The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-08

taking in the whole crowd and Shoot
ing Charlie BObO through the hand,
and using his pistol too freely, So we
have been informed"
Salisbury W0tchmUn: Less than
| 900 bales of cotton have been sold i'll
this market this fall. Not half as
much as this time Of season last year.
Two Mormon missionaries nave
for some time been trying to get ad-
mission into some of our school houses
in the country to preach, but SO far as
we learn their efforts have been in
vain.
Carthage Blade: Messrs. N. N
Dunlap, M. B. Morris and others will
tram railroad from Curriesville to
| Carthage. Steam will be the motive
power. We stated about two weeks
since that Mr.. Thomas H. Harrington
was burned out. Mr.. Harrington was
here Saturday, and told us that his loss
was at least 81, 900.
The Charlotte NeW8 a few days ago
noted the departure for Mexico Of
Misses Stephenson and Boyce, who
left there as missionaries in Mexico
for the Associate Reformed church.
Letters received from them indicate
that they reached their destination
after having been compelled to leave
nearly all of their baggage in the
hands of the Mexican customs off
Gals.
A car load of granite consisting of
one huge block of excellent quality
and texture and weighing over nine
teen tons, from the Mount Airy Granite
COmpany'S quarries, passed through
here a few days ago on its way to
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as a base for an important monument
which in the near future will adOrn
the Quaker city, says the Greensboro
Record.
Oxford Dag: Died, in Malvern, Ark,
on November Is, 1891, DR.. Lewis D.
Cooper. He was a brother Of u
tOwnsman, j. Q. Cooper. DR.. Cooper
was born in Granville county, Novem-
Der, 1918, and moved to Arkansas in
1915, where he practiced medicine until
ten or twelve years ago, when he re
tired from an active life and spent the
remainder of his years with his children
in Malvern.
Smithfeld Herald: On Tuesday
morning the trestle across Black creek
was discovered to be on fire by Mr..
lack WellOns who lives near by. 1t
IS thought that it caught from a spark
from the mail train which passed that
morning. 1t was beginning to burn
rapidly when Mr.. Wellons found it
and he had just succeeded IN distin-
gushing the fire when the north bound
freight came along
Some North Carolina green goods
simpietOns and ~rasca's, perhaps, have
been caught in New York. They said
they were Albert Allen and q. l..
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mitted that they had come North to
buy "green goods, and had paid out
$500 Of good money. superintendent
Smith advised them to hurry home
and relate their experience to the
neighbOrS as a warning.
We learn from Mr.. w. @. Balm, who
was i'll town Tuesday, that Judge
Schenck and his son of Greensboro,
were robbed Of several hundred dollars
Monday night. The burglars went into
their rooms, ri1ed their pockets of
money and watches, and took the
pistols from under their beds. Bold
thieves, indeed! Burglars h~averecently
visited other towns to the west of us,
says the Alamance Cleaner.
Windsor LEDGER: While Mr.. w. j.
Myers, who lives about four miles from
Windsor, was digging mari on his farm
last week, he found seven feet under
ground the half of an iron staple four
inches long. This shows conclusively
that when that part of this county was
under water somebody dropped the
piece of iron overheard from a boat.
The presence of mari is evidence of the
land being under water at some remote
period.
DR.. George w. Graham tells the
Meas that Gen. Bradley I. Johnston
will be in Charlotte in a few days to
gather data in regard to the Mecklen~
burg Declaration of Independence.
Gen. Johnston has given a challenge
to some of the opponents of the Dec
laratlOn to meet HIM in debate, before
an audience of their own selection, and
it is to fortify himself with facts in
regard to the authenticity of the Dec
lara5lOn that he proposes to visit
Charlotte.
Toe Penitentiary Board has ap-
pointed three of their number to visit
8Cabarrus and secure, If possible, 10, 600
acres of land for farming the con
victs. They want ali the land between
Buffalo and COddle Creeks one way,
and bet ween the Beatie's Ford road
and Rocky river roads the other way
says the Charlotte Meas. Within these
bounds about $500 acres have been
secured and the remainder can easily
be gotten. They want to rent for ten
years with the privilege of buying.
On Monday of last week Mr.. JAS.
Usher, of Lancaster county, S. c., was
in town, and left in a wagon with a
negro man. He stopped at Mr.. U. r.
RObinsOn's, who lives one mile south
of town, and while there got into a
row with Robinson which resulted in
Usher receiving a severe lick on the
head with a chair and it is said a stab
| also. The negro carried Usher home