The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-18


thirty-two manufacturing enterprises. In
1880 it had a population of $50. The
last census showed that it had doubled its
inhabitants. Stores alone do not build
up a place, because they produce nothing.
Mr.. Wilson Cecil went down to Green's
boro last Wednesday with seventy dollars
in his pocket. He looked for it in the
afternoon to meet an expense and found
it gone He thinks some n picked his
pocket, says the High Point Enterprise
The surveying party of the F. B. v.
Railroad are still pushing forward to the
Rutherford line. This week they are
near Reedy Patch Gap, and the surveyor
tells US they will reach Rutherford in a
few days, says the He~ndersonville Guide.
The residence of MI. S. R. Gill, near
Wake Forest, was entered by four burg
lars last week. Mr.. Gill was knocked
down and left for dead. They carried off
$3.50 in cash. Mr.. Gill recognized all of
them and three of the number have been
arrested.
The Milton Advertiser says that nearly
all the farmers and householders COM
plain of great annoyance from tramps.
The city is fairly oVerrun with them.
The Vagrant act should be brought out,
busted, overhauled and put in good work
ing order.
John Dent, a manager at P. N. Heilig's
mill, who is a kind of dissipated character,
got into a row in a disreputable place in
an adjoining neighborhood and was badly
+beaten up. He is said to be in a critical
condition, says a correspondent of the
Salisbury Herald.
Maj. VIM. II. Sneed, the well-known
politician and wit, of Wilkes county, died
sudde 2ly, of congestion of the lungs, at
his home, two and a half miles west #
Wlkesboro, and ole mile east of Mora
Wan Falls, at II o'clock last Thursday,
aged about IS years.
The new jail is about completed. 1t is
a very imposing structure of eight large
rooms. The building is made of fine
pressed brick with a very handsome dome
on the top. 1t contains two strong steel
cells. The jail will be heated by steam,
says the Hendersonville Guide.
Mr.. J. D. Beckel, of Davidson county,
came in to see us Monday with the NAM
moth potato of the season. 1t weighed
IL pounds and was two feet four inches
in circumference. He says he plenty of
the tubers weighing from FIVE to seven
pounds, says the Winston Sentinel
Mr.. G. G. Wade, sometime since, sent a
number of sample specimens Of the slate
taken from his quarry in Stanly county, to
Washington City, for the purpose of as
certaining its true quality and value, and
it is pronounced the finest yet discovered
in the United States.-TF Troy Vdette.
Goldsboro Argus: Mr.. John R. Over
man drove into the city yesterday morn
ing from the country, bringing in his cart
a fine deer, two 8 pounds 'opossums, one
coon and several squirrels, all Of which he
killed himselfl jim a day and nights hunt
and within eight miles of Goldsboro.
Geo. Koon met with a serious accident
last week. He was drilling in wheat,
and while driving under a tree a limb got
caught in the harness which, becoming
detached few back, striking him in the
eye. 1t is thought his eye is destroyed,
says a correspondent of the Salisbury
Herald.
Among other things brought to light by
the blasting which is going on at the mill,
says the Weldon NeaOS, was a sharks
tooth which was found Tuesday. 1t is
three inches long. The blasting is in solid
rock and some feet below the earth's sur
face and how the sharks tooth got there
would be hard to tell.
A Charlotte man who remained ali
night at the home of Mr.. Joseph Burdell
at Lewis Turnout, tells US hat Mr.
B1rdell has 500 bundles of fodder that
lave been stored in his barn for nineteen
years. Each successive year, they have
been covered with new fodder and have
never yet been reached.
George Brown, who works at the Oil
Mills had the misfortune to get the first
finger of each hand badly cut Wednesday.
The ends were nearly cut off. And We'd
nesday was his wedding day, but nothing
daunted the knot was tied that night, and
thus was pain and pleasure-bliss-
blended, says the Tsrboro Banner.
New Berne Journal: Mr.. q. R.
Aughinbough, the manager of the canned
goods department of the A. Booth Pack