The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-04

James and Allen Upchurcn, OF 81.
Matthew S township, Wake county, had
a turkey hunt n day last week and
killed six fine wild turkeys. Who can
beat this?
Asheville Citizen: 1t now begins to
look as if the murder of Mrs. Rhoda
Morrison by her husband, Henry T. Nor
rison, was a story manufactured out of
whole cloth.
Mount Olive Telegram: The cotton
crop is the largest ever known in this
section. Our farmers can pay out and
have money enough to buy their supplies
for next year.
We learn from the Twin City Daily
that Mr.. Joseph Clodfelter, of Davidson
county, was taken with a fit while work
ing on the bank of a creek and fell in aud
was drowned.
1t is rumored that a combine has been
made that the freight rate on cotton will
be increased to a dollar a bale from b. re to
Norfolk on the % in t, says the Wash
ington Gazette.
What the Troy Nidette ~pronounces a
Gne quality of bituminous coal has been
found on the Montgomery and Richmond
line. And the indications are that there
is a vast bed of it.
The Concord Standard gives an account
of a fight between Tom Vanderburg and
Tim Fur, both white, in Cabsrrus county
a few days ago. Vanderburg was badly,
perhaps fatally cut.
Durham Globe: Rhodes Herndon
wanted to get out Of Jail on bail and the
regular proceedings were resorted to.
Judge MacR4e heard the ca Q and refused
to grant the request.
The Durham Sun says that Mayor
Angler, of that city, received a telegram
one day last week stating that his son had
been run over by a train at Birmingham
and was seriously hunt.
Washington Progress: There is not
a dw> ling house in town that is not
occupied that we know Of. There are
applications nearly daily for residences
which cannot be furnished.
1t was reported here this morning that
one of the brakemen on the N. & G. Rail
road fell from the top Of a car while the
train was in motion and broke his arm,
says the Tarboro Southerner.
The Parrish building, owned by Mr.. J.
S. Carr, Durham, was burned a few days
ago. 1t was insured for its full value.
Several parties doing business in the
building sustained small losses.
Goldsboro Argus: The first month of
the pres ent session Of the public schools of
our city concluded on Friday, showing
an enrolment of SAP at the white graded
school, and l12 at the colored.
The Smithfeld Herald says that Mr.. J.
NJ. Surles, of Elevation township, made
with n OK, this year, y bales of cotton,
100 bushels of potatoes, 20 barrels of
corn, 80 gallons of syrup and other crops.
A colored convict attempted to escape
from the railroad camp last Tuesday
morning and was shot by one of the
guards and seriously, though not danger
ously wounded, says the Mocksville Times.
Wilson Advance: We were in error
some time since in regard to the size OF
the new tobacco warehouse here. It will
be 16O feet long by 70 feet wide, a shed
along one side. Work is now in prog
ress.
We learn from the StatesvilIe Land
mark that Mrs. Jas. Dunnmire, of Alexan-
der, accidentally shot and killed her sister,
Mrs. J.. W. Lackey, in Alexander county,
a few days ago, while carelessly handling
a pistol.
Lexington Dispatch: We have heard
less grumbling this year in regard to crops
than in a long time. We trust that al
the farmers in the county and elsewhere
will have a better yield all around thar
in many years.
Winston more than doubled Danville
last week on internal revenue collections
and shipments of manufactured stock
Our collections amounted to 500, 476 O8,
while DanVille's footed up a little ove1
$1,000 Winston Daily.
The tall, black negro, known as the
ghost who has been standing around on
the str let for the past eight months, was
taken to the Insane Asylum at Goldsboro
by officer Hoffman last Wednesday, says
the High Point Enterprise.
Elizabeth City Carozniam: There was
a serious cutting scrape last week in lower
Pasquotank between two men named