The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
STATE NEWS.

i GTAlnS i NIX 44SU JAN L4S~g O@DS~@~
Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-staIks of Corn and Grains OF
wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Frost Snow is the name of an aged
itizen in Surry county.
shelby is to have a poultry show on
member 18Th to goth.
There are now forty children in the
Episcopal orphanege at Charlotte.
a five wear old boy at Durham swal-
,,Ted a horse shoe nail and experl
spced no pain. "
Apumber of artesian wells are oelng
hored in BERTHE county, one 10 Ine
depth of 700 feet.
franklin Press: The court at Bry
an Citv broke up last week, not like a
1--we feast by any means.
Mr.. Tuft, the proprietor of Pinehurst
has lust bought 900 rods of wire fence
n nut around his fine property there.
favor Fishblate of Wilmington has
,esigned. and the Board of Aldermen
bas elected Alderman Harris his sue
cessor.
Mrs. Senator Vance has moved to
Washington for the winter. She viii
be Joined by her son, Harry Martin
ard wife.
The election held in Wilson regard
ING the issuing of 81. 600 IN bonds for
a beverage sy stem, was carried by At
majority,
The Governor orders a special civil
torn of Person Superior court. to be
held by Judge Star buck, beginning
January 9th.
Washington Progress: Mrs. Stephen
rbenman died on Friday night last
rather suddenly. She had been III on
" a day or two.
Miss Bessie Henderson canvassed
salisbury for money to make a
nrosent to the Cruz er Raleigh and
raised a neat sum.
{. G. Smoot, Sons & Co., of Alexan
dria. Va, say that in 80 days they
will have their tannery in operation at
North WilkesDOrO.
The Board of Agriculture has decided
that farmers institutes should be he'd
in the several counties beginning after
the Christmas holidays.
The Western N @. Methodist Con
ference at its session at Reidsville sc
ected Salisbury as the place for hold
ing the next conference.
In franklin county two negro gam
blers uuarrelled over the jack pot,
which contained ten cents, and one
shot and killed the other.
Capt. Walter Gurthrie and Walter
Willis of Morehead City, caught $500
worth Of fine trout fish at n haul of
the net. one day last week.
The Parmilee Ecleston lumber mills
in Onslow county, which are among
the largest in the State, have shut
DOWN for an indefinite time.
Gov. Carr offers $3.50 reward for the
unknown persons who burned the barn
store and other buildings of W. L
Bryan in Boone last summer.
Mr.. L W. Elliott, of ThomasvilIe,
killed Z hogs weighing 2, 500 pounds.
The heaviest one weighed $40 pounds,
says the Lexington Dispatch.
Smithfeld Herald: Mr.. W. Fl
Maynard. who lives a few miles below
here, died last Monday night; aged IS
years He died OF Pneumonia.
Mr.. VIM. Miller, a we'll known
citizen Of MockSville, has become
Violently insane and will be taken 10
tie State Hospital at MorgantoR.
The News ssye: J. E Finley of
North Nilkes5Oro has sold bis fine
stock farm in Watauga to w r. Cot
fey < Sons Of Caldwell for Z 1000.
Anew company Of infantry, at Ply
mouth, has jnst purchased uniforms for
10 officers aud men and will this week
be mustered into the State Guard.
Mr.. s. Howard, of Noise, lost his
barn and stables by fire on the 3rd,
supposed to be incendi8ry. Loss
about $3.50, says the Carthage Blade.
North Carolina furnishes SO per cent.
Of the capital invested in her great
cotton manufacturing indJ stry, only
per cent. coming from the outside.
A correspondent of the Gastonia
Gazette tells of a 63-year old citizen
who, a few days ago, bought a Web
ster blue-baCk speller for his own use.
a daughter of Judge a. w. Graham
Is so dangerously i'll that ne is unable
70 hold Duplin court, and Governor
Carr notifies Judge Timberlake to hold
it.
At the Charlotte gingbam mill John
White stepped up behind Walter Viii
son n drew a keen knife across his
lip.
The Lincoln Democrat says that Maj.
W. A. Graham, of Lincoln, is operaT-
ing a gold min near his home. The
ore Is rich IN gold and contains copper
1t is said that Rev. L. H. Triplett is
the youngest preacher In this STAT
He Is only - and is a member Of the
Western North Carolina Methodist
Conference.
ElOpers can get points from a counIa
In Greene county who chose the timo
when the girls parents were ATTENDING
ahanging at TarboTO I run away ana