The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-12

nnd Grains of Rice from the East-CIusters
Of 6rspes and Tobacco Stems from the
N~orth-StaIks Of Corn and Grains Of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and CottonS Seed from the South
daynr Coughenour, of Salisbury,
bound Tom Shedreck over to court
highway robbery.
dr. J. P. Rimer, of Rowan county,
ID last week, jagged 80 years and IL
onths. He was a prominent citizen,
d leaves a wife and seven children.
charlotte News: j. P. Hunter, Esq,
lDerits, cut down a bee tree one day
It week and got sixteen pounds of
lney, two squirrels and one oppos
M.
lMr. E. Hendrick, of Beams Mills,
led a pig Is months old that weighed
lbs net. Mi. Hendrick understands
to raise fine hogs, says the Shelby
rora.
Ir. Jno. T. Perkins killed a hog a
days before Christmas which net
tc 500 pounds. It's age was IL months
Ald % days. This is a fine record,
ssy B the Morganton Herald.
is estimated that there is about
bneN thousand bales of cotton in this
ectAion not yet sold. Dunn will likely
bY about eight thousand bales this
easoD, says the Dunn Union.
On December 24Sh Webster's tobacco
Farehouse, a saloon and another build
g were destroyed by fire at Madison
le loss was several thousand dollars,
Artially covered by insurance.
a little child of Obadiah Strickland,
led last week town
ID ron hSdrophobia, having been
b en- a short time ego by Newfound
pd dog. says the Louisburg Times.
little colored boy was selling lamp
ands, made of willow, for 30 cents
iecs recently. He said he lived at
reensboro and made two of them a
y. It was nice work, says Webster's
eekly.
Mrs. J. B. Helm found her wedding
Dg Monday in the McBee fish pond.
be dropped it there IL years ago. The
alter had never been drawn off since
ntil Monday, says the Lincolnton
emocrat.
The Monroe Enquirer says that al
inset on Christmas day Darling Rush
BE-, the oldest citizen of Union county,
led in his Goth year. He was a hale
ID man and worked all day Monday
efore his death.
The Cumberland cotton mills were
bid at Fayetteville Monday and
ht by Townsend A. Tay or, Of
oV York, for S. 600. The Fdyette
+ Observer says the property il
b at least $50, 1000.
3 last of the bonds, issued by the
of Monroe for the purchase Of
Il ngine and hose, were cancelled
he 9Th inst. The to IN is now GU
z I'd Bot and a surplus in the treasury
ay the Monroe Enquirer.
Nh. R NJ Wright, OF Elkin, N. c., 6
;R5rk old man, does not know a letter
br note in the book. He cannot sing, o.
even raise and pitch a tune. yet wher
10 sleeps he sings some very beautiful
Songs in q melodious voice.
Raleigh Press: Mr.. N, Y, Gully, pro
lessor of law at Wake Forest, hal
made an assignment for the benefit O
is creditors. Mr. Gulley's failure wa
6ue to bad business investments. Hi
liabilities are about $25, 900.
Sastonia Gazette: Robert L Aber
Thy, of River Bend" was in GU,
fsfce Monday, and we picked it out o
;m that he is figuring on the superin
bdency Of a miliionaire's big farm il
nlother state at a salary of S., 600
oar.
FThe Rocky Mountain News, of Jan
LIST, gives complete returns of the out
put of gold and silver IN the variou
tates during the year 90, by which
hpears the output of gold in NORTH
Parolina during the year vas $40, 600
: liver SIS, COS.
Mr.. John Q. Mallonee informs Tn
Tews that he has sold the Elliott fur
iture factory to a firm of outside capi
{ Alists, who will at ono put the fac
I, Dry in operation. The parties viii
6Vb to Charlotte to reside, says tn,
., parlotte News.
7, MIR. Q. A. Hege, of the Salem Iro1
Eorks, is back from an extended bust
&-;0 To MDvioO IN tho iDtoroct II