The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-22

but escaped.
Winston Sentinel. The leaf tobacco
factory of Brown & Bro. on Fourth
street, which i nearing completion, is
one Of the largest and handsOmest
buildings of the kind in the city. 1t is
six stories high.
Last Friday, near Smiths ford.
Cabarrus county. the thrpe-year old
son of Bubert l Hartsell. was burned
to death. The child wa left in the
house while its mother went tor a
bucket of water.
\ lively scene was enacted at the
dcpOtat nOOn to day, avs the Salisbury
Herald; caused by the arrest OF Max
Chambers, cOlOred, charged with an
attempt to abduct lola Cooks from
Livingston College.
The New Berne ice company is re
ceivIng the lumber for the erection of
the addition IT, its factory, which IS to
contain the y ton plant recently or
dered. to be used III connection with
the present s ton one.
Several citizens of Rockingham lost
considerable by the wreck Of the First
National bank at Wilmington. The
estate Of Iol. Walter L Steele, lare of
that town, is said to be involved to the
amount of s.. 900 stock.
The Goldsboro IeGdiight says that
there is an old lady residing III Wayne
county who Is 80 years old. was never
married, reads without glasses, can
walk a mile without stopping to rest
and is in excellent health.
The fire at the Egypt coal mine
Monday was caused by the discharge
of q blast. The miners escaped but
four mules in the shaft were burned to
death, and IA lot of cars and curbing in
the mines were destroyed.
Burlington Np1CR DR. Jacob Tickle,
Of GihsOnville, tells Us he has killed
and sold l.61I pounds of oeef and pork
from his farm. at n cost in money of
only St 50. He has n way of growing
feed for both at q low cost.
Rocky Mount ArgOnaut: We learn
that Judge Taylor's property, lying
south of the depot and just beyond
the Nashville Branch Railroad, Has
been sold to a syndicate composed of
local and outside capitalists.
Murfrcesboro Iuder: Mr.. Mills H.
| Eure died last week at his home in
! Gates county, of hearts disease at an
! advanced age. He was for many years
a prominent citizen of his county, and
had held many positions of trust.
Phe Carolina Iron, Mining and IN
vestment company has been organized
with a capital stock of 1000, 900 The
property consists Of the magnetic iron
mines near Danbury, Stokes county.
This Is perhaps the richest mine In the
South.
Large quantities Of holly and other
e~vergrcens, the Wilmington Messenger
says. are being shipped from along the
Carolina Central Rail way to New York
for Christmas decorations This is n
new industry that some sharp felloT Is
turning to good account.
An old cOIpred man named Abe
Benton. while returning from this city
to his home IN Grantham's township
Saturday night in an intoxicated con
ditiOn, fell from his cart. four mics
from town, and broke his neck, says
the GOldsbOro Headlight,
Newton Enterprise: We understand
that the wind storm that passed over
our town a week or so ago amounted
Observation-Disclosures Mr.. Ed. Loves,
just this side Of Denver. 1t passed
through a strip of country along there
and swept it perfectly clean.
Tuesday night Mr.. Allen Heilig, a
country farmer living five miles from
Salisbury, was attacked by two big
burly negroes while on his way home
from that place. They demanded his
money, the H"rGLd states. He called
for help and the negroes fled.
\ little negro child, daughter of Ben
POstOn. who lives at Beams saw mill.
met a horrible death on Tuesday Of last
week. 1t was only three years of age
and was playing in the fire when its
clothing caught and it was literally
roasted, says the Shelby ReUiew.
Stanly Mars: The little fouryear
old child of Alfred Shoe, near Finger
pOst0ficp, on Wednesday of last weak,
when he went to water his horse in an
old we'll hole. which was full of water,
near the house, fell in and vas found
lfelesS sometime afterwards by his
mother.
Lexington Dispatch: It became our
sad duty to print the news of the death
Of Mr.. Geo. Kepley, under su:h sad
| circumstances last week. 1t now be
comes our very sa / duty to chronicle
the death sof Mr.. Kepley's wife and
daughter, following each other in quick
succession.
The campaign for the railroad cleo
tiOu in Brunswick county, on the 22d
inst, is now being vigorously carried
on. ThepeOple, the Messenger declares.
want a road and and it is claimed that
public sentiment is growing in favor
of the plan of the Brunswick, Western
and Southern
Clinton Caucasian: Hon. B F.
Grady has moved his family from
AlbertsOn to Duplin Roads. - On
Tuesday night. December 8th, Miss
Anna Honeycutt, a lady who had been
blind all her life, aged 81 years breathed
her last, at her home in HOneycutts