The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-01

| space at the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms there
Sunday afternoon to hear the last adj
dress of Rev. Il. @. Pearson before
sailing for the Holy Land.
About forty pupils arrived at Dur
ham Tuesday, the SIM says, on the
d. & n. road en- route TO Zion college,
and there were twenty-five more on
the train from Raleigh going to the
| same school. The second session OF
this school opened that day.
The immense amount of rain this
spring and summer has been a terror
to the farmers along the various
streams. The cOr crops on low
lands will be short, while new ground
and upland corn will be more than an
average, says the Asheboro Courier.
Tarboro Southerner: DR.. w. H..
Whitehead, who was in town to-day,
reports the tobacco in the BattlebOrO
section not as good as three weeks ago.
Then, he said, it was as finer tobacco
in any land. Since then it has fired "
up and much of it has black spots
upon it.
A fatal ARRAY occurred Saturday
night near Old Sparta. E~dgecOmbe
county. After a quarrel Adam Jordan
shot at Alex. Hines, but missed him,
the TarbOro SOutherHer says, the bullet
hitting Drew Bullock and Jim Best,
fatally injuring the latter. Jordan
is in Jail.
Charlotte DemOcrut: Thursday was
Veterans Day. At Latta Park, where
the Mecklenburg contingency cele-
| brated the occasion, thousands Of APP
preciative and admiring friends went
to give evidence of their admiration
for the noble deeds and daring Of the
surviving heroes.
Raleigh Mirror: Constable J, r.
Upchurch yesterday arrested Jacob
| Jones upon a warrant issued by Justice
VI. B. Barbee, charging him with bur
glary. Jacob is a cOlOred boy fifteen
years Of age, who had raised a window
of Ned DunstOn's house and was only
scared away by DunstOn shooting at
him.
Western North Carolina Methods
The Raleigh AdrOc0te reports 149 adj
| ditiOns to the Methodist Episcopal
Church in North Carolina. - Rev.
J. T. Nolan, formerly of North Caro-
lima. recently a student of the Wander
bit. has been elected principal of
Willistown Academy, in West Ten
nCSSSCe.
Mr.. Isaac Bates showed the Monroe
| Register a bar of gold, the output of
the HOWE mine for a months run
The bar weighed a little over ten pounds
and was worth over 81, 600. Mr.. Bates
is working only about twenty hands
now, and the fact is demonstrated that
this is one of the richest mines in the
country.
The ice factory at New Berne is a
new and profitable acquisition to the
city. 1t turns out nine tons per day
and as it is not a member of the trust.
Sells its ice to the citizens at O~ne-fOurth
of a cent per pound. 1t will have to
run all the winter to supply the fish
dealers with ice, says the GOldsbOrC
Sentinel.
The Alexander county jail at TaylOrS-
vile, has lost three prisoners. The
names Of the three who all escaped
Sunday night, are Marcus James, L.
c.. league and w. NJ. Nance. They
broke down their cell door and pricing
bars from a hall window, let down a
rope which they had made of blankets
and escaped.
Raleigh Chrcnicie: Col. w. j. Hicks
has gone to Greensboro for the purpose
Of locating a place for a StOckade for
the cOnvicts who are to dig a canal for
the North Carolina Steel and Iron
Works. The canal will be the North
Buffalo Canal, and the Workman says
it will be fOur feet deep, 40 feet wide
and 5000 feet long.
Goldsboro Argus: Some months ago
the Argus noted the opening of a full
fledged cigar factory is this city by
Mr.. j. Cohen, of Premen. His enter
prise met with such success from the
start as to insure it's permanency and
determine him upon moving his family
here from Faderland. They have ar
rived safe and well.
Victor Caldwell, Of No. /, tells the
Concord Standard of a young water
melon vine he found in one of his
cotton fields. The vine is fOrty-six feet
long, has fifty-tWO melons on it and
over one hundred blooms, each of
which may make a melon apiece. 1t
is still "a-growing."
Laurinburg Exchange: There were
twenty-five conversions at Rev w. 3.
Deub'S series Of meetings at Snead
| Grove last week. - MIR. w. w. Rob
binssshappened to the misfortune of hav
ing the index finger Of his left hand
mashed off by a planning machine in
the shops here last Friday,
While hands were cutting out a new
road near Mr.. David Huntley's in
GuIledges township, yesterday, Mr.,
Tom Phillips was accidentally cut on
the thigh with an axe in the hands of
a cOlOred man. Our informant says
the wound is considered dangerous,
says the WadesbOro Messenger.
A gentleman, named Kornegay, had
the misfortune to have to kill a good
backwards and fell on a stob breaking
the rim of the abdomen. Nh. D. A.