The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-06

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Charlotte Battalion, as 1t is hereafter
to be known, is going ahead with en-
thusiasm. Eighty members are re
quired, and seventy three have been
enrolled.
Warrenton Gazette: Mrs. Ann
Faulkener died at her residence in this
place on Tuesday last, in the 18th year
of her age. Mrs. Faulkener was at
tackled with paralysis about a week
before her death.
E. V. Zoeller, secretary and general
manage of the Farmers Oil Mills at
TarbOrO, is in New York examining
machinery with a view OF having an
oil refinery in connection with the
mills, the SOutherner says.
The Charlotte NeWS says that last
Thursday while Mr.. G. A. Pitts and
family of Poplar Tent were away from
home attending the fair) a negro farm
hand entered the house and stole some
flour, books, and other things.
A valuable mule belonging to Wyatt
Walters, ner Wilton, Granville county,
was killed this week by a vicious hog.
The Oxford Day says the mule was
waIlowing in a field, when the hog
made for him and disembOweled him.
Charlotte Chronicle: AS Conductor
Tom Prichard's freight train was bound
for Charlotte, on the G. G. & A. rail
road yesterday morning, Dennis Brown,
a brakeman, was thrown from the top
of the US and badly if not fatally
mangled. 0
Hendersonville Times: Mr.. J. B.
Freeman has sold one half interest of
his valuable property at Chimney
Rock, including the home, to Mr. T. O.
McAlhany and Mr.. T. j. Murray, of
st. Georges, S. c., for the handsome
sum of 81, 500.
News is received here that William
Hunter, proprietor of the Hotel Gre
CORY at GOldSbOrO and a we'll known
hOteliSt, has made an assignment to
John f. Switzerland of that place. 1t
is said that his entire indebtedness will
be paid in full.
Mrs. Noah Benfield, of Catawba
county, elOped last Wednesday with
Alonzo Deal, a neighbOr. The woman
took he One-year-old child and left her
two older children ndhusband behind.
She is said to be good looking woman,
thirty years old.
A. c. F. & Y. v, train from Viii
mingtOn which reached Greensboro
late Saturday night last, knocked
John Nelson, colored, off the track
at that place. He died Sunday mOrn-
ing. He had been drinking and was
sitting on the track.
GermantOn Times: We learn that
a draw was made by the diamond drill,
near Walnut Cove one day last week
which brought up about four feet of
solid coal, and did not then reach
through the vein. This coal was found
about 125 feet from the surface.
The Workman says, at 2 o'clock
Monday morning, at High Point, a
negro, supposed to have been trying
steal a ride, was run over by a freight
train and both feet cut off above the
ankles. Amputation was found neces-
sary, and the fate of the patient is in
doubt.
Burlington NeWs: Miss Mary Morse,
an aged old maid who lived with Mrs.
Salhe Albright, near Rock creek, died
very suddenly some time Thursday
night, as she was found dead next
morning. She was in good health, and
is supposed to have died of heart
disase.
StateSville Landmarks: DR.. E. O.
Elliott, of Sparkling Catawba Springs
has 800 pear trees, 500 of them of the
LeCOmpte variety, and this is the first
year of bearing. He has sent us two
splendid specimens from his trees, one
of them weighing twelve and a half
ounces.
We regret to note that the grist mill,
gin house and tobacco barns of Mr..
JOS. Laughinghouse of Pitt county
were destroyed by fire Sunday night.
25, 600 pounds Of tobacco were lost.
Total loss $40, 900. 1t is supposed to
be the work of an incendiary, says the
Ph0niT.
A negro named Hazekiah Rankin
was lynched near Asheville Friday bv
a crowd of railroad men for shooting
without prOvOcation Fred A. Tyler,
an engineer on the Western North
Carolina railroad. A few of the
lynchers have been arrested. Tyler
will die.
For constant and persistent neglect
of his official duties as postmaster in
Fay etteville, the bOndsmen of Mr.. D.
f. Wemyss have, the Observer states,
notified the Postmaster General and
authorities at Washington that they
will no longer be responsible for his
conduct.
Last week while J. K. Grannis was
at MS prize house WnlCn Is being con-
structed on AIbemarle avenue, n of
the carpenters accidentally dropped a
chisel which struck Mr.. Grannis on
his leg above the knee, making a deep
and ugly wound, says the Tarboro
Advocate.
Yesterday afternoon, Jim Jackson,
a colored hack driver, whaled a white
boy with a whip, because, as he claimed,
the boy had been stealing a ride on his
carriage. jackson was a%rraigned, be-
fore Mayor Brevard this morning, and
was fined SIS, says the Charlotte