The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
STATE NEWS.

I' Gains OF Rice from the
I lanes and Tobacco Stems from the
Norsh-StaIks Of Corn and Grains Of
wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotto1Seed from the South
Western Burke seems to be anxious
FIR the stock law.
THE Gastonia Tannery Company will
-,br;,i at once, and ask bids for lum-
Der.
The world says Mr.. John Kerr, of
o,Ifsherv, broke his leg last week for
.bs tenth time in the same place.
iris said that there has not been
-..,r 81 oat crop in Watauga for years
.s-rs present one, says the Democrat.
The 5 eco school building at Ashe
--7:a recently struck by lightning and
3-s.r7rej, will be rebuilt as early as
e~oss.Dlo.
The Baptist church at Charity,
Wilkes county, vas struck by light
r;--a few days ago and considerably
damaged.
,rr. y Duke, OF Durham, has sent
$500 check to c B, Edwards, Secre
rarv Ct Odd Fellows 0 p1an Asylum
at o. d-b]rO.
KINGS Mountain is experiencing a
rv-7i.z boom en- a small scale. Sew
o~sIaew buildings are either going up
or are c7ntemplated.
Taa observer tells OF a fight with
sa5rs.s between two negroes near
Charlotte. One struck the other a Sc
we're olow il the face cutting his nose
G.
tuesday afternoon about 1 o'clock,
while IL attendance at 8 tournament
6. Brevard, Mr.. Strab Phillips was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
! Confederate monument was IN
yelled at Windsor, BERTHE county, last
Thursday, in the presence Of {. 1000 PEG
pie. The ceremonies were very i'm
p~ressive.
i son of Prot E P. Hobgood, of Ok
ford, was accidentally shot and killed
while out with his brother and another
young man shooting bats on Wednes
day evening.
On account of the drought many
persons have not yet sowed any turnip
seed, and that which has been sowed
has not started to grow, says the Chat.
ham Citizen.
J. W. Goshen, editor of the Winston
Republican, fell from a street car while
} in the act of stepping eff, his head
striking upon rock and he was in
scanNy killed.
a colored train hand running with
Capt. ". J. Hall had his hand and arm
painfully mashed here last night while
engaged in coupling cars, says the
L~aurinburg Exchange.
We learn that a. L Shuler lost a
barn Of tobacco last week. He had
pI. under the last for the curing, the
fuas become disconnected setting the
tobacco on fire, says the brownsville
News.
The Democrat says Jas. B Patton, a
young man who lives near L%incolnton,
vas bathing IN South Fork river re
Gently when a stick ac :identalIy struck
his eye With such violence that it burst
tle bau.
Marion Messenger: Shepherd NJ.
Digger Is constantly at work with his
force grading the road across the Blue
Ridge near the Winding Stairs. 1t
may take till early fall or later to com
pete il.
Hon. John FIoyed Thomas, of New
York, who is c~anvassing in the inter
Is. Of the free silver and women suf,
trase wing Of the Prohibition party,
spoke in Durham, Raleigh and Aehe
Vile last week.
Two blind men, itinerants, got
drunk in Asheville Monday night and
I had a light, for which they were ban
Ehed from the town. O1e was led by
ad9g, the other by a boy, says the
Hickory Press.
Aew0ern Journal: Della and Eta,
Two children Of Harriet Hicks, col g,
while crossing a footway across Mil
creek. near Pollocksville, fell in the
creek and were drowned on the after
Io2n Of the 18Th.
The p~rotracted meeting at Bethany
presbyterian church, two and a half
niles south of here, closed Sunday
nsnt. There were thirteen professions
@1o Mn additions to the church, says