The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-02-25
STATE NEWS.

There Is an epidemic Of mad dogs at
krCTetI
F1uruew churches are being erected
q. Oxford
the sale OF second hand clothing is
p-ohluttd in 4idsvIle.
proposition to vote bonds for water
works az q lstonla failed.
p,ru.I~ts in RoheeOn county favor
fusion with silver Democrats.
Another quad of 100 convicts has
been sent 20 Une new farm at Wade5
b1rO.
The snowfall at Wilmington last
week was the h8avies5 On recoId-I2
inches
\ $I5 600 chair company has been
o~Eanrzsl ut High Point, says the El
terpClse.
The cotton platform and 81 baies of
cotton were burned at LaUrinEuEg
Thursday.
Wayn,sville Is TO vote on IS coo of
bonds for tue purpose of establishing a
water works ~ stem.
There Will bs 1 O0O looms in the
Proximity cotton mills at Greensboro.
The building Is COmpteJed.
The S0e5by Aurora comes out strong
for Col Julian 5. Carr as the Demo
cratic u,miUee for @ vernon.
A Mt AIRY merchant thirks 500.
Gee a low estimate for the apple crop
marketed IN that to wn this year.
Toe fruit gro Vers and truckers of
Cumberland county met laet week
and organ}z i a fruit growers assO-
citation.
The G JvernOr has Cfflred $100 re
ward for Finley Hart, charged with
the crime Of arson, committed IN Yad
kin county In 1894
Benjamin Townsend. col of Laurin-
burg. VINO was charged With burglary,
was found guilty and sentenced % the
Penitentlary for life.
A revival is in progress at the Bap
is Tabernacle In r leigh. Rev. Mr..
Hines, OF Richmond Is assisting the
pastor. Rev. Dr.. SImms.
The North Wilkesboro News a S
that Mrs DanCy, of Wilkes. was shot
by her son during the holidays and died
last week from her wounds.
A. II Crltch and II. J. HOyle we're
in a boat fishing near Greenville one
evening last week when the boat cap
sized and HOyle was drowned.
There are now 60 inn ites of the
Soldiers home, Raleigh. Their health
has been good during the winter.
There have been only two deaths.
The Salisbury World says that land
has been purchased for the Southern
railway shops which will be r moved
from Manchester, Va, to that place.
The winter season at Ashoville has
set IN earlier and with a large number
of visitors than ever before Many
visitors are there who usually go to
FIOri.ta-
A fatal boiler explosion occurred
Tuesday at the saw mill Of J r PUN
mer, ten miles south west Of Asheb)ro.
Three were killed and three seriously
wounded.
Governor Carr has Dardoned Alice
Traves, cUlOred, and VIM. Webster OuS
of the "penIIeLtiary. They we're from
GlilfOrd county and b.th were 0
sumptives.
President S samuel Spencer. of the
Southern railway, ls now IN GHitOro
county. shooting paTtTidges. He has
leased - 900 acres OF land there for the
shooting privilege.
The person who can attempt to
travel the Wilkes roads along now and
hold 6 respectful silence" mas q pa
tien.e greater than JDO ever dreamed
Of, says he WIlkesbyro Chronicle.
a chunk OF gold ore weighing fit =
p0Iut5 mas been found on n plant =
ton Of J0l. Cotton Ia Montgomery
county. Fully half Of the chunk II 8
sad, Il s1lld gold worth perhaps $l2, =
90.
Part Of the new cotton mill at ETA
bplh CITY was blown down recently,
but the C m1le ion will be buG little de-
I8yeI. Eurnt0n Is TO have a knitting
mil, the stock having ali been SUD
scTIDed.
Clinton Democrat: a witness was
pul upon the stand l. s week to testi
j. to he character Of Isaac g fo1riCh
Tee fitness said: Mr.. GJCdrlch's
character is good, except he Is a hard
working man.
Rev. D s HObsOn, a negro preacher
was brought TO Raleigh recently and
Jailed for stealing a cox and a mule.
He cold the COW and bought a frCck
coat a-d Bible and then began active
ministerial work.
Just after the fire Sunday morning
Bob Johnson and Stanly Hopkins got
in a flint and Johnson cut Hopkins
thr at. Hopkins Is In a CFi zeal cnndI
tl0n and Johnson Is iii Ill, says the
GreenvIile Reflector.
The Franklin Press says there is
great excitement IN Horse Cove owe
the a~l7cnvery Of gold on the lauds Of
DaSh"P NJ Thompson. 1t is said TO
ne very Ti:h and IN large quantities
preparations are being mad to work
i.
Monroe Enquirer: We learn shat an
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