The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-13

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directors have authorized a declaration of
a dividend of Z per cent. on factory stock
to be paid October 1st. Another dividend
of no less than the same will, in all prob
ability, be declared and paid before next
January.
Scotland Neck Democrat: On last Fri
day night two colored boys, Austin Har-
day and Tom Jones, were fishing in the
Roanoke river near Norfeet's ferry, and
IN attempting to reach the Government
dredge boat it is thought they were
drowned.
Durham Globe: The gentlemen who
were TO build the ice factory here have
oeen baked in their enterprise. Though
they nave tried all the factories, they can
not get the necessary machinery before
winter. The orders for the ice machines
are ten times larger this season than ever
before.
GoIdsboro argus: The Goldsboro paint
factory will soon be in operation. ALI
vegetation h~ereabouts is suffering for
rain. There were only four deaths in
Goldsboro during the month of April, all
grown. Two whites and two blacks.
This in a city of over five thousand in
habitants.
Raleigh special to Atlanta Constitution ::
Avery Butler, the fourteen-year-old boy
who shot and killed his father at Clinton
recently, has been convicted of murder
and sentenced to be ha ged June 10th
He said in his testimony on his own be-
half that his mother urged him to a~ssassi-
nate his father.
The Sanf I'd Express is ? .spo-sible f.
the following yarn: Baxter Gunter has
discovered 8 frog with five legs and A. y.
McIver has a neighbor, whose bell eve
has had three lambs in monthly proc-s-
sion this Spring and so the process n
moves on. They desire to know if Bro.
London is still leading it.
Kinston Free Press Mr.. 7. B. Ashford,
of Kinston, has invented a machine for
ventilating secondhand -four barrels,
which he will guarantee to thoroughly
Ventilate n barrel to the minute. 1t
will put SO inch augur holes in the barrel
to the minute without interfering with
the hoops or upsetting the barrel.
Durham Globe: James Trice, a young
Christian colored man, the we'll known
singer of the White Rock church choir,
has fully made up his mind to spend the
remainder of his days in the Ozark Con-
tinent." He thinks that he can do much
good there, and says that he believes
that it is Gods will for him to go.
On the evening of May Sd, while Dick
Aycock, a colored boy about eight years
old, at Goldsboro, was playing, he ran into
a man who had an open knife in his hand,
seriously cutting himself in the abdomen.
He was carried to DR.. Jones office, where
surgical attendance was given him. The
doctor pronounces the wound of a serious
nature.
One day last week an electric car in
D~anville, Va, while going down Main
street loaded with passengers, the breaks
refused to work and the car shot down
the street at lightning speed. Mrs. P. c..
Penn jumped off and striking her head on
the hard pavement, sustained a severe in
jury, probably causing conclusion of the
brain.
Wilmington Review: We are reliably
informed of an instance where four cats
sport between them 80 feet. There is an
old mouser at Southport that has six feet,
two extra one growing out of the knee
joint on the hind feet. She has three
kittens, all alive and festive, and each
carry around eight feet, instead of four,
the limbs all being perfect from the point
of junction. And this is not all, for it is
said that there is another old cat, of the
male persuasion, in the same town, which
has six feet.
Murfreesboro Mder: MI. E. G. Wor-
rell has invented, and had made at the
Globe Manufacturing Company, a machine
that, with n man and two horses, does
the work of seven men and four horses
in planting cotton as compared to the old
way of doing that work. 1t sows the
fertilizer, lists the land, rounds up the
bed, opens it, plants the seed and covers
them. 1t has been thoroughly tested and
is a success He will apply at once for a
patent upon the machine and begin the
manufacture of them
The Western Free Lance of last week
brought news of a horrible butchery near
Marion, Mcdowell county, on the first
inst. Jane Irwin, a woman Of bad char
acter, and her fve-year-old boy and two
year-old girl were brutally murdered by
unknown parties. They were found
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