The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-17
STATE NEWS.
Cream Of the State Press-Drops Of Turpentine
and Grains of Rice from the East-CIusters
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
North-Stalks OF Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the W~est-Peanuts

bridges, costing Sal. 600.
The Methodist church parsonage at
Brovard was Destroyed by fire Tuesday.
The number of white female c0nvicts
IN the State penltentiary Is seven, and
OF cOloTed sixty one.
Rev II nry Grady Ferguson, of
WayHesvljle, Va, becomes Baptist
pastor at Chapel Hill.
Concord people are moving earnestly
for another GO operative cotton mills.
Tho Od-i mil there now employs go
people.
The people Of North Carolioa are ap
pea.ed to put suitable headstones over
The graves OF their dead at Winchc6
ter, Va.
Il. @ Z .cles tells the Charlotte N9ws
that & $3.50 600 mod ~ huoel ID t be
bulls IN Charlotte, the FUNDS 60 be sup
piled by Northern parties.
Shelby Aurora: 7. 4. Justice, 8
! prominent lawyer Of Ru5herfOrdjOn,
has abandoned Che altar OF EaemIs enc
mas become d BaptIst miuiaier.
r preventative Shaw will recon-
. n .l,d * Susrtf j. Is Smith, OF Eayet56
! vale, t. b. Indies Inspector In placeOt
Col Paul 4 F,al7on, deCea-td.
CD. Poui Z Faison, Of this State,
VINO ho;d the position Of Inspector OF
the lnoian Agency IL Oklahoma, dIld
IN that territory On the IN.
Salisbury IL to have electric lights
! and an electric al service, 2 company
having been formed IL thaU place Tor
the purpose Of tuudiDg ana operating
them
Wilson Is to have q new tobacco
vbTs house, says n Times, 10 De
/ erected and run by K IL Watson. Of
! #sison. and j n Gibbons and Ed.
Cooper, Of R:chmond, Va.
Newborn Journal: The schooner
Unity K d, or Ia lost, but the crew Is
aaE,u. Inc Dyer was bound from
Ba.Clmcfe 10 Beaufort. Capt. Dave
Ireland, Of B aufor5, W S master.
enc Wilson Times SAYS that Nj,
! jonathan TOmijusUn, VINO Tep3 esenrtd
tha. county IN the Legislature Of 1895,
has suffered u stroke o. paralysis on
MS !ef5 eide. Ills condition IS serious.
Mrs. r Il HYATT celebrated ternincb
birthday Last Slturd&y by dining with
her mcJher, Ms J. y ABBOTT. As she
wac horn on the % of February
(Leap Iea5), her Oirtnday occur every
four years
The negro shot IN the Edentou riot IS
dead Lieut.. CIR fin aas made sixteen
arrests. All IS quiet and the Naval
Z .serv 5 Will probably be ordered TO
EiEtb8th City 4 day.-WaSOingCon
Messenger.
KjnstOu Fee Press: About G75 tick
| cts were sold from HUSTON to the New
| bern Far last wCek.-We are told
| that there Is g. white nan in Institute
to- nship. who IL % years old and Is
now ]8pTOutlug bis third SIT Of teeth.
John Armstrong Chanler, the former
husband OF the Princess Tr0ubVzkOI, Is
! living in the Quietude and privacy Of
a beautiful and attractive home a.
! R)GnokeR lpids MIR. Chanlcr 1~slargeIy
Interested IN the works at hat place
President McIver, Of the State Nor
NAL and Iudu7CTIai School at Greens
bCr0, says h rulbcr Of students
present reaches $50 AID that all the
counties III the SCate save J .CksOn,
Iancey ana Bruins wick are represented
The whiskey Gts-iiler who de6ed a
church congregation aud is pastor IN
UnIou county has surrendered. The
people pay him for HE plant, and hi
retIEes from that section. They would
other wise have utterly destroyed his
property.
Governor Carr has. for the time be
ing, 81 least, declined TO make T1qIsa5
iup0,A the Governor Of Tennessee for
the rendition Of john I Lindsey, Il
10 charged by the Sons OF T@npera~ &c,
! Of AsncVIiie. with the embt zziemcntof
iu1ds belonging t0 the order.
Tarboro Southernsr: Last Thurs
day nlsh5 at the Bell place, four mi es
from town, Dr.. J II. Baker had the
misfortune Of losing his barn and oil
the contents. The barn was stored
with corn and fodder. The loss WIS
stmated at $500. Cause Of the fire
unknown.
Saturday night while Deputy Sheriff
J 2. Flynn, accompanied by two police
| officers, were over in Dress Neck"
after a prisoner they came across about
| fifteen men and ONE in a house gam
bling The officers Immediately closed
in upon be gang and succeeded IN cap
| turing Lou Sanders and Ell Moseley,
both cOlOred, saysthe Wilmington Star.
A recent issue of the Rocky Mount
| ArgOnaut says that the purchases Of
| the largest tobacco buyer on thaG mar
ket foot up 800, 600 for this season.
| Greenvile has three BUYERS who have
| done better than that. Up to the first
| of March L Of our buyers had bought
100, 600, another 1000, 600, and an
| other between 800, coo and 900, 600. The
total sales of the market ere about
! 5 600, 600, says the Greenville Rtfector.
The tobacco men found an abundant
supply of water in the fire we'll they
have dug near the warehouses. After
sinking the we'll as deep as desired a
pipe was run from it to a ditch rear by
| with the idea Of increasing the supply