The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-15

a. a. AySOn drought TWO On SATURDAY.
They were tremendous and unusually
fine for the season, says the Greenville
Reflector.
Charlotte Chronicle: Fifty-o~e head
of mules, belonging to the Richmond and
Danville Railroad, left here yesterday for
work on the grading of the grounds for
the cotton compress to be erected at the
junction.
Six Charlotte gentlemen have just COM
pleted the purchase of 300 acres Of land
adjoining the ity. 1t will be improved,
laid out in lots and sold. twenty-five
acres, however, will be reserved for a
public pax.
Durham Globe: The verdict Of the
~coroner's jury, over the body of the col
ored boy who was found on the river
bank near Red Mountain about four days
ago, was that he came to his death oy
Intentional drowning.
Near Madison, Monday, Fanny Dur
ham, a notorious colored woman, was
visited by a party of masked men, who
threw a guano sack over her head and
beat and kicked her nearly to death. Sic
is not expected to live.
Mrs. Lynch, wife of J. P. Lynch, at
Iron station Wednesday, was killed by
lightning. A four-year- old colored child
was killed at the same time. Mrs. Lynch
was twenty-five years old, and had only
been married four months.
On the 18th of June Mrs. Nancy Gragg,
aged 83, widow of a Revolutionary pen
sioner, died at her home a few miles above
Collettsville. She was a sister of Enoch
Cofey, the famous bear hunter of Johns
river, says the Lenoir Topic.
The Winston Daily, of the 9Th inst,
contains the following item: A heinous
crime was committed in Franklin county
yesterday. A negro man named Chas.
Fuller assaulted and violated the person
of a young lady. He is at large.
Mr.. Frank Irwin says that tobacco is
looking we'll and hat the prospects for a
good crop are most encouraging indeed.
He has talked tobacco sticks to the
farmers over a wide range of territory
lately, says the Reidsville Weekly.
Oxford Ledger: Old Granville is not
behind by any means on increasing the
population. Mrs. w. F. Hart, presented
her husband with three bouncing boys on
Monday, and we are pleased to learn that
Mrs. Hart and the boys are doing well.
Goldsboro Argus: Heavy shipments
of logs are now being made constantly
over the A. & N. G. Railroad from down
the line, to the extensive lumber mills of
the Enterprise Lumber Company of this
city, whose business is simply immense.
A little three-year- old colored boy fell
into a fish pond in Mecklenburg county
on Monday and would have drowned if
Matte, the nine-year-old daughter of
Mr.. G. B. Cross wouldn't have plunged
into the water and brought him to land.
Dan White, a notorious counterfeiter,
and three other U. S. prisoners, went
from Raleigh to the penitentiary last
week. They were in charge of United
States Marshals J. B. Hill and j. R. Up,
church and w. A. Woodall, of the police
force.
Rutherford Banner: On Su 1day, June
22d, Mr.. Charley Smith was married to
Miss Jane Smith, both of Henrietta, Rev
Clater Smith officiating, and MI. Grayson
Smith and Miss Maggie Smith were the
walters. The license were approved by
J.. w. Smith.
Winston Daily. No sooner had the
last sad rites been performed over the re-
mains of DR.. T. M. Jones than communi-
cations made their appearance advocating
men to succeed him. 1t is a hard task to
fill the place of this righteous man and
fine disciplinarian.
Laurinburg Times: The Wilmington
Daily Messenger entered a new volume on
Sunday night. The Times considers it as
one of the most enterprising and wide
awake daiIies in the South. There
has not been a vacant dwelling in Louis,
burg in twelve months.
Durham Sun Helen Marshall, a colored
boy, secreted himself in G. Summerfield's
store last evening, and suspecting some
thing wrong the store was visited last
night, and he was found on the inside
with a watch and some jewelcy he was
preparing to get away with.
On MondaJ of last week there was g
disastrous hail storm in a section about
three miles long by one and three-quar-
ter miles wide on the Catawba river, near