The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

by killing cattle, destroying fences and
attempting to fire barns. Several assaults
nave also been made on persons who
happened to go on the public roads after
nightfAll. Great excitement prevails in
consequence thereof: -
Mount Airy Me,cs: It begins to look
Ike everybody will soon be engaged in
the mercantile business. New stores are
opening all sTound;--Elkin is growing.
We learn that a new wooden mill is to go
up right away, and that several new
houses, both business and dwellings, are
beirg erected. One double store, two
stories high, has just been completed.
The Durham Sun of the 9Th has the
following story about a sound sleeper and
a burgia1y in that town: "The store
house of Smith & Chisenhall, at Brag-
town, was broken into last night and the
burglars got a pretty good booty. They
took from under the head of Mr.. Chisen-
hall, while he was asleep, the sum Of
$50. No clue to the thief, so far as we
are informed.
The Charlotte Chronicle of the 9th
reports a disastrous freight train wreck
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Road about 10 miles south of that city.
It was caused by a coupling being broke.
Thirteen cars were smashed to pieces and
the merchandise scatterd in every direc-
ton. A colored brakeman was thrown
against a telegraph pole and sustained
serious Injury. No n else was hurt.
The Tarboro Southermer says: owed
nesday of next week the stockholders of
the cotton factory will be asked to in
crease the capital stock $4,000. This
will enable additional machinery to be
put in, which will Increase the production
1925 per cent. and the present cost of
operating 331 8. The reporter is in
formed that there will be no difficulty in
getting this additional stock subscribed"
TIE Durham San says the great tobacco
manufacturing concern of Messrs. w.
Duke, Sons & Co. nave sold their plant
as in fact all other large cigarette factories
in the country-to the American Tobacco
Company, which has a capital Of $25, OOO,-
00O, to continue the same business. The
Durham factory will be continued under
the old management, which will be re-
+nsrnI onA ~ nil hn a hrarah NF Tho
American Company. The name of the
firm, which has become world wide, will
also be retained.
Asheville Democrats Some fine speci-
mems of gold were taken from the Hearne
and Hathcock mine last week. One of
the hands told US that the mine was get
ting just rich enough. A force of twenty
eight hands are now at work at this mine,
1.-The French Broad Valley Railroad
has given a mortgage deed to the Central
Trust Company, of New York, to secure
the loan of one million, five hundred
thousand dollars ($l,5OO OOO), to be used
in the construction and equipment Of the
French Broad Valley Railroad.
J. M. Kelly, of ,Jonesboro township,
brought some metal to this Office this
week, that has every ear mark of plati-
mum. This metal is found in a vein of
blue quartz five feet in diameter on Mr..
Kelly's farm and he says there is an
abundance Of it. Platinum is darker
than silver, is the heaviest of all metals
and resists the action of all acids. Mr..
Kelly applied nitric acid to particles of
metal and no reaction took place. He has
sent some of the quartz bearing this
metal to State Chemist Battle .-Santord
Express.
Who invented the first telephone2 If
this question is asked in any audience in
our land, the answer will be Edisonl Yet
this is not true, for the first telephone
used in the United States was invented
by DR.. James Davis, of Fayetteville. He
also invented the first monograph. This
matter was fully ventilated some years
ago in the Fayetteville Gazette. The
original models are yet in the possession
of DR.. Davis daughter. DR.. Davis was a
native of Philadelphia, but resident in
North Carolina for a long period prior to
his death.-ScotGsh Chief:
Charlotte Chronicle: W. W. Irvine
was painfully hurt yesterday morning, in
the foundry of the M~ecklenburg Iron
Works. Mr.. Irvine attempted to turn
over a heavy car coupling that had just
been cast. The part which he had hold
of broke, and he fell backwards upon
some rough casting, which cut five large
gashes in his thigh. No blood vessels
were severed James Griffin, a boy
apparently about Is years of age, had his
collar bone broken last night, in jumping
from a train. Griffin boarded the delayed
train on the Air Line Road last night, at
Kings Mountain J. L. Regain, of
Lowell, successor to the firms of Arm