The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-08-27

ing arO0nQ the Ja1. ne was nred upOn-
by negroes, receiving ten buckshot in his
face and chest. He was fatally wounded.
The Charlotte Chronicle says Rev.
Henry Montgomery, colored,, while go
ing out of Ed. Anglers cornfeld with q
bag of r-oasting-ears, Friday night, a
dangerously shot by a colored watch
man.
The lynchers in Kentucky have adopt
ed a new style of Furnishing criminals.
Instead of hanging them by the neck in
the usual way, they string them up by
the heels and fill them full Of pistol
balls. -:
As a New York World correspondent,
looking from the vantage ground of the
Isthmus of Panama itself, sums it up,
90, 900 lives and 5000, 900, 600 have been
thrown away on the grand DeLesseps
fasco.
Blondin has accepted a. wager of
$40, 600 to walk n cable from the top
Of the Eiffsl tower to the summit of the
central dome of the main building of
the Paris Exposition in less than five
minutes. -
AUG. 6, 1889.
MEssRs. Ro4srER b SrRUDw1oK, Sirs:-
We have been selling your High Grade
Phosphate for three past seasons and find
that it gives good satisfaction to our Gus
toners. Our sales have continually in
creased. Yours, &c.
IS. Cox & PUGBG
a = Millboro, n. G.
Parson Davies and his protege, Peter
| Jackson, the colored Australian heavy
weight, although booked to sail on the
| Wisconsin, were not on board that
steamship when she sailed for Liverpool
Tuesday.
The, largest railway station in the
world is the terminus station of the
Peninsular railway, Bombay, India, at
which an army of workmen were at
work ten years at miserable wages. It
cost $40, 600, 600.
The schooner Marion Manson, from
Bath, Me-, reports at Baltimore, Md,
that during a severe gale, on August 5,
| two of the crew, John Henderson and
Bernard McKinnon, were swept over
board and drowned. =
Eben S. Allen, late president of the
Forty-second street railroad, New York,
| charged with fraudulent over-issue Of
the company's stock, pleaded guilty.
| By request of the counsel sentence was
deferred until Friday.
It is an astounding statement, but
nevertheless true, that for about eighty
subordinate positions within the gift of
the collector of internal revenue In this
district there we're about two thousand
applicants. - Weldon NeoCS.
The death watch has been placed by
| the sheriff on the five women murderers
in the New York tombs. The men are
Packenham, Lewis, colored, Nolan,
Giblin and Carotid, who are sentenced
to be hanged together August %.
The skeleton of a young woman was
found near Calverton, L. l.. on Satur-
day by a party of berry-pickers. The
bones had evidently lain there for sev-
eral years, and there was no clothing by
which to identify the woman.
DIR. Henry, of Bank Lick, KY, tried
the Brown-Sequard elixir, compounded
by himself, on an old negro, who died
in terrible agony from blood poisoning.
The negroes became so incensed that
Henry was compelled to flee to save his
life.
J. B. Connolly, late clerk of the Supe-
rior Court of Iredell, was found guilty
of -embezzlement of funds belonging to
summerrow last Thursday at States
vile. He was, sentenced to the p~eniten-
tiary for two years. The case was APP
pealed. :
James Petrie, employed at Fenn's
shoe store. New Haven, Conn.,, is suffer
ing from q severe attack of blood poi
soning, which caused by wearing q
brass collar button The poison is ex-
tending it's course all the way around
the neck.
]. Davenport, the sawyer at Parsley
& Virgins mill. at Wilmington, caught
his sleeve between the band and pulley
of the circular saw, and was hurled
around the revolving pulley. His body
was badly mangled and he died in ff-
teen minutes.
Thirty-eight doctors in Boston were
asked about the heaIthfulness of drink
ing ice water. Sixteen pronounced it
beneficial. Twelve agreed it was very