The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
State News.
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-. 49, 80 and Tobacco Stems from the
h~tb-staIks Of Corn and Grains of
~grsat from the West-PeanutS
,rd CottonS Seed from the South
Mo last Legislature mede ], O2S mag
.Lotss Wake county gets 90 of these.
gornstt comes next with quite as
nsny.
r,s celebrated Benbow House at
,..onsboro was destroyed by fire.
U..r7dav evening, 17ah. Loss SIS, 900
J. zoo 900. No insurance.
The bills, etc., of the defunct First
,].tional Bank of Wilmington, $185 600
80 value, have been sold for SIS The
Srsiuess has been closed up. The bank
EDITORS receive So per cent.
The grape growers say the prospects
,,,a good crop are fine. There will
.I.o be a good crop Of cultivated and
lii blackberries The blackberry
layers at Southern Pines are getting
,ssdy to ship their crop.-5anford
Express.
The members of the First Regimen
hand passed through this morning
,oipg 60 Ashevilie, where they will re-
main as q band organization. Nearly
sucf the players have been given posi-
,ons at Asheville or Biltmore .-Salis-
bury Sun.
The largest batch Of gold that has
basn received a5 the assay Office in
,ome time came in this morning. 1t
vss from the Hail. Creighton and eev-
.,sl orler we'll know mines. The en-
ire lot amounted to something over
III OOO.-Charlotte News.
The Summer School for teachers will
man st Chapel HUI on June goth and
Jose JIly 18Th. The instructors are
hmm the best talent in the University.
others are from the leading city schools
and the State Normal Colleges. Some
.rs from the Peabody Normal, Wash
Dgton and Lee, Maryland Normal
School and Columbia College, n. y.
The Raleigh negro who last week fell
through three stories struck on his
had and lives, reminds Col Olds OF the
acspe Of a negro in 1891, who was
guRht in the ropes of a balloon at the
fair grounds and carried up, falling
nom a height of about IS feet. Luckily,
ba too, fell on his head and escaped
death. and is at work daily here, and
very proud of his thrilling escape.
Nszbern Journal: We are informed
By correspondent from Olslow that
bears in the neighborhood Of Halt
Moon are becoming a nuisance. a
few ug1a ago several bears, supposed
to be eight in number, vent to Mr.
Stephen Hsnderson's house and de
stroyed seven bee hives They are also
playing havoc with the hogs in thai
section.
Itappe8rs by The Lincoln Journ8
that st the recent municipal election
in LiIc3lnton the people voted FOL
EqIor license by q majority of 3 to 1
snd that the town commissioner
therefore issued license. The matter
then went before the board of county
commissioners, which refused to gran
license, and there the matter i
burg up.
The Roanoke Beacon, a promiuen
Democratic weekly published at Ply
mouth, says: Those papers, whicI
from honest convictions, denouncet
the fusion legislation and misrule II
this are, now have cause to declar
that R publicanism and Fusionisu
With ell Its horrors does not compar
to the .~isgrscefuI record that is bein
made by Democratic ring rule an
Boz 81"
D4ali Wallace, and old Mexical
var veteran and pensIoner, nov pas
eighty years Of age, and who lives /
Wake county, near Raleigh, has &C
cied that married life is a failure
after trying it for a lifetime with man.
people. Yesterday he formally too
the preliminary steps looking to To
Institution Of proceedings for a divorc
trom nIs wife, Mary Wallace, and tn
case will be tried in Wake SuperiC
Court at some future term.-Pos
l5.h.
At noon June 18th the old oficia'
made their exit from the S ate Agricu
lral Department and the recentl
elected Democrats came in. The oath
oh.e Administered by Clerk Of th
Curt ". NJ. Russ. The retiring Cf
Gals ara: Commissioner, John T
SDlt- Secretary TO Board, J. L Ran
sey. Clerk, Harold D )rtch. Tne ne'
Oh ave. Commissioner. S L Pa