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

w. H. Mozingo, which terminated in
seriously wOunding of Mozingo, who
was struck on the head with a chair
Headlight.
MISS Belle summey, of Pennsylvania
county, eloped from a church with Mr..
:. b. Tinsley, and the made rapid time
to the South Carolina line, where a
preacher married them. Only a few
days ago he married the brides grand
mother on the same spot, says the
Richmond Dispatch.
While Master Dock, the ten year-old
son Of Policeman T. M. Head, was
playing on a hand car near the A. &
N. q: Railroad depot, Saturday even
Ing, he fell from it, the car passing
over him, inficting some painful, but
luckily not fatal injuries, says the
Goldsboro Headlight.
Tarboro SOutherner: A bare quorum
of the justices of the county met here
to day, and without opposition, re
clnded the action taken at the June
meeting with regard to working the
public roads will have to be worked
In the old, unjust way, and travel will
be lmpeded as before.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Hays Bros,
who live on Hunting Greek have been
very successful with their wheat crop
this year. Thy sOwed just six bushels
and three gallons of wheat and have
harvested therefrom $50 dozen bundles,
which Is safely calculated to thrash
out 200 bushels of good wheat.
Smithfield Herald: Mr.. Thos. Man
ming, lngrams' township, died suddenly
at his home on Sunday night. He re
| tired &C TUo11 90 11CyrO1 OoI A. -s~Lk IL
ing warm, made a pallet on the floor
and lay down. His wife called him in
the morning and he failed to answer
and she went to him and found him
dead.
A cOvey of seventeen tramps was
flushed near the Oliver Oil Mills last
night and ten are lying in the guard
house awaiting a free pass out of town.
When found they were all lying down
In a pile of cotton seed hulls enjoying
the moonlight, though evidently wait
ing to slip into the city, says the Char
lOtte NelCS.
LOuisburg Times: Lightning struck
the Baptist church on Thursday night
OF last week, just as prayer meeting
services were concluded and before the
people had left the church. A number
were shocked and badly frightened,
but strange to say no one was hurt.
The damage to the church amounted
to about $25.
During the thunder storm Friday
night lightning struck the store of
Marshall & Co. in the eastern part of
the town, tearing off several boards
and demOlishing several window panes
on the front. Mr.. VIM Robinson was
stunned but two boys sitting near the
window struck escaped unhurt, says
the atlantic Seaside
A party of men in disguise, Satur-
day night, went to the home of Steve
Thompson, a white man, who lives
near Pine Level, and gave him and
his wife a terrible thrashing. They
are accused of having depraved and
immoral character and several rob
berries are laid at their door, says the
Goldsboro Headlight.
Kinston Free Press: Moses Abbott,
a colored man, is jail here crazy. He
went South with Peg Leg Williams
about two years ago. He got tired of
it, and walked back. His wife was to
come on the cars. 1t has been six or
eight months since he returned, and
his wife has not returned. This prob
ably explains the cause of his insanity.
Lumberton RO6esOni0n: Cotton and
late corn were injured by the excessive
rains, but old corn was benefited. But
the rains were not evenly distributed
over the county, for while the lands
were flooded and the crops suffering
for work in some sections; in others
the weather was too dry, so that in
some places the rains of last week were
not excessive.
TIsoI-o.- D,ooo O.oJ T-.oT.
Deputy Marshal H.. w. Jones made a
raid Thursday and captured Henry
POteet, near JugtOWn, who was run
ming an illicit distillery. He gave bond.
Friday another arrest was made and
Samuel La! ell was brought from South
mountains for a similar ~offense. Both
distilleries were destroyed and the
liquor c~onfscated.
Mr.. w. A. j. Sharpe killed a mad
hog at his place, near Bellemont, Tues
day morning. About three weeks ago
a mad dog passed through the neigh
borhOod of Bellemont. Evidence of
it's passing through Mr.. Sharpe's farm
was discovered, in that it had worried
a hog. The dog bit two dogs at Mr..
Jacob BoOn's, which were killed, says
the ALamGnce Cleaner.
daughter of Capt. A. j. Ellington,
was attacked by a vicious COW near
Col. A. J. Boyd's the other day and
was very painfully bruised. Her
clothing was badly torn and had it
not been for her corset, which was
made of very strong material, she
would probably have received fatal
injuries, says the Reidsville Weekly.
A smart tramp smiled upon our
classic little city Sunday morning.
He proposed to cut wood for a snack,
but the offer to violate the Sabbath
was not entertained. He was given