The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

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incnes across and are four inches long.
The infant Child of Mr.. James Wood
ard, Of Newton was found dead in its
cradle on Thursday. The child was a
week or so old and the cause of its
death is not known, states the Enter
prise.
The ase of the mayor of Leaksville,
Mr.. }. B Taylor VS.. j. +. Darlington
at Rockingham court. Mr.. Darlington
was found guilty and fined 500 and
costs.
The lady, for whom Drs Payne, of
Lexington, and r s. Young, of Con
cord, performed an operation, rem9v-
ing a tumOr weighing 40 pounds, IS
C Dnvalescing rapidly, at her home III
Lexington.
Last weeka granite block was shipppd
from the Mount Airy granite Quarrles
to Philadelphia which weighed Over
nineteen Uons and which, the NeWS
states, will form the base of a huge
monument.
Professor J.. A. Holmes, the State
geologist. has been boring for coal and
oil at Town Fork, Stokes county, tor
several days. He has found good beds
of coal, but was unsuccessful in the
finding of oil.
Mount Olive Telegram: We are
pleased to See DR.. Chas BOyette back
after a protracted illness. - We near
that a new preacher is astonishing
large audiences at Faison, and Is Clalm-
ing to be a prophet.
A handsome monument was erected
Thursday al Salisbury TO the memory
| Of M p-,,,,1p fIn 40 Hl0
editor of the Carolina Waterman.
The monument is twelve feet high and
of prOportionate size.
Forsyth cOunty's exhibit 1t the
Southern Exposition has been re
turned. DR.. Blum informs the Win
ston Sentinel that he will get up a
new display for the Worlds Fair.
FOrsy tn never gets LETT.
Shelby AurOrG: Mr.. @. NJ. Stuart
gave us a pleasant call last WeGnes-
day and remarked that he had raised
two hogs this year weighu 8 432 and
1876 pounds, he also made this year 400
bushels of corn IN % acres.
The Salisbury Herald says five gen
tlemen from Long Island arrived there
Friday night and left Saturday for the
| gold fields of Montgomery county, and
! IIItS CApoCO W MAKE GIl0lE lOEGuIl6 III
the streams of that county.
Receiver LeDuc, of the Peoples bank
at Fayetteville, announces that he will
not declare a dividend just now, on
account of collections being INSULT lent.
By January 1st he expects to declare ii
dividend of twenty per cent.
Several engins of the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley railway are being con
verified from wood burners to coal
burners This, the RO6eSOnj0n says
is on account of the scarcity of wood
on the upper end of the line.
A. J. X. Rhodes. who lives near
Mount Olive. Wayne county, made
this year on two acres. three bales of
cotton, each weighing 500 pounds. Last
year he made seven bales on four acres.
each bale weighing 47S pounds.
Concord Times: Mrs. DR.. G. O.
Wilson Cnee MISS Scott Pharr), died at
her home in Providence, Fla, last
Thursday of meningitis. Her body
was brought to Harrisburg and in
TERED at Rocky River Sunday.
Washington Gazette: It is an inter =
esting incident that Judge G. H
Brown, Jr:,. who was born in this
town, Is this week presiding i'll the
OOuIU LOCEcC OuhO Ny lilo SICdU 81 dIlu-
father, Thomas Bowen, Esq, many
years ago.
a number Of WilmingtOn's churches
together with many charitable sOcie
ties and lodges were depOsltOrS at the
wrecked First National bank there and
have been Inconvenience by having
their funds locked up when the bank
suspended.
Winston Sentinel: Attempts at
burglary were made on the residences
of w. 2. Hill, on Spruce street, and
CASTOR Miilers on Fourth street last
night-in either instance the burglars
were FRIGHTENED off before an entrance
was effected.
The Charlotte Chronicle is putting
it rather strongly when 1t says that
the highways in North Carolina are no
better than they were when the Meek
lenburg Declaration was made, or when
Green fought the battle of Gullford
Court House.
WilmingtOn's Welcome Week has
been made a permanent thing. 1t will
elected president Of the association,
and George G. Lewis secretary, fin
ancialiy and socially the week was IL
great success
ROrkinham Rocket: In an affray
between a colored man by the name f
Stewart and Martin Mcdonald, here
last Saturday evening, tn col re-
man was badly cut and news received
here yesterday evening say that he has
since died from his wounds.
Salisbury Waterman: Mrs. Edmund
RidenhOur died last Friday mOrnig
while in q letharglc sleep, She was
living in Unity TOWNSHIP at the time of
her death. She went to sleep Oh th9
Sunday before and the efforts of her