The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-25

preacher, Is TO denver Inc annual AH0l0S
address at the commencement at Wake
Forest College this year.
The Winston Sentinel says that Senator
Ransom held ticket No. 93,262 in the
Louisiana Lottery and that it drew $780,
900. We hear that he has purchased
four large farms on the Roam Ike.
Fire in Clear Creek township, last
Monday night, destroyed a house belong
ing to Mr.. NJ. A. Dulin. The fire is
supposed to have caught from fire in the
stove. No insurance Charlotte Demo
cTat.
There are 26l orphans now in the
Oxford Orphan Asylum. They make
between six and seven thousand dollars a
year by making and selling shoes, brooms,
garden products and running a printing
Office.
On the 18th of February a farmer had.
a load of green hay on the street at Reids-.
vile. It was fresh and luxuriant, andhad
evidently just been cut the day before;
the like was never known before at this
season.
Dock Parker, a mail boy about twelve
years old, has been arrested and confessed
that he robbed a mail bag in Cleveland
county. He robbed the mail of two
registered letters containing about SCI:
He was bound t the next term of the
q. S. Court. "a
A warrent has been received by the
| Sheriff of Wake from Halifax county bv
the Sheriff for the arrest of R. A. Williams,
better known as Peg Leg" The warrant
charges him with abductingo two negro
boys under IA years old.
We learn from the Star that a row oc-
CURED in Wilmington on the night of the
10th between white and negro boys in
front of church during service. The
row stopped proceedings in the church
and the congregation was dismissed.
A gentleman in Fayetteville, writing to
a friend in this city, says that there have
been fourteen deaths among the Oldest
residents of that place within the last
sixty days; the ages of the deceased
averaging 70 years. Wilmington Star.
The Gold Leaf says the little 4-year-
old son of Mr.. 10. Basket, of the vicinity
of Henderson, went with his grandfather,
Tuesday afternoon of last week, to the
new ground, where hands were making .
clearing, and that a tree fell on him and
killed him instantly.
Thomasville seems to be the mining
center just now, and a great many capt.
alists have been there lately making it a
starting point for a visit to Montgomery
county. The outlook for the mining in
terests in this State is more favorable
than it has been for years.
Cross and White will, within the next
few days, be working the public roads of
Wake county, for the terms of five and
seven years. Their last resort has failed,
and the sentence of the court which con-
victed them is to be carried into effect,
and road workers they are to be.
Some one called Wiley Brown, colored
to his door a few nights since and then
fred a load of shot into his leg and made
their escape. The Landmark says that
Wiley is one of the best darkies in
Statesville, and the people there are in
dignant because of the cowardly deed.
The HOa6m- City Daily says that VIM.
Lane, near Walnut Cove, was out hunting
with a rife and on returning home met
up with another gentleman, when the two
stopped and got into a conversation
Lane blew his breath in the muzzle of
his rife whereupon the gun went off, the
ball passing through his own head killing
him instantly.
Mr.. I. M. Shaw, a Mecklenburg farmer,
had n of his legs broken and badly
crushed last week. Mr.. Shaw was riding
on his wagon and stopped the team to
mend part of the harness. In getting
down he placed his hand on one of the
mules and, they starting suddenly, threw
him down and the wagon wheels passed
over n of his legs.
Thieves entered Mr.. w. J. RObinson's
chicken roost. at Derita Monday night and
succeeded in carrying off twenty-eight of
his incest hens. It seemed that, the
rogues carried light, as they were very
particular to pick out the incest chickens
and leave the others. They carried off
all of Mr.. R~obinson's potatoes the same.
MISUNDERSTANDING Times. ~
L. c. OVERLY, who was suspected Of
setting fire to the Harris block several
years ago and found it too warm to linger
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