The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-11
STATE NEWS.

Cream of the State Press-Drops of Turpentine
and Grains of Rice from the East-CIusters
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
N~Orth-Stalks of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
In Wilmington strawberries have
sold as low as % cents a peck. In
Salisbury they retail at 3 cents a quart
and in Plymouth at 5 cents.
It is said that Mr.. George w. Van.
derbilt has already spent 81 600, 600 on
his estate near Asheville, and expects
to spend about 50, 600, 900 more.
Two men had a fight right in the
temple of justice Monday. II all
come about over some disputed school
matters, says the Lexington Dispatch.
Mr.. M. s. Mountcastle had the mis-
fortune to lose a very valuable horse
last Saturday. The animal WAS over
come by the heat, Gays the Weldon
News.
Northern men are in the State con-
tracing to purchase the grape crop,
which is almost a complete failure
North owing to the freezes ard frosts
late in the spring.
Aberdeen Telegram: Aberdeen has
forty manageable young men and
twenty young ladies There has Keen
only one marriage here in four years,
Boys, get a G on you!
ESQ E K Walsh, of Beaver Creek.
has a curiosity in the shape of a young
mule. The mule is spotted all over
like a calf. 1t is q curious freak of
nature, says the Wilkesboro Chronicle.
News reaches US that one day last
week, a few miles east of town, a
prominent farmer was seen riding
oorsebsck with an umbrella owe him
dropping corn, says the Hlllsboro
Observer.
The colored man whose foot was
mashed off by an 4. O L engine last
Saturday is doing well. The mar was
deaf and no blame attaches to the
engineer who ran over him, says the
Rocky Mount Pf@Aix.
Cherokee Scout: Some parties from
Maine and points North are prospect
ing fer gold near the Warne mines
Others from Michigan are very much
plee s3d with theLlOyd and PIatt prop
critics, 50 we understand.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: Nj. Moylo,
who is at work prt speeding on the
Conyers tract in Nash county, struck q
vein Of ore which he a Y will run
$40 90 to the ton. The vein is about
SIX miles from the present workings.
At Henderson a verdict Of S., 661
damages against the Raleigh & CASTOR
railroad was given for killing Louis
BOwman. of Richmond, Va Jan. 26Gh.
1894 Suit was brought for $35, 900.
The railroad had offered to compro-
mise at 4 $3.50.
Drowned in the Lenoir Lumber Co.'S.
pond Saturday night, Luther Hill (ccl.)
He was bathing and dived and got
tangled under some logs and could not
extricate himself. He was taken out
dead in about one hour, says the
Hickory Mercury.
Greensboro Record: Col. W. J
Green, of Fayetteville, has gone to
W~ashlnghtOn to accompany Gen.
Wade Hampton, United States Rail
road commits sioner, on an official trim
OF inspection to the Pacific coast. Gen.
Hampton has a private cal.
Asheville Citizan: Mai Wilson
chairman of the Railroad CSonmIssioD'
says the grading on the railroad from
He~ndersonville to Brevard ia prac.
tically completed, and that progress IS
being made in laying track, which nv
July 1 will be finished. This road viii
open n of the most beautiful and fer.
tile farming regions in the State.
Mr.. John TilIman lost by fire last
Friday night his distillery, with 1O4
gallons Of spirits, 10 gallons low wines
and 543 galloTs of beer, with all the
fixtures. On Sunday Mr.. Tillman met
with another serious loss in the death
of a very valuable horse. The horse
was kicked by another animal Sunday
and died from internal injuries, says
the Roxboro Courier.