The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-08

n0Ul"lSi" VI Tie oraih laSI sunday ever
ing.
We learn from the Cherokee Advance
that a little son of MI. J. N. Wilson was
bitten by a rattlesnake a few days ago
and has since died from the effects of the
bite.
Lexington Dispatch: We are informed
that work will be resumed at the Silver
ValIy mine soon. The pumps will be
ready for belching water in eight or ten
days.
MI. John Edwards, of townsville,
Lincoln county, dropped dead at his
home this morning while sitting in a
chair. Heart disease was the cause of
his death.
The warehouses of the Eastern Dispatch
Company and of S. R. Fowler & Son, at
Washington, N. c., were destroyed by
fire on Monday of last week. The loss is
very heavy.
Raleigh Chronicle: Mr.. Peter Francis,
formerly of this city, now Of Peterson g,
Va, has invented an alarm clock, and it
is said that he has been offered $50, O0O
for the invention.
Greensboro Patriot: Mr.. Ben Parker,
a well known and highly esteemed young
man, for many yeas assistant postmaster,
died just after four o'clock this evening,
after a long illness.
The Watauga Democrat tells of the
death in Johnson City, Tenn, June 13,
Mr.. William Rufus Lewis, aformer citizen
of Watauga, by suicide. He took ten
grains of morphine.
We learn from the Statebville Land
mark that Demons & Harding, of Ashe-
vile, nave secured the contract to build
the government building in that town for
the sum of $50, 700.
A freight train was wrecked by a col
lision with another loaded with logs at
Tarboro last week. Seventeen cars were
smashed up pretty badly as we learn from
the Carolina Banner.
The remains of Engineer T install, who
was killed in the wreck neal Saluda,
week before last, were taken to Hender-
%sonville and buried, with Masonic honors,
in Oakdale cemetery.
We learn from the Mountain Post that
Joe Shulls new store on Watauga river
was broken open on last Monday night
and about 5000 worth of goods stolen.
No trace of the thieves.
Beaufort Seaside: Henry Hawkins,
colored, who was LODGE in Jail last week
for the larceny of thirty-ive dollars from
Mathew Chapman, has broken out and is
now in parts unknown.
Mount Airy Mews:: The Ararat Cotton
Mills Company is beng organized. $780,
900 is the amount of capital to be put
into the enterprise for a start. $4,000
has already been secured.
High Point Enterprise: The farmers
in this section are buoyant over the crop
prospects. While there was very little
fruit, and the wheat crop was not so good,
clover and corn was never better.
A hack overturned near Flat Rock last
Friday, severely iniuring Jerry Green, and
on5 b-r;;oo To Mad orJ brool;po +-o
Of Mrs. Stephen Coils ribs and otherwise
i%njuring her, says the Mountain Post.
A Charlotte merchant shut his safe a
few nights ago and accidentally locked
up the Office cat. The safe is a large one
and supposed to be air-tight, but the cat
was alive and well the next morning.
Six Charlotte men have bought 282
acres of land near that city aud will con-
vert 25 acres into a park with a beautiful
lake in it and extend the street car line
and run large electric cars to the park.
Stanly Observer: Fine growing crops
and a water famine seem inconsistent,
but such is the case. Several wells have
about gone dry I'D some persons are
totirg water a distance Of several hundred
yards.
w. J. Myers, of BERTHE county, while
returning home on Saturday from Wind
sor, where he had been to receive a
large sum of money, was waylaid on the
road, beaten very badly and robbed of
over $500.
Asheville Citizen: A Citizen reporter
made inquiry yesterday into the taking
of the census. According to what was
told him more than 60 per cent. of those
interviewed had not been seen by the
enumerator.
Greensboro Patriot: Mr.. G. T. Glass
cock, the well known iron worker, is
erecting a new foundry huildino in SOuth