The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-15
STATE NEWS.

~Hgorth-Stalks Of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and ottons Seed from the South
Twelve furniture factories are in
o~neration at High Point.
No honorary degrees were conferred
nv the University this year.
A six legged COW was sold in Raleigh
I'm 10th. She brought 81.
Winston sold 2. S98. 69S pounds of to
bseco during the month of May.
Congressman Kitchin has appointed
W. R. Linsday his private secretary.
Judge Walter Clark will address the
Tennessee Bar Association, July 90.
Thursday June oath is North Caro-
lina's day at the Tennessee Exposition.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Pythians meets in Charlotte, June
18th. .
There are 11,75O Federal soldiers
buried in the Salisbury National Gene
terry.
The present faculty of the Greens
boro colored A. & N. College will be
retained.
The Raleigh Chief of police is en-
deavoring to have the sale of goods on
Sunday stopped.
Andrews the negro who was lynched
at Princess Anne, Nd, Wednesday,
WAS from North Carolina.
A Monroe man claims to have found
an inexhaustible deposit Of kaolin,
about ten miles from town.
Salem is said to be the only North
Carolina town in which no beer or
whiskey was ever sold.
Miss Julia Magruder, the celebrated
novelist is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Robert E. Gibson of Concord.
Jno. R. Mclean will oppose the most
high Marcus Aurelius Hanna in the
race for the Ohio Senatorship,
The Charlotte Observer is to put I'M
new fast press capable of turning out
5000 complete papers per hour.
Judge McRae opened the case of the
Southern Railway vs.. Russell in a
mastery argument for his client.
Seven miles north of Morganton a
gold mine has been found which is pan
ing out gold at the rate of 800 per
ton.
The "nickel a sinners of Salisbury
will have to fork over 81 bootblack
license tax before plying their dark
calling.
MI. Chas. E johnson, of Raleigh has
q collection, portraits, miniatures and
letters which has been insured for
&c.
Two cannons stolen from West Point
have been traced to Frankfort Ger
many where they were sold after being
shipped.
DR.. J. A. Hodges of this State has
been elected Proctor of the faculty of
the University College of Medicine in
Richmond.
A big electric light which will be
visible twelve miles is to be placed In
the come of the new Mecklenburg
Court house.
At Mystic Springs Mr.. W. A. Hauser
has pa tame rabbits. They eat from
10 to Is bushels of grain and a lot OF
peas each day.
On June oath Prof. Q. D. McIver
will deliver an address at the Oxford
Orphan Asylum, it being the day for
the annual celebration.
To rob or destroy or take any eggs
from a mockiDg birds nest, or to kill
one Of the birds is a misdemeanor pun
ishable with a fine of ten dollars.
Ex-Congressman Cheatham, colored,
of this State, recently appointed re-
Corder of deed for the District OF
Columbia, has been made an LII. D.
by Shaw University of Raleigh.
A colored woman named Fannie
Perry died in the county home at
Monroe last week. She claimed to be
one hundred and thirty years old, and
was undoubtedly over a hundred.
Near Windsor, lightning struck the
house of Mr.. J. @. Freeman, and it
with all it's contents was burned.
Lightning also struck Mr.. Freeman'a
stables in the night and tore the roof
eff.
1t is thought that the Durham and
Charlotte railway will be extended to
Durham. The road was formerly
known as the Gulf and Glendor rail.
way and elk miles Of it have been com