The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-01

Winston Sentinel: The floors Of the
grocery department of Hinshaw and
Medarls' store on Fourth street col
!apsed yesterday afternoon, resulting
IN a loss of about 50, 1000 to the sock
and considerable injury TO the build
ing. Water had affected the west
wall
10 show the increased suction that
Is tearing away the Sudderth mill dam
a given Lower creek, it is stated that
opposite the mouth of the creek in
CataWba river, a bank of sand has
accumulated extending almost half
way across the river, says the Lenoir
Topic.
surveys and measurements were
made last week, with a view of de-
termlnlng how much asystem of water
works would cost for LenOir. An album
dand supply of water could, the Topic
states, be sent by force of gravity to
a height of 40 feet above the public
square.
Last Friday morning the store build
ing of BagleN Brothers, of Bagley, N.
e., was burned. The entire stock of
goods and p~ostoffice fixtures were
burned. Loss about 81, 900; insurance
81, 400. 1t vas doubtless the work Of
a malicious person, says the Smithfield
Herald.
Oxford Day.: Richard w. Harris,
Of Henderson, died on the train near
Charleston, S. c., Saturday. He was
on his way to Ocala, Fla. He had been
sick with the grip for some weeks The
remains we're brought back to Hender-
son, and inferred Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock.
DR.. Fred FOard, Of Bandy's town
ship, was called on last week to ampu
tate the arm of a young man named
Cobb. His hand was torn to pieces
the day previous by the bursting of an
overloaded musket. 1t was cut off just
above the wrist, says the Hickory
Press and Carolinian.
Winston Sentinel: In Davie county,
Mr.. Adam Huffman, an industrious
white man, while cutting off a log on
a tree which he had felled met with
the misfortune, a. the log dropped off
falling with it and getting caught
underneath, the result of which was
almost an instantaneous death.
The house of Giles eagle, coIored, on
Mr.. +. a. Archibald's place, was
burned on Friday, February IL, and
all the contents destroyed. The fire
occurred at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
and there was no one at home. 1t is
believed that it was the work of an
incendiary, says the Concord Times.
1t is a misdemeanor to sell a package
of garden or other seeds unless it bears
the date of the year in which it was
put up. Thu Winston Sentinel says
that warrants for indictments have
been made out by the sheriffs in several
counties in the State against parties
who have sold seeds not bearing q
date.
Last week the Carthage Blade stated
that Graham Tyson and John Cal
hammer had been shot by revenue
officers. 1t is denied, and Ben. Tyson,
a brother Of Graham Tyson, is said to
be the one who was shot. The ball
lodged in the calf of his leg. He
was leaving a blockade distilley, on
a run.
Raleigh Chronicle: A telegram re
ceived yesterday afternoon from Kin
ston announced the death of Mrs.
James P. Bryan. The Rev. J. P.
Barrette, D. D, late of this city, but
now of Norfolk, Va, has been chosen
to deliver the annual curse of lectures
before Union Christian College, of In
diana, for 1892.
Red Springs Farmer and Scottish
Chief: It is a matter of great surprise
to us that there is only one student at
Chapel Hill from Robson county. The
more, as a friend at I'll elbow recalls
the fact that before the war" Robe
son sent more students of the Uni
versity than any county in the State
except Edgecombe.
Mr.. J. II. Stanley, an industrious
farmer of Migrants township, says that
he has a goose on his farm that was
setting when Sherman's army passed
through here in 1865. She is fat and
seemingly as young as any goose, but
by the trials and tribulation she has
encountered is minus onefoot, says the
Smithfield Herald.
He~ndersonville Times: On Wednes
day, the 10th inst, a shooting affray
occurred on North Main street, about
6 o'clock o. m, between B. B. jackson,
chief of police, z. B. Arledge, his assist
ant, on one side, and George Cathey,
of Mills River, and Walter Spears, OF
Asheville, on the other, in which
Arledge and Spears vel wounded.
Mr.. E. M. Eskridge informs us that
a large gray wolf was killed near John
Y~arborough's in the neighborhood OF
Waco Sunday night. Seven loads OF
shot we're fired into it before it was
killed. 1t had gone in5o Mr.. Var
borough's yard, caught of his dogs
by the neck and was making off with
it when killed, says the Shelby ReUieoC,
Greensboro Workman: The remains
of Mr.. James Hodgin, a prominent
young ~tobacconist of Winston and 6
member of the firm of Hodgin Bros. &
Lunn, passed through here this morn
ing en- route to Winston, accompanied
by his young wife and several friends
His death occurred at Salisbury last
evening at 7:3O o'clock, of pneumonia
A N Lewis q nnlicaman Of Winston