The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12

heluSNllte, the hlchIlOnd d DanY1Ile last
freight was derailed at Mizpah siding,
through unknown parties breaking the lock
and changing the switch, which ran the
train into an open side track and precipi-
tated the engine, followed by fourteen cars
down a t~Wenty-foot embankment nto a
creek. The engineer saved himself by
jumping from the cab. Fireman Adams
stuck to his post and was buried under his
engine and the cars. Strange to say, after
ten hours Adams was ~excavated, seriously
but not fatally injured, no bones being
broken. The diabolical fiends doubtless in
tended to wreck express train 53, which
passed at $40 p. m. No clue has been
found yet as to who did the deed.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, on the 18th inst, previous to its
adjournment; granted a motion to adj
vance for hearing the case of Charles E.
Cross and Samuel c. White, the default
ing bank officers of this city. The case
has been assigned for. argument on the
third Monday in March next. 1t was
feared by some and hoped by others that
it would be several years before the case
could be reached by the Court, and that
there was a.chance it would die or be for
gotten, but Attorney-Gener Dayidson's
motion to advance it on the. docket has
knocked all such calculations into a
cooked hat. It is said that the Supreme
Court of the United States has1nore BUSH
ness before it now than it can dispose of
IN the next five years.
Hon. Benz. j. Lea, Speaker of the
Tennessee State Senate. was born in Cas-
web county, N. c., 1888; graduated at,
Wake Forest College in 1852, and moved
at once to Haywood1county, Tenn. In
1909 he was sent to the General Assem-
bly,, was an officer in the fftylsecond Ten
nessee Regiment in the war. After the
war was appointed Attorney General Of
the State which office he filed intelligently
and acceptably for eight years, since which.
time he has settled down to farming, and.
one and one-half milesfFom Brownsville
he has one of the most beautiful farms of.
40 acres to be found in the country. He
is so popular with all parties that lie was.
the unanimous choice of both parties for
the Office he now holds-a thing unheard
Of before in Tennessee politics.
In the last issue of the Pittsboro
Home, Mr.. A. H. Merritt, the editor, an
nounces that he has sold the paper. fix
lures, good will, ETC., to Mr.. HI. A. Lon
don, who will merge it into the Chatham
Record and fill out all unexpired snbscrip-
tons and contracts. We regret that the
press of the State istto lose the able and
valuable services of Bro. Merritt, and trust
that he will at least find leisure to con-
tribute an occasional article Republication.
This consolidation will increase and
enhance the value of the Record.
already one of the most popular
weeklies in the State, in that it
will greatly enlarge its circulation and
leave II the emily newspate Hao.ished /.
the great cou of Chathah Our best
wishes attend Il parties to the transac-
ton.
Sunday mornings Charlotte Chronicle
brought the sad intelligence of the death
of Col. Charles R. Jones, late editor and
proprietor of the Charlotte Observer. He
was buried by the the Masons and knights
of Honor, on Sunday last, from St. Peters
Episcopal Church. The Chronicle says:
"Col. Jones had been unwell for several
months. Business reverseS had weighed
heavily on his mind, and his troable had
seriously affected his health. Under the
strain, his mind gave way and on last
Monday, his family physician, H. M. Will
der, who had been called into consultation
with the family and friends, decided it
best that Col. Jones should be removed to
the Asylum at Morganton, in the hope
that the skilled treatment of that institu-
ton would soon restore him. Saturday
was the last day he was seen on the street.
His indomitable will power and excep-
tional energy had really kept him up when
he ought to have been in bed. He grew
steadily worse from Monday, when DR..
Wilder first saw him. His kidneys re-
fused to perform their functions, and
blood poison set in. On Thursday night
he sunk into, a eomatose condition IN
which he remained until death relieved
him yesterday afternoon"
In accordance with previous. an
nouncement, the. State Sanitary Conven-
ton met in this city on Wednesday last,
and was permanently organized by the
election of the following officers: Hon.
A. A. Thompson, Mayor Of Raleigh, Presi-
dent; Hon. J. j. Fowler, of Wilmington,
First Vice-President; Mr.. w. E. Foun-
tain, of Tarboro, Second Vice-President