The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-28

association to be known as the Police
Brotherhood of North Carolina, and the
first meeting will be held in Wilmington
next June.
Monroe Register: A sufficient number
of names have been secured to organize
an endowment rank of Knights of Pythias,
and the charter of this rank is expected
in a few days.
Statasville Landmark: There is a yell
low Jackets nest on the farm of Mr.. Will
liam Johnston, near Mooresville, which is
estimated to be three feet in diameter and
fourteen inches high.
Durham Datly Globe: Herndon, charged
with the murder of Sis" Meacham, was
returned to this city last night, in irons,
at IL o'clock. He was placed in Jail,
where he still remains.
Durham says she's booming and will
soon have a $3.50 graded school build
ing and a $4,000 hospital, both to be
donated by young men of that city. She
also wants a new hotel.
Waynesville Courier: Mike Smith, a
married man living in Haywood, eloped
with a sixteen year-old girl, leaving his
wife and two children. The girl had
been living in his family.
The Concord Standard reports that one
of the cats sent it from China last year,
and which ran away some time ago, has
at last reached its far-of home. That
beats any fish lie this season.
Charlotte News: The Charlotte cotton
compress has been doing some big work
lately. In ten hours Saturday 926 bales
were compressed, and of that number sos
were compressed in five hours.
Tarboro Southerner: Those who tried
tobacco this year will increase their
acreage next season and many, encouraged
by the success of their neighbors, will
start into it's cultivation in 1891.
Murfreesboro Mden: Capt. George A
Hussey, owner of the Steamer Tahoms
has established a st, amboat line from
Murfreesboro to Edenton, Connecting
with the Norfolk and Southern Railroad
We understand that our townsman,
Mr.. W. E. Hege, has a pear tree that has
a second crop of well developed pears or
it. He also has a second crop Of grapes
from the same vine, says the Davidson
Dispatch.
Charlotte Chronicle: Alex. Williams
a negro, shot his brother-in-law, a youth
this afternoon, killing him Instantly. Nc
motive is assigned fol the deed, as Alex
fled. The weapon u>ed was a small
revolver.
A nego named Williams, s~on-in-law o.
Charlie Malloy, who lives on Mr.. d. A
Pattersons place in Richmond county shot
and killed Curtis Malloy a son of Charlie
Malloy colored last Friday morning, says
he R~obesonian.
Wilson AdUance: Many of our farm.
ers are troubled to get their cotton picked
out. There is a great deal more in the
fields ready for picking. The crop il
Wilson county this year will surprise oul
people no little.
Greensboro Workman: A brief note
from Mr.. o. R. Cox, Of Cedar Falls, an.
nounces the death of the venerable Pete
Julian, an elder brother of the late Jesse
Julian, who died a mon h or two ago il
South Gre ensboro.
It is rumored that the r. & D. Gem
pany will complete a through line be
tween Raleigh and Cincinnati via Winston
and Bristol, Tenn. The Wlkesboro RoaC
will be extended from that place to Bris
tol, through the Blue Ridge.
We learn frow the TVjn- City DAHL
that bud" Riggs got into a row Satur
day with several negroes in the woods il
East Winston when knives and bottle
were used promiscuously. Riggs cam,
out with a badly bruised head.
Last Wednesday night, at a corn shuck
ing at Geo. Keen's Esq, near Four Oaks
two negroes, Henry and Nathan Scott
brothers, became involved in a fight which
resulted in the former cutting the latte
seriously and probably fatally.
A Gentleman from Surry county in
forms US that two negroes got into
difficulty near Mt. Airy Saturday nigh
which resulted in one named lucky get
ting shot in mouth. The wound is con
sidered serious, says the Turin City Daily
The Reidsville Weekly tells the follow
ing: An old man in the southern par
of town filed himself with popskul
whiskey last Sunday and run his family