The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-04

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A colored boy giving the name of Mike
Howell, was sent to all last Friday on the
| charge of placing Instructions on the track
of the w. & w. r R., above Hilliard,
that morning. says the Burgaw Herald.
The landmark says that Mr.. John
Barnard, of Eagle Mills township, IredeIl
county, fell from his wagon and the horses
| SHE'D and run the front wheel over his
leg and broke it between the ankle and
knee.
1t is learned that George W. Childs
and Samuel J. Randall own large blocks
of the stock in the new bank which has
Just been established at Winston under
the name of "The Peoples National
Bank"
A Farmers Institute was held at Colds
boro last week. Commissioner Robson,
Prof. =. R. Chamberlain, and Prof. W. F.
Massey, each of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, of Raleigh, deliVerd
ADDRESSES. IS
We learn from the Chatham Record
that the grand jury of Durham county
recommended that the keeper of the poor
house be removed at once, on account OF
cruelty and Encouragement. He was
bounced. . w.
We learn from the Salisbury Herald
that MI. Thos Thomas, ofeFranklin town
ship, Rowan county, lost two barns from
fire a few days ago. One of the barns
was filed. with clover hay, which was
burned, alsoa
Here is the way the Carthage BLADE
expresses it: Delinquent subscribers
are hereby warned not to allow their
daughters to were this paper for a hustle,
as there is considerable dew on it and
they might take cold"
Sim Lowry, a son of the ono notorious
outlaw, Steve Lowry, of Robson county,
was killed at Maxton on the night of the
26th ult., by a policeman. Lowry was
drunk and resisted arrest and attempted
to cut the officers throat.
The Charlotte NeWs says that two
Mecklenburg physicians will be before
the next Superior court there for practic-
ing medicine without having REGISTERED
with the clerk of the court in conformity
with a law of the last Legislature.
Five men, George Hendly, Samuel
Cules, Thomas Emory, Joseph Falls, and
Eugene Moore, were killed in Wilkes
county last week by the premature explo-
sion of a blast. They were working on
the new railroad from Winston, to Wilkes
boro.
We will give it up. Chatham beats the
world. The Record a that an extra
train will be run from Moncure to Pitts
boro during the first three days of court.
Is it possible hat the jockeys are going
to haul their prancing steeds in every
morning and back that night?
The plant and good will of the Green's
boro Patriot has been bought by Messrs
R. L. Bethel and W. N. Scales. Col.
Jno. G. Upton, one of the ablest news
paper men in the State, will be a mem
Der of the staff. 1t is a frst-class paper
and we wish it abundent success.
The residence Of Mr.. W. G. Hornaday,
Of AIamance, was burned last Wednes-
day. There was several boarders in the
house and some Of them narrowly escaped
with their lives. Several saved nothing,
not even clothing. The Cleaner says
there was So 900 insurance on the house.
The Washington, N. G., Gazette devotes
a column editorial to his Excellenoy, Gov.
Fowle, because he has refused to pay the
Gazette for a years subscription to that
paper. The Gazette thinks that a Cover
nor with $4,000 salary, and free passes
in his pocket, ought to pay for his own
county paper.
Old man Robert Watson, of Johnston
county had been guarding his daughter
three nights, but Mr.. G. E. Thompson
stole her and carried her to the woods
until he could procure a license and a
preacher. The Greensboro Patriot don't
say SO, but we hope they succeeded in
getting married.
Messrs. B. R. Smith and Harrison
Watts, of Charlotte, have just been paid
$42, 900 by an insurance company. The
Renwood cotton mill, in CASTOR county,
was owned by them and was burned last
September. The Charlotte News says the
total insurance was $4,000, but for some
reason the company refused to pay.