The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-14
STATE NEWS.

of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
~North-StaIks Of Corn and Grains OF
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
A Wilkes man cut Al. 900 pounds OF
tan bark from one tree.
The truckers of New Hanover county
have organized under the New a
over Truck Growers Association.
Somebody reports eight cotton and
wool factories erected in North Caro-
lima in the last quarter, ending June
3Oth.
Prof. Edwin A. Alderman, now in
Europe, is already being talked OF In
connection with the position of presi-
dent Of the University.
Mr.. j. W. Carter. of Rowan county,
was robbed of $41 so by some one IN
Salisbury Saturday night. 1t was
probably a pickpocket.
Brevard News: Only n ~unoccupied
business house in Brevard and rumor
has it that will soon be occupied as a
furniture establishment.
Tarboro Southerner: A white man
by the name of Frederick Norris was
killed by an engine on the railroad near
Conetoe last Saturday night.
Chatham Record: TIE many friends
of Mr.. John II. Lawrence, of Cape
Fear township, will regret to hear OF his
death, after a ~protracted sickness.
Rev. J. D. Hufham, D. D of Shelby,
has been called to the Baptist church
of Henderson. The Gold Leaf says be
has not yet announced his decision.
The Progress says Prot. j. h. Sledd,
who was re elected as principal of the
Jonesboro High School, has notified the
trustees that he will not accept the po-
sition.
Lexington Dispatch: The Wenonah
cotton mills are preparing to put in
twenty new looms. They have already
ordered the looms, which will be here
shortly.
The Gazatte says the call extended
to Rev. @. II. Durham to become pas
tor of the Gastonia Baptist church has
been accepted, and the church is much
gratifed.
The Salisbury World says a Is cent
chicken killed by Mr.. Viii Huff, Of
Salisbury, had in its craw several
small pieces of solid gold to the amount
of IS cents.
The Monroe Journal says the 5 year
old son of Marion Sutton of Union, tied
a billy goat to a bee gum. The goat
upset two gums and the bees stung
him to death.
Mr.. Derrick Vow, one of the oldest
residents of Deep RIVER township, was
taken sick with something like cholera
mOrbus Saturday night, and died Sun,
day, says the Carthage Blade.
The revenue collector at Raleigh is
notified Of the seizure of a regular
whiskey destillery in Randolph county,
and of two illicit ones in Cumberland,
together with IS barrels of whiskey.
An artesian we'll 500 feet deep has
been completed for the Battery Park
Hotel, Asheville. 1t will be fitted with
a compressed air pump having a ca
pacity of TO- 900 gallons per day.
Key & Co., the we'll known whole
sale liquor dealers of S~tatesviIle, have
gone entirely out of that business and
are devoting themselves exclusively to
the manufacture of tobacco and snuff
A white nan named Jordan made q
deadly assault on two white women at
Cumberland Mills Monday morning,
and made escape before he could be ar
rested, says the Fayetteville Observer.
Afford Stafford, a substantial farmer
living near Rosedale, this State, was
murdered last week by one of his neigh
bors, Joseph Cooper. There had been
bad feeling between the men for some
time.
Webster Herald: Henry Norman
caught a salmon with a hook and line
last Saturday at the tannery dam that
weighed Is pounds. 1t pulled so hard
that he had to shoot it to get it out of
the water.
Washington Messenger: We were
handed the returns Of one of our farm
ers who had shipped twenty two bar
rels OF potatoes. They Melted him
SO 20 and he still owed for his barrels
and guano.
Charlotte News: DIR. John NJ. Will
son died at his home at CaldwelTs sta
ton in HnntnrsuilIn tnmnnhi, q