The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-22
STATE NEWS.

In thirty days the W. L. Holt cotton
ILL at Fayetteville, one of the best in
. tbe State. will be ready to start.
The Asheville Register is informed
that Mr.. R. A. Cobb, of Morgantop,
will be a candidate for State librarian.
The Pittsboro Citizen says Ethat the
new board of commissioners In Chat
ham elected Henery A. London, Esq ,
county attorney.
A six or seven inch now is all we
had. Some places in the State beat US
a half dozen inches, says the Laurin
burg Exchange.
The postc flee at Locust, Stanly
county, was robbed of three registered
packages Saturday night, the thief
entering through a window, says the
Charlotte News.
The board of Aldermen in Charlotte
have purchased the water works for
the city, paying therefor $50, 600 for
500, coo worth of stock, and assuming
a debt of $3.50, OGO.
The High Point Enterprise says the
amount spent there On new buildings
during the past two months, including
improved property charged hande,
will reach over 800, 900.
Wilson Advance: Mr.. Lemuel Sulli.
van, a tenant on the farm of Mr.. Frank
Farmer, received q INJURIES from a kick
ing horse on Saturday evening, from
which he died soon after.
Mr.. J. n. Hartley, of Kendall, who
has been suffering greatly for some
time from the effects of a broken leg,
is improving, we are glad to learn,
says the WiIkesboro Chronicle.
Cherokee Scout: We learn that JEFF
Nav was badly hurt at Nantahala Fri
day by some III in a difficulty. His
collar bone was smashed and he was
cut and bruised on other parts of the
body.
Two we'll meaning but excitable
Young men in trying to remove a So
table from a house threatened by the
fire last night, succeeded in breaking
about $15 worth of dishes, says the
Concord Standard.
Uncle Dave Adams gave US a call
this week, and said he had eaten per
fectly ripe apples from the second crop
in his orchard this year. This strikes
US as something very remarkable, says
the Boone Democrat.
Kinston Free Press: The farmers of
this section have harvested a much
Ragss cottUH crop than they hoped for
gont me ago-much better than they
hoped to expect. The fall was fine for
developing all the bolls.
Winston Dispatch: The Y. NJ, Q. A.
State Convention will be held here
February 18Th and 22ad.-The burn.
ing of the Brown Bros. factory here
yesterday threw 400 men, women and
children out Of employment.
Monroe Journal: Mi. Martin Little,
the son Of Rev. J. W. Little. died at
the home OF MS father in Lanes Creek
township Sunday night, Of fever. He
was about eighteen years Of age and
been sick but a short time.
Dr.. Cy. Thompson says that what
Ia5 week was a big snow storm in
EASTERN North Carolina was IL LenOir,
Jones and Onslow the biggest sleet on
record, 1t did great damage to timber
and blocked travel On the roads.
Brevard News: The Brevard roller
fur mills is so we'll stocked with
-four that it has suspended it's night
force. The freight rates On rail
road preclude this NIL from compel
ing with the Tennessee mills in other
markets.
Last week an old farmer, somewhere
in the gold district of Granville ard
Vance counties, who said that he was
tired Of waiting, gave an option on his
tract OF land for $50, 900. The man who
secured the option has since disposed
Of it for $50, coo.
A white partridge alive and IN good
order il n of the c~uriOsitIes recently
brought to Charlotte. It was captured
On Mr. J. Il. Craig's farm, near Gas
tonia. This is probably the first live
white partridge in captivity, says the
Charlotte News.
Baden county authorities have of
tered 800 reward for the apprehension
Of A. J. Perry, who killed a negro
named Stephen johnson on the Ash of
-D-cnmhar The murder Was commit