The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-23
STATE NEWS.

AID Grains of Rice from the East-CIusters
Of grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-StaIks Of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and COttonS Seed from the South
Mr.. \. B. Darrell, a jewler of Con
cord. has failed.
James Smith, a druggist at Newton,
has made an assignment.
Col. J.. s. Carr has added $500 to his
already liberal gifts to Zion College.
Hickory prohibits bicycles on side
} walks after 5 p. m. and all day Sun
day.
Concord is to have a savings bank,
with $50, 900 capital, D. f. Cannon,
president.
GreeuviI!e is rapidly rebuilding the
portion Of the town that was burned
IN February.
a scientific building costing $4,000
Is to be erected at Davidson College to
the memory of the late Col. Martin
The mayor OF s a~tesv1io has faed q
lady bicy clist s. for riding on the side
walk after having been warned not to
ID so.
Maynard; the yourg counterfeiter,
! plead guilty in Charlotte ct Federal
curt. Sentence has not Yet been
passed.
\ horse thief has been captured and
I53gad in iaIl at MorganUOn. He says
his name is Thomas and thai he is from
AsheviIle.
Judge Graham declines to be q can
didata for Congressional nomination in
tbe Fifth district Mr., ", W. Kitchen,
Of Rexboro Is a candidate.
As q result OF q revival conducted in
Rocky Mount by Evangelist Weston
r Gales there have been about one
hundred accessions to the church.
Mr.. Il Q. Patton, a prominent mer-
chant. was found dead in a small pond
Of water in Aehevilla Wednesday
J morning. It is thought he was drowned.
The Monroe e. quirer says that Mr.
/ / Flncher, OF Union county, hiss q
horse twenty-five years old, which mas
never been sbod and is still eb,e to do
good work.
\ few days ago IN Alexander county,
John Davis struck Arthur Rebber on
the head with a jag full OF bra 1dy,
from the effects Of which Rebber died.
Davis is in jail.
Mrs. Lena Hanes, near Clingman,
Wilkes county, committed suicide last
Saturday by hanging herself. Her
mother killed herself a few years ago
IN the same manner
4 DanviIle excursionist. arrested in
Greensboro fer toting a pisyCl, claimed
that he had a right to bring it from
one state into another under the inter
state commerce law.
Dave Israel shot and killed Sam
Henry at Bitmore, Buuc N De county,
last Wednesday night Henry was
trying to force his way into IsraeI's
house. Irael IS in jail.
BurrsviLe Eagle: J.. A. Higgins
caught the largest trous that has been
hooked from the waters Of South Toe
this season, L was - inches long and
measured seven inches round.
J.. P. GireaUP, F q brought a load
Of early apples to market last week
They were the May apple, and are the
7 frs. to De placed on the market here,
says the WIlkesbcro Chronicle.
Ashe7ille Cis;z7n: J. R. Hicks, &C
companied by Deputy Sheriff Z. Ii.
jones, arrived this afternoon from
TuscoIa, ii. b the prisoners request
the officer took a carriage for the city
Jail.
Mr.. W. D. Clarke tells us there are
something near a hundred visitors at
Blowing Rock, Notwithstanding the
cool weather. All the hotels ana board
Irg houses are 10 open, says the LIE
noir Topic.
Mr.. Frank ByerIy, who lives two
miles east of Winston, lost one Of his
ine black match horses Saturday
evening. The animal was killed by
lightning in the stable, says the Win
stOn Sentinel.
Capt. John Boards chicken yard was
visited Wednesday night by an animal
supposed to be a mink. Yesterday
morning forty young chickens were
among the missing in the Captains
yard Salisbury World.
Dick Workman, o of Mr.. and Mrs.
a. R. Workman. had the misfortune m