The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-01
STATE NEWS.

NI,vfh-SbSAkS Oh OOEu IL TEhAnS i
waeat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
The Gazette says a white shad "a
~ exhibition in Washington last week.
charlotte is to have a new bank to
bo known as the Charlotte National
Bank.
lust q little more picking and the
cotton crop in this part of the country
will be gathered, says the L~aurinburg
Exchange.
A number of Democrats have or
ganfzad a club in Newbern called the
Craven County Bi- Metallic Club" with
Jas. a. Bryan as president.
The sale of the Seabord Air Line
railroad has fallen through; and it is
said that a law suit will issue; also that
the rate war will be resumed
Walter Davis, of Asheboro, is the
father of twin boys and they were born
with their feet lined together. He
calls them Mckinley and Hobart.
The Wadesboro Messc niger gives it
as a fact that Col. o. II. Dockery will
prove a factor in the senatorial fight
before the Legislature in January.
Joseph T. Ward, proprietor of
Wards hotel, at Wilson, dropped dead
last Thursday while telling some
friends how much improved he was.
Mr.. G N. V. Wincof brought us last
week a curiosity in the way of a bunch
of corn ears. The bunch had eight ears
on it, all together, says the Concord
Times.
The postal authorities, upon petition,
have given notice that the Ames post
office will be changed to Wingate, Jan
uery 19t 1897, says the Monroe En-
qTirer.
John R. Gentry, the great North
Carolina race horse, was sold in New
York at auction last week for $40, 900
to L. J.. Tewksbury, the owner of
R0bt. J.
The Southern Railway has reported
to the railway commission it's earnings
en- its North Carolina lines for the past
quarter. They are 1854. 900 greater
than last year.
It Is said that q large number of col
ored people are moving from South
Carolina into North Carolina. in order
to escape the stringent election law in
the former State.
The World says the store of l..
Banks, of Salisbury, was entered Fri
day night and a large quantity of
s0od taken. Banks formerly did bus
mess in S~tatesville.
a new cotton factory is to be built
at Wilmington. Mr.. Jas. II. Chadburn,
Jr., has subscribed $50, 900. The shares
will be othat persons with little means
can become stockholders.
The Bryson City Manufacturing
company, says the Times, started Mon
day to manufacture a large number of
telegraph pins. 1t will take them three
weeks to fill the order.
a collision on the Southern railway
near Old Fort last week resulted in the
death Of Engineer James and his fire
man John Howard, of the Chattanooga
special. 1t will be investigated.
In only n or two of the counties
for which special elections were pro-
vided for on the question of increasing
the school tax, were elections held and
in them the vote was in the negative.
Goldsboro Argus: Mr.. Erastus Ed
wards has a tomato vine in his garden
that has grown to the enormous height
OF twelve feet and has now an abund
ance of green and ripe tomatoes on it
The oyster lilly, grown meath the
water, and its roots fastened to an ak
dropped overheard by Capt. Kidd is
one of the late additions to Gallagher's
museum, the Washington Gazette.
The congregation of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church Of
H1ntersviile has called Rev. JAS.
Boyce, of Louisville, KY, to the pas
t0rate and it is understood that he will
accept.
Daniel Thomas, a we'll to do c0lored
man at Smithfeld, was killed last week
by a bale of cotton falling from the
second story of his cotton gin, crush
ing his head and probably breaking
mis- neck.
Recently the store of Mp. B. Bostat
Flows, was broken into, and about $50
in money stolen. No goods were stolen
"A For 90 oo17Id ho aeen. Mr.. ROst has