The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-30

celved fourteen members at Harmony
-~htfy-hve during the year.
Caswell Ne1rS: A few wee ks ago the
crop prospects in Caswell county were
the finest ever known. Everybody felt
good over the outlook. Now there is
gloom IN the land, for the drought has
lone no lnconsiderable damage.
There Is, we are informed, q man.
an excellent citizen Of Caldwell county,
who frequently rides on horseback,
his horse at the same time drawing q
top buggy. In not this something
new? asks the Hickory Mercury.
L~aurinburg Exchanges: Crop re
ports from all quarters are verV dis
cOuraging - Mrs Mary MCLAUGHLIN.
mother Of MIR. John MCLAUGHLIN, was
1Ol years old last May and still retains
her mental faculties unimpaircd.
Tuesday two negro boys, John Bost
ana Oscar Gross We're playing humble
peg IN the court square. A dispute
arose and Gross cut an ugly cash in
Bosts arm, barely missing the large
artery, says the Newton Enterprise.
Mr.. John Price was struck by a
plank thrown by the saw at his saw
mill III this county last Saturday and
at n time 1t was feared that he would
not recover, but We are glad to State
that he IS now improving says the
TaylOrSylile iHder.
JonesbOro NOnitOr: The corn crops
IN Moore county are literally burned
up. - Judge Winston sent a negro
to the p~enitentiary this week for one
year for stealing q watermelon. and a
negro WOman four years for SANDER
ing a white woman.
Last night some one entered thetCnt
Of j. J. Rogers, at the r. & D depot,
and stole a lot Of cigars and q book
keepers instruction book. a pocket
knife was left on the floor and cigars
were scattered around prOmi8cuOusly,
says the Durham Sun.
Some unknown person went to the
window of a COlOred man, Bartlett
Perry, nea Katesville, on Sunday
night, and shot Perry in the leg with a
shot gun, while he WIS asleep. The
would be murderer made his escape,
says the LOuisburg Times.
J. r. Young is busy putting up
ensilage at his stock and diary farm
near town. This is something farmers
and stock owners should give more at
teutiOn to. 1t is fine food, and there
need be no trouble about keep ping it.,
says the Henderson Gold Leaf.
Mr.. y. P. Baker was in town last
Tuesday. Says he has a fine, large,
live, fat TattIesnake Gagged at home,
intimated that he would sell him at q
low figure to any one wanting such a
winter, says the Danbury Post.
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continued drought has greatly dam
aged crops IN this section. Several
sections Of the county have been
visited this week by showers which
did good, but they came too late for
many fields Of corn and cotton.
Mr.. +. O.. Harris. of Fishing Creek,
IS not s. much on raising Irish pOta-
toes, but he is hummer on big squash.
He pulled one a few days ago that
measured 40 inches round, 20 in hes
long, and weighed half dried %!
pounds, says the Oxford Ledger.
On the night Of August 10th at Tri
angle. Lincoln county, the store house
and dwelling house combined belong
ing to Mr.. Horace King was destroyed
by fire, The entire stock Of goods and
all the furniture, except a piano and
some small articles, were burned.
Charlotte Nelc8: John Massey, a
negro hailing from MOoresborO, n. c.,
a small station on the three CS road,
was brought to Charlotte in charge Of
an officer from MOOresbOrO charged as
being the one who so foully murdered
Policeman James Moran in April last.
The Thebe Saunders gold mine again
comes to the front with an UnpreCe-
denied yield of the precious metal.
The Observation-Disclosures while working
a thought to be. exhausted shaft, from
a single washing obtained n quart
of the yellow dust, says the Stanly
NelCS.
Lincoln Courier: Fir. I. r. Self
raised of his own sowing, 700 bushels
oE-wheat this year. One thousand and
sixty-seven bushels were produced on
his lands by himself and tenants, and
the pretty part Of it all is that he says
there is not a grain of it Third party
wheat.
Mr.. Henry Cornelius, Of Mountain
Creek township cut a whiteOak tree
the other day for boards. It measured
four feet, seven inches across the
stump and thirteen feet in Circum-
ference, and was the dOmicile of two
swarms of bees, says the Newton
Enterprise.
On last Sunday when Mr.. Jesse Rich
ardson was returning from Browns
Chapel in his buggy, his mule ran away
and he and his little boy were thrown
out, and the former had three ribs
broken and the latter's leg vas broken,
saws the Chatham Record.
The man who shouts for prohibition
and votes for it and then drinks all the
whiskey he can get is not doing much
for the cause. There are two many
whiskey-drinking prOhibitionists in
this county for the cause to prosper as
it ought to do,-Co'o Dina Spartan.
A correspondent writes us from Ne
bane that Mr.. Thomas Foster, near