The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-08

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The exclusive saw, lumbe planning
and grist mills Of May & Co., at Spring
Hope, IN Nash county, were totally de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon.
Tie loss is very heavy. There is no
insurance.
Monroe Register: Some notices, signed
" White Caps" and directed to the town
authorities, in reference to some ~nuisances
which are claimed to exist, were found
posted in various parts of the town yester-
day morning.
Tarboro So, herner: The reporter has
been informed that the bridge across the
Roanoke river will be completed to-mor-
row and tt al trains will be running on
the Norfolk and Carolina Railr ad on
Tuesday next.
Shelby Aurora: The Shelby Baptist
church will be dedicated on Friday, the
22nd day of May.-Shelby voted to
have electric lights and an agent of one
of the four electric light companies was
here last week.
Rev. J. W. Carter, Of Raleigh, will de-
liver the Literary Address at toe COM
mencement of the Chowan Baptist Female
Institute in June, and Rev. J.. ". Hundley,
of Tarboro, will preach the sermon to the
graduating class.
Lee Carver was killed by Frank P.
Broadway in Davidson county last week.
Carver had circulated damaging reports
concerning Broadway's wife is said
to have been the cause of the difficulty.
The slayer escaped.
The Tyro correspondent of the Licking
ton Dispatch says: "Last Thursday,
while fooling with a pistol, John Williams,
near Tyro, shot himself in the knee. 1t is
though by his physician that his leg will
have to be amputated.
Maxton Upion: The following Direc-
tors for the Maxton Manufacturing Com
pany were elected last Thursday night
J. G. McLaskilI, A. J. Burns, O. H.
Blocker, B. F. Mclean, E. S. Lathrop, E,
McRae and John Leach.
Elizabeth City Economist: The oyster
shuck business in this town is on a boom
Canning succeeds shocking, and Mr..
Zimmerman is putting up a large building
on his wharf for a Baltimore house to
establish an oyster cannery.
Monroe Enquirer Express: On last
Thursday a little two-and-a half year old
daughter of John A. Long was playing
near the wash-pot, when her clothes
caught fire, and she was so badly burned
that she died on Friday night following.
New Berne Journal: The trial OF
Mordecai Hudson for the killing of Capt
James D. Wescott last November, at
Trenton, was begun at Trenton on Tuesday
morning., and Hudson was sentenced by
the Judge to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
The Rockingham county Jail, at Went
worth, was destroyed by fire a few days
ago. 1t is thought that the prisoners SET
fire to the jail, hoping 10 escape. None
of them escaped, however, and all OF
them were carried to Greensboro and
placed in jail.
Raleigh Ne,Os and Observer: The cot
ton factory building is entirely completed
with the exception of putting down one
layer of one of the double floors, which is
now going rapidly forward. The ma
chinery is arranged and will be placed il
petition shortly.
The Charlotte Chronicle states that the
members of the Alliance and citizens
generally have assisted Mr.. Gallant, Of
Mecklenburg, since his loss by fire. They
have already began tie erection of
house and barn on the site of those
burned last week.
Chas, E. Springle, of Carteret county
was arrested in Wilmington Friday, on
an indictment from Carteret Superior
court charging the young man with Sc
daction. Springle's father deposited $500
as security for his sons appearance at
the next term of court.
Lenoir Topic: On Wednesday night,
March 26, the barn and stables of Mr..
Albert F. Estes, who lives on Mulberry,
were burned and, besides the loss of the
building and forage, a valuable mule be-
long ng to Mr.. Joseph Webb, Mr.. Estess
son-in-law, was burned up.
1t is said that after the execution of
Davis, at Pittsboro last week, the old
English custom was carried out. That is
the body of Davis was cut down by the
friends of Horton, the murdered man, and