The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-19

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Is olo r. out land being built up
where it comes from and we're glad of
IL. Our farmers are progressive and
are rapidly changing from old ruts to
a new order of things.
Charlotte Observer: We once wrote
a local personal to this effect: Pro
lessor w. Scott, the writing master,
was IN the city yesterday" and the
printer put it up Professor E. w.
Scott, the visiting rooster, was in the
city yesterday" What strikes us,
after the lapse of a year, as most
singular about the affair, is that the
printer was permitted to live minute.
Rockingham Rocket: The Jail cost
the county just $1O1.O2 during the
month of May - The corn crop Of
the county is reported not very prom
lsing. - Nearly every train from
Laurinburg brings a recruit or two for
the county jail as a result of the liquor
Investigations going on in that town.
They have just closed a big meeting
down there and + about to dry up
the town.
Mr.. Walter L. Chamberlain, Con
ductor of the Richmond Division of the
A. @. L., met with a sad death yester-
day morning while on duty. He was
looking out of his caboose car near
Petersburg as the train he had charge
of was running with a hot box, and
leaning a little too far out, his head
struck against the bridge at Reams'
station, killing him instantly, says the
Wilmington Star.
St~atesvilIe Landmarks: Lightning
struck a tree in the yard of Mr.. Sam
Moore, near Amity, in Chambersburg
township, last Thursday night. The
tree stood near his granary and the
building caught fire and I wire clothes
line, running from the granary to the
smoke house, carried the current to
the smoke-house and set in on fire also.
Both fires were extinguished before
any damage was done.
Elizabeth City CarOLinian: Mr.. T.
J. Murden, of this county, met with
a heavy loss on Monday night. Some
fiend fired his stables, burning them,
with the hay and twelve head of mules
and horses. There was no insurance.
- Since E A. White took charge of
this district 1911 illicit distilleries have
been captured, and there have been 81
seizures of illicit whiskey. He took
charge not quite three years ago.
Tarboro SOutherner: Granville Hy-
man, a peaceable cOlOred citizen of
~Princeville, yesterday al nearly killed
by the blow from an axe in the hands
of another cOlOred man, Sam Station.
Station is not very bright and is said to
be crazy The blow he aimed at Hy-
man was deadly enough, only it did
not strike the head at the right angle.
1t glanced and carried away a piece
Of skin nearly two inches in diameter.
Glenn Fair, of Burke, who for some
mysterious reason, Our Country, of
MOrganton, calls "a centurian," died
on the Both of June. aged 1913 years.
Our Country says: He could climb
any kind of a tree, and at the cele-
brated Henry Clay mass meeting in
MOrganton, in 1914, he climbed the
dag pole and drank a health to Henry
Clay from the top, a distance of eighty
feet from the ground" says the Press
and C~aTOLinIGn.
On last Friday DR.. Stewart and a
Mr.. Haupt had a difficulty over some
money at their gold mine on the head
of Johns River. Stewart assaulted
knocked him down with a Monkey
wrench, where he lay unconscious for
some time, and when assistance came
it was discovered that his leg was
broken. DIR. Reeves is attending him,
and reports him doing we'll, says the
Watauga Democrat.
Siler City Leader: The excessive
wet weather has injured wheat crops
left shocked in the field, and grass is
fairly making hay in the corn fields
while the sun don't shine. -- There
is a sycamore tree at the spring of J..
M. Bridges, in this township, Is feet
and 4 inches in circumference, which
is said to have grown from a hand
spike that was stuck in the ground
near the spring. This is said to have
been handed down by good authority.
In a difficulty in Ford's alley Dress
Neck) last night at 1 o'clock, John
Rhyme, a sailor on the British steamer
Smeaton Tower, was STABBED with a
knife by the steward of the schooner
Oracle Brady. The difficulty oc-
Cured in the house of a colored
woman, Mary Potas. DR.. Potter went
down and dressed the wound. The
cut is not a very serious one, but the
knife came within a narrow space of
the artery. The cut was in the right
arm, says the Wilmington MESSENGER.
An accident happened yesterday
evening near Parkersburg to the local
freight train which left here shortly
after 2 o'clock on the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railroad. No particu-
lars we're received, but it is stated that
the locomotive jumped the track and
that eight cars were derailed. The
engine and cars are said to be con-
siderably damaged, but the real ex-
tent of the wreck is not known. Mr..
Arthur Dixon, of Fayetteville, who
was engineer on the wrecked train,
got his arm broken, but it was learned
that no one else was hurt, says the
Wilmington Messenger.
A Miss Vaughn recently died in