The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-27

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Tallulah Railroad is progressing salts
factOrily, the number of hands at work
on it having been considerably IN
creased. 1t will be finished to Web
ster by January next.
Greensboro Record: J. B. Fields
deputies wiped upaDOther copper still,
emptied 5000 gallons beer and cap
tured ten gallons of crooked whlSkey
last Saturday "a Julian station. 1t
was supposed to be the property Of one
of the many Randolph Staleys.
The Christian church at Asheville
could not procure funds with which to
complete the neat structure for wOr
ship, has, the Democrat says, been
constrained to sell it. 1t will hereafter
be used by the model steam laundry.
"CleanlinesS IS next to Goodness"
Charlotte Neu8: A young white
boy, aged ~ years, was brought to the
city to day from Huntersville, and
lodged IN jail to wait his trial before
Judge Meares, on the charge of at
tempting to wreck a train on the A. I.
q Q. road, on the night of the 9TH inst.
The Albemarle Park fair association,
of which Hon. 7. G.. Skinner is presi-
dent will hold their third annual eXhi-
bitiOn on their grounds in Elizabeth
City during the four days from the
9th to the 3Oth of October. Hon. l..
l. Polk will deliver an address on
the goth.
Carthage Blade: We learn that
there are bright prospects of the estab-
lishment Of a $50, 600 cotton factory
here in the near future. MIR. George
w. RaineS, who was so severely burned
by the powder explosion at his saw
mill near Sanford on September 24th.
has since died.
The jury IN the case of Alfred Dawns,
the negro charged with burglariOusly
entering the house of Mr.. John w.
Wadesworth. late Saturday afternoon
returned verdict of guilty of burglary
in the first degree. Judge MeareS has
not yet passed sentence, says the
| Charlotte NeucS.
Mr.. f. X. James purchased a match
pair of horses worth $3.50 from the
Indiana drove that came here last
week and had them out for the first
time yesterday afternoon. The horses
are a splendid match in color and size
and work together nicely, says the
| Salisbury Herald.
Jas. NJ. PendletOn, the manager OF
the Western Union Telegraph Office at
Winston, and Secretary and Treasurer
Of the Twin-City Club, abscOnded
Thursday with 81, 200 belonging to the
club and several hundred dollars OF
the telegraph company's funds. Specu-
latiOn was the cause of his ruin,
Raleigh Chronicle: Workmen are
rebuilding the fallen tower of Trinity
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are being used. Money talksand the
plainest proof of Durham's prosperity
is given in the statement hat at
present building improvements to the
value of 1925, UUO are IN progress.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Mrs. j.
n. Smith recently showed us a fine
Japan chestnut which she gathered
from a tree that grew in her own yard.
The tree Is only four years old and she
says she gathered four nuts from II
tins year. She says she also had pecan
trees from which she gathered fruit.
James Jones. a Mecklenburg county
man. arrested Friday morning charged
with criminal assault upon a twelve
year old girl. The case was immedi
ately carried before the grand jury,
who found a true bill and Jones was
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and sentenced to seven years in the
p~enitentiary.
A wreck on the Western Railroad
yesterday between ASheville and Paint
Rock has delayed all trains. Two
freight trains cOllided, but nothing
is known as to the extent of the dam
age. Passenger train No. II, due here
at ~ o'clock last night, had not arrived
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Salisbury Herald.
The canal being dug for the North
Carolina steel and iron company at
| Greensboro is finished. 1t is 5000 feet
long, 40 feet wide and 1 feet deep. A
dam. the Workman states, will be
construed at the lower end of the
canal. The canal will be kept full OF
water for the use of the above com
pany at its furnace.
The Winston Sentinel has official
information that there is now only
about one mile and a half of grading
to be done OF the Roanoke & Southern
road between Martinsville and Roam.
Oke. The work to be done is mainly
trestling and heavy fills. The plans
now are to have the track laid on all
the line by Christmas.
A negro man was run over and killed
by an extra train on the &. +. & Y. V.
Railroad, near Shannon, Thursday.
He was stealing a ride and fell be.
tween the cars. He was cut in two
just above the hips and portions of his
body and clothing, the MaXton Union
says, were scattered along the track
for two or three hundred yards.
Charlotte Chronicle: From what
the Cabarrus men say the only talk
over about Mt. Pleasant is on what
they think is a rich find Of first-clas,
iron ore. The hill that is composed
almost entirely of solid iron is located