The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-08-25

on for the camp-mcetmg st the j..
camp ground. Nllir'5 Ch"pei, and
there viii probably be 5000 or 5000
people there next Sunday. This Is a
very old camp ground.
\ severe hail storm visited Chatham
county last Saturday afternoon. 1t
was very slight III the immediate
neighbOrhOOd of Sutphin's mill, but
about > to I miles south it was very
severe and destructive to growing
crops. It was SeVerest along the Puts
bOrO road, the tobacco crops Of Marion
Perry being almost totally destroyed.
Rockingham Spirit Of the S0Hth: \
hair-lipped colored man, hailing from
Robson county and claiming to be an
inspired prophet, held forth the court
house n night last week to q small
audience, He claims to know all about
the Bible, although unable to read or
write. His knowledge Of the Scrip
lures is indeed something rather
marvellous.
The Roxboro Courier says: The new
warehouse was leased to the Farmers
Alliance last Mlnday. When com
pleted this Will be the largest house in
town, and Mr. Daniel informs us that
all arrangements for handling tobacco
will be complete in every respect. The
success Of this enterprise, to a larger
degree, is due r. X. Daniel, who has
worked it up.
Parties from Davie to-day Inform
us that a terrific hail storm passed
through that county two miles east
of MOcksvilIe Saturday afternoon,
Corn, tobacco and other crops were
completely demolished along its line
of march. Messrs A. A. Miller, Elijah
Martin and q number of other farmers
are heavy losers by the storm, says the
Tviu-City Daily.
AaNton UHiOu: Cotton is beginning
to open right rapidly. One farmer
SAID a day or two ago that he could
get Il bale this week by going over his
entire patch. - One day last week
! liuey Goodman killed q rattIesn0ke
on Mr.. :, :. i. ~Thompson's place, one
mile from town, which measured four
ndauallfeet in length and mad twelve
~rattIca and a button.
BaloiEh hjlror: We were shown
TINS morning some specimens Of Oma
toes raised at the Experimental Station
which weighed all the way from fifteen
to twenty nine ounces. The gardner
says he has about fifty feet square in
| piautsand he can ill the largest Wagon
body in Raleigh with ripe tomatoes
this evening ami not pull one weigh
ing less than q pound,
An idle brain Is the devils work
shop" OF words to that effect. On
Sunday, in the county jail, Dave
CrumD and Adam Shinn, members OF
| the chain gang. became involved III Il
quarrel that led to blows. Some out
| u .- E,.f r.. h.. ,-7I.1 -, r-
| them. They pcitcd each other on the
head, but were moi at all damaged, says
the Concord STANDARD.
Asheville Citizen Conrad Strahley,
| OF Spartauburg, S. c., fell from i
widow in his room OVcr Graves &
Thrash's store OIL South Main street.
about > o'clock this morning, DR.. l..
Is. NcBrayer was called to see the
injured man, and found him suffering
from a partly dislOCated elbow, 4 frac-
tured rib, and several minor bruises
about the head and body.
On Sunday afternoon, Henry, little
son of Mr.. Louis BlOunt. living on
Norris street, waS very severely bitten
by a horse. He was in the yard with
the horse. His screens attracted at
tentiOn and it was found that the
animal had taken the little fellows
left arm, nearly up to the elbow, into
its mouth and inflicted a painful flesh
wound, says the Durham SIM.
Oxford DoI: An Oxford hen. sat
on twelve eggs, left her nest a few
days ago with ten sons and daughters.
She thought the other two eggs were
no good. But she was mistaken. Two
days later two lite hardy chicks eff
fected an egresS from those two de
serted eggs, and I now running with
their mother. Warm weather presum-
ably finished the work of incubation.
Concord Standard: Mr.. NJ. Vols
has a gray mule that has been suffer
ing with tOnsilitis. Last week his throat
and neck was so badly swollen that he
could not get it to the ground. We
can not say whether it was age and
experience or good common sense but
that mule got to the grass by lying
down and eating all liz his reach and
then getting up and changing his posi-
ton and again lying down.
Alex. Caldwell a Charlotte negro,
was killed in a fight at Central, on the
Air Line road, last night, and his body
will arrive here on the Z p. m. train
Alexander was q fireman on the Air
Line road. Last night at Central he
got into a quarrel with another negro,
and the quarrel was brief, for Alex
ander's opponent drew a pistol and
shot Alexander dead. The slayer es-
capped, says the Charlotte Netcs.
Greensboro Patriot: The most alb
surd Ething we have yet seen on the
Fife-Schenck affair, appeared a few
days ago in the Washington Star as a
special from Greensboro. 1t stated
that a duel between one of Judge
Schenck's sons and Mr.. Fife would
be the final outcome of the matter,
that Mr.. Flies friends had persuaded