The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-29
State News.
AT TAR HEELS ARB DOING.

gheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
GRADED school is to be established
at Henderson.
Salisbury is to have a savings bank
a. SOON as the building for it is COM
pIeted.
Winston has suspended its smallpox
quarantine and discharged all the
suspects.
Glstonta has voted $50, 600 Of bonds
for water works and sewerage and
k15, coo for electric lights.
A company that will employ forty
hands has been organized to work a
monazite mine near Shelby.
Judge MacRae has been elected pro-
lessor of law at the University. A
proposition to elect q second professor
of law may be acted on later.
Asheville Citizen: Last Tuesday,
near Robbinsonville, Graham county,
Is year old boy named Eler killed q
bear that weighed over 800 pounds.
Boone Dancer rat J. W. Horton pur-
chased a yoke Of cattle from Richard
Winkler on last Saturday that weighed
2 955 los. The price paid was $1O3 40.
Col. Thomas W. Strange, Of Viii
mington, recently suffered a stroke Of
paralysi and died last week.
He was quite a prominent lawyer and
Democratic politician.
Elk Congressman John Nichols ven
lures the prediction and says it is we'll
founded, that ex Judge Spencer B
Adams will be the next Republican
candidate for Governor.
". L. Neal, a Free Will Baptist
preacher Of Buncombe county, is in
jail in default of a bond of 5000 to an
swer the charge of slandering a young
woman. says an exchange.
Miss Sallie Borden, Of Goldsboro,
recently graduated in medicine and
has been granted temporary license to
practice until the next meeting of the
State Board of Medical Examiners.
Mrs. jackson. widow Of General
"StonewaIp Jackson, who has been at
Buffalo Lithia Springs during the sum-
mer, is reported to be in quite a criti
cal condition. Mrs Jackson resides in
Charlotte.
Col. B. Y. Graves, a prominent citi-
zen and a brother of the late Judge
Graves, died OF consumption at his
home in Mt. Airy Friday, aged SO He
vas lieutenant colonel of the Eleventh
North Carolina Volunteers in the Con
ederate service.
Julius Alexander, colored, wss
hanged in the Jail at Charlotte at 2
o'clock Thursday oath. He was con
victad of crimiually assaulting Mrs.
Mullis, a white woman of Charlotte.
He made a full confession on Tuesday
night to an Observer reporter and &C
knowledged his guilt.
Chauncey Davis, the negro who last
spring burned the Battle residence,
Cool Spring, in Edgecombe county. has
been sentenced to hang at Tarboro,
September 75h. His counsel appealed
to the Supreme Court, so at any rate
the hanging is a thing of the future
G~reenville Weekly.
The Mt. Airy News says the widely
known Peach Bottom copper mine,
near the State line in Allegheny coun-
ty, n. @, has been sold to some New
Jersey capitalists for $21, 600. The mine
is said to be a very rich and valuable
one. The nearest railroad shipping
point ia Mount Airy.
Two gentlemen, of Dayton, Ohio,
who own large interests in coal and
mining property in Ohio and Indiana,
have been here several days inspecting
the coal mines near this place. We
are informed that their investigation
has proven satisfactory 80 far, and we
trust the day is not far distant when
they will perfect their arrangements
and go to operating these Mines
Walnut Cove Argus.
The State Agricultural Department
has completed it's annual report OF cot
ton mills IN North Carolina. 1t Shows
that there are 2O5 of these, also Is
hosiery, 4 knitting, 1 towel and 1 cot
ton finishing mill. CASTOR county
leads with % cotton mills. Alamance
ranking second with 10, Mecklenburg
third with Is Randolph and Richmond
fourth with II each. There are cotton
mills in 43 of the 81 counties. Eight
counties have over IL mills each.