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

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scinded their action in refusing to
grant license to sell liquor. Asheville
is wet again. The entire number of
Ii saloons will secure new license.
J. v. Rivenbark, Of Burgaw made q
clear profit of 5000 on a lot OF straw
~berries-two and a half acres, and ex
poets to make 10 barrels of wine from
the strawberries picked after the ship
ping season passed.
Within the last sixty days it has
been discovered that five fire insurance
companies are doing business in this
State without license. The Aurora
Fire Insurance Company of Philadel:
phia is n of them, we hear.
Register of Deeds Miller, of Forsyth
county, has been tried before a magis-
trate for issuing a marriage license to
q sixteen year old boy, says an ex.
change. He was fined 5000 but ap-
pealed to the Superior Court.
The Asheville Gazette says active
work is now in progress to establish
on Vanderbilt's Biltnore estate q col
lection Of dried plants, designed,
eventually, to illustrate the trees,
shrubs and herbs of the world.
The News and Observer a y 1000
people went on the Raleigh Baptist
Tabernacle Sunday:school excursion to
Richmond. A Richmond paper esti,
mates the number at 1900. These
were not all from Raleigh however.
Mr.. Pedra A. Anderson left Win
ston-S Salem last Saturday morning for
New York and from that point he will
shortly sail for his home in Brazil, a
distance Of some 6, 800 miles. It
will require 90 days to make the
trip.
The founder of Pinehurst, the Bos-
ton millionaire, J. w. Taylor, will
have forty more houses built there be-
fore November LIST. One of the largest
hot houses in the state, intended for
the forcing of early vegetables is to be
built.
A United States Fish Commission a
passed through Salisbury last Saturday
night, containing it is said, $500 600
fish. The car was bound for Florida,
where the ST. Johns river is to be
stocked with these fish, says the Sails
bury Waterman.
The land, phosphate mines, mill and
farm of the North Carolina Phosphate
Company, embracing 800 acres at
castle Hayne, New Hanover county,
were sold last week to satisfy a judg
ment. The penitentiary bid SIG, 600
and obtained the property.
Mr.. G. T. Siler. while attemptingto
cross Rocky River in Chatham county
last week was right seriously hurt by
his horse falling on him. He was
caught between his horse and a rock.
The doctor who was summoned, found
that his shoulder was dislocated.
Peaches are being shipped from the
great Van Lindley orchard of go, 600
trees, near Southern Pines. There is
about one fifth of q crop. The first
were shipped June LIST. Prices are
high. The liberia is again found to
be the best peach, says the Greensboro
Record.
The graveyards for the colored peo-
pie in the Hopewell section of Mecklen-
burg county are being robbed of bodies,
causing much excitement in the neigh
borhood. Some of the graveyards for
whites have been guarded, it being
feared that bodies would be stolen
from them.
There was an earthquake shock felt
very perceptibly at Hickory yesterday
Wednesday morning, the 9th. The
earth trembled and hous es shook at
about So minutes after 5 o'clock and
lasted about 40 seconds. It was pre-,
coded by a rumbling noise, says the
Hickory Press.
An unusual occurrence took place
during one Of the late thunder storms
in this county. The lightning struck
bat the head of a small branch, and ran
down the bed of the branch, throwing
out the rocks and water from the bed,
says a Monroe correspondent Of the
Charlotte Observer.
Simon Gragg, who was on trial
several days in the Caswell county, has
been found guilty of murder in the
first degree and will be hanged July
10. GrRgg was charged with having
caused the death of two men by plac
ing dynamite under the lumber shack
in which they were sleeping.