The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-13

! CRIeJ Inc COGGOn crop 50 LdI PLoAhlh
to be a light one. The weed is unusually
large but the cotton bolls are few IN
number. We predict that the crop
throughout the South will fall con-
siderably short of the estimate.
Capt. E. F. Young has resigned the
| c~aptainship of the Queen City Guards
and Gilmer Brenizer has been elected
to that Rank. Capt. Young was forced
to do this because his resignation as
major of the State Guard was not
accepted, says the Charlotte Chronicle.
The County Sunday-school Conven-
ton will be held at New Providence
| Christian church, Saturday, NOvem-
Der 18th, beginning at 10 a. m. The
programme will be essentially the
same as that arranged for the first day
of August, says the Alamance Cleaner,
William Purnell, a white man at
Stovall, Granville county, attempted
to commit suicide by cutting his throat
with a dull pocket knife. He inserted
the blade in the back of his neck and
brought it around almost to the wind
pipe, the Oxford Dog states.
Wednesday night an attempt was
made to wreck the nOrthbOund train on
the A. T. & O. railroad just beyond
Huntsville. The Charlotte Chronicle
says a piece of rail was laid Gro
the track to derail the train Fortunate
ly the engine struck the rail and sent
it whirling.
TarborO S~Outherner: While the cot
ton worm is ravaging every cotton
field in ~EdgecOmbe county there is not
! a neighbOrhOOd without them. Where
they appear the leaves are entirely
devOured. One farmer says that in
forty acres he don't believe be can find
a whole leaf.
Mount Holly NeWs: Mr.. Robert
Underwood has a gourd that is quite
a curiosity. The boil of the gOurd is
round and about twelve inches in cir
cumference, with a neck about twenty
inches long and cOiled around in a
shape not unlike a snake in the attl-
tude of striking.
Mr.. w. D. L. Alexander, a farmer
living near Huntersville, died last night
from an overdose of morphine. He
took the drug to get relief from pain,
but there Is no reason to believe that
he intended to kill himself-he simply
made a mistake and took an overdose,
says the Charlotte Netrs.
Charlotte News: Rev. J. T. Chal-
mers, the young preacher of the AS
sOciate Reformed Church, of this city,
has received a call to the Fourth street
United Presbyterian Church, of the
city of Philadelphia. He has accepted
the call. and has gone to Philadelphia
to take charge of that church.
For some DAYS a band of robbers
have been committing depredatiOns of
the most daring nature in Wayne
county. A special from GoldsbOrO
states that seven of the band have
been captured and jailed and that
others are cited and will be captured,
in all probability, in a few days.
At Montgomery court Judge Arm
field suffered great annoyance from
prOfuse bleeding at the nose, and it
was with difficulty the doctor sue
| ceeded in stopping it. At intervals
during an entire week the bleeding
returned and it's frequency was cause
for alarm both to the judge and his
friends.
Elizabeth City Carolinian: Capt.
| Samuel Waters informs us that he has
1 ordered machinery for bottling juniper
water. It's purity and health prOmOt-
ing properties are well known, and
when properly put up for convenient
use it will not only command a large
sale here but will be a boon to the
public.
A Carolina Central freight train was
moving out west from the passenger
station this morning, when a truck
became deranged and five cars were
thrown from the track, Two of them
rolled down the embankment just west
of the Tyron street tunnel. A colored
+-oSo had LoI - 1O. I,o1-oo 0T1,,
IOtte Ne1CS.
New Berne Journal: MI. John w.
P~elletier, a good citizen and piOus old
gentleman, died at his home near
Wildwood, at 6 o'clock Friday morn
ing of paralysis. - Mr.. William Hol-
lister, one of New Berne's most highly
at his residence Friday night, in the
5Sth year of his age.
MorgantOn Herald: Mrs. Caroline
Wynne, wife of @. II. Wynne, deceased,
died in MOrgantOn on last Sundy, and
was buried Monday evening. Mrs.
Wynne had been in bad health for
several months past. Her husband
had been a soldier in the Mexican war,
and Mrs. Wynne drew a pension up to
the time of her death.
Oxford Ledger: Il. A. YanCy, a
farmer who resides near Berea, takes
the cake on large opossums. He went
out a few nights ago and caught four,
one of which weighed % pounds. -
Ralph Currin is creating quite a repu-
tatiOn as a squirrel hunter at Wilkins.
On Thursday morning he went out
and by 8 o'clock killed IA.
New Berne Journal: Mrs. Dixie
Cox, of Middleton, whose husband runs
a boat between this city and Hyde
county, has been married five years
and has nine children, there being four