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

SuHerlng IN parCS o. MecKIenourg prop
ably more than in any other part of the
State at that time.
Sheriff Pritchard and Mr.. Warren
Mitchell, of Mitchell county, attempted
to arrest Avery Parker a. Bakersville a
few days ago.. The sheriff and his assist
ant were fired upon and wounded and
the prisoner was killed.
Concord Times: The house of Mr..
Sandy Gray, near Bethel Church, eastern
Cabarrus, was struck by lightning last
Monday evening, Mr.. Gray sustained
quite serious injury, and his wife and
child were severely shocked.
Edward Pugh, a Randolph county
farmer, while returning from Greensboro
Friday was seriously injured by a run
away mule. His chin and jaw bone was
shattered into splinters and all Of his
front teeth were XII ocked out.
John L. Sullivan passed through Sails
Dry a few days ago and when the train
started from the depot, he threw a hand
full of small coin among the crowd of
small boys who had gathered to see the
champion boxer of the world.
The charter of the Scotland Neck cot
ton mills has been amended so as to allow
the company to manufacture knit goods
as we'll as spin yarns. The machinery
for knitting has been purchased, and a
superintendent has been secured.
The Concord Standard "localizer"
will have to get mrrried. He needs the
refining influence of some good woman
pretty badly. He says it was so hot
there last week that hens were Matching
out whole broods of fried chickens.
The Danbury Reporter ard Post has it
pretty bad. 1t tells that a hog ate up a
grindstone there a few nights ago, and
that there is a man in that town who is
too lazy to go to sleep, also that the ducks
in that vicinity have got the hog cholera.
Sanford Express There are uow about
80 miles of railroad in Moore county and
these roads pay to the county tax fund
about $500. - The cotton crop is more
than three weeks ahead in this latitude
and is larger, better developed and better
fruited.
Washington Progress: At a recent
meeting of the Washington Light Infantry,
Capt. W. H. McDevitt resigned. 1st
Lieut.. J. F. Thomas was elected captain.
7. Harvey Myers was elected LIST Lieut..
and Mr.. W. z. Morton, Jr., was elected
I'd Lieut..
Concord Standard: Boyden Cochrane,
the six-year-old son of Jno. Cochrane,
died Sunday at II m. The little boy was
afflicted with a peculiar disease, which
had eaten holes in his face at several
places. Death was a relief to his intense
sufferings.
Mr.. Thos. j. Wright and Mr.. Jacob
Thompson, both of Chatham county, en-
gagged in an alteration a few days ago.
Mr.. Thompson struck Mr.. Wright on the
head with a wooden bread roller, erysip-
elias appeared in the wound and he has
since died.
Lenoir Topic: There is a general
complaint about a poor stand of corn on
low ground. The mild winter did not
freeze out the cut-worms, which have
been very destructive to the stand in
damp ground, especially where it was
planted late.
The Mountain Post says that two of
Jake Wagoner's sons while in the field
near Valley Crucis at work were rocked
by parties in ambush. One of the boys
was severely hurt. A large crowd turned
out to capture the scoundrels but so far
they have escaped.
A young white man named Robards,
who was serving a term in the peniten,
tiary for burglary, while working on the
Urquhart farm. in Northamton county,
attempted to escape and was fred on by
the guards. He died last Tuesday. He
came from Massachusetts.
Newton Enterprise: The wife of Rev.
J. L Murphy died at Maiden of typhoid
fever last Friday. - Wheat thrashing
is. now progressing in the county. The
new wheat that has been brought to
market is very inferior in quality. The
grains are small and faulty.
We learn from the Graham Cleaner
that while several young men were bath
ing in Haw river, Mr.. Chas. P. Hardin
stepped on a slick rock and fell, striking
his arm against a sharp stone, cutting a
severe cash across his wrist. Some of
the arteries were severed and he bled pro-
fusely.