The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-28

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assaulted and robbed of his pocket
book containing $3.50, near Hillsboro
last week. The negro boy who did the
deed has been arrested and is in jail.
Henderson Gold Leaf: Crops are
feeling greatly the want of rain. To
bacco, cotton, and corn are sorry as a
general thing and the outlook at
present is anything but encouraging.
Cars from the @. S. & N, Ry., n
now run through from Charlotte to
Fayetteville over the G.. f. & Y. v.
This line is a hustler now, having a
schedule Of forty-fve miles per hour.
Washington Gazette: Mr.. H. F.
Hancock, one of the oldest citizens and
much respected for his gentlemanly
bearing, his industry and intelligence,
died on Friday last. He was "a years
old.
While handling an old pistol at
Rowland, last week, Mr.. Chas. Gibles
accidentally discharged the same and
received the contents in the calf of his
leg, inficting painful, but not serious
wound.
Cabarrus will make her "mountain
dew" at home this year, or the present
indications point that way. In one
township we understand there will be
six brandy distilleries, says the Con
cord Times.
Arson county is to have a new Court
House. The Commissioners have ap-
propriated $40, 900 and S 5000 worth Of
material can be utilized from the old
Court House, making the new n
cost SIS, 900.
The Charlotte Ne1rS says a negro on
the Catawba river baited two fish
baskets one night last week and the
next morning he was astonished at his
luck. His catch amounted to 326 cat
fish and A cells.
Montgomery Vidette: The Sam Chris
tian Mining Company are taking out
ore from a recently discovered vein
at what is known as the old California
mine. The ore is reported to be worth
about $50 per ton.
w. G. Goodwin, of Union county,
was bound over to December term of
U. S. District Court yesterday in the
sum of 5000 by U. S. Commissioner D.
G. Maxwell for illicit retailing, &c,
says the Charlotte Chronicle.
A train on the Wilmington, Onslow
and East Carolina Railroad was stopped
by fire one day last week. \ spark
from a passing engine had caused a
fire, and the rails were twisted and the
cross ties burned for 100 yards.
R. H. Gates was arrested yesterday
afternoon on a warrant sued out by E.
Kasey, charging Gates with stealing a
watch from him this morning at the
| Victor Mill. The watch is worth about
81. so, says the Charlotte Chronicle.
Col. F. H. Fries, President of the
Roanoke and Southern Railroad, re-
.pOrts that the road, which is now com
pleted m'WinstOn, N. c., to Martins
vile, Va, will be completed through
to Roanoke by some time in the fall.
G~oIdsboro Argus: Mr.. Bud"
Miller, one Of the employees at the
Goldsboro Furniture Factory, and a
skilled workman, had the misfortune
to get three fingers badly cut in n of
the machines Wednesday afternoon.
King'sM Mountain NeuS: Albert Jones,
colored, while delirious with fever
Sunday night, escaped his nurse,
jumped from the window and ran like
a deer. When found he had run against
a tree, receivin probably fatal injuries.
So far about sixteen hundred direct
land tax claims have been bald,
amounting to $50, 900 or $40, 900. There
are several thousand applications on
hand and they are coming in at the
rate Of two hundred and fifty per
day.
a negro and a mule were killed by
lightning on T. B. SHADES plantation,
near Williamson. The boy had come
to the house to water the mule, and as
he was hitching him to the tree a flash
of lightning killed both him and the
mule.
S. B. Burton, colored, of Durham,
while attending a reunion of the col
ored fremen of the State, at Whining
ton, of which organization he was
elected President Friday morning,
was drowned in Cape Fear river that
evening while bathing.
Mary Scott, the colored cook of the