The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
STATE NEWS.

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If grapes and Tobacco Stems from the B
~North-staIks of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
Nashville is building two tobacco
warehouses. blieb.
I'd at Winston. -.
Work on Rutherford cotton mills
hogan Monday.
thieves are robbing smoke houses in
Richmond county.
All available land in Pitt will be put
IN tobacco this year.
Iobn n. Hill has been nominated for
MAYOR of Goldsboro.
little girl of 9 yearsa at Oriental, N.
r. weighs, IA pounds.
IN April oath a sail vessel was burnt
Of sea, off Cape Hatteras.
Il is stated that a State Base Ball
League will be organized.
Six hundred new tobacco barns in
Edgecombe is a good record.
Some Colorado fellows have bought
a Cabarrus mine for $25. 900.
A colored Drug Company have
opened business in Durham.
2 S. Roy ster is the Democratic
nominee for mayor Of Oxford.
Plans for the Odd Fellows Orphan
AGE at Goldsboro are accepted.
The remains of two new born infants
we're found at Durham recently.
A genuine hermit has been dis
coved living in Cabarrus county.
Several burnings have taken place
in Harnett county. The guilty have
been caught.
Two brothers in Salisbury disa-
creed about politics and had to be put
under a peace bond.
Norfeet Allen, an employee working
on the bridge at Weldon, fell and was
almost insanity killed.
The liquor dispensary law is IN oPer-
alton in Wayne5ville. Results are be-
ing watched with interest.
Clocks are being peddled through
Wilkes county at $23 each, and the
people are biting like suckers.
A remarkably heavy hail storm oc-
CURED in EdgecOmbe las week. Some
of the stones were as large as hens
eggs.
The gold nugget recently found in
Montgomery county, n. o., weighed
eight pounds and was worth about
1900
Military companies from Fayette-
vile MaxUon and Lumber Bridge an
nounce that they will attend the May
20Lh ceremonies.
a meeting was held at Jacksonville
in Onslow county last week to organize
a company to erect a summer hotel at
the beach, in OnslOw.
The Tryon News says that Polk
county has the champion lazy man.
His wife has to pound him. with sticks
10 keep him breathing.
Large shipments of Strawberries are
now being made from here and other
points along the Atlantic Coast Line,
says the Wilmington Messenger.
lexington is a great town for eggs
AWaggon from the country came in
one evening last week having on Asa
dozen hen fruit, say S the Dispatch.
Governor Carr has invited the Gov
errors of all the Southern States to be
his guests at the unwilling of the Con,
federate monument in Raleigh May
10Th.
The seventh annual convention and
tournament of the North Carolina
Firemen's associations will be held in
New Berne, August 9Th to 9th in
elusive.
President John @. Kilgo, of Trinity
College, Durham, will deliver the bac-
Calaureate sermon at the commence
mnnt cvor0tcNr ~ Nwnn~nh0Rn LoroE1n
College.
We received a communication this
week from a gentleman in Maryland in
regard to establishing a female college
at this place, says the Lincolnton
Courier.
Mrs. Annie Grifin's Millinery store
was broken into Sunday night and
about $50Is worth of cloth and other
goods stolen, says the Rocky Mount
Ph9nix.
Waynesville Courier: From present
Indications Jackson county will have a
large crop of peaches this year. The
Trees over there are. in full bloom, and
are beautiful to behold.
Anegro named George Berry was
lodged 1 Jail in default of $1CO bail
Yesterday for stealing an OK from q
GOlored woman at Camp Palmer, says
tne New Berne Journal.
Charlotte Observer: As a result of
te meeting conducted in the Meth
QGlst church at at Monroe by Rev. Mr..
wade, there we're twenty additions to
'nat church yesterday.
Sheriff w. B. Lone has shown sam
PIES of peas filled out ready for picking.
Such are not abundant yet, but they
show that picking time Is at hand,
says the New Berne Journal.
Week before last we learn that there
we're five burials in the cemetery at
Sardis, six miles below Lenoir, during
one week and that there were two In
one day, says the Lenoir Topic.