The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-13
STATE NEWS.

v~o-fb-staIks Of Corn and Grains OF
SEbast from the West-Peanuts
and Cottons Seed from the South
The heat made 81 at Raleigh on the
SD.
new paper is to be started soon at
southport.
liberty. Randolph county, has a
woman barber.
Stokes county farmer was killed
h. lightning recently.
Last week at Marion, John P. Hall
shot and killed Daniel jarrett.
Bankers Convention will be held
IN Morehead City, July % and 26.
There are twenty. eight students at
.onding the university summer law
school.
Wake county's Home for the Aged
and II frmed has "a inmates at
present.
The Stewart Bros. decline to publish
the 12Oth North Carolina Supreme
Court report.
The commissioners of Craven county
have rescinded the order for the
August election.
Eminent psychologists have passed
On the Asheville city water and pro
nounce it very good.
The receipts of the Woman's Expo
sition at Charlotte were S.. 1853. The
expenses were about 81. 500.
About 125 teachers and preachers
are attending the Wake Forest sum
mer school and Pastors Institute.
There are 81 prisoners in Wake
County Jail-three white and 90 col
ored. OF the colored prisoners two are
women.
The Southern Stock Mutual Insur-
ence Company, of Greensboro, has de-
clared a semi-Rzrual dividend of 10
per cent
1t is said that a man of Albemarle,
named VIM. Austin, is 81 years old,
measures 6 feet 81 inches in height and
Weighes 232 pounds. a.
ORing to the increase of business at
the Greensboro Office the postmaster's
salary is raised from 81. 500 to g. go.
High Point also goes up a hundred.
A stream of Mckinley prosperity
struck a North Carolina conductor re
Gently. A barrel of molasses exploded
aud scattered it's contents over him.
Laurinburg Exchange: Editor W.
E. Clark, of The Hamlet Enterprise,
has suddenly IBID the paper, the town
and his IandIady adieu," and Hamlet
mourns and the eating house refuses to
be comforted.
Judge Nathan A. Stedman, of Fort
Worth, Tex, has been appointed gen
eral attorney Of the international and
Great Northern Railroad, n of Jay
Gouid's lines. He is a cousin to Maj.
ChRs. NJ. Stedman. His father emf
grated from Chatham county to Texas,
Is years ago.
In Greensboro a negro attempted to
assault Miss Syfert, the seventeen year
Old daughter Of the superintendent of
the Southern finishing mill. A negro
named Richardson has been arrested,
given a hearing before the Mayor and
sent to jail to await the action of, the
grand iury.-Ex.
The Record says: The way Green's
boro has been enforcing the law against
tramps and Migrants is having a good
effect. These gentlemen give the place
a wide berth, and if by any chance
one happens to come along this way
and Is seen by the policemen he gets
out OF the way in a hurry.
Aazton Scottish Chief says: There
Is a town On the @ F. & Y. V. R R
with about 1900 inhabitants which
claims to not have a single negro
family living in the Incorporated limit
Oh the town. Perhaps not another case
oI tnls kind exists in the South. The
name OF the place is Hope Mills.
a striking feature last week was the
cut IN price Of 800 bicycles, which are
reduced to SIS. and it is said they will
90 still lower. Under the pressure of a
nigh pitei dollar-gold standard-all
Vnn8s come down except passenger
Sno freight rates in North Carolina
ana the cost of railroad free passes, re-
m9rkes the News and Observer.
Lincoln Journal: Little Jack Hof-
mann met with a serious accident at
"oOdside Monday. He ran a ten penny
uNl through his foot. The nail went
entirely thrnrnrh ahn foot hr,lninn tia