The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20

Mirror.
Caroline Baldwin, who was serving
a term in Durham county wOrkhOuse
for infanticide, escaped on the 9th of
last March. Last week she was cap
tured at Gamers and brought back to
serve out her term.
TarbOro SOutheTner: Tobacco in the
neighborhOOd of so, 900 or so, 600 pounds
was brought, sold and bought here this
week and still the Centralists and
Pioneers cry for vow they will
double it next week.
Washington Gazette: Capt, Rodman
| received orders yesterday to hold a de-
tail of ten men in readyness for the
oyster war at any moment. The de-
tail has been made and the boys are
quaking in their boots.
The Raleigh Christian Advocate re-
ported 446 additions to the two North
| Carolina Conferences, NJ. E. Church,
last week, and the North Carolina
Presbyterian reported % additions in
the State to its church.
New Berne Journal: A telegram
| was received by Mr.. J. J. Baxter an
nouncing the death of his uncle, Capt.
j. w. Smith, at his home in Elizabeth
City. Capt. Smith had been i'll a year.
He was about SO years of age,
The last Of the gigantic boilers which
were used in the Sam Christian gold
mine in Montgomery county, was
shipped to Salisbury last week and will
be placed on duty in the new cotton
factory, the Stanly Netcs says.
Oxford Day: When the money
spent in new buildings in Oxford this
year is counted and the amount an
nOunced it will surprise most people,
even our own citizens. It will exceed
$50, 600 and probaly reach SIS, 600.
Fourteen counties have exhibits at
the exposition in specially decorated
spaces. These are Warren, Craven,
Edgecombe, Bladen, Hartford, Beau
fort, Wake, Granville, Wayne, Bun
combe, Ashe, Camden and BERTHE.
The Asheville Citizen says Mr.. H. L.
Clarke, a large Illinois contractor, was
robbed by two men of 1915, while he
was in the early evening returning
from the depot to the town. They pre-
scented pistols and made him disgorge.
Salisbury Herald: Mr.. H. T. Davis
of Hickory, a hagman IN the Western
road, was found dead in a shanty a
at Aston, S. G.. yesterday An eX-
animation of the body was held by the
coroner, who said his neck was broken.
Charlotte Chronicle: The sash, door
and blind factory has reached compile
ton and is now ready for full duty. A
railroad track has been built to the
door, and the work of loading and I'M
loading cars is. made comparatively
easy.
At Yadkinville recently Miss Dora
E. Pike, of Chatham county, while
deliriOus walked out of a window and
was fatally hurt. She had typhoid
fever. She tried to follow her sister,
but in a delirium mistOOk a window
for a door.
A new cotton factory for Gold Hill
| they say. A stock of IS, 900 has been
raised: $25, 900 is amount intended to
raise. We are glad to note this step,
and hope that Albemarle may at an
early day take a similar step, says
the Stanly NeUS.
Charlotte Nelcs Mrs. Stephens,
of Alexander county, dropped dead at
her home in Taylorsville yesterday
morning. She was at breakfast table
when the fatal stroke came. Heart
disease is believed to have been the
cause of her death.
The little boy of Mr.. and Mrs. Gil
land, of Poplar Tent, who has been
quite sick for awhile and with partial
paralysis afterwards, died Tuesday
night. The sympathy of the commun-
ity is with the bereaved parents, says
the Concord Standard.
Revenue officers Field, Patterson
and Welker, of Greensboro, made a
big haul in Davidson county last Mon
day evening, resulting in the seizure
Of four hundred gallons of blockade
brandy, in Silver Hill township, the
Lexington Dispatch says.
Rockingham Spirit of the South:
Gilbert COvingtOn, an aged and highly
respected cOlOred resident of this vicin-
ity, died a few days ago; at an advan
ced age. He was the father of twenty
five children by one wife. some twenty
one of whom still survive.
Oxford Ledger: DR.. Marsh admin
istered the right of baptism to twenty
one persons at Grassy Creek last Sun
day. Two-thirds of them were little
were fOrcibly brought to mind, "Of
such is the kingdom of heaven"
The new tobacco year begins most
auspiciOusly for Henderson. The Gold
Leaf says more pounds were sold dur
ing the twelve months ending Septem-
Der Both, than ever before, and the in
dications are that a higher point will
be reached during the next twelve.
Asheville Journal: The new Repub-
lican paper, the Asheville Banner, will
appear on the 18th. and will appear
every Sunday morning after that date.
The paper will be published by Roberts
& Haywood, late of Dayton, Tenn,
and will be controlled entirely by them.
Under the head "Oyster War" the
Washington Gazette has the following
item: Capt. Rodman received orders
| NeStnrdau To hnId q dntoil of ten man