The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-13

died Sunday night, September q, at 8
o'clock, after a painful illness of about
two weeks. He was in his sixty-first
year.
A Herald reporter learns that on
last Saturday at TyrO, just across the
river in Davidson county, Henry FL
dersOn was severely horse whipped by
Mr.. Bentley Hunt. Particulars are
very meagre but the cause of the
difficulty was that EldersOn had been
circulating slanderOus report about a
niece of Hunt, says the Salisbury
Herald.
A curiosity,,in the way of a chicken
is in the possession of Mr.. Jas. w.
Taylor, in Greene county. The chicken
has only one leg and was Matched that
way, there being no sign of a leg what
ever. Mr., Taylor has a pair of them,
and the strange thing about the pair,
is that one is minus the left and the
other the right leg, says the Goldsboro
Headlight.
The Sanford ErpreSS says that at
Mr.. @. w. Barnes's saw mill near
Sanford, last Thursday morning a keg
of powder exploded and dreadfully
burned three white men and one negro.
Some one had placed a keg of powder
in a blacksmith shop. In all prOba-
bility the keg of powder was unstopped
and in Welding a wagon tire a spark
flew into it.
Capt. T. L. Vail, for a long time
chairman of the M~ecklenburg board of
county commissioners and now Presi
dent of the Mecklenburg County Ali
ance, is dead certain of being a con-
gresham in the near future. Gov.
Holt has appointed Capt. Vail a mem
Der of the Road Congress, which is to
meet in Atlanta on October goth, says
the Charlotte NeuCS.
Mr.. B. f. Davis, So years old, of
Asheville, was the victim of a distress
ing accident Saturday afternoon. He
had Climed a tall chestnut tree. A
limb broke and he fell. One leg was
broken above the knee, and the knee
cap cut open, while the other leg was
broken near the ankle. One foot was
badly mashed. The right arm was
also broken, and the nose was lacerated
fearfully.
Concord Standard: A few evenings
since q meeting vas held at Gold Hill
for the purpose of organizing a stock
company to build a cotton factory.
The meeting was harmonious and en-
thuSiastic, and between 81, 600 and
IS, 900 was raised in a short while.
The amount of capital stock proposed,
is 1875, 600, all of which, it is believed,
will be raised III the community with
out trouble.
Goldsboro Argus: 1t will be ex-
tremely painful to her numerous
friends 10 learn that Mrs, ROWena
Micks sustained a Y fracture Of
the arm i'll two places, ear the elbow
and the wrist, yesterday morning at
the home of her brother. Mr.. M. l..
Lee, in this city. She missed her foot
ing on the stairs near the top and fell
to the landing, sustaining the accident.
Kings Mountain NeU8: Allen Ham
rick, a respected and esteemed citizen
of this county, died at his residence in
No. 5 township Monday, aged 81 years.
- Jake Freeman, the negro des-
peradO, who made murderOus assault
on a white man by the name of Wilson,
at ROckhill, S. O., last week, has been
arrested is now in jail in Shelby.
Wilson's skull is fractured and he
will die.
Scotland Neck Democrat: We have
heard of complaint being made by those
who live near hepenitentiary farm on
Roanoke river near Halifax, about con
victs whose terms expire being turned
loOsein the community. Many of them
are more or less desperate characters,
and the people of the community feel
like it is a hardship upon them to have
to receive such characters into the
community whether they desire it
or not.
Tarboro SOutherner: Sunday night
the tobacco packing house and ginnery
of J. J. LaughinghOuse were burned
and with these 20, 900 pounds of to-
baccO. Since the Grimes murder Mr..
LaughinghOuse, who took a very active
part in bringing to justice the a~ssassins,
has been a marked man. Time and
again have attempts to burn his prop
erty been made and often successfully.
His loss this time is at least S., 900. 1t
is reported that he had $4,000 in
surance.
Maxton Union: On Saturday last
a little negro girl, about ten years old,
came very near getting killed at Mr.
Howard McNair's cotton gin, near
town. The girls mother was picking
cotton near the gin and the girl was
playing under the gin house. She got
too near the belt which drives the ma
chinery and her clothing was caught
by il and torn from her body. When
picked up it was found that her left
ankle was broken and she was badly
bruised about the body.
No civil actions were heard at the
term of court just past, the two weeks
being consumed in trials from the
criminal docket. It is not remembered
when a court here did such effective
work in clearing up this docket, 0 is
it remembered when a Solicitor had
such a success in prosecuting offenders
and meeting out them their just de-
sarts- In the list of cases tried there