The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-17

was very badly hurt in a runaway acct
dent last Saturday. H. attelnp n,g to
jump from the buggy he was caught, and
was ragged for a considerable distance
aleu- She road. h il j~aries are painful,
bat not dangerous, say the Charlotte
NeWS.
Tarboro Souherner: James Ruffn,
who, by the wa,, is an excellent farmer,
when ASKED how the crops were said,
Cotton is sinking" He explained the
reporters ok of wonder by saying that
when cotton grew it always gave an oder.
This is something new to the agricultural
editor.
Miss Nicely, a daughter of Mr.. D.
Harris, Of Ri Dorado, we learn is araving
maniac. Some four or five years ago
Miss arris went ~deranged, was sent to
an asylum and after receiving treatment
there a short time was pronounced well
and returned home, so we learn from the
Troy Wdette.
Murfrees0oro Lndeu: W. H. Browns
prize acre cf corn at Menola, planted the
18th of April, is said by a man who has
just been through seven counties to be
far better than any other he has seeo.
1t is six feet high, and looking across the
rows it appears to be a solid mass of
living green.
We learn from tie Wadesboro LnteUi-
g ncer that Walter Crowson, a young son
of Mr.. 7. S. Crowson, fell from a honey
suckle frame TuesdayIevening and struck
his head against the edge of Mr.. Crow
sons plaza, inaicting a severe scalp
wound. He was painfully, but not
seriously hurt.
The Greensboro Patriot says: Last
week Charles Moore, a carpenter who
moved here from High Point a few weeks
ago, took advantage Of the absence Of his
wife, who was on a visit to her parents
at High Point, sold furniture and every
thing else in the house and ran away
with the proceeds.
The Greensboro Patriot learns that a
party of revenue officers made a raid in
Stokes and Surry counties recently and
destroyed seven blockade stills. They
were fred on in one place near Danbury
and one Of the men, Rube Murrow, was
shot in one leg slightly and his horse
wounded. The officers returned the fire.
Smi,hield Herald: If the present
prospects for a bountiful harvest are real
lied in autumn, it will be a glad time
among the farmers. -- Died, at his
home, in Ingram's township, Johnston
county, May Both, 1890, Mr.. Sidney
Adams, in the 85th year of his age. He
was one of t e oldest ard best citizens.
Dallas Eagle: We are glad to learn
that the stand of cotton is generally very
good this year. - Farmers are harvest
ing. Wheat is not good. A splendid
prospect for cotton and corn. - A
little son of Mr.. Aleck Helms was bitten
by a spider last Friday and became
seriously i'll. At last accounts he was no
better.
North Carolina has splendid climate
and the fact should be widely known. 1t
is interesting to. note that the mean
temperature of the State, 59,5 degrees, is
exactly the average temperature, showing
that we occupy climatically an intermedi-
ate position between North and South
c.. F. Herman, Meteorological Experiment
Station.
Scotland Neck Democrat: A colored
man named Tom Harmon, who has been
affected some time by some mental de-
rangement, left his home in town last
Friday and went to Mr.. Ed. Shields
plantation near Braswel's. His wife sus-
pecting something wrong followed him.
and when he reached the we'll on the
farm he jumped into it and tried to drown
himself, but was rescued without serious
injury.
The Newton Enterprise says: Those
who sowed clover seed with their wheat
last fall have a very serious problem or
their hands. The winter and spring have
been so mild that the clover has grown
as rapidly as the wheat, and now the
clover blossoms owe top the wheat heads
1t is impossible to separate the whea
from the clover and most people art
moving it all down together and making
feed Of it.
Winston Daily: Three prisoners dice
at the stockade on the R. & S. Road, neal
Mayo river, a few days ago. 1t is learned
that two of the convicts at another stock
ade are dangerously i'll. - Captain