The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-05-26
STATE NEWS.

Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
In some places in Iredell county they
have had no rain since April l.
The Gilbert lumber company at Elm
wood, Iredell county, is in the hands
Of a receiver.
Eleven inmates Of the )wan county
homo for the aged aud infrm are over
IS g old and five are over s..
james W Heay, one of Reidsville's
Oldest hardware firms, he's assigned
with assets and liabilities unknown.
the ialer of Statesville has ? couple
G: blood hounds which he keeps in Ill
in the event Of the escape of prisoners.
The iailer Of StatesviIla has a couple
Of blood hounds which he keeps 10 jail
in the event Of the escape OF prisoners.
The Carolina Beach property has
been sold at receivers sale and was
bought in by the original owners for
8 80.
Mr.. Joseph S Adams, of AsbeviiIe,
has been nominated as the D mocretic
candidate for Congress in the ninth
district.
Policeman K.llough, of Charlotte,
who was dismissed from the force
under charges, will sue the city fer
damages.
Ex Sheriff McGeegor, OF Arson c0un
tv, ig short 3 900 in his school tax re-
turn for 1892 and lis bondsmen have
been sued.
The claim is made that Mrs Nancy
HallIied is the Oldest woman in North
Carolina and that she i Is Her home
is ct E lenboro, Rutherford county.
Mr.. J shua Winkler, OF Boone, was
run over b. a COW last week and seri-
=, ously ri 1red. He is in a critical 0
dition, says the Wi.kesboro Chronicle.
Mr.. J Van Linley, owner Of the
great peach orchard near Southern,
Pines, says that he will set out 70 more
acres in peaches. He will have 500
acres.
The bill eppropriating SIS 600 by
Congress for a monum Mt to General
Nathaniel Greene, on the battlefield of
Guilford Court House, passed the
Senate.
1t is said that six men were killed
last Saturday by lightning and boiler
explosion in a radius Of fifty miles
from here, says the R sckingham
Rocket.
! Mr.. a. z. Pope had a horse to fall
in a gully or ditch Sunday and die.
Ha turned him to gr.za Sunday morn
ing and at night he found him dead,
says the Scotland Neck Democrat.
Robert Taylor. a young boy living
on the Pitts plantation, who has been
critically Ill WIN a~ppen6iciti7. is i'm
proving and there are hopes Of lis re
covery. says he Concord Standard.
Cd Clark, revenue agent wh3 bas
b55n transferred from Greensboro to
A.lsnta, tells the Constitution that
there Is more m00ushiue vhi~koy made
l. Georgia than il North Carolina.
Ga last Friday old friend Joshua
Winkler was run over and trampled
!. upon by an iEfuriated COW, and re-
c2iyed some severe and painfulbruises,
but, We arc pleased to note, says the
Boone Democrat.
Tna Landmark says S-atnsviIIe not
only keeps Up with the styles bit sets
a ne n whenever the notion strikes
her, Monday gentleman there took
a LADY to ride, she going OF her wheel
and ne on horseback.
T.rboro S.u5herne-: The contract
u waterworks calls for a first class
system with five miles Of piping, s-v-
eral public fountains and water for ali
the public buildings. TIE plant Will
probably c08: about 500, coo.
The BIrnzviIl- E4gle learns that the
' wife Of Z . Howell has instituted suit
against Iancy county for SO. 900 on
account Of the death of her husband,
which occurred last week while he was
confined in the county Jail there.
At the meeting of the State Board of
Medical Examiners, held last week at
Winston, sixty two young doctors
were granted license to practise medi.
cine, among them being a young lady
Miss Joy Harris, of Gulltord county.
W. H. Brantley, n of the four
white men who so fouly aggagsineted
John B Bonner in Beaufort county.
last year, and who is nov in the peni