The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-02-18
STATE NEWS.

GAC 4 n40
and ottonSeed from the South
A factory to delint cotton seed for
export TO Europe is % be established
at Wilmington Oy Northern capitalists.
Wiley Ellis, a mail carrier of Wilson
county, while intoxicated Wednesday
fell from his road cart and broke ms
neck.
Concord Standard: Miss Dain, since
1890 a teacher at Scotia seminary, Gled
at hat institution Wednesday after
noon.
the State Dairyman Association
will assemble at O~ccOneecbee Farm,
Hillsburo, at II u. III. Wednesday, 18Th
inst.
Tne health report shows only 81
deaths AID 40 births il Raleigh during
January. Sixty TWO cases Ut measles
r reported.
The High Point Enterprise says
there IL nothing III the report about
NJ. r II Parker finding SIS 900 IN
gold some where IL It's couuJy.
The wife of Allen StIlley, of Aurora,
Beaufort county, gave birth TO four
children a few days ago. And Alien
S5nley 5 not happy,
1t Is stated that Editors Gillian and
Oliver, of the Reldevllie Review, will
probably start IN at ernoOn paper l Ii
DAnvlIe about the Is h inst.
R-v DIR. MIlburn, the blind chaplain
of the Senate. IectuTed Thursday vel
ing before the girls Of the Normal anu
Industrial school 81 Greensboro.
Mr. w. II. Capes, an aged citizen Of
Eotield, was experimenting the cut
ting of some trees a few day sago, when
one of them fell on him am killed him
At Roanoke Rapids, near Weldon.
s J Collier, who was at work on a
cotton mill, was accidentally hIt on the
head by a brick and died from his in
jIFles.
Our physicians report over 100
cast s of measlCS i'll town. In several
instances entire families are i'll cited
with them, says the Lexington Dis
patcn.
Greensboro Record: Jno. w. Scott,
Jr of Sanford, died this morning of
erys1pelas Mr.. Scott was a son OF
Major John W. Scott, of Monroe
county.
A raft a mile long, composed OF yel
low pine logs, arrived last week in
Philadelphia from the coast Of North
Carolina, says the Edenton Fisherman
and Farmer.
Raleigh News and Observer: Moores
vile gives $50 TO the Vance monument.
This IL more than RteIgh, Charlotte,
Wilmington and Asheville combined
have given.
Depry Collector G W. Troy. and
Deputy Marsh8ls Mcdonald and Kelley
captured a galvanized iron still near
CurrIesvllle THURSDAY night, say s the
Carthage Blade,
Mr.. Calvin Mills, of Chicod town
shIL, writes US that he he's q eve that
gave birth to a lamb On Friday night
and one on Sunday night, says the
Greenville R. fector.
Holt & Scott are shipping the stock,
some sixty head. from the Alam6nce
farm 10 New York. Mr.. l.. Banks
Holt however, has j1st received a car
load of Shetland ponies.
Barges we're in our port this week
loading with lumber, having a carry
ing capacity of two million and seven
hundred thousand feet, says the
Washington Gazette.
A young man named Monaghan was
drowned IN CrabGree creek, near Raj
eigh last week. He had att mpted TO
cross the stream with a load of wood
and 1t proved too deep for him.
Charlotte News: Mr.. Newton Nj
YandIe, a we'll known citizen Of ProvI
dence township, died at 2 o'clock last
Saturday afternoon, atUer illness Of
three weeks with brain fever.
The store of Messrs. Butler Wynd
ham OF Hoffman, was entered by bur
glars some nIghLs ago and robbed of q
considerable quantity of merchandise,
says the + J~cklngham Rocket.
The Wadesboro Messenger and In
telllgencer says: On last Tuesday
morning Rev. T. P. Bonner and bis
two sors, Brem and Robert, we're made
seriously sick by eating souse.
Three cCs-ly churches will be erected
at Raleigh this this year; the Roman
Catholic and Episcopal cathedrals and
the FIRST Presby terrain church. Toe
aggregate cost will exceed $50, 600.
Last Monday w. Henry Carter cut
q severe cash IN his leg while helping
to hew some timber for D s. Brown.
1t Is Thought that he cut a chip off the
bone, says the Salisbury Waterman.
Mr.. II M. Wilson, who lives near
town, killed a hog last week that
weighed 545 pounds. We understand
that his hogshIp was only two and q
half years old, says the Lenoir Topic
Mr., John T,llman reports q hog that
was worth talking about. She was 4
years old, the mother of IS pigs, and
when Killed weighed 1861 pounds. See
was I feet ard 6 inches long, SAYS the
R1XOoro Courier.
Uncle Sam S okes, colored, is sill
keeping Wilkes county in the lead,
say 5 ire Chronicle. He cut the first
watermelon of tie year on the first day