The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-02

II Is IepoTIeu InaC silver ore IN paying
quantities is found On the premises of Mr..
M. P. Vaughn, near Prices Store Rock
ingham county also mica in large sheets.
Southport Leader: Edward Howard,
sono OF MI. Wash Howard, Of Bay Branch,
this County, a ,cidentally and fatally shot
himself while out cunning last Saturday
Mr.. P. D Price will build a packing
house on Hunter street, near the ware
house, and a plug factory near Merchants
Hotel, on the r. s. S. railroad Madison
Leader.
New Berne Journal: We learn from
farmers that cotton is damaged consider
ably by rust, especially on light land
The wet weather a week or two ago
caused it.
MI. Jack Lackey, of Stokes county,
committed suicide by shooting himself
with a rifle last week. 1t is reported
that his wife was jealous of him and made
his life miserable.
Mora than fifty new buildings have
been put up in Morganton within the last
year. Some of these are very handsome
structures, costing from eight thousand to
ten thousand dollars.
Tie Charlotte Ncws says that a tramp
who had been stealing a ride, jumped
from a train as it ran into the depot there
last week and knocked off ore knee cap.
and got bruised up generally.
Oxford Day.: Grand Master of Masons,
S. H. Smith, has postponed the me citing
of the directors of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum, for the election of a successor to
DR.. Dixon, until September I'd.
Nj. R. K. Steel, a well-known photo
grapher at Statesville, was found dead in
bed in that place one morning last week.
He had been sick with typhoid fever, but
was supposed to be out of danger.
The Concord Standard says: Chalmers
Sims is making an incubator. He has
not finished it yet, but the probabilities
are that he will soon be turning cut young
chickens much faster than the old way.
Mrs. Jane E. Harris, relic of the late
William Shakespeare Harris, of Poplar
Tent, Cabarrus county, died quite sud
IDENTITY OF her home on the 22d inst, aged
about IS. A good lady has gone to
rest.
Mr.. lack Groome lost a barn of very
fine tobacco on last Tuesday night by fire.
The fire is supposed to have originated
from a defective hue, The barn and the
tobacco is a total loss, says the Greensboro
Patriot.
We learn from the Greenville Reflector
that they had a cutting scrape in that
town recently between a white man and
a negro. Mr.. VIM. Kinsaul was the name
of the white man. The negro was Bob.
| Johnson.
Mount Airy News: Rev. W. s. Greasy,
D. D., of Wilmington, preached in the
Methodist Church in this place asst Sun
day night to an immense cation.
The sermon was delivered with power
and effect.
The negro woman, "Aleck" Morton,
who was arrested two weeks ago for kill
ing Julia Morton, was tried before Judge
Armfeld, at Kinston, last week and was
convicted and ser fenced to be hung o.
tober 18th.
A negro boy was found locked in a
box car of a train which arrived yester-
day from Fayetteville on the G. F. & Y.
V. railroad. He was arrested and taken
to the city prison to await development.
= WILMINGTON Star.
The Asheville Citizen says "the Whit
tier lands" in Swain county, $1,000 acres,
and the finest body Of timbered land in
North Carolina, have been sold to Messrs
G. E. Graham, Matt Atkinson and ]. M
Thrash, of Asheville.
The jury in the case of Sheriff Hoskins,
of Guilford county, who was charged
with negligence in allowing Lige Moore
to escape from Greensboro Jail some
months ago, returned a verdict of no
guilty last Tuesday.
VIM. Suits, who was convicted a few
months ago upon the charge of receiving
stolen goods, has been turned over to the
officers by his bondsmen and lodged in
jail to await the next term of court, says
the TOin- City Daily.
Mr.. Jno. L. Rollins tells us that he has
a gourd vine which has covered two cribs,
a stable, and a wagon shelter, and is
almost On the hen house. 1t is full of
gourds which will hold from a half bushel
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