The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
STATE NEWS.

Washington Gazette: Anew Meth.
dict church is almost an assured fact.
Nearly $4,000 has been raised already.
ABERDEEN Telegram: The machinery
s,r the Canning Factory has been or
dsrad and will soon be here.
Enfield Enterprise: It is thought
chat about so or 80 per cent. of the
caches were killed by the last big
frost.
An IS months old child of James Al
Ian Of Winston, died Thursday from
having drunk concentI It ted I'VE the day
before.
FIX Lieut. Gov. Chas. NJ. Steadman,
vbo has been living in Atlanta, re
turned to the State and will locate at
Greensboro.
An old man, eighty years Of age,
died In the State pe~nitentiary the
other day after having served for
thirty years.
Work has begun on the new Metho-
diet church, and the building will be
nughed to completion as soon as pcssi
BILE, says the Boone Democrat.
In a suit at Durham Mr.. Norton was
given a verdict Of $50, 600 damages
against the Southern railroad, for ter
rible injuries received on that road.
4 correspondent of the Goldeboro
Headlight tells of a hog that was 6 feet
4incnes in length and 3 feet 4 inches
high. Il weighed 1000 pounds gross.
Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. T. D. Lee, of
Tanes's Creek township, tells US that
be has seen a finer prospect at
this season of the year for a good cat
crop.
Wilson Advance: The farmers con
time to haul a quantity of guano, and
iudging from the amount being carried
home, a coed crop may be expected in
the fall.
Governor Russell authorizes an ex
change of courts between Judges
Robinson and Timbelake, by which the
former will hold Edgeccmbe and the
latter Franklin.
Lumberton had another very serious
fire last week, supposed to be the work
Of i~ncendiaries. The total loss amount
ed to something near $50. 600. The in
gurance was $50, 300.
Work Is now being pushed on the
annex to the male wing at the State
hospital for the insane here, so it can
be occupied in six weeks. 1t will &C
commodate 100 patients.
A new three story brick roller mill
was started in Statesville recently. 1t
turns out 40 barrels Of -four per day.
Two corn mills are also run in the mill,
grinding 200 bushels per day.
An election is to be held in upper
Richmond on the 29th of May to decide
whether or not the people will pay an
extra tax for the building of the Aber
deem and Moore Co. railroad.
In MeckIenburg county Tuesday
week a horse belonging to a colored
man ran away with the pillow and the
plow share struck his hind leg, cutting
it in two. The horse had to be shot.
Jacksonville Times: The death of
NE. Roscoe Andrews on Saturday even
ing, after an illness of about two weeks
although no surprise, was nevertheless
q painful shock to his host of friends.
The Durham Hosiery Company is
now putting in machinery to double
their capacity. About fifteen thou
sand dollars in the latest knitting ma
chinery has been added, says the Sun
Reports from large orchards in the
Southern Pines section are that last
weeks frost killed about half of the
peaches, but that if there is no further
damage, the frost was really bene-
fetal.
At GreenviIle court John Keel sub
mitted to a verdict of murder in the
second degree and was sentenced tc
twenty years in the p~enitentiary. He
killed David CrandRll on Christmas
morning.
A farmer of Baldwin township has q
COW that gave birth to twin calves, on
the 4th Of this month. They are az
near alike as two red cherries and are
living and doing well, says the Pitts
Ooro Record.
D%anbury Reporter: All the peaches
that were out full bloom were killed by
the frost last Sunday and Monday
nights. There is enough in the bud
alive yet for a fair crop if they are moi