The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-22

has been Il talilue 10 make Or obtain
boxes and barrels in which to pack and
ship them as fast aSIhev Cnn be Cau~ht
Their number, the .JO"rHuI declares. Is
as mar vicious as their flavor Is de
liciOu5.
The NhOrte@t cOurtship ON + ord in
these parts comes from Sap"na Mr..
\ +. Young, of this county. and Miss
Maggie Watkins. of Rowan county,
met eac other for the first time on
Sunday, the 10th instant. 1t Was a
case Of love ut first sight with the
young couple, and they were married
on Thursday following, after an &C
qu%aintance of only five days, says the
Lexington Dispatch,
Cars for carrying tobacco to the
warehouses are running over the cleo
trio railway at Asheville. The attorneys
for that town and the AShevilie street
railway are in Raleigh for the purpose
Of arguing a certain phase of tins street
railway question before the Supreme
court; but, IN the meantime, Col JAS.
G.. Martin has pushed the line through,
and has doubtless fulfilled his contract
with the warehOusemen.
The grand jury Of Cumberland county
has found a true bill for false preterse
against Z. F Moore. president Of the
wrecked Peoples National bank at
Fayetteville. 1T Is alleged that he
collected notes and mortgages, repre-
senting that he was owner Of aud had
them in his possession. when IN TACT
he had already transferred and IN
dOrsed them to the Peoples bank,
which was theL the owner.
A correspondent of the Richmond
DiSputch at Scotland Neck remarks
that there is much more wheat sOWed
in the middle section OF n State than
there, but there is a feeling among the
farmers there that they must make as
much breadstuf as they can. There
are no good Touring mills in the Scot
land Neck section, ard this fact pre-
V hts farmers from planting as much
wheat as they otherwise would.
Shelby ReUiew: Shelby has q me
chanical prodigy in the person of yOung
Lector Eskridge. the fourteen year-Old
son Of Mr.. Webb EskrIdgp, the well
can unlock any safe in town in two
minutes without knowing any thing
about the combination lie was sub
ieCted to feveral severe tests this week
uud was victorious in every instance.
He is also an expert telegraph operator.
GOldsbOro Argus: 4 cOlOred man
named Henry Barnes was brought to
this city Thursday night and lodged /
jail 10 await a preliminary he airing on
the charge Of horse stealing. The horse
in question was stolen from ar. Ed. {.
Exum. of the Fremont section of this
county. and that gentleman lmmedl
ate!> took the trail and followed the
thief to Suffolk. Va, where he found
his animal and apprehended Henry
Barnes.
A little cOIored girl living in Jersey
town, a Concord suburb, got her head
polluted with CrePpers. Her mother
ahinglpd off the wool as close as she
cous! get it hut the crawling, creeping.
biting continued. In her nanny :
absence she CREASED her head with
kerosene and stuck a taper to II The
nelghbOrS heard her scream and ran
to her relief. She is singed, but she
don't have to scratch, says t c Concord
Standard.
\ slight accident on the Saturday
nights freight on the @. +. & Y. V.
Railroad, six miles from Greensboro,
may prove )re serious than was at
first supposed The damage to the
train were slight and only caused !
few h. urs delay: but the young man
who started to see his best girl at
Fayetteville and walked back IT,
; Greensboro, says he can't estimate iii
dollars and cents at what he'll place
his damage, says the GreenborO
Patriot.
The police here want tOcatch ayOung
man for robblng Mr.. Dan Mcclellan,
of Quewhiffle township Tuesday night.
IT. -o,,,,c. DoDD ,DOt M NInJ|,+lCr -,
the rotunda of the Hotel Lafayette,
and after chatting pleasantly together,
l he proposed that they go and take
rooms at the Maxwell iiOuse, which
they did. Mr.. Mckethan went tOsleep,
, and when he awOEe the nice young
man was gone and 80 was his pocket
book, containing $40, says q Fayette.
} vile correspondent.
; Concord Standard: Last FRIDAY,
l near Smiths Ford. the three year-oId
son of Robert /. and LOttie HartselI,
I. was burned to death. The child being
left in the house while it's mother went
for q bucket of water, its clothes caught
fire. 1t Immediately Il to meet Its
! mother. and she ran to it, but failed to
| reach it in time to save its life. Fully
. two thirCs of the child's body was
I burned. Death came it's relief on Sat
urday, about twenty four hours after
the accident occurred.
| Mr.. H. c.. CrowelI, of New London.
, tells of the good luck the Parker mine,
, Capt, Parker, superintendent, of New
London, Stanly county, is in, With
the system of washing inaugurated
there the hill is being washed away.
An extremely rich vein has been I'm
earthed. Mr.. CroweIl says it just
clocks like a wash pot full of melted
gold was dashed on the rocks" This
company has spent 5000, 600 in develop
ing the mine and returns now seem