The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-24
STATE NEWS.

The catch of fish in the Sounds this
season is unusually large.
A shirt factory is to be established
in Winston by Northern people.
The costs to Davidson county of the
Shemwell murder trial Is So, 500.
The State Press association is to go
the Atlanta Exposition October Is.
Thus far 1926 is in hand for the pur-
chase of a gift to the cruiser Raleigh.
Eikin is to have a roller mill. Messrs
Alex aud FL Ct. Chatham are the pro
j~ectors.
Efforts are being made to re-organ
ize the colored Farmers Alliance in
this State.
Seven years ago there were only
three Presbyterian churches in Union
county; now there are ten.
Charlotte News: There are fifteen
young ladies from this State at the
Agnes Scott Institute, in Georgia.
There are now Ill veterans in the
Soldiers Home at Raleigh, all the
counties save 30 being repr. sented.
Clinton Democrat: Mr.. w, B. Stew
art has a three-acre field of very fine
sugar cane on College street. Good
gu ssers say it will make 1000 gallons
of syrup.
William Cline abducted the 16
months old child of q woman named
Heron, in Swain county. He snatched
it from her arms and fed with it into
the mountains.
Mr.. J. L. S chrest showed us a huge
sweet potato last Monday. 1t weighed
5 pounds and looked more like a stump
than it did a potato, says the High
Point Enterprise.
DIR. R D Jennings store was broken
open last Friday night and about 500
worth of goods stolen. The thieves
were three cOlOred tramps, says the
Warrenton Gazette.
Wilson Observers: It is currently
reported that the Coast Line will soon
commerce to make up all their freight
trains here These trains have hereto
fore been up at Rocky Mount.
Charlie TrimbIe. son Of Capt. Jim
Trimble, of the Seaboard Air Line,
we S struck by a train, in Connecticut,
last week. and killed. His body was
brought South and was inferred at
LCuisburg.
Mr.. John FL Gaddy. a farmer living
six miles from WadesborO, went to
town Friday in his usual health and
while sitting in his wagon alone, eat
ing his dinner, died. He wss a sufferer
from dropsy.
Mr. W R Parker found a soft
double shell egg, the two ends being
connected by a snail tube. The white
OF the egg in one end and the yolk in
the other. We saw but two like
it before, says the Greenville Reflector.
Mrs. A. B Jones, of Cid, won a suit
at court last week, brought against
her by her brother, Col. Fred II Stith
which had been pending 9 years. Hon,
w. H. Bailey, of Texas, was her at
torney, says the xlngton Dispatch.
Sunday night, while Mr.. W. E
Smith was at services in the Episcopal
church in Scotland Neck, some one
took his horse and buggy from the
grove and carried them away, and he
has not been able to hear anything
from them.
The tobacco barn of Mr.. N V. Pierce,
of Concord township, was burned Fri.
day. A barn Of tobacco was being
cured at the time and while we have
not learned the particulars, it is sup
posed that the fire was accidental, says
the Statesville Landmark.
Forest City Ledger: Mr.. W. M. Col
Inns has a COW which about two and a
half years ago seemed strangely
affected. About a year ago she shed
her hoofs and was for a long time I'm
able to walk until her hoofs grew u
This summer the COW shed her horns,
but is now doing well.
Wadesboro Messenger: Late Tues
day afternoon Rowland Teal, of Lilies
vile township, while intoxicated, called
Kinney Lewis, a young man of Gul-
lodges township, a vile name, where
upon Lewis let Teal have it on thefore-
head with a rock. Teal ia painfully
but not seriously hurt.
Marion Record: Last Christmas eve
Mr.. j went up stairs to see if the
children had hung up their stockings
for Santa Claus, and found that little
Fred had pinned his up in a prominent
place with a slip of paper attached,
containing this suggestive sentence:
"The Lord loveth a cheerful giver."
The Salisbury World says: "Rowan
is to be represented at Atlanta in her
famous granite deposits. Mr.. J. T.
Wyatt, of Faith, has sent a collection
Of granite to be placed on exposition
there, and will doubtless call attention
to a wonderful bed of granite Of which
the outside world knows but little"
Mt. Airy News: At Pinnacle recently
a young lady, a Miss Spainhour, met
with a peculiar accident. She arose
while asleep and walk, d or fell out OF
second. story window, breaking n OF
her thighs and ~dislocating her Jaw.
We l-arn that the broken limb is heal
ing. but will be several inches shorter
than the other one.
Greensboro is talking of procuring
some blood hounds to assist In captur
ing criminals. Our contemporary, tne