The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-13
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produced but one Bill Arp. His name is
a household word in every Southern
home. Nowhere outside his beloved
State of Georgia could he find a heartier
or warmer welcome than in North Caro-
lima. and nowhere in North Carolina.
than in Winston and Salem. We con-
oratulate our people that they are to see
him and hear him.
The Baptists of Winston have secured
his promise to deliver a lecture at
Browns Opera House, on the evening of
the 22nd inst, for the benefit of the
Broad Street Baptist Church. His subject
will be-HuMoR AND PHILOSOPHY.
1t is needless to bespeak for him a full
house. Winston and Salem and all the
country round about will come to hear
him, and they will not regret it.
He writes us that he proposes making
a brief tour of Western North Carolina,
beginning at Winston and Salem on the
22nd. We hope all our towns and cities
will avail themselves of this opportunity
to ave him visit them.
FATAL SHoT.-Jesse Smith, of Stokes
county, was shot and killed by A. c..
Snipe, Monday night. According to the
story of Jim Stewart, a colored boy, who
attends a bar kept by Snipe on the
suburbs at Liberty, Smith got into a
w~rangle with some women who live
opposite the bar room, and Snipe went
over to quell the disturbance. Smith
became offended at this interference and
Snipe left, returning to the bar room.
Shortly after Smith followed. The col
ored boy who knew him pursuaded him
to 90 off, but shortly after he returned
and bantered Snipe to come out. Snipe
declined to go out, saying that he did
not care to be beat up with brass knucks,
which it seems Smith wore, and warned
Smith not to enter the door. Snipe stood
inside, near the counter, with a British
bulldog pistol in hand. Smith assembled
the few steps between the ground and
the door and as he did so Snipe fired,
the ball entering the right breast just
above the nipple. He fell back upon
the walk and died in a few minutes.
Snipe surrendered himself.
A BIG FIRE.-Last Friday night about
eleven o'clock fire was discovered in the
second story of the Buxton d Lemly
block on Liberty street, which originated
it seems in a wood closet on the second
floor. The Winston and Salem fire com
panies were promptly on the ground,
and, after hard work, succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the flames. The military
company was also called out to protect
property taken from the building.
The second story was occupied by Mrs.
Marlborough as a boarding house, also by
some families. Mrs. Yarborough's loss
in furniture, &C., is about $780,
The ground floor was divided into
four store rooms occupied respectively
by Valentine, the %auctioneer, whose loss
is between $4OO and $500; Perkins,,
grocer, whose loss is between $500 and
81 ,OOO-no insurance on either; Winkler,
baker, confectioner, &C., occupied third
room, loss small: Stewart, the timer,
occupied the fourth, in which was also
a restaurant in the basement. Stewards
loss is small, covered by insurance.
The loss on the building is estimated
at $1,000, insurance 81 1900.
A suspicion exists hat the fire was
the work of an incendiary.
Found DEAp.-The lost girl, Mary
Kreeger, of whom we made mention a
couple weeks ago, was found dead last
Thursday, in a ravine Adopt a hundred
yards from the house which she left on
the morning of her disappearance She
was found lying in a s~maHfpring branch,
concealed i'm a small gully arched
over by briars. She mast have dled
from hunger and exposure as there was
not water enough i'm the branch to
drown her. At one time i'm the search
for her, her father stood within hive feet
of the place where her body was found,
but this concealed gully escaped his eye.
RECORD OF TEMPERATURE.-The follow
ing is a record of the temperature up to
the 18th inst, taken at Ashcraft q
Owens drug store by a Signal Service
thermometer. Time, II IN: