The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-29


money taken Watch was kept and
two of the thieves were caught in the
act. They proved to be g. G. Collier,
who has two deformed hands, and had
been begging on the streets, and A w.
Barnes who had passed as a sewing
machine repairer in the town for a few
weeks, the Gazette says.
Monroe Enquirer: On last Friday
night Bishop Lyman held confirmation
services in st. Paul's Episcopal Church
at this place. He was assisted by Revs.
Jeffries, of Charlotte, and Quinn, Of
WadesbOro. A very large crowd was
present-more than could get into the
church. Bishop Lyman preached one
OF his characteristic and able sermons
which was greatly appreciated. Eight
persons were confirmed.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: We learn
that considerable land has been sold
within the last few days, near Rocky
Mount at from $50 to 500 per acre
Although our farmers are nearly all
going into raising tobacco, and reducing
the acreage of cotton, instead of plant
ing a large acreage, which they could
not properly attend to, they will re
strict their crops to such size as can
receive proper and careful attention.
Wadesboro Messenger InteUigencer :
Mr.. J. J. Blues and daughter, Miss
Fannie Bob, Of Tennessee, are visiting
Mr.. Biles' brothers, Me8ers. Robert and
Alex. Biles, of this county this week.
MI. j. j. Biles is 81 years old and is One
eldest of a family of nine bhildren-all
~boys-eight of whom are still living,
the youngest being 81. The combined
| w Of oil OS~IA Nf @Lo oL3Ilu0o oe 49,
family who are still alive is $50 years.
Greensboro Workman: Miss Dora
| Jones, formerly of Greensboro, is now
studying in Berlin, wrote a friend a
few days ago in which she gave a very
interesting account of what she is doing
in the German capital. She has fallen
SO much in love with the country that
she thinks of making it her permanent
home, Since she has been IN Berlin
she has associated herself with Miss
Willard in conducting a school for
American young ladies.
4 great deal more guano is being
sold at PittsbOrO than the Record had
supposed would be sold this spring.
One firm has ordered ten car loads,
and nearly all of it is engaged. The
Record very sincerely wishes that
every farmer could use only home
made fertilizers, and thus keep in
| circulation at home all the money
paid out for foreign fertilizers. There
would not then be SO much need of the
Suk-Treasury in every county.
AsheviIe Citizens: George Wander
bilt has shown his good spirit by o
tributing from the forests of his estate
nine trunks of trees, which are to go
to Chicago to become a part of the
North Carolina forestry building at
the Columbian Exposition. Each piece
is twenty-five feet in length, and will
be used as columns in the construction
of the building. Mr.. Vanderbilt sent
the trunks to Matt Atkinson & Sons,
and they will be shipped tonight di-
I5cJ to Chicago.
Henderson Gold Leaf: The case of
Dibrell & Walker, against the Georgia
Home Insurance Company to recover
81, 600 insurance on their tobacco prize
factory burned a few years ago, has
been decided in favor of the plaintiffs.
Representative Williams says that
his plan to have cigarettes made exclu-
sively of tobacco, abolishing entirely
the paper covering, Is meeting with
favor from t~ObaccOnists. He has re-
ceived a large number Of letters from
his constituents endorsing the project.
Winston Sentinel: Col. Thos. H.
Sutton returned last night from Raj
eigh, where he has been attending the
Supreme Court. The Colonel says the
people down there are still talking
politics. "Gov. Holt seems to be
the choice of the old line Democrats,
and has a strong following for re nom
nation" said he to a Sentinel reporter,
but it is hard to tell now who will be
the winning man at the State COnven
ton in May. That the Alliance will
oppose Hollis nomination there seems
to be no doubt"
Morganton Country: The farmers
sa' that the present stand of growing
small grain is somewhat poor, owing
to the dry weather last Fall, which pre-,
vented the seed from coming up; be.
sides, it has also been considerably
thinned out by frOst.--A colOred wO
man named Martha Conley was shot
and killed on the night of March I'd, in
Mitchell county. The shot was fired
by some one standing on the outside
through a crack in the cabin. Chas.
HobsOn, a boy sixteen years of age, is
charged with the crime.
Asheville Citizen: N. w. Fain, the
taxidermist, to-day showed the Citizen
q magnificent male specimen of the
golden eagle. This one was caught in
a trap in the Smoky mountains, to
gether with the female and two of their
young. The eagles had been killing
hogs in the section in which they were
caught. The male measures z feet
from tip to tip, while the female meas
ures Z feet II inches. Three of the
eagles have been stuffed and mounted
by Mr.. Fain, and the fourth will be
treated in the same manner as 500 al
his plumage has grown out.
Southport LEADER: The fishing idee
seems to have taken root at Southport
and Capt. J. T. Harper has started the