Smith, colored, was drowned
in Cape Fear river ear Wilmington,
Thursday, by the capsiziDg of his
boat.
Six illicit distilleries located in
Durham and Montgomery counties,
were seized by revenue officers les5
week.
The commission for Sallie G. Hem
don as postmistress at the money order
office, Grover, Cleveland county, has
been issued.
A five year old child of Abe Gray,
colored, w6s fatally burned in Yad,
kin county, Tuesday, during the
parents absence.
In Madison county Monday, Peter
Switzerland, q m lOnshiner, was shot
and killed by revenue officers while
resisting arrest.
Mocksville proposes to build q
hosiery yarn mil-capital stock $50
900. $40, 900 or $t2, 900 have already
been subscribed.
At Asheville, Friday, Willis Allen
fatally shot Waits" Harris, while
the latter attempted to skip his bond,
furnished by Allen.
The new jank of Tarboro have
issued their first call for stock. They
say they will organize. permanently
about the first of May.
The Charlotte building and loan as
sociations have adopted the legal rate
OF six per cent, and after April 1, will
charge borrowers this rate.
George Blount Of Wilson who fell on
the street in an %appopletic fit the other
day, and who came so near dying, is
now considered out Of danger.
Robert Mcdonnell, a sign painter
from Chicago, while lettering q brick
store at Greensboro, Friday, fell from
the swing and was IL stantly killed.
President Aldrich of the Aldrich
Stone company has receive the con
tract to furnish the broWnstone for the
government building in New Berne.
DR.. P. L Murphy, superintendent of
the State Hospital at hOrgantop, will
probably have charge of the sanitarium
that 1t Is proposed to build IN Car
lotte.
The two year old child of Marshall
Perry, of Union county, got a piece
of parched corn in it's throat, Tuesday,
and after suffering for several hours
died.
The house of Mary V~anstorv. col
ored, at Greensboro. was burned
Thursday and two of her children,
who had been left alone, lest their
lives.
North Carolina leads all the southern
stat S in cotton manufacturing. She
has 158 m~illS-nearly as many as the
whole south had in 188O-743,2 99 spin
dies and IA 376 looms.
The post Office at Lewis Fork has
been .SeOntinued as a money order
Office, and Witkeeboro has been desig
mated as the office to pay off money
orders drawn upon that Office.
Mr.. Robert l.. Steele and sons of
Richmond county have Incorporated a
new mill for manufacturing cotton
goods. The mill will be situated three
and a half miles from Rockingham
The N,mocks Manufacturing com
pany # Wilmington will in g few days
begin the manufacture of barrels there,
employing Is persons. The company
has in hand ordersfor $4,000 barrels.
Brevard Hustler: From a well
authenticated source we learn that 40
hands are at work on the new railroad.
There IS strong talk of putting on a
/ nTnhf fnrOo of rho AfRh 40 rrnn%1n
man.
The Town Commissioner of Durham
will submit the question Of hog pen"
or n hog pen" TO the voters Of that
town az the election in May, There is
some talk of doing the same in Louis
burg
Mining interest in and around
Davidson is reviving, and we are very
glad to know it. Quite a number Of
northern men are interested in mining
in our county, says the Lexington Dis
patch
Governor Carr has ordered a special
term of Davidson court to convene the
first Monday in July for criminal cases
only. Ii Is specially called for the
of Dr.. Payne.
The original Ol0 corn uquOr nOlOS IT'S
own as the favorite drink in certain
parts of old Moore. A well-filled jug
from a blockade distillery beats a Jer
eey mich COW ten to one, says the
Sanford Expires.
Harlowe Phillips, a white man, wss
arrested Sunday, on suspicion of hav-
ing something to do with the fires
here, but the evidence was not suff-
Gent to bind him over to court, and he
waa Turned lOOsA- SAY 8 fhA KLnatnn