The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
STATE NEWS.

Z n~anAS Anu OOcOS S1OAS 4S" S"S
oTortb-staIks of Corn and Grains of
Wbest from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
1rne there were 80 deaths and II
this in Raleigh.
O,roroanton is taking her census and
ill report this week.
Tho bicvcle craze has struck Cherry
-iIn saws an exchange.
WI TSo University law school his opened
-;tb twenty five students.
working the roads by convict labor
looming the theme IN the State.
GATORS Report for the year ending,
3Oth. 1894, has been sent out.
NT ~ = Gardner, of Cleveland coun-
WI has a pair of German rabbits.
y, oxford Orphan Asylum ex-
LE0 +onut $I7, 900 in new buildings
this year. ooo
nd for the first six months this year
bad ffty-one deaths.
Fyvnt Chatham county, has been
,&bno63Sgei to Comstock. The new name
SGpnt into effect July LIST.
P,ndolph county now a 10 cotton
Ills owned and operated successfully
nv citizens of the county
Tbo nIant of the Carolina Oil and
Crecsote works Is beng moVeu lron
Wilmington to some point nortn.
thief in Washington stole the cor
NOR stone of the Disciples church, col
nTad 1t was dug out # the wall.
nostaI card, mailed at Greenvtlle,
: 6 thirteen years ago, has just
cached Salisbury-i's destination.
Mr. Thomas ConnelI is about to close
.Lo sole of his mica mine in Warren
county to some Northern capitalists:
/ T Jackson, postmaster at Mills
Springs. Polk county, is under arrest
for passing a counterfeit ten dollar
bill.
The eastern farmers agree that the
;rnrovement in the condition Of the
corn crop since June 15sh Is remark
able.
the Beaufort Herald says that a new
officer has been placed IN charge of
Fort Macon, Sergeant Laffers, of in
diana.
Tho Wilson Mirror says that the
county commissioners have apprOpri-
ated 5000 to the Wilson military COM
pany.
There is talk of a sanitarium at
Southern Pines. which DR.. Bradbury,
a Providence, R l., specialist, may
establish.
After a struggle of nearly eight
months the Charlotte Penny Post has
suspended, finding the business un
profitable.
Work on the Ocracoke Inlet is
rapidly progressing. The cutting out
Of this inlet will be of great service to
navigation.
A citizen of New Berne received
from the dead letter Office some days
ago a letter written by his grandfather
24years ago.
The whortleberry crop of Sampson
county this year is estimated to be
worth nearly 800. 900. This beats Cot
ton mills and tobacco factories.
Mr.. Ingram Grantham, of Falling
Creek township, Wayne county, vas
instantly killed by lightning while
blowing in his field last Friday.
Boomers have struck Charlotte
The Observer says two young lady
blCyclisrs con boomers nightly aud
ride with their gentlemen friends.
All the pris5Lers, three whites and
two negroes, in Henderson county jail
made their escape on last Sunday night
BY breaking the locks of their cages.
John Miller, Jr., has been elected
cashier of the Charlotte bank to sue
Good tho lrFDv,1%~- LT@I1a-I "hn hos
been sent to the Alabany peniten-
tiary.
A man named NJ. G.. Holland, in
Johnson bounty, was shot from am
bush last week by moonshiners, be-
cause they thought he was hunting for
their still.
A gentleman Of Charlotte was copy
Ing some deeds yesterday and came
across M in which James K Polk was
mentioned as a witness. Pretty far
back, that.
The toll gate on the Boone and Blow
ing Rock turnpike will be moved in q
short time to within one mile and a
nalt OF Blowing Rock, says the Boone
Dem OCrat.
Mr.. J. M. S5arnes, of Granite, says
~IoCuCLIy CEOp was GuS uuGSJ GQlS year
ne ever had. He has sold 135 gallons
On this market this season, says the
Hickory Mercury.
An electric light plant is to be put in
at the State University. Students
rooms will be lighted by electricity
and they will be charged a moderate
price for lights
Professor E P. MangUm, A. M has
been elected superintendent of the new
graded school at Clinton The assist.
ants are Ecnest NJ. Hobbs and MISS
Carrie Archer.
In Madison county "Wednesday BuG
Payne was shot from ambush and 1t il
thought morUally wounded. ALFRED
DoCkery, who IS charged with tn,
shooting, is in jail.
Toe Sanford Express understand