The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-11

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Chatham is still ahead. One OF her
citizens exec tied a mortgage to a'Gitizen
Of Randolph county to secure a debt If
65 CTS. The property conveyed was q
single barrel shot gun and a R,ythe. !,
The WadesborI Messenger says that a
half witted negro, Jake Bennett, Was
knocked off a bridge by Charlotte bound
traint0h the &C Road and received in
iurieS which will probably prove fatal
The Oxford Ledger says a:larger mum
iher of4tobaccu men of that place have
been. summoned before the grand jury
presumably for the purpose of milking,
investigations about the cigarette trust
A fireman who runs on the Scotland
Neck and Greenville Road broke into a
car and stole so pounds of meat at the
Greenyille depot He was arrested the.
next day and in de ault of bail went to.
jail.
Alfred Williams & Co. Of Raleigh,
offer as a prize a complete volume of
Shakespeare works for the. best POEM,
of not3ess than. sixteen nor more thap
twenty-four lines, on any North Carolina
subject.
Mi. W. E. Martin, ar industrious farmer
Of Durham county, lost his barn by fire..
together with about 20, 900 pounds Of hay
and other ~provender. His horses were
saved. It is not knownFhow the FIRE
originated. ,s ,sf. :,
We learn.from the Charlotte Net0Ss that
Mr.. b. L. McCord, a wif-to-do farmer ii,
Mecklenburg county, had his barn set on
GFeDySome>rasea last Sunday moHning.
His fsddeF, hay and one horse and s'coW,
we're hurned.csA negro, has been arrested
on suspicion 4 ~ - * "~3y&2ia .
Al suit for SIS, 900 damages for breach
of promise of marriage has been brought
by Miss Emma Smith, a well-known
young lady Of Winston, against Thomas
Pepper, q leading business man of that
town, who recently married a Miss Lipp-
ford, of GAINESVILLE, Va. f.... -.
The Troy Press says that nine times
out of ten the girl who hsbitually keeps
her hosiery well darned will make a
good housewife. This causes the TiCan-
City Daily to remark that may be this is
all right, but how is the young man to
find out whether her hosiery is well
darned or not2"
Lige Moore, who was to be hanged at
Greensboro on the 7th of the present
month, escaped from the Guilford county
jail on the 1st inst, by just simply walking
without breaking anything whatever.
Lige sent a letter back, which was quite
a humorous production, thanking the
sheriffOr past favors.
A special from Charlotte to the Atlanta
Journal states that Rev. Joseph NJ. Shook, !
pastor of a church near Sparta, in Ale
ghany county, INDUCED in some language
quite personal to one Of his congregation,
and q general fight took place. ThOs.
Coleman, toward whom the remarks were
directed, was probably fatally injured
the fTacas.
A syndicate is likely to be formed at
0anbury which will control $4,000 to
100, 600 acres of mineral lands in Stokes
which we have no hesitation in
is as fine mineral property as any
in the South. A larger proportion Of
lands is covered with finest white
oak, poplar, hickory, and other timbers,
for manufacturing purposes while
the purest drinking water, and health Civ
mineral waters gush from the base of
The hills, filed with iron and other min
erals. Among the parties interested are
jome Of the wealthiest men in North
CarOliHG, and may be one or more railway
ompaRies.-D0nbury Reporter Post.