The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-27

or more OF these having prOteSsed In
the services of Sunday morning and
night, says the Concord Standard.
Tuesday might the granary on the
premises of the late j. G. Williamson,
near Milton, was consumed by fire,
causing a loss estimated at 50, 600. 1t
was, the Caswell NercS states, the
work of an incendiary. George Lea,
/ cOlOred, who for a good many year.
had been the house servant, was ar
rested in Danville and taken to Milton.
At Robson court a suit for So 600
damages, brought by Mr.. David j.
Mcqueen, of Richmond county, against
the estate of Mr.. Daniel. w McRea, a
lunatic, who shot Mr.. Mcqueen, in the
mouth w or three years ago, thereby
disfiguring his cOuntenance and de
strOying his health, resulted IN the
recovery of So, 90, the RO6cSOHian says.
Mr.. Plummer Aston, a we'll known
citizen of Warren, died on Sunday last
OF nervous prOStratiOn, at the residence
of Mr.. VIM. ThOrne, of Halifax. Mr..
Aston was here a few weeks since and
iOCulaTly remarked that he never *
pected to die, as he had never been
sick a day in his life and never had an
ache or a pain, says the WarrentOn
Gazette.
Hickory Press: Rev. J. A. Weston
has renewed his affiliations with the
Episcopal church of this city and will
hold services on Sunday, the 25th inst.
- Last week Judge Armfield was
unable tOhOld his court in Montgomery
county, which caused the ASHORE
Courier to s e the need of a cOnstitu-
tiOnal provision for the sickness of a
circuit judge"
Mr.. y. L. Sink, of Lexington, has
left StatesVille for his home. He was
the last to get away of those who went
down with the train at BOstian's bridge
on the morning of the 9th of August.
His broken leg, the Landmarks says,
will be an inch shorter than the other,
but it is likely that this is all there will
be in a few months to remind Mr.. Sink
of the wreck.
II the reports are true that the
Lynchburg 4 Durham Railroad Will
go INTO the hands of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, the Sun thinks
Durham will not lose anything by the
deal. 1t will rather be a big thing,
bringing to Durham a strong and pro
gressive railroad company, and one
that will push the road, and will open
the coal district.
Charlotte Nplrs: Parties who came
in from Huntersville on the five o'clock
train yesterday afternoon. say that at
four o'clock p. m. yesterday, that sec
ton was visited by a terrific hailStOrm.
The ground was as white, almost, in
some places as if it had been covered
with The storm did no damage,
as there are no crops at this season
that hail can damage.
Saturday afternoon at Durham little
Julia. the three and-a half year old
daughter of j. w. Wright, was left a
few minutes in "a room. \ few Goals
remained in the fire place. Her mother
heard screams, and running into the
room found the girls clothes had
ignited, and the child burned i'll a
fearful manner Her condition. the
SIM states, is critical
Monroe Enquirer: Mrs. NJ. N. Stitt,
mother of Mrs. J NJ. Stitt. Of this
place, and Capt. w. NJ. Stitt, of Char
IOtte. after a lingering illness, departed
this life on the Both ult., at the resi-
dence of Mr.. J. NJ. Stitt in this place.
She wasaged 77years. Mr.. Stephen
NJ. Timmons died at his residence in
Charlotte on Sunday. Mr.. Timmons
was a native Of this county.
CharlOtte'stw congresses have been
running full tilt for some days, and
they have been doing some big busi
ness. The lower compress last week
compressed 10, 600 bales, the largest
weeks work ever done at a compress
in Charlotte. The daily average was
$50 bales. One hundred hands were
employed. The upper compress last
week averaged LOCO bales per day,
says the Charlotte Neacs,
GOldsboro argus: The negro boy
Rudolph, who cut Mr.. VIM. Howell at
the hobby horses last week, was yester-
day tried in the Superior Court and
sentenced to sixty daysIn jail. Quite
a disastrous fire occurred at kin|tOn
Sunday morning, whereby the lumber
mills and dry kilns were entirely de-
strOyed, entalling great loss upon the
owners, as the property was without
any insurance whatever.
John B. BOstic tells the Asheville
Citizen that the construction of the
electric street railway from the depot
to the heart of Asheville, granted the
Asheville and Sulphur Springs railway
by the board of aldermen last week, is
only a question of a few weeks. He
says the money necessary for its con
structiOn is in the bank, and thinks it
will be in running order IN 60 days.
The fare will be only 5 cents,
The Wilmington Star has advices of
of a terrible outrage on a respectable
young white girl at Franklinsville,
Macon county. The victim is a Miss
Russell, aged sixteen. She had been
suffering all day with toothache, and
after nightfall, throwing a shawl Over
her head, went out of the house, when
she was assaulted by an unknown
man, who overpOwered and checked