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

University. Last year he gained the
Shakespeare prize at the same institu-
tion.-We are glad to learn that
Rev. J. T. Brooks returns to his dis
trict this week from Baltimore and
will resume his work on the first of
July. He has had some trouble with
his eyes in addition to his cerebral CON
gestion, but his friends will berejOiced
to learn that both troubles have been
relieved.
During this nice weather our farmers
have made a big charge on Gen. Green
and made him fall back, and they say
if they can have about more week
Of the same kind of weather, they will
capture the general, or so cripple him
that he will not be able to REINFORCE
this seasOn.-Wheat cutting is now
hand and our farmers are having
some trouble to get cutters. Wheat
and oats are very good III this section
far as we have heard from. Mr..
John Frizzle, of Pitt county, made IS
bushels of wheat off of q bushels Of
seed. Who can beat it?-Free VIII
Baptist.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: Reports
from the H~illiardstOn section are very
favorable in regard to crops.-The
meeting at the Methodist Church which
had been in progress for some weeks,
closed Sunday night with nine Access
sions.-Our stores full of canned
goods, shipped here from the North, is
a standing disgrace to the people of
our State. T. Thorpe, colored,
was put in jail last Saturday night,
charged with a brutal assault upon a
little white girl, aged ID years and five
months, whose home was about a mile
north of the Falls of Tar river, in this
county.
Wadesboro Messenger: Emma, the
thirteen-year-old daughter of Freeman
Howell, a cOlored man who lives about
three miles from town, "a fatally
burned last Monday by the explosion
of a kerosene oil can, while she was
pouring oil from it on a fire. The acct
dent happened about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon and the girl died the same
night at II O'clOCk.-The w 4deSbOrO
brown stone quarry was sold under a
deed of trust yesterday afternoon. It
was bid in by Mr.. J. G. Hester, of
Washington, D. c., for $12, 900. The
property sold consists of leasehold in
terests in LOO acres of land, fee,simple
in five acres of land, boilers, engines,
gang-saws, steam derricks, etc. All
tbs machinery cost the company
about SIS, 900.
State Chronicle: Four years age
Messers. blackburn & Willets, two OF
New Berne's best young men, pur.
chased a farm of 1000 acres about 2!
miles from the city Of New Berne Col
which they agreed to pay $4,000.
Only about one fourth Of the land is in
cultivation. They began to improve
the land and every year have made
large dividends upon their investment.
This year they have made the most
phenomenal success of any business i'll
the history of the State. Up to this
time their net profits on the cabbage,
potatoes and quantities of other truck.
have amounted to over thirty thousand
dollars. Think of it! Upon an $1,000
farm, in one year the profits T fOul
times as much as the farm cost! This
is a wonderful record and shows what
this soil is capable of doing. Over
$50, 900 has been made and only to day
have they begun to ship cantelopeS
and other truck. 1t is not improbable
that from this source they will net
5000, and the profits on the land fol-
the year will approximate $40, O0O-ol
five times the value of the land.
Concord Times: A move has beer
on foot for the erection of another cot
ton factory here for some time. The
prospects for it now are indeed very
encouraging. More than $50, 600 has
already been subscribed, The com
pany proposes to start with SIS, 600
"A most startling discovery was
made last Wednesday morning near
Rimer's in No. 6 township DR.. w. R
Cope, of South Rowan, was found deaC
on the roadside. He left home or
Tuesday evening to visit some patients
He did not return when he was ex
pected. After midnight alarm was
raised and search instituted. On Wed
nesday last he was found dead in his
cart near the above named place. One
foot was fastened in the bottom stats
of the cart, and the dead man was