The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
STATE NBWS.

Tho Rank or hIn6GOn mas OS5u OESbn-
~ and is ready for business.
~ro Aurora hears that seven mules
IRE recently sold in Shelby for three
55.lars.
The town of Greenville, Pitt county,
purchased a $50 pound steel fire
.aI The alarm rung on it can be
heard five miles.
Ponder Star: The ravages Of la grippe
=, the county is fearful scarcely a
t,miIv is exempt, but fortunately we
now of no serious case.
roEnson's Pharmacy, at Southern
Pines. enjoys the distinction of being
rbo only drug store in this State man.
AGED entirely by women.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. R. Boston
wallace, a prominent citizen of this
county, died Sunday at his home at
Ssrdis. Mr.. Wallace was 20 years Of
age.
Charles Biggers, a thirteen-year-old
how working in the Ada mills, had the
misfortune TO have the fingers Of his
right hand cut off, says the Charlotte
News.
Dr. Charles Kilebrew, OF Edgecombe
county. found a white male child,
three DAYS old, or his front porch last
Friday night. There is no clue to the
parents.
While preparing a corpse for burial,
Thursday, MIS-. Caleb Altman, of
Cabarrus county, was taken suddenly
i'll and died within three hours in the
same house.
A tramp boarded No. 81, the north
bound vestjbule, last night, taking a
seat on top Of the engine between the
headlicbt and smoke stack, says the
Concord Standard.
The steamer "Burruss" brought from
Hyde county on her last trip over
1000 robins to be shipped for the
Northern markets, says the Elizabeth
City North Carolinian.
Tbs Hiddenite Novelty Company
has been organized at H%iddenite, Alex.
ander county They have several pat
ented inventions which they will
manufacture on a large scale.
Asheville Citizen: II. A. Latham,
formerly editor of The Washington, N.
c., Gazette who removed to Buncombe
county a few months ago. has accepted
position as clerk at the Oaks hotel.
Mr.. George A. Warlick is putting
corn grinding machinery into his roller
mill at Newton. When completed his
uil van Convert 200 bushels Of corn
into meal per day, says the Hickory
Mercury.
Greenville Reflector: Governor Rus
sell has pardoned George Dudley, col
cred, who was sent to the penitentiary
rom this county for killing Red Blow,
coIored, over q game of cards some
years ago.
The mud, the Visiting revenues"
tax collectors. Mckinley prosperity
and the North Carolina Legislature
make a formidable ordeal for any
mans Christian patriotism, says the
WilkesbOro Chronicle.
4 Chatham farmer said the other
day that he was making preparation to
raise more five cent cotton, and he
thought that there will be more fertili
zers sold this year than aver before,
says the Chatham Record.
MiIikin D~everaux, an old colored
man of Halifax county, who was 80
years old last January, recently got
license to marry Harriet Whitaker,
who is 50 years old. His mother died
few days ago aged 40 years.
a Raleigh paper seysa private letter
received in this city from Mr.. Patrick
Winston, attorney-general of the state
Of Washington, announces that he has
appointed DIR. Thomas III. Vance, son
OF the late Senator Vance, as his as
sist8nt. q
Charlotte News: ". Fl. Payne was
trled for asgaulting Joe Lindy with a
oeadly weapon, a knife. Indy was
not II Jured much, and Payne was fined
a. de was sent to the chain gang to
work cut the fine. He has been off
the chain gang only afew days.
Some One entered a room on the
premises Of old aunt Mary Williams, a
Goiored woman who lives. near town,
~ stole 5 pieces Of meat, last Friday
-lgnJ. This old woman raised two
I9s5 last year, and the thief took just
nan OF THAT she raised, says the Hills
eoEo Observer.