The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

to learn of his feeble condition of health.
Age, exposure rheumatism have slowed
the t s. tStepe # t IL faithful old pioneer
of the country WGyMeSUiUe
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Asheville has formed a company to
bore for gas. Biologists say there is no
gas IN this country, but Asheville has
push and energy enough to learn the
biologists that they can sometimes be
mistaken. The gas will be used for fuel
and possibly for light WaynesvMe
Courier.
A new gold mine has just ben dis
covered on the land of A. A. Laney not
far from Monroe. The ore appears to
be very r ch. Two pans full of dirt was
washed and an ounce of gold was found.
Others around in the community are turn
ing up rocks, and hunting gold in all
rocky places.
Frank Hanks and Jerry Mabrey, col,
had a serious QUARREL Tuesday morning
at the Hamilton depot. Mabrey struck
Hanks ver the head with a heavy stick,
inflcting an ugly wound. DIR. Baker was
called and reports the wound to be nearly
two inches long and to the bone, says the
Carolina Banner.
Nashville Argonaut: Our farmers hav
ing their time taken up with tobacco
have, as yet, picked out very little cotton.
The fields are white and need picking
badly. - The citizens Of Rocky Mount
are taking steps to secure the erection of
a frst-class building for a male school.
We hope they will succeed.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Mr.. Wesley
Coughenour, the superintendent at Mr..
Allcot's saw mill, near Spring Hill, be-
came engaged in some little difficulty with
a colored man at the mill one day last
week, when the colored man struck Mr..
Coughenour a blow over the head with a
cant hook which came very near killing
him.
From the reports received BY III from
every section of the county, we think
we are justified in saying that something
over an average crop of cotton will be
gathered in Arson this year. Nearly
$4,000 is in sight for the, building and
equipping of the Wadesboro cotton mills.
says the Wadesboro MesSenger-EnteUi
gencer.
We learn from the Greensboro Patriot
that DIR. R. K. Gregory has obtained pat
ents on his new treat ent and bandages
for wounds in this and several foreign
countries. They are already in great de-
maud, DR.. Gregory proposes to organize
a stock company and erect a factory here
for the manufacture of his medicines and
bandages.
Concord Standard: Paul Miller, col
ored, the champion cotton picker in these
parts, picked 304 pounds of cotton onMr
R. E. Gibson's farm yesterday. Paul says
he is going to pick 400 pounds to day.
Some of the cotton that was in town
to-day was wrapped in jute, and some in
cotton bagging, but most of it was in old
secondhand bagging.
Near the mouth of Neuse river, on the
+ south side, b ars are reported very numer-
Gus and troublesome. They have killed
three hogs belonging to MI. W NJ. Lin
coin, and several belonging to three other
farmers in the neighborhood, and aLother
farmer, Mr.. @. 81. Sanborn, is losing hogs
: nearly every day. One of the bears killed
sometime ago weighed $50 pounds
MeWberne Journal.
On Friday night Capt. Jno. Weatherly
., noticed Sandy Brown, a colored man sit
ting on the rails at the depot, drunk. He
= reused him up and ordered him to move
on. On Saturday morning his mangled
body was found lying beside the track
about one mile this side of High Point
1t is supposed he was stealing a ride, anC
going to sleep fell off and was crushed
under. the wheels, says the Greensboro
Patriot.
= Burgaw Herald: II. L. Alderman
killed three turkeys at n shot in his pes
field on Moore's creek. - Rev. O
. Miller closed a successful revival of re
: Hgion at Union Chapel IN Long creek
Fender county, on the 18th inst. Thirty
five penitents were immersed, and eigh
y restored to fellowship. - Some of oul
enterprising citizens are going pretty
, extensively into the truck business mex
season.
: Mr.. John G. Grady, son of GU
countyman Mr.. J. R. Grady, was accidently
killed at the saw mill of his brother Mr.
D. Nc. D. Grady, at a point on the Cap
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