The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20

bitten by what some called a mad dog,
on the. streets last week. 1t is alto
gether improbable that the dog was
mad. Nine-tenths of the so called mad
dogs these days are in perfectly good
humor, says the Rockingham Rocket.
Workmen are putting the finishing
touches to the outside of the fire house
tower 1t is beginning to show off well.
The weather vane, topping the splre,
is a fireman's hat and trumpet, and 1t
is the subject of very general and
favorable comment, sayathe Durham
SIM.
Greensboro Record Deputy Col
lector J. S. Worth dropped in rather
unexpectedly on Henry Albright and
his storekeeper and guager, J. w.
Fogleman yesterday, and seized 100
gallons of brandy. Albright and Fogle-
man were brought to this city for a
hearing, and the brandy stored at Glib
sOnville.
Wake cOunty's taxes have been sum-
meriZed. The whites own ten millions
of real and personal property, and the
negroes four hundred and t~wenty-One
thousand. The whites pay sixteen
thousand school tax in the county
townships and the negroes six hundred
and thirty.
Red Springs Chief: The effect Of
the Fife meeting in LumbertOn, vas
manifest this week. Not a drop of
liquor could be found in the town; and
those who were depressed had to resort
to the RObeSOnjnn office to hear Brother
McDiarmid smile, so as to keep u until
court was owe
Charlotte Neacs: Judge Meares will
open the October term of the Criminal
Court for M~ecklenburg county next
Monday. The docket contains two
capital cases, one for murder and one
for burglary, and this term of the court
will therefore be one of more than Or
binary interest.
Charlotte Charlotte: Yesterday
evening at sunset a thrill that stirred
a host of friends, like a shock, the full
depth of which cannot be realized,
passed over the city as one whispered
to the other that Mrs. Geo. B. Hanna
had suddenly dropped dead while walk
ing on the street.
Elmore Cloninger of Crossing. who
is charged with wrecking the train at
Bostain's bridge, was on trial last Sat-
urday and Monday before Esquire
Jamison, in S~tatesville, and was remain
ded to jail for a fuller investigation in
the Superior court, which meets in
about five weeks,
In Forsyth county, the wife of Bill
Martin. cOl0red, was passing along a
road. John Dalton was practicmg
target shooting at a plank with an old
pistol. AS the woman passed, the ball
missed the target and entered her right
temple, causing a fatal wound, the
Republican says.
TarbOrO S~OUtherner: While the cot
ton worm is not ravaging every cotton
field in ~Edgecombe county, there is
not a neighborhOOd without them.
| Where they appear the leaves + de
vOured entirely. One farmer says that
in forty acres he doesn't believe he can
find a whole leaf.
that Wiley HOwertOn, formerly of
day evening, of typhoid fever, aged
about 80 years Stephen Harper,
father of our townsman, J. J. Harper,
died at his residence in Edgecombe
county on the 9th ult.
Greensboro Workman: Rev. J. M.
Rose, originally of Fayetteville, having
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Synod of North Carolina, has returned
to his native place in readiness for the
work before him. Mr.. Rose has been
pastor of a church in Greenville, S. c.,
for the past five years.
Grocer John KimmOns showed a
Standard reporter a ripe cherry.
18th. The tree from which it was
plucked is on the lot of Mr.. Sherwood,
at Forest Hill. There are many trees
in town where blossoms are abundant,
says the Concord Standard.
Charlotte News: The Charlotte
liquor dealers are very much interested
seller against the board of county com
~missioners for refusing to grant him a
license. It is anticipated that the
Mecklenburg board intends to act ex-
actly as did the Iredell board.
Roanoke Beacon: The demand for
dwelling houses is great; many people
are anxious to make Plymouth their
home if they could only get houses to
live in, Several new dwellings are now
nearing completion, but we are in
formed that those to be rented have
been applied for ever since the stills
were placed.
From what the Cabarrus men say the
only talk over about Mt. Pleasant is on
what they think is a rich find of first
class iron ore. The hill that is COM
posed almost entirely of solid iron is
located near Mt. Pleasant and will be
easily reached by rail. There will be
something good for Cabarrus, says the
Charlotte Chronicle.
We we're told yesterday that the r.
& D. train was delayed Monday night
by a .cross tie laid across the track.
Twas probably the weak attempt of
some sickly fool to wreck the train
The locomotive was moving slowly