The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-22

VEN IS 81 feet deep. and a shaft has
been sunk to the depth of u feet.
AS we go to press the following CON
viCtiOns were entered ON the court
docket: Willis Cogdell, col, for break
ing Mr.. A. B. O'neals long, 80 days in
jail; Joe Blackman, col, for beating
a woman 80 days in jail; John Matt0X,
col, larceny, 10 months in the peniten
tiary, says the Golisboro Headlight.
Asheville Democrat: Our friend j..
NJ. Ledford, Esq, of Hazel Green,
brought us three tomatoes of the
"Nameless" variety, the three weigh
ing four pounds and " ounces and
each measuring over Is inches IN cir
cumference. They were certainly very
fine, but now are Nameless forever
nor
JonesborO LEADER: Rev. Mr.. Lee,
who assisted the pastor, did some
powerful preaching, and was the means
of awakening many sinners. We de-
sire to say that his style of preaching
is unlike that of other evangelists we
know, it being entirely free from abuse,
and slang phrases. He is deeply IN
earnest.
Goldsboro Argus: The Baptist State
Convention will be held in the Baptist
Church of this city, November 18th to
18th prox. "A piece of petritied
hickory, with the bark on it and
several knots we'll defined, is in the
possession of Capt. II. S. HAZEL, who
is preparing it for exhibition at our
Fair next week.
An appropriation was asked by the
citizens of Webster and Sylvia town
ships, in jackson county, for a railway
four miles long. The contract for
grading this line connecting Webster
and Sylvia, has been let. The Ashe-
vile Home Journal says, work to
begin in ten days and the rOadbed COM
pleted before Jan. LIST, 1892.
Laurinburg Exchange: Constable
Beasley had a race after Robert Nc
Duffie, cOlored, last Monday evening
and finally landed him in the lookup.
Robert was up here from South Caro-
lima trying 30 hire cotton pickerS to go
down there in violation of the State
law which requires the payment Of
81 900 for license to do such work.
Mr. L. p. Hankel has a model
which he has raised, this year, 1000
OOtoLIClS VI OCJUo, 1CIICA11S O1 CO1iIC VI liz
land as much. as Is bushels to the are.
Henkel is now moving from the
same land a crop of crab grass hay
that he considers worth as much to
him as the oat crop, says the LenOir
Topic.
Charlotte Nelcs: DR.. Sam Watson,
of Morning Star township. is Sc years
old and has been constantly practicing
medicine In this county for the past SO
years. He is a graduate of the college
at Charleston. He rides a horse and
says he can mount the saddle with the
Of a young man. He is never
sick and bids fair to reach the age
of 100.
Rocky Mount PhRni.r:: The rains
have spotted the tobacco up pretty
bad, causing a great deal of 1t to have
of more or less size, This is a
condition known among the trade rs
- frog-eyed." Tobacco generally is
considerably off grade this year. \
great deal of it has been rOtted by the
Fine tobacco will be compare
are this season.
Smithield Herd7d: Farmers say
the present prices of cotton that
that they a hardly pay forty cents
per hundred to have it picked. --
Another prisoner from Harnett county
was brought here by the deputy sheriff,
NJ, L. Wade, last Saturday and placed
in jail. He is a negro and is charged
an attempt to rape a negro
woman in Harnett county some time
in last July.
Newton Enterprise: The farmers are
hauling fertilizers by the wholesale.
The indications are that there will be
large wheat crop sowed this year.
Farmers continue to talk about
their fine corn crops. We have neve
seen them so well pleased with the
crops as they are this year. The yield
of corn and peas will be enormous.
Some say that the pea crop is so much
larger than ever that it will make up
for the loss in cotton.
Much of the tobacco in the Hender-
son market so far, is lacking in body
besides being bug eaten and spotted. 1t
is deficient in the gummy, oily quail
ties that make good tobacco and, the
Gold Leaf says, there is no doubt that
the negro will show a larger per cent.
of nondescript stock. Certainly there
will be a great falling off Of the more
desirable grades. The same discOurag-
ing reports reach us from planters
throughout this entire section.
Newbern Journal: A postal has
been received by Postmaster VIM. E.
Clarke urgently seeking information
as to whether anything IS known here
of the writer's father, Jeremiah Mari,
aged about Is, weight 100 pounds, sal
low complexion, who left Detroit in
June, 1890, since when his family have
heard nothing from him. The writer
says For love Of God and humanity
make this inquiry public" Informa-
ton will be thankfully received by his
daughter, Catharine MARI, IA, Piqueta
Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
Tarhoro Farmers Advocate: The