The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-01
STATE NRWs.

and Grains Of Rice rom the East-CIusIers
oF grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
No~rth-stalksof Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
Horse thieves are giving some of the
farmers of Cabarrus and Stanley coun,
ties trouble.
Take any seventeen men in Halifax
county and you will find Is to 1 foc
silver. says the Roanoke News.
Marion Messenger: Mr.. @. Q Smith,
If Nebo has a young child, a girl, that
has five we'll formed fingers On each
hand.
The Observer says w. B. Rogers was
attacked by three men, on the street
of Charlotte, chloroformed and robbed
of $38.
Those persons, who are in a position
TO know, say that oysters will be plen
tifuI the coming season, says the New
bern Journal.
Miss Bell Miller, aged Is, of David,
son county, accidentally fell into a
ditch, and received injuries from which
she died soon after.
Rena Sloan, colored, was found dead
in her bed in Wilmington, Monday.
She is the woman who recently gave
birth to four children.
Henry Rouse, colored, was shot at
Newbern and badly wounded by a
white man named Smith, with whom
he had been gambling.
At the fremen's tournament at Sails
bury last week, Greensboro won the
quick steaming contest. Newbern won
the championship belt.
Charlotte News: "Mr. W. T. Bea-
man was to day exhibiting a As penny
weight nugget of gold that was found
at Abe Crowell's mine.
The directors of the Raleigh insane
asylum have decided to build an annex
for the male department, to contain 80
rooms, at a cost of $19, 600.
Mr.. Mark Holler has q dove which
he plucked out of nest IA years ago. 1t
is tame, hearty and well and bids fair
to live many years yet, says the Hick
Dry Mercury.
Charlotte Observer: Miss Minnie
Rankin, wife of MI. John Rankin, of
Mill Hill, Cabarrus county, daughter
of Dr.. McCorkle, of Mooresville, died
at the residence of her father, Sunday
night.
A colored man named CASTOR Bow
den, was brought here to Jail a few
dayP ago on the charge of having stolen
awatch from MI. J. II. Fuquay, of
Hadley township, says the Chatham
Record.
Carthage BE.de= Mr.. O. NJ. Halle
I ton is putting up a gold mill on Deep
river and will at an early day begin
saving the gold, of which he has plen-
ty on soma property he is working near
this place.
Windsor Ledger: Lightning struck
near a coIored church in which a re
vival was being conducted, at Harrells-
vile, last week, and killed one man
and knocked another man and eight
mules down.
A little before going to press this af
t%ernoon. Hal Sugg phoned US that a
tobacco barn on o L. Joyner's place,
two and a half miles from town had
just been destroyed by fire, says the
GreenviIle reflector.
Seventy acres of pretty good lard,
in Lexington township, was sold here
Monday, bringing only $125-less than
81 per acre. Verify, we are in need of
free silver-or something else, says the
Lexington Dispatch.
Statesville Landmark: DR.. John
Anderson, a we'll known and popular
ply sician, died at his home at Gala
hahn, Davie county, Friday evening,
aged SO years. He had been in failing
health for a long time.
The Enquirer says little Mark Davis
of Monroe, while handling q cartridge
tapped it with a hammer to ''see what
it would do" He saw, and will be IN
able to handle cartridges or anything
else until his hands get well.
AshevilIe Citizen: D. S. H~ildebrand
to day completed the threshing of the
wheat crop on his Chunn's Cove farm
and obtined 24O bushels from eighteen
acres sown. This is about double the
average yield for North Carolina.
Danbury Reporter: Notwithstand
ing the forest fires which have swept