The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

abundant crop. Oats are IN excellent
condition and will harvest finely.
According to the Wilmington Mes
8e1ger, when Senator Vance was asked
if he expected his sea voyage would
make him very sick the reply was:
Yes, 1 expect to throw up everything
but my seat in the Senate" It has
been well understood for a long time
that the old gent is much attached to
his seat in the Senate.
The RattLer, of Whitaker's, became
enthused last week, and, under the
heading North Carolina" warbled
after this fashion: mo skies are
bluer, No climate purer, No hearts
beat truer, Than in our good old State.
Then stand by her, Never decry her,
Never deny her, But share her every
fate" huff said; we'll do it.
The Pittsboro Record says: 1.-The
employees of the Raleigh & CASTOR
Railroad Company have decided to
have their annual picnic at this place,
on a day not yet named, and we doubt
motif will be a most enjoyable occasion.
A hearty welcome will be given them
by citizens, and everything will
be done to render their visit pleasant.
The village of Whitaker's, according
to the RATHER, is rapidly becoming a
rattling place. On Saturday night,
near the Baptist church in that place,
a fisticuf took place between Henry
Edmonds and Jim Bell-both highly
colored and corned-in which Edmonds
received a cut from a razor on the
back and left side of the neck three
inches long and n and a-half inches
deep. Bell is still at large.
The Steel and Iron Company, of
Greensboro, has given the contract
for the brick, and also the stone, to be
used in the construction of it's furnace,
and the Patriot of the 18th inst, says
the c.. F. & Y. V. only awaits the
right of way to begin laying its track
through the cemetery grounds to the
Steel Works. This will be given prob
ably Thursday when the absent com
~missioners return to sign the papers.
Mr.. J. Van Lindley, of Guilford,
President of the American Association
of Nurserymen, has returnedfrom Mine
apolis, Mimi. The next work before
this Industrious and enterprising Caro-
linian is the North Carolina Fruit Fair,
to be held in Greensboro, in the month
of August. Mr.. Lindley says Nj.
Addison Coffin, formerly a citizen of
Guilford, will run an excursion to
Greensboro, from Indiana, so as to
take in the Fruit Fair.
A correspondent, writing from Hills
boro, informs the Greensboro Patriot
that a mad dog visited the premises of
E. @. Thompson, about two weeks ago
at night-bit fowls, cattle &c. Since
then the following have gone mad and
had to be killed: three sheep, four
geese, two calves and several hens
and a dog. The dog number 2, went
mad and bit two little negroes. The
wounds of the negroes have healed,
but no doubt they'll go mad yet.
Mr.. @. J. Jenkins showed the Car
thage Blade, last week, the oldest
pocket knife the editor of that paper
ever saw. On the blade the date
"176O" is distinctly stamped. 1t was
found about three weeks ago by Mr..
Jenkins little daughter, on his lot,
which he says was used as a camp
ground a hundred years or more ago.
The knife is of the Barlow pattern and
is badly worn. 1t was doubtless used
by some of the pioneer settlers of
Moore county.
Mrs. Catharine Whitener, widow of
Daniel B. Whitener, died at the resi-
dence of her son Frank, on Jacobs
Fork, in Catawba county, on Wednes-
day, Sd inst, at the ripe old age of 1O1
years, nine months and two days. This
remarkable old lady, says the Hickory
Press, was born September LIST, 1889,
was married June 9th, 1915, and was
buried June 4th, 1891. Her son says
she wa never bed sick, never had a
physician and never took a dose of
drugstore medicine in all her life. She
left nearly n hundred descendants.
Recently the Concord Standard gave
an interesting account of marriage in
jail in 1884 in Ireland, the couple being
John Harris and Eleanor RenaIds.
Rev. DR.. Thos. Clark was a prisoner
because he would not take the oath of
abjuration, and the young people came
sn4o IL AInA L. -osulA oo-nn H..