The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-24

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Oxford Day.. Two negro prisoners
confined in the city Jail made preparations
to break out last night, but their little
game was discovered in time and fru.-
trated. - The property of the Oxford
Land, Improvement ard Manufacturing
Company is being surveyed, the streets
defined and the lots laid out.
Mr.. R. A. Williams, more familiarly
known as Peg Leg" Williams, with a
lot OF brother railroad passenger agents
from the South, is at Morehead catching
more fish than he can tote, and gathering
all the shells on Shackelford beach and
Cape Lookout for distribution among his
friends in Arkansas and Tennessee.
A dispatch from Raleigh says the
general reports as to the tobacco crops
are very favorable, but in Nashville,
Wilson and Halifax counties the crop is
in a precariouS condition. The danger is
that the plant will go to seed, which, of
course, destroys the crop. All tobacco is
endangered, and no one seems to know a
remedy.
Hickory intends to spread Itself on the
Fourth of July. Poi. w. W. McEwen,
of Jackson, Michigan, will go up in a
balloon 1000 feet and rea2h the earth via
the parachute route in Just seventy sec
onds. Then there will be t-otting races,
running races, half fare on railroads, red
lemonade and a grand pyrotechnic display
at night.
Mr.. Jno. Cunningham, brother of Pat
Cunningham, on Saturday evening went
into the per whcTc the Texas Ponies are
coralled and was kicked in the right side,
twi3e, by one of the ponies. He is now
laying at Mr.. Hardin's boarding house, in
a very critical condition. The Doctors
say there is very slight chance of his re-
covery, says the Greensboro Patriot.
Troy Vdette: A correspondent writes
that a few days ago Mrs. Mary McClenan,
of Rock Springs township, gave a flock
of about 100 little chicks a quart of
buttermilk, and the result was that in
four hours thereafter 80 Of her chicks
were dead. Sour feed of any character
or feeG with salt in it is poisonous to
little chickens and should never be given
them.
Wilson Mirror: Wilson has two sets
of enumerators; one has the books and
papers and are at work. The other tele-
graphing for Instructions. The thing is
mixed. Sanford Warren, John Clark and
R. S. Barnes were first appointed and
qualified accord ng to the law and regula
tons. Frank Blount and A. D. Dawson
are trying to Gust them, having appoint
ment of more recent date.
Mr.. W. B. Glenn, the we'll known
Winston lawyer, is engaged in writing a
book. 1t is a biography Of the prominent
lawyers of the State, and will be pub
lished in two large volumes. In search
ing the old records for data for use in the
book he is writing, Mr.. Glenn discovered
that President Andrew Jackson was
sworn in as a constable for one of the
townships in Guilford county.
Winston Sentinel: Rev. j.. A. White
, man, of Wentworth, has been offered by
a Baltimore firm $4,000 for his patented
tobacco wire. -- Mr.. A @. Voss was
here last week and told us that a disease
similar to the fux has terribly scourged
the people in the southeastern por ion of
Bellows Creek township, this county.
Many of the infants have died and the
adults lave nearly all been sick.
Elizabeth Falcon: Half a dozen or
more new dwellings are nea ing compile
ton. -- The crop prospects of this
county were never better. GA dry June
oever begs her bread" is a true and trite
!, saying. Cotton is clean and thrifty; the
stand is perfect, except where it has been
destroyed by awkward choppers. Corn
has a beautiful color, notwithstanding the
dry weather. Farmers are steadily at
work and are encouraged in their work.
Shelby aurora: Capt. W. T. R. Bell
has this week been offered the presidency
of Gainesville College. Gainesville is a
fourishing and beautiful town with many
attractions, and this off r is a very tempt
ing n But a prior engagement with
the Ru~therfordton people forbids it's
acceptance, so he has de lined the presi-
dency and will, in September, be superin-
tendent Of the Rutherford Military
Institute.
Concord Standard: For some time
the people of Forest Hill have been
suffering with measles, and this has con-