The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-10-27
STATE NEWS.

,ndC ottonSeed from the South
The MurfreesborO railroad is to be
.,id at public auction.
esljsbury's new city hall will be COM
,sto5 nv the middle of December.
New England company is plan,
.;ng to build a 81, 900. 600 mill near
Moncure.
u~oonshiners are suspected Of having
burned the barns Of persons in David,
son county.
Weldon is to be lighted by electric
;+v an ordinance having been passed
to that effect.
Work on the railroad between Will
mincton and Southport has been
stopped owing to financial difficulties.
Ranks for returns OF election have
baso sent by the Secretary of State to
the 300 election precincts in the
Safe.
Reouisjtion is made on the War De.
pa-tnent for so more rifles for the ca
tets at the Agricultural and Mechan-
i:al college.
AcoupIe of candidates for constable
in q Rowan township are holding joint
diseussions-pEesUmaDly on the fnan-
ciaf qIsstjon.
Governor Carr makes a requisition
on the Governor Of Georgia for Junius
Bum, an escaped coavics wanted in
Rockingham.
The Rocky Mount fair will be held
October % 3Oth. Efforts are being
made 20 have the best fair ever seen at
R-cky Mount.
Chairman HoIton declares that his
returns show 25 per cent increase in
the Republican registration, as com
pared with former Years.
The State authorities nave disbanded
Company F. Fourth Regiment, at Con
cord, for failure to comply with the re.
quiraments of the military code.
At Wilmington the jury awarded
Mrs. jennie 7. Rittenhouse $4,000 in
her suit against the Wilmington street
railway company for killing her hus
band Oct. y. 1895.
Mr.. J. D. Osborne, a young man CT
Wazlaw, Union county, died from the
prick of 6 needle, which scratched his
thumb. Blood poison set IN and he
died III great agony.
Sunday morning while Mr. William
les, who lives near Aurelian Springs,
was at breakfast, en- unknown thief
entered his house and robbed him OF
SIS 50, the hard earned savings OF q
lie time, says the Weldon News.
Wilmington Messenger: Mr.. Finest
Guj.l0rd died at Edwards Saturday
last Ct hemorrhagic fe7er.The
sad rews has just reached US Of the
death of Mr.. J. A Butt, which &C
Cured at Bath las5 Monday of typhoid
fever.
We learn that Rev. D. D. Mcbride.
q L.5Jle River Academy, died at his
home Monday in the 10Th year of bis
age. Re mad a host of friends through
ou5 the State and was highly esteemed
By all who knew him, says the Dunn
Union.
lis learned that Mrs. Walter NJ.
Castle, who with her husband was ar.
rested IL London, charged with shop
lifting, is a native of Wilmington, this
State, and is a Jewess. She and her
husband gave 5000, 600 for their ap
paacaLce.
Farmers have had very fine weather
for seeding their wheat crop, and are
well along with the work. Mr.. E.
Long, from McCray, was here yester-
day, and we learned from him that
almost all were through sowing in his
section, says the Alamance Cleaner,
Charlotte News: Mr.. Samuel P.
Smith died suddenly at his residence
on North Beevard street Saturday
night at II o'clock, Of heart failure,
IL had teen sick for some time, but
IN Thursday last he seemed much bet
ter and talked cheerfully to those who
called on him, and seemed 10 think he
would soon recover. He continued to
improve until Saturday when he
dressed himself and walked out on the
porch and was bright and cheerful al
day. He retired about 10 o'clock that
night, apparently no worse than he
had been all day. But within an hour
ne was dead.