The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-04
STATE NEWS.

cra.m of the State Press-Drops of Turpeutine
Ind Grains Of Rice from the East-Clusters
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
J. 8. Rowland will build a 25 barrel
roller -four mill at Rutherfordton.
LOUIS MustaiD, a farmer living near
| Warrenton, has disappeared from
home.
The Greensboro water works was
put up at auction, recently bu5 there
were no bidders.
The infant daughter of M. L Jack
son, of Salisbury, was poisoned by
chewing matches.
Charlotte is to have still another
cotton mill and it will be b king of all
in size and capacity.
The Kings Daughters of the State
have chosen Chapel Hill as the place
for their next annual convention.
The first engine for the new Hender-
sonville and Brevard railroad was
taken through Asheville last week.
The heaviest hail storm fell last
Thursday afternoon in RoDeson coun-
ty that has been known in many
years.
Eight little misses of East Trade
street, Charlotte have formed a cook
ing club, to be known as 'Stumptown
Industrial Society"
Tom moore, the murderer of Chess.
Poston. of Salisbury, is % in jail.
This makes three murderers now con
fined in Rowan county jail.
~--1-.o11 80 hoSrn nooIo in tho
addition to the Raleigh Hosiery Mills.
The addition is to be three stories high
and will contain 1000 spindles.
Mr.. Preston Fox, Of Matthews town
ship, claims tt have a heifer that at
the age of fifteen months gave birth to
a calf, says the Chatham Record.
There was during this season 1868
tons of guanO sold here-belng about
1872 tons less than was sold during
1894, says a Monroe Correspondent
Henry Poole, the colored man who
severely assaulted Mr.. Parson Sykes
near Hebron church in Northampton
county, has been arrested and jailed.
The State Treasurer reports that
only 1887 has been received az revenue
from the new or ster law since the lat
ter was passed by the last legislature
A five year-old S IN of James Downey,
in Rutherford county, was bitten by a
mad dog while playing in the yard,
and now shows symptoms Of hydrophO-
bia.
Warrenton Gazette: About five
months of the year have passed and it
does seem to us that so far it has been
the worst year for farming we have
yer known.
Complaint has been made that some
Of the merchants who signed the paper
for closing stores at sever o'clock do
not observe the contract, says the Gas
tonia Gazette.
We saw some fine Irish potatoes.
Thursday that come from the farm of
Mr.. s B Hardee, near town. They
we're as large as hen eggs, says the
Greenville Reflector.
We are reliably informed that Riley
Wall killed a rattle snake on Juniper
creek last week that was eleven feet
long and had forty-six ~rattles, says the
Laurinburg Exchange.
We are sorry to learn through the
Shelby Aurora that the price and de,
mand for monozite islikely to decrease,
cause, the production is now more
than the consumption.
High Point Enterprise: Ed. VIII
Iiams, colored. was committed to Jail
last Monday for a criminal assault on
a colored girl. the daughter Of old man
Tapley, of this place.
There ere now 60 veterans in the
Soldiers Home. A gift nt books, made
nv a Mr.. Allen, of New Jersey has just
heen received There are no less than
rs applications for admission on file.
G0ldsboro Argus: The largest and
the fattest beef ever seen in this city
was an OK that Nh. J. P. >O'Berry. of
the Du7 ley section. put on the market
yesterday. He weighed 1,617 pounds.
AsheviIe Citizan: Dave Sheriff.,
who was shot in Cripple Greek Wed
nesday afternoon by Jesse Clayton,
died at 8 o'clock last evening at the
Mission Hospital, where he was taken
soon after the occurrence.
There is a that Vice President
st. John of the Saaboar6 Air Line is to
become president of the Georgia South
ern railway, and that Sol Haas will be
put in charge of the freight depart
ment of the Plant system.
A eea turtle of the logger head varie-
tv, which weighed 125 pounds was
brought in Monday by Capt. Alonzo
Stowe. of the little schooner Lorena.
The turtle was caught at Hatteras,
SAYS the New Berne Journal.
Capt E w. Kerr, of Clinton. tells
the Wilmington Messenger that fine
oaks are dying all through the forests.
The leaves have turned yellow and the
tree generally look sickly. 1t is at
tributed to the excessive cold rains.
Greensboro Record: Mr.. John Don
nell, who received a severe stroke of
naralrsia Como meaks 400 from which