The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-29

the leg of a boy who was in the wagon
Greensboro Workman.
The steeple of the M. E. church, South,
at Wilmington, has been competed and is
one hundred and thirty-fve feet high.
The auditorium will be finished and ready
for service the first of June.
Two liquor dealers in Laurinburg have
| said they will close their bars and discon-
tinae their business if their church mem
Der customers will pay them up so they
can cancel their Indebtedness.
Governor Fowle has authorized j G.
McRea aud George II. Brown to exchange
courts. Judge McRea will hold the
spring term of Richmond court and Judge
Brown will hold that Of Wayne.
franklin Times: Irish potatoes are
coming up in the gardens, and a neigh
Dor informs us that the bugs have beer
sitting in the cracks of the fence for two
weeks waiting for the potato tops to peep
out.
The Democrat says that the stores of N.
B. Josey & Co., and j. 81. Lawrance, of
Scotland Neck, were entered by burglars
a few nights ago and the safes were badly
battered up, but they f lied to break them
olrn.
The Fayetteville Observer learns that
the planning mills of Mr.. 2. B. Newton,
of Beaver Creek, Cumberland county,
were destroyed by fire a few days ago.
The fire is supposed to have been acct
dental.
7. w. Beckett, of Wake Forest College,
has been chosen to deliver the annual ora
tion before the societies of the White
Oak Grove High School, Moore county,
N. G.. we congratulate the school on its
selection.
We learn from the Scotland Neck
Democrat that a negro boy named Sandy
Mcguire shot and killed another boy
by the name of Simon Bradley a few
days ago near Crowells. The shooting
was accidental.
The Dispatch says that Capt. Frank
Smith, of Davidson county, has a two
year-old colt that tips the beam at $40
pounds. That is pretty good for colt of
that age. North Chrolina is a good coun-
try for fine horses, anyway
The Concord Standard says: The con-
tract for carrying the mail from the post
Office to the depot has been let to Brown
Bros, for the sum of $l78 a year. For
the same service Ed Hall got for several
years $3.50. This is what competition
does.
A difficulty occurred at Oxford on
the night of the 21st between two colored
men, Dick Lands and John Young.
Young struck Lands on the head with a
beer bottle, inficting a wound from
which Lands died about ten o'clock
Sunday night.
Edward N. Butler, of Sampson county,
was shot on the 18th inst. from ambush
by his l5-year old son Avery, and died
on the 18th. Cause revenge for a severe
whipping by the father for the sons aid
ing his sister in running away to get
married The boy is in Jail, having con-
fessed his guilt.
The Shelby 1urora has a level head at
the helm. 1t says: To point a pistol or
gun, loas}od or u~nloaded, in fun or anger,
is a mi>desIeanor and by law is made an
assault, under chapter 527 of the law of
North Carolina, 1889 Let all such fools
beware, foT the assault is punishable by
fine or Imprisonment, or both.
Concord Standard: Jim Canady, the
negro who was arrested here sometime
ago for burning Mack Dry's barn in Stanly
county, and in whose possession were
found so many keys to stores in this place,
was tried at the Stanly court last week,
and convicted OF burning the barn. He
was sentenced to ten years in the peni-
touNAdIy'
Concord Stamdard.: If the State ever
sees 6t to build a~n.asylum for deaf brutes,
put down CabarrRs for one patient. ESQ
Goodnight of Nos has a pig about eight
months old that is totally deaf. Proof of
it is that he can't hear the Squire when
he calls them to feed When he misses
his companions he makes a break for the
slop trough.
The Lincoln Courier says that J. G.
Warlick is making a basket of every
variety of wood grown in North Carolina,
to be exhibited at fairs in this State and
at the Worlds Fair. Mr.. Warlick saws
he would be glad to have a piece of wood,
say four inches long, IL inch wide, IA
inch thick, taken from each courthouse