The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
STATE NEWS.

and Cottons Seed from the South
The loss by fire in Durham for q year
is $500. ub1+
big tobacco warehouse will be Dull6
at Youngsville.
The Disciples are building a church
stPolocksville.
A S~tatesville negro has been arrested
tor stealing a razor.
Al the experiment. farm near Raleigh
a. 0E0 Canada lilies are ready to
bloom.
cody made its appearance throughout
the State.
Tso finest tuberose bulbs in the
morIT are grown in Southern North
Carolina.
The OdeII Manufacturing company
n Concord have four factories and are
building a fifth.
The millinery store of Miss Emily
Bell at Statesville. was burglar1zed
twice last week.
Durhamite has a four-legged roos-
.+sr that stands on two legs end fights
With the other two.
The contract has been given out for
tho building of the Baptist Woman's
GIlege at Raleigh. The college will
cost $50, 900.
The Southern depot at Charlotte ives
burned Friday morning. The O.. Q.
depot at the same place was burned a
few weeks ago.
Sier City, Chatham county, is soon
IN have a cotton factory. The Staley
Cotton Mill Company have decided to
move their mill there.
Hoke Secrest is in the penitentiary.
He told the police that he did not re
member ever having married his wife,
much less killing her"
We learn there will be a printing
establishment started at an early day
atBessmer City, of considerable magni
tude, says the Messenger.
Carthage Blade: There are some six
or seven q. S. prisoners in u jail
awaiting trial at the next term of the
Federal Court in Raleigh.
Capt. D. P. Mast and Mr.. A. T.
Hanes have established q branch office
at Winston of the North Carolina Alb
stract and Guarantee company.
Oxford Ledger: Judge Green is re-
ported critically i'll with the asthma at
Pittsboro. He did not leave Oxford
until Monday on account Of sickness.
The Goldsboro Argus says that there
we're shipped from its immediate ter.
ritory Monday 5000 crates of straw
berries, running 80 quarts to the crate.
Cherokee Scout: Sam Henry and
John Philips, who recently returned
from Snowbird mountain, report that
they caught 300 speckled troubles
One.
There are not many deer in Union
county, but we learn that there is one,
sdO, ranging in the woods about two
miles west of Monroe, says the En-
quFer.
Shelby Star: MI. L A. Gettys ship
ped 26, 900 pounds of monazite from
Elenboro Wednesday and IS, 900
pounds of monazite from GAffney City
Saturday.
Snow can be plainly seen for a dis
lance of several miles on the noun
tains around AshevilIe. Very little
damage has been done to vegetation in
the valleys.
A negro boy, n of five in a boat
turned the boat over in the Neuse river
at New Berne, for fun" and was
drowned, the others all succeeding in
getting out.
Secretary E 1 Holmes of Asheville
tobacco association reports that the
sales of leaf tobacco in Asheville dur
ing April aggregated 1923 .S7S pounds
Tor $21, 069 81.
Aessrs. g D. Bowden and Q. @.
Jordan went out fishing and deer
hunting yesterday and came back with
SgoOd supply of fish and q noble buck,
says the New Berne Journal.
Ar. W. l. Thomas had the misfor
tune to lose another horse Monday
evening. This is the second one that
ne has had to die within the past 80
ua!s, say S the Roxboro Courier.
The Farmers Bank received their
Jew safe this morning. 1t is a very
Iafge one, weighing 5000 pounds, and
LaS all the new improvements, time
'Ock &c, says the Roxboro Courier.
The Observer says that the notes,
accounts and judgements, amounting
WFIO,OOO, of the late w. W. Pegram
we're sold at auction in Charlotte,
221turday, and knocked down" for
fI5.
Q, WHIT Ferron, murderer of Deputy
oueflh Owens, of Rowan, has been
oGuVlcted Anderson Brown, colored,
enc BILLED Callie Roberts, colored, in
salisbury in March, was also convicted.
Doth will be hanged.
III
The Western Union Telegraph Com
P5any ignores the order of the courts
mat 1t shall not charge over the State
rate for messages sent to or from
ggolnts on the railway between The
0Eatelin and the Edenton.
,One thing that is expected to engage
me attention of the extra term o
raven county Superior court, is tn
tS!9l OF those business men who havl
JAILED RI 1iOE %hnS~ OoLnGV,1n ID Nnvnu