The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-10
State 5telus.

The famous murder case of Mr..
A. A Owens by his wife and two
negroes, has been removed from
Washington county to Beaufort
county and will be tried here at the
next term of the COURT Washington
Gazette.
A young lady named Dry was
found hanging by the neck dead,
near Big Lick, Stanly county, last
Friday morning. 1t was clear
case of suicide Domestic trouble,
it is said, was the cause of it.-Con-
cord Register.
We learn of a coon being cap
tured the other nj ght upon the neck
of which a brass chain was found so
deeply imbedded in the flesh that
no trace of it could be seen from the
outside and it was discovered after
the animal had been dressed. =
Washington Progress. I
"A colored woman knocked her
child on the head with rock killing
it, and then buried it in branch
last near Ransom's Bridge, Frank
lin county. She was arrested and
carried to Louisburg Jail to await
the penalty of her dastardly crime.
-BattleJ0ro Headlight.
-Ossipe Cotton Mill, of which
Capt JAS. n. Williamson is the pro-
pretor has just received an addition
to it's machinery of 1900 Whiting
gravity spindles, making the whole
number of spindles 5000 This mill
also contains 100 looms and is now
full of machinery-Alomdnce Clean
er.
The news comes to us of
severe hailstOrm at Mt. Olive, this
county, Wednesday afternoon, which
broke windows and filled people
with great wonderment. The stones
were SO large and solid that many
of them were still lying about the
neighborhood yesterday.-Goldsboro
Argus.
Mr.. Nolder, farmer from Pa.
has moved his family to Hickory
with the intention of locating in
this section. He says that he leaves
others behind him who are dissatis-
fed with the high taxes caused by
governmental extravaganza, and
wish to find a home in n. C.-Pied
mont Press.
A pet dog arrived here this
week that was shipped by Express
from San Francisco in a Gagged box.
1t belongs to Lieut.. Henderson, who
purchased him in Peru. The priv
ilage of the old war vessel Shenan-
doah was extended to Jack for
two and a half years.-.SahsbTy
Wdtchmdn.
-Distemperamong horses is prev
alent in this section.-W esley
Rothrock showed us walking stick
which is made of hickory wood and
was owned by his great-grand-father
Peter Rothrock. 1t has been in the
Rothrock family for more than 100
years and will be kept as a family
relic.-,Salem Press .
Last week Mr.. Terrence, Of
Philadelphia, who is president Of
three Railroads, went to Webster to
aid in the opening mineral opera
tions i'm the Kaolin Mine. A rail
road will probably be constructed to
the mine, and thus old Webster will
be connected with the world any
any way WaynesuiUe Neacs.
MIR. w. G. Lewis made an
assignment, Tuesday, Of his
stock of agricultural implements
and Machinery to Messrs. J. III.
White and B. B. Lewes His assets
are about $4,000 and his liabilities
about $500. Inability to realize
on outstanding accounts was the
cause of the assignment.-StotesUille
Landmark.
Mr.. George NJ. Goforth dug his
crop of sweet potatoes last week and
brought the Topic office three speci-
mems of his crop that weighed
together sixteen pounds.--!The
mast, oak, hickory, chestnut, beech
&c, is almost failure and that
aoco,,~%. ovfanf fnr. tho