The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-22
axton Uaion Willis McPbaul, col.

Patterson last Friday night. he was
arrested and tried and sent to Jail to await
his trial at the Superior Court.
Weldon Mea0s: Mr.. j. H. Tillery in
formed US a few days ago that Mr.. E. P.
Lyman, of Hobgood, had put in opera
ton at that place a canning factory with
a capacity of two thousand cans a day
and was now operating it successfully.
The Commonwealth Cotton Factory
Company, which will shortly erect a NAM
moth cotton mill at Durham, purchased
the site yesterday for the building. It is
near the Richmond and Danville depot,
and cost$5,O 600, says the TVjn- City D1ly.
A negro laborer on the Richmond and
Danville Railroad, and who was working
at the Catawba river bridge, west of
Charlotte, had his leg so badly mashed by
heavy timbers falling on it that it was
found necessary to amputate the wounded
limb at Charlotte last week.
New Berne Journal: Mr.. j. H. Baker,
the young man who was arrested here on
the charge of forgery on Friday was sent
to GoldsborO yesterday. His father,
whose name he had forged, met him in
Goldsboro, arranged the matter and the
you g man was discharged.
Raleigh Chronicle: The first grapes
of the season were in the market yester-
day. They were from Mr.. S. Ohio vii
sons vineyard. The shipment of grapes
will begin soon, and it is estimated that
forty thousand baskets will De shipped
from the Raleigh vineyards.
During the storm of Wednesday night
the lightning struck in a number of places
in town, and our people were badly
shaken up. The skating rink, the wood
shed in G. W. Blount's yard, and several
trees receiving bolts, and were terribly
shattered, says the Wilson Mirror.
The census enumeration nave o found
as many people as was expected for in
stance: Wilmington is short about 5000
of the peoples estimate. Fayetteville,
with all her rapid progress, boom and
building, has only gained about 200 nee
the last census, according to the estimates.
Charlotte Chronicle: J. McCannon, a
respected citizen of Sardis, died there
yesterday, aged SO. There are new
buildings on nearly every street, just com
pleted or being erected, many of them
handsome two-story dwellings and Others
neat modern cottages of FIVE and six
rooms.
We CO. graduate the team from the
Lumber Bridge Company who were sue
cessful in winning the prize at Wrights-
vile on the 4th inst. 1t requires men of
steady nerve and strong determination
to outstrip the "Scotch boys" when they
try to carry a point, says the Wilson
Mirror.
Asheville Citizen. T. e examination
of Mrs. Gould for the killing of her hus-
band at Murphy was held on the evening
of July 4th and resulted in the woman
being liberatrd. The applause up IN the
delivery Of the verdict was deafening.
She will soon return to her old home at
London, England.
Miss Mary Earps, of Earpsboro, John
ston county, was to have been married to
a man she did not love, and she confden-
TALLY told it to Clarence Richardson of
the same place. Calamity the young
man offered himself as a substitute and
was accepted. The ceremony was per-
formed at Wilson.
Charlotte MewS: A specialize the NewS
from Lilesville to-day gives information
of a destructive fire at Mt. Gilead, Mont
gomery county, yesterday morning. The
stores of McRae, Leach, Ingram and
Haywood were all burned. The salvage
was very small. Total loss $4,000. The
fir was incendiary.
Greensboro Pat 1T: A three-year-
old child Of Mr.. John Clapp, of this
county, fell from the stair railing on
Monday to the floor below, a distance of
twelve feet, striking on her chin. The
flesh on the chin was cut to the bone, and
the jawbone itself was broken entirely
in two, making a CHASTITY wound.
New Berne Journal: Last Saturday
night Mr.. B. f. Williams, of Croatan,
with his family, went to church some
distance from their home. While absent
from the house robbers came and broke
in, stealing forty dollars in money con
siderable clothes provisions, etc. The
robbers have not been heard from.
Richard Reed, a boy ten years old, was
killed at his home near Charlotte last
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