The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-15
NEWS.

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A G. Avery, Jr., is still improving,
hut his recovery will be slow.
PARROT Cade, white, drunk, sat down
on the railroad track at Kinston and
was killed by a train.
". L. Ortmap, 8 Davidson county
farmer, had five pigs frozen to death
during the cold weather last week.
The Asheville Register is informed
that Mr.. r. A. Cobb, of M%organton,
will be a candidate for State Librarian.
The Monroe Journal records the
marriage of a forty-eight year old man
and a fourteen year old girl in Union
county.
John A Sims, Populist ex sheriff of
CaOarrus, is to be chief clerk in the
late Auditors cm;e under Auditor
elect Aver.
A tobacco warehouse at Greenville
collapsed under the weight of snow on
the roof Thursday. The wreck was
complete.
The Governor has ordered O special
term Of court in Forsythe county for
the trial of civil CAGES only. Judge
Hoke will preside.
Sheriff Ellington, OF Johnson county
was the first sheriff to make q COM
plete settlement with the State Treas
urer for 1896 taxes.
Aunt Winnie Finley, thought to be
enc hundred and ten or one hundred
and fifteen years old, died at her home
near Wilkesboro last week.
There is said to be a plan on foot to
build a railroad from Winston to Mon
roe, the line to be an extension of the
Norfolk and Western railroad.
There are now in the Insane asylum
at Raleigh eight persons who are sut-
fering from religious mania, developed
by what are termed ''sanctifcation'
meetings.
! Chas. M. Bonham, a truck falm?r
living four miles from Wilmington,
disappeared from his home Friday, and
his body was found in the river at
Wilmington.
While hunting in Grab Orchard
township Monday Mr.. Lee Benton &C.
lcidendtally shot Mr.. Sam Ford, wound
ing him in the head and back, says the
Charlotte News.
A stock company will stablish a
Republican daily paper 10 Raleigh ear.
II in January. @. NJ. Kenyon, late of
the Hendersonville Times, will be ed
MIsS$ud manager.
RIG. Hickerson, Egg, and James
POplin, of Ronda, are ahead on rabbit
killing so far as heard from. One day
last week they killed A, and didn't
half try, says the Wilkesboro Chron
iCIe.
Mr.. J. E. Holden, Of Hickory, Noun
tain township. killed fifteen cartridges
at one shot, L day last week. They
we're huddled together in the snow
when he shot, says the Chatham Re
cord.
Salisbury will ask the Legislature to
allow the town the privilege of voting
on the question Of issuing one hundred
thousand dollars III bonds to buy water
works and put in an electric light
plant.
So far as reported, Mr.. G. w. Walk
er, Of Little River township, is the
champion hog raiser this season. He
killed a hog last week that weighed
455 pounds, says the Hillsboro Oh
server.
TIE Greensboro R cord says, Ell
ward Wray, who farms near the Bat
tie Ground, drops in with a gourd that
is a gourd. While it is MT large its
handle measures forty-eight inches in
length.
a Hickory man who rode his bicycle
On the sidewalk after five o'clock p. m,
J in violation of the town ordinances,
| was fined five dollars in the mayors
curt and took an appeal to the Su
perior court.
On account Of sickness Dr.. York was
unable to attend the meeting of the
electors at Raleigh last week. He is
getting hin self and "Genril Jackson"
in shape Cor the meeting in January,
says the WIlkesboro Chronicle.
The prisoners in our county jail were
greatly alarmed q few nights ago, be
cause the jail chimney caught Oh fire
They called Justify for help, and in q