The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
STATE NEWS.

~North-staIks of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
c W, Efrd, grocer, of Winston,
los assigned. Liabilities 81, 500.
wilkes county has 237bonded brandy
distlleries at the present writing.
colored boy was sent to Tarboro
Jail Monday for breaking into a box
Ear at South Rocky Mount.
negro driver fell off a wagon at
Grpenville last Tuesday, and a wheel
ran over his neck and broke it.
The house and barn of MI. J.. z. Horn
buckle we're burned at Concord on
Monday of last week. Loss, Sl,OOO.
Edgecombe county has a negro IN It's
nor house, who 1t IS said TO be near
.66ne hundred and twenty years old.
The gin house belonging to A. G.
Johnson, who resides lear Rolesville,
in Wake county, vas destroyed by fire
last Monday.
a big hair pulling fight occurred be-
tween two colored women in Nash be-
cause one told the other she was an
old p ogramme."
DIR. H p. Clingman caught In Neuse
river near GOldsbOrO, with a hook and
line last Friday, a German carp weigh
ing twenty pounds
The Citizen says %, 900 gallons of
brandy were gagged in the fifth dis
trict during October. The amOut IN
guaged is not known.
Near Scotland Neck Friday, Dick
Cotton, colored boy, was plling lumber
when a stack fell down on him and
crushed him to death.
L S Ritchey has been appointed
nostmaster at Blackburn, Catawba
county. and G. G. Morrison, at Mari
Dosa, Lincoln county.
Chestnuts have made their appear
snce on the market here. They are
verv fine and retail for five cents per
quart, says the D4vie Times.
There were 241 marriage licer SIS is
sued by our Register of Deeds, from
december 3, "a to November LIST, '95,
saws the GOldsOoro Headlight.
The Bessemer City Messenger says:
I'VE learn there is over 100 cases of
fever at Gastonia. Cause, bad water.
None at Bessmer City. Good water.
The dwelling of Mr.. Ferney Jackson
at VanCeb0rO, was destroyed Monday
Morning bv fire. The Methodist church
was saved by hard work. Cause IN
known.
Governor Carr pays 800 reward to
Startling Gentry for the capture Of
Rod Shelton, another of the madison
county murderers who escaped some
time ago.
Mr.. Graves lost one of his finest
horses one day last week. Another
horse kicked him in the head. from the
effect OF which death resulted, says the
Carthage Blade.
Sheriff ROuaTk, of Brunswick county
sold the graded portion of the railroad
between this city and Southport at
auction yesterday for 800, says the
Wilmington Star.
Mr.. Ham Long made his escape from
the Raleigh Insane asylum last week.
He has lot yet been found by the of
icers, although other parties have
seen him IN the county.
Henry W. Wenzell. a German pain
ter, 80 years old, while painting the in
terror Of a skylight in a dry goods store
IN Wilmington Friday, fell to the floor
and was instantly killed.
The homicide case of J. Bess Ray, of
BurnsvIlle, for the killing of Wayland
HOss, was moved last week TO Mitchell
C unity on application of the State,
says the Shelby Aurora.
A negro was killed at Washington
last Tuesday by falling off a coal chute
into the river. In falling he first struck
some tImbers, stunning him, and then
into the river, and drowned.
Madison Quick, colored, of Wolfe
Pitt township, was shot and killed by
Bill Justice, white, last Saturday even
ing, Justice escaped and is still at
large, says the Rockingham Rocket.
Cora Dixie and Josie Ferguson, both
cOlored, fought Friday night Cora
used rocks, Josie a knife. Results,
the former got badly cut, the latter
got gently putin Jail, says the Hick-
Org Mercury.
There have been a number of bur
glaries in Salisbury and vicinity re-
Gently and Jas. Crockett, colored. has
been arrested as the perpetrator of the
Ourglaries. Proof against him is said
to be conclusive.
Wad5sbOro Messenger I~ntelligencer:
WadesOOrO's cotton receipts for the
week ending last night were 282 bales;
for the same week last year 534 bales.
Nearly half of this weeks receipts
came In yesterday.
New Brine Journal: Sunday after
noon there we're three rCbberies of resi-
dences committed near the forks of
-NsI9e ana Dover roads, about a dozen
mHesfrom >ewberne, during the alb
sence of the owners
!nert Is a r.vival in masonry in
IhLs Co"I.. Our Lodge 1O4, has seven
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