The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-12-18

We hope that the letter recently
written to the Philadelphia Record by
Mr.. r. NJ. Wilson, Agent Immigration,
calling attention to the healthful and tenn
perate climate of North Carolina, not only
for winter, but all-the-year-round-resi-
dence, viii bring us many visitors. If
they come once, they will ONE again.
If they come often, they will come to
stay. We want neighbors and not labor
ers, unless those laborers are laborers in
the best sense of the word hat is in which
all our white people are, in fact
We greatly regret to learn that the
gin house of Mr.. J. B. Oliver, at Mt.
Olive, was destroyed by fire on Saturday
night, the Sth inst, together with ten or
twelve bales of cotton. Loss, about
81, 5OO-insurance, $1,000. We learn hat
it was unquestionably the fendish work
of an %incendiary. Mr.. Oliver, We pre-
sumo, has not an enemy among all his ac-
quaintance. He is one of III very best
citizens and we hope the villain will be
ferreted out and made to suffer. This
species of crime is getting to be too COM
NOR in the South and our people will
have to organize some system for the de-
lection and punishment of these scoun-
drels.
We regret to the death OF
Col. R. R. Bridgers, President OF the
Wilmington & Weldon, and Wilmington,
Columbia & Augusta Railroad Companies,
which took place suddenly in Columbia
S. c., on the 10th inst. 1t is said that he
dropped dead while addressing a railroad
meeting. He was about seventy years OF
age and was one of the oldest railroad
men in the State, having been President
of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad
continuously for twenty-five years past.
| He was born in EdgecOmbe county, gradu-
ated at Chapel Hill, and was a member OF
the lower House of the Confederate Con-
gress, and was particularly successful as a
railroad manager. His body was con-
veyed to his home in Wilmington for in
terment.
We call the attention Of all farmers
and planters to the advertisement of the
Messrs. French Bros, in this issue of our
paper, headed, "The Great Discovery
It is a new fertilizer, known as Raw
North Carolina Phosphate and Phos-
phatic Lime, and is manufactured from
the bones and p~etrified teces OF antedl-
luvian animals which is found IN great
abundance on the coast of North Caro-
lima, below the city of Wilmington. The
firm makes great claims for this fertilizer
and refers you to such well-knOwn gentle
men as T. P. Braswell, BattleborO; Fl. L.
Grant. Goldsboro: G. E. Grantham. Gran
tham's Store; J. Fl. Durham, Rocky Point;
G. w. Sanderlin, Boston; and many other
Carolinians who have used it. Write for
circulars containing particulars and testi-
monials.
"A special to the Ns1cs- Observer of
this city gives this narrowing account of
the killing of the two young ladies on the
Western North Carolina Railroad: On
Tuesday afternoon last, Miss Lewis and
Miss Lizzie Byron, of A~lexander's, ten
miles north Of Asheville, went up the rail-
road track to take a walk. The west
bound passenger train came suddenly upon
them as they were crossing a t~restle, and
in trying to escape Miss Byron fell and
became fastened between the cross-ties.
Miss Lewis stopped to extricate her, when
the train rushed from a curve and crushed
them both to death They were torn into
fragments and scattered along the track
and were utterly unrecognizable. Miss
Lewis was the daughter of Sheriff Lewis,
of Halifax county, this State, aged2O years.
She was engaged in teaching school and
Miss Lizzie Byron was one Of her pupils,
aged Is, a daughter of J. R. Byron, of
Burke. formerly of Warren. The scene of
the catastrophe was one mile south of
Alexander's. 1t was witnessed by a man
from the opposite side Of the river.
We see from an item in the Salisbury
Truth, that the survivors OF Company b.,
18th Regiment n. G.. S. IT,, have recently
held a reunion in the town Of Salisbury,
at which a grand Misunderstanding took place.
The writer happens to know that this
mpan was one of the finest bodies of
troops that went into the Confederate SER
vice from the county OF Rowan. 1t was
raised and carried into the service by no
less a person than our present popular
Secretary of State, Col. VIM. I. Saun-
ders, who at that time was a rising Young
member of the Salisbury bar. The COM
pany always occupied the post of honor
on the left flank Of the Regiment, and
when, in time Of action, the skirmish line
required strengthening, Co. B. was in
variably ordered forward" The gal
liant Captain, who was greatly admired
by his men, as well for his bravery as for
the fidelity with which he watched the
best interests of his men, was oon adj
vanced. grade by grade, to the Colonelcy
of the Regiment. The company had three
different Captains during the war, to wit:
W. L. Saunders, N. N. Fleming, of Rowan,
and Frank Wishart, of Robson county.