The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14

The ball entered his left thigh and
though the surgeons probed for it they
could not find it. 1t has given him
much pain at intervals ever since,
causing su%ppuration at two spots In
the thigh. On the first day of June
while he was working in the field he
felt what he knew to be the ball catch
in his underclothing, and he stopped
work and picked it out. Il was a min
ME ball, mashed out of shape. 1t had
worked down and around the bone and
came out on the other side of the thigh
from that it had entered. Thus, after
% years, 5 months and II days, Mr..
Bailey was relieved of this almost of
constant reminder of Burnside, and as
a consequence he feels a good deal
better.
High Point Enterprise: Mr.. j. R.
Hollis little boy got two of his fingers
cut off while playing with a saw at
the Snow Lumber Co. 8 shop last week.
The Southern Bobbin, Spool and
Shuttle Company, composed of gentle
men from Rhode Island, has been To-
Gated at this place and within the next
ten days work will begin on the mann
moth houses in which the machinery
will be placed. Part of the machinery
is already at Durham and other ma
chinery will arrive from the North by
the time the buildings are completed.
The capital stock of the company is
$3O, 1000, all paid in. High Point will
take $40, 900 stock. The factory will
do finishing work, and will not only be
a big thing for High Point and some
of the enterprises here, but it's infu-
ence will be felt and the goods sought
throughout the country.
Rockingham Rocket: Mr.. D. w.
Odom, of this county, won the students
prize in the University of Nashville, in
May, with an original poem entitled
"Poema de Magistris. MIR. L. D.
McKinnon, of lower Richmond, made
last season on GA acres $4,000 pounds
of seed cotton. After the seed from
this cotton was placed on the fertilizer
account, there was a lack Of but $1.78
per acre to balance the account.-A
severe storm passed over this section
last Monday night, continuing for
about one hour. The lighting struck
the house of Mr.. John F. Hamer, about
one mile from town completely demol-
ishing a column on the front. Mr..
Hamer was standing only a few feet
away from where it struck, but out
side of being stunned no serious in
iuries were sustained.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: We are in
formed that on account of the colored
labor having left the raj roads, the A.
@. L. has employed 400 Italians as sec
ton hands. Good reports come from
every direction as to the tobacco crop.
Another good crop year seems assured.
Cotton is looking much better, and
promises a fair yield. -Nashville jot-
tings: Miss Mamie Williams, an est1-
mable young lady, Is or 20 years of
age, died near here last Saturday
Mr.. Gray Stills has passed his final ex-
animation at West Point and has been
regularly entered for a four years
course in the U. S. Military Academy
at that place. -Mrs. Polly Carter,
aged IS years, wife of w. R. Carter,
Esq, was stricken with paralysis Mon
day before last, and died on Friday
night. She was a most worthy wo-
man.
Charlotte Chronicle: A destructive
hail storm occurred in the neighbo1-
hood of MaxwelI's old mill Tuesday
afternoon.-To-day D. M. Vance, late
of the Asheville Democrat, becomes
the news and telegraph editor of the
Chronicle. Mr.. Vance is well known
and has hosts of friends in this city,
where he lived many years and where
he did his first newspaper work on the
Charlotte Observer. He has a good deal
of experience as a newspaper man,
having for a number of years been a
reporter on the New Orleans Times
Democrat and other well-known
: papers.-In the vicinity of Union
vile the corn and cotton are reported
as being torn into shreads by the wind
and hail. Some of the farmers say
they could not distinguish the rows in
their fields this morning, so great has
been the fury of the wind and hail,
which lasted for more than an hour.
Rev. A. @. Davis was out at his barn
when the first began. He started for