The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01

MT. a. j hargoGG, dRcu 90 yO
was paraly zed in Monroe Monday ana
inside of an hour he was dead.
Wilson is to have a telephone eX'
change. The Observer says there are
already thirty eight subscribers.
Charlotte News Mr.. VIM 4eunts
a miner of Clear Creek township, was
last night burned out Of house n
home.
The eighth annual meeting of the
Alamance Fair Association will be
and 18Th.
A negro, George Saunders, dubbed
his wife to death On the streets OF Bay
boro, Pamlico county, and tried TO
kill her sister.
Col, J. S. Carr has been invited, and
has accepted, the invitation to open
the mid winter exposition at NeWOerh
in February next.
A hail storm, in Madison comfy,
ruined several large crops Of tobacco.
The damage to Mr.. w. &. Sprlngles
crop Will reach $4,000.
There r now 358 patients in the in
| sane asylum at Raleigh-the largest
number since it vas established. There
are 1853 males, and 204 females.
It ia said that $3.50, 900 has, been in
vested in the Cranberry iron mines, in
clearing away Of the covering of the
vast mass of ore and in the plant.
The Times is the name of a new daily
paper inst started at Greensboro by
a J Williams and W. l. Underwood.
It is a six column sheet and very
newsy.
A Iarge piece Of granite, 25 feet long
- feet wide and one foot thick, was
shipped to Atlanta last week from
Mount Airy. Il was sent to the Ex-
position.
Stewart Bros, State Printers have
brought suit against 81 ma Of the State
officials for giving work to Raleigh
printers that properly belongs to the
| Safe Printers.
Washington Messenger: At a meet
ing Of the Washington Light Infantry
last evening Capt. J F. Thomas pre-
eented his resignation to the company
to take effect at once.
Mount Airy News: Thousands of
bushels of the finest Buckingham ap-
pies have been sold here this 1n at
prices ranging from five Gems to
twenty cents per bushel.
- II AhOL1pSOby IOAu1OIly ~ SEu1h5
ter at Horse Cove, Macon county, has
500 Of money belonging to the Gov
eminent. He gave bond.
John r Gentry. the North Carolina
horse who has been beaten lately in
many races. was on the track at Mil
waukee, Wisconsin,, last Wednesday
and won. The purse was So 0CO.
We regret to learn that Capt. David
Hill, Of Washington, has lost by fire
his saw mill which was situated a few
miles below that town. His loss is
about So 500, says the Greenville Re
fl 3ctOr.
The Wilmington cotton mills have
contracted for a weaving mill for three
Hundred looms. The building will be
17Ox4O feet and two stories high. The
mills now operate 1000 spiI d ca and
| 225 looms.
The State fair will give gold medals
for the best herds Of jersey, Guerns5 y
and Short Horn cattle, young herds,
| eaca herd to consist of a bull md five
heifers, under two years old, to be bred
by the exhibitor.
A sad death occurred up at Poor'a
Knob last week. It was Thos. Bob
bits little child, about a year old. 1t
died from a water melon seed which
lodged in iCs wird pipe, says the Viii
ke8bOrc Chronicle.
Henry Johnson, COlOred, was arrest
ed this morning and placed in the Gala
bose. He will be up before Mayor
COaGhenour tonight Tor stealing a pair
of SHOES from II. A Smith over a
month ago. says the Salisbury World.
Danbury REPORTER: Crops in Stokes
are better than for yeare, wheat some
thing over an average, a full crop of
tobacco, the corn crop is almost fifty
per cent above an average, the largest
fruit and vegetable crop that we have
had for years.
Last Saturday morning Mr.. VIM
Wilcox residing about four miles from
town, was seriously If not fatally shot
by Mr.. A. Prevatt, Jr. The shooting
was done with a double barrel shot
gun apparently loaded with slugs, says
the LumbertOn RD~bersOnian.
Chatham Record: We much regret
to hear of the death of Mr. R1derIck
n. Buie, which occurred at his resi-
dence in Oakland township, on last
Saturday. He was about eighty years
old, and was one of Chatham's very
best citizens.
Mount Airy New The finest load
of apples we have ZEN was sold here
Monday by Mrs. Pike from the Chest
nut Ridge near the Stokes line. Her
apples were carefully picked from the
trees, and many of them would have
weighed a pound She received &c
cents a bushel for them.
A tramp, about 20 years Of aga, al
most shIrtless, without a hat and bare
footed, struck town this morning, aEo
was begging for something TO eat
When ask whittier bound his reply
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