The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-29
STATE NEWS.

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,negro girl breaches at Maxtcn.
,sbeviIle is to have a summer art
and music school.
The tobacco acreage of Robson
,,nntv viii be greatly increased this
year.
Psve- ne officers made a successful
aid rsar Lexington, capturing a still
and destroying 500 gallons Of beer.
Charles Craver, of Davidson county,
GAS EiIled last Saturday by a falling
limb. vnile chopping in the woods.
The Espublican Congressional Con
rsrti0n for the Second District will be
bsIdin Warrenton on the 10Th Of
May.
The NeHbern Telephone Company
has sold out to the Henderson Tele
nhcne Company, which is a hustling
concern.
Township number nine is Cleveland
c,untv mas raised $500 for schools, and
will get a like sum from the State
treasury.
The Laurinburg Exchange says that
the cotton seed and oil mill has been
leased to a Philadelphia firm. The
trusts gobbIe up everything.
Three hundred negroes at Maxton
rrotegsed conversion under the minis
+ratious of Rev. 8. l. Johnson, a col
orsd evangelist from Virginia.
John Henderson, a colored citizen,
ot Bunc9mbe county, is supposed to be
40 years old. According to the Ashe
vile G3ze.te, he wants to enlist in the
srny to fight 5paniards.
Geo W. Vanderbilt proposes to con
tinue the development Of the model
village Of Biltmore by the erection Of a
school for white pupils, the building of
several handsome buildings and the
Establishment Of an electric light
plant.
Rev. n. P. Matheuey, pastor of the
Bryson City Baptist church, and editor
Of the Southern Baptist, has been ask
Ell to resign his passionate pending the
Investigation of charges of unminister
il conduct which have been preferred
against him.-Asheville Citizen.
While digging a we'll for Charles
Burgess, at his place nea town, the
walls suddenly gave way and fell upon
jim Dufie, the digger, breaking n of
hislegs, and bruising him considerably.
he wss liberated as quickly as possible,
and is recovering from the accident
L,Zington Dispatch.
4 disastrous fire occurred at Elkin,
\. c., March 24.h, burning up $50, 900
worth Of property in two hours time.
The fire started On the southeast corner
Of the building occupied by Haynes &
Co., grocers, and is believed to have
been the work of an incendiary. The
night was calm and this only saved
tie town from total destruction.
Il nay be that there's nothing in a
LsD4e, but we'll venture that there's
8 plenty in the following, which is
': lched for By R R. Bell. He says
that Michel Pardue, in Somers town
,ahlp, has q little girl named as follows:
Mary R2menta Ola Ludentia Laura
ousetta MissJuria Georgiana Johnnie
Presley RnOda Diarretta Jane Cor
META Bailey Pardue -Wilkesboro
Chronicle.
Last Tuesday evening q colored wo
man who lives On A. II. McLeod's
plantation left her two small children
at her house and went over to another
tarn house on the place. Soon one Of
Tue children came running to her and
SAID the other had caught fire. The
mother ran back to the house but the
little one was lying out in the woods
not far from the house dead.-Lumber-
Ton Robesonian.
Judge Robert P. Dick, who for the
past two months has been under treat.
nenta at Johns Hopkins hospital, Balti-
more, returned to the city Wednesday
morning, accompanied by his daughter,
mrs. Z II. Douglass. While in the hos
Ptal the Judge underwent a very diff
Cuit operation, which was entirely sue
0eSsluL, and though still weak, is very
much improved in general health
greensboro Telegram.
There is said to be very great excite
Ient and fear among the colored PEG
PIE about the threatened war between
spain and the United States. This
'Vaf and excitement have been in
seHSlned by ocular statements made
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