The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-01-22
STATE NEWS.

NUmbest from the
VIZ cotton Seed from the South
rsore is a sulphur mine in CASTOR
county, q Tyson, of Salisbury, has
MI twenty-five times since he was
p s[t has sent a carload of
Will Tice to the Nebraska drouth
sufferers bobu
t;,no Doth JAM, and under the
ss nSG of the ladies Oh Inc 6aptlsF
church. Loo.
La;rod. and will soon be making he
rep aIer trips from up the Roanoke to
weldon a few days ago the Roam
Aguor was Al feet above low water
okS Much damage was done along
the river. r
IL djstiIIeries in the state of
1aIIIt " n. G. The unbonded ones
not enumerated.
pondoIph county reports the cham
.;an HOG raiser. A man there killed
Sog two and a half years old that
~oigRed thirty pounds.
CIaveland county has produced and
u ss0 0OO worth of monozite in the
N o Twelve months. The sales this
Fear may reach $500, 600.
Mrs 7 B Moore informs us that
LoT hutchered a beef some time since
srom which they took 88 pounds OF tai
- eAO PONno q
G. W. Cannon, postmaster at Ashe-
vile appointed under Harrison, mas
boan arrested on the charge or embez-
Ling $1,000 while he was in office.
wilson Advance: Tt is thought that
large r of tobacco will be planted
in this section this year, and a cores
nonding decrease in the acreage of cot
ton.
Rev. Y. I. Chandler, of Anderson
township, had a dog to go mad, last
week. biteing his little boy, and several
other dogs. The dog was finally
killed.
The Odell Hardware company, OF
Greensboro, will bring suit against the
town for $500 if that amount is not
paid for damages by flooding their
cellar.
The knitting factory with its ad-
dition of twenty one new machines
now has a capacity of eleven hunded
dozen a week, says the New Berne
Journal.
Acolony of IS families of Films has
arrived in BERTHE county, and has
bought 2 500 acres of land. They are
the first of this race to settle in North
Carolina.
Mr.. J. II. Fleming, of Raleigh, as a
farmer lawyer will be hard to down.
Recently he killed a ''porker" on his
plantation that tipped the scales at
nearly 600.
Mr.. W. FL. Hargrave has shipped
gust 8, 500 rabbits to Richmond. Wash
ngton and Baltimore from Nov. I,
1894 to Jan. 6, 1895, says the Lexing-
ton Dispatch.
Rev. s. E Conrad, of this city, dis
poses Of his fine Yadkin county farm.
It required some S., 600 to make the
transfer. We did not learn the name
Of the purchaser.
Charlotte Observer: The directors
of the saving bank yesterday presented
Mrs. A. Brady with a check for $500
in recognition of her services at the
bank, as assistant cashier.
We understand that our farmers are
placing explosive tOrpedoes in their
smoke houses to break up meat steal
ing, and, maybe, cause a burial, says
the Lqurinburg Exchange.
Quite a good crowd attended the
horse sale last Saturday, but the bid
ding was rather tame and the prices
ranged low, few passing the $40 mark,
says the Graham Cleaner.
The liabilities of Mr.. Frank Couch.
Of ~Lumberton, N. G., whose failure
has been heretofore announced, are
stated at about $4,000, with prefer
ences aggregating $22, 600.
Salisbury News: The Vance mills
made "a. 600 pounds of yarn last week.
That Is pretty good. These mills are
turning out the finest grade of warps
and yarn of any mill in the State.
North Carolina Presbyterian: First
Church, Winston.-At the communion
January 9Th twenty persons we're vel
coined into this church-fourteen by
professions and six by certificates.
Among the shipments that passed
through yesterday from Morehead city
we're $50 gallons of oyster, from Meesrs.
u. Bell & Co. 400 gallons of them were
opened by so shuckers in one day.
Afarmer living in Tyrrell reports
tnat bears have been exceedingly nu-
merous and troublesome this winter.
desays he has had eighteen calves de-
VOured by them within two weeks.
Statesville Landmark: The Land
m'rk's condemnation of the poor quail,
Iiy of kerosene oil with which the town
mas been flooded struck q popular
chord, The sufferers have been many.
A small child Of Laura Pearson, q
eol0red washer-woman, fell In the fire
&c C~annonville Monday, and received
Serlous Injuries which resultedi in death