The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
STATE NEWS.

- CRANES ana IOU6OCO 0B6u6 IEOm the
~North-staIks Of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and ottonS See fromth the South
wilmington has now three profes
ionsl nurses.
raering completion.
Gastonia is to have another cotton
mill of 5000 spindle capacity.
Cane culture is fast becoming a
profitable industry in BERTHE county.
The State Baptist Convention will
he held in Greensboro this year, De-
Ginning December 9Th.
A gold mine has been discovered In
Jackson Hill township, Davidson u
~. and is proving to be very rich.
The States Confederate pension rolls
,ow contain 5,143 names. The PEN
Gions for this year range from $40 to
$66.
The Leaksville Herald has it straight
that a 10, 600 spindle mill is to be built
at Spray, Rockingham county, next
year.
Warren county has bought a road
plow to which six horses are worked
and is going ahead building better
country roads.
The Mt. Airy News says the sheriff
of Surrv. in making his tax collecting
rounds visited three townships and
collected so cents
The cotton gin of Lilies & Gardner,
in Arson county, was destroyed by
fire, Monday, with all its contents,
causing a s., 900 loss.
Mr.. Harry @. Flower, of Kansas
IT, onH Mice 7 lido NoPr 6oYIOhfnF of
Col. Julian s Carr, of Durham, are to
be married this winter.
Cherokee Scout: Alfred Morgan in
forms us that he has canned this year
something over 1000 cans of tomatoes,
green beans, corn, berries, etc.
The Wilmington Messenger says it
was so cold at Me. Airy Monday that
water thrown out would freeze almost
as soon as it touched the ground.
Mrs. Carpenter, wife of a Methodist
minister, and q lady who frequently
does preaching IN her own hook, is
conducting a meeting at Asheville.
A negro convict attacked the su-
perintendent of the Cabarrus county
chain gang and the superintendent's
brother shot the negro. Wound slight.
Burglars are operating in Salisbury.
Three stores there were burglarized
Wednesday night of last week. The
amount taken in each case was not
large.
Louisburg Times: DR.. William
Clark, one of the oldest and most high
" respected citizens of Franklin coun-
ty, is dead; aged "a years and II
months.
There are nine prisoners in the county
jail, two white and seven blacks.
Among them are two women, one
white and one colored, says the Graham
Cleaner.
The Enterprise says Mr.. Jonas RAIDER,
who lives a mile or 81 from Newton,
has dug and housed from n and a
half acres of land 325 bushels of sweet
potatoes.
Marshall Republican: John Ship
man, who was engaged with a logging
company on Shelton Laurel, was in
stantly killed by a tree falling on him
last week.
A correspondent of the Asheville
Citizens says Mr.. Charles N. Vance
shipped last week about 100 bushels of
apples from his farm near Black
Mountain.
Some lawyer shave declined to pay
the tax of SO levied on the by the last
legislature and will make a test case
of it, claiming the law to be uncon-
stitutional.
Salisbury Truth: A farmer who
has been attending corn huckings the
past two weeks tells us there is less
damaged corn this fall than in any of
his experience.
NE,r~GmaA~I~-~ T-I~-. H. T---s
7. Hines, wife of Mr.. A. P. Hines, of
this place, departed this life last Sat-
urday evening at s o'clock after a long
and painful illness.
Fayetteville OBSERVER: Mrs. Mary
Ann Hardie, daughter of the late Sher-
if Hardie, died at her residence on
Ramsey street, in this city, early on
Friday morning last.
Edward Byrd, colored, is in jail at
Monroe charged with being a party to
the murder of Andrew Eakin. Byrd
Is the man who claimed to have dis
covered Eakin's body.
Mr.. Robert E. Moose, a we'll known
young travelling man of that place.
and Miss Mamie Sharpe, daughter of
Col. 5 A. Sharpe, of S,atesville, were
married Thursday evening.
Inc Monroe Enquirer says Mr.. Eli
son Groom, Of Goose Creek township,
Union county, has just gathered his
Sls6 crop made with a mule that has
hVed TO the ripe old age of Al years.
Two bales of cotton were stolen from
Ine q arm Mills last Wednesday
night; Daniel Malloy, col, was n
resGed saturday charged with the
THEFT, says me Laurinburg Exchange.
Greensboro Record: ]. H. Edger-
ton, living near New Garden station,
was in to day with samples of what if
pronounced gold ore taken from his
land. He had three or four large mug
gets.