The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-17

the two boys who were drowned at
Beaufort were recovered and the funerals
took place on Wednesday. The sad
event cast a gloom over the entire COM
munity
Franklin Press: Mr. Geo. A. Jacobs
has a one-year-old lamb Of the Cotswold
and Shropshiredown breed from which
he clipped a fleece weighing III pounds
" after washing and ready for the
machine.
Durham Globe: Burlington academy
the preparatory school Of Trinity Col
lege for Durham district, will be opened
at Burlington on the 18th of August,
under the management of Prof. w. E.
Ormond.
A little son of Mr.. Philip Drum, of
Mountain creek township, Catawba
county, while hoeing corn, found a mug
get Of gold weighing % penny weights
and worth about $25, says the Newton
Enterprise.
R. F. Warren, of Wilmington, has re-
ceived from the United States govern
ment, a medal for gallant and heroic con.
duct in saving life at Wrightsvllle beach
last summer There is $76 worth of gold
in the medal.
Winston Daily: A postal from our
correspondent at Germanton informs US
that Miss Lizzie Poindexter, of that place,
VINO was stricken with paralysis last
Thursday, died at 2 o'clock this (Thurs-
day. morning.
Deputy Collector Hall, with a party of
raiders captured and destroyed an illicit
distillery with 800 gallons of beer, forty
gallons of low wines, and eight ferment-
ing stands, in Turn Bull Swamp, in Cum
berland county.
Greensboro Workman DR.. r. K.
g. egory went to Washington yesterday.
His business was, he said, to get a patent
on a tobacco stemmer. He thinks he
has a stemmer that will revo' utionize the
stemming process.
The negro Stephen Cathey, who fred
out of his front door and killed his nephew
"iust for fun " at High Point about two
weeks ago was convicted of manslaughter
at Guilford Court and sent to the peni-
Tertiary for four years.
The Western North Caroznian says:
As an evidence of the law abiding quail
tiles of the people of Pennsylvania county
we would state that there is not a prisoner
in our county Jail. This is a pretty good
showing don't you think?
John Robinson, Esq, Commissioner of
Agriculture, and Prof. Massey, of the
Agricultural College, will devote their
time during the months of July and
August in holding farmers institutes in
the Western part of the State.
We learn from the Greensboro Patriot
that Mr.. V. H. Hiles, the railroad con-
trac :or who is supposed to have absconded
leaving debts behind to the amount of
several thousand dollars, has come back
and says the debts will be paid.
The Newton Enterprise says that Mr..
Joe. Monday, of Denver, found squares
on his cotton on The first day of June.
Last year on the same day his cotton was
killed by frost. Mr.. John Sigmon, of
this place, also reports cotton squares.
{ Reidsville Review: Sam Watkins, a
worthy colored man and basketmaker by
lrade, who lives not far from here, had
the misfortune to lose his house by fire.
A good quantity of provisions as well as
{ all his household furniture was consumed.
While on his way home from Whining
e ton on last Tuesday, Mr.. Louis J. Mills
was robbed by a negro. After knocking
Mr.. Mills down and robbing him, the
negro hen cut him severely with knife
| and then made off. Mr.. Mills is quite an
t old man.
Statesville Landmark: The idea of
an Ex-Governor of the great and dignifed
State of North Carolina as a township
= census enumeration is a right comical one,
e but we have that spectacle and the Hon.
Curtis Hooks Brogden, of Wayne, is the
gentleman.
Raleigh Visitor: Col. John Robinson,
Commissioner of Agriculture, said to- day
S that he has never seen cotton and corn
improve so much as it has in the last few
days in all his life; that from present
E prospects there must be abundant crops
made this year.
Mount Olive Telegram: Mr.. Simon
Herring and aged citizen of this section
: dided last Friday night, aged 70 years.