The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-09

S. c., yesterday, struck a two-year-oEd
nero child and injured it so badly that it
will probably die. The child was on the
tratk j'st on a nve and the engineer did
not see it in time to stop the train, says
the Charlotte Chronicle of the 3D.
Fifteen or Granville young men
were emplo ed to cure tobaccothis season
by farmers of eastern North Carolina. A
number returned to Oxford yesterday
afternoon, having finished their work.
The others viii be back in a few days.
The boys say the crop, are very fine IN
that seetio' says the Oxford Dag.
New Berne Journal. Emigrant agent,
K. A. Williams, better known as Peg
Leg" was on the morning train He
claims to- have taken out $4,000 colored
people the last season to Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas and Texas, and wants
to secure 20, 600 more farm hands in the
next SIX months to work on shares.
The Wilson Mirror is in love. There
is no mistake about it. Hear him. "When
one OF the handsomest, most bewitching
maldens that ever gave glory to woman
hood, tells us as she did on Sunday that
she enjoys the Mirror so much, it fills our
life with brightest CLEANS of cheer and
the sweetest fragrance of purest delight"
Pa'son Alfred Merrick, who is some,
what a farmer as we'll as a preacher,
brought US a sample of his golden food
rice, which is fine. He has a quar- ter of
an acre planted in that kind and is we'll
pleased with it. 1t has to be plowed
three times, and when fully matured the
grain is as white as ivory, says the Robe
Sonian.
Col. A. B Andrews, second ~vice-presi-
dent Of the R. & D. Railroad system, has
been in Stanly county loking after the
building of the Yadkin Railroad. Eight
hundred hands are at work, and by spring
the road will be complete ed from Salisbury
via Albemarle to Norwood near the Pee
Dee and Rocky River, a distance Of Al
miles.-NeaOs and Observer.
Salisbury Watchman: Nearly 10000
baskets of grapes have been shipped from
Salisbury this season and they have
brought good prices - Graves, Parkins
and Johnston, the negro boys who stole
the money and jewelry from Mr.. Judd
were sentenced to five years in the peni-
Tertiary for the former two and two
years for the latter for receiving stolen
goods.
Rutherford Banner: We have just
learned of a serious difficulty, which took
place last Sunday-a al the house of one
Bridges in Golden Valley township,
between George Hunt and two of the
Graysoa boys. Several shots were fired,
and Will Grayson was shot through the
shoulder, the ball passing near the lef.
lung. Grayson is said to be in a very
critical condition.
Our old friend, Riley Murray, of Hyde
county, has a work steer that weighs
1920 pounds that has never eat anything
but grass, so Prof. Sheep tells us. We
suppose if he was fattened to obesity he
would nearly double his present weight.
Mr.. Murray is approaching 80 and is
sprighty and sound of mind but entirely
blind and physically infrm, says the
Elizabeth City Falcon.
Nashville Argonaut: We learn that
the townships through which it is pro-
posed to run the railroad from Hender-
SOL to Nash county, have agreed to vote
upon a proposition to issue bonds for the
following amounts: Shocco township,
in Warren, $25, 900; Fork township, in
the same county, 500 $1,000; Centreville
township, in Franklin, $4,000; Cedar
Rock, $4,000; C~astalia, 10000 billiard
ston, $4,000.
Carthage Blade: Sheriff Currie carried
three convicts to the penitentiary last
week. One was white and two negroes,
one for three years, and two for two
years each. -- A corps of engineers are
here surveying the extension of the
Carthage Railroad. Two routes will be
run, one out by the Bay Pond, and the
other up Killett's creek. The work of
grading the extension will begin in a short
time, we learn.
The E. City Falcon tells it this way:
1--WE looked around yesterday and there
was a blank and a stiffness in the atmo-
sphere. In one night the lawyers had all
vanished for Currituck court. What a
pity that the Farmers Alliance has black
BALD all the legal brotherhood, and
banned them from decent association. We
thought they were a very decent set OF
FLOWS until the Alliance tabbOoed them.