The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-28

16L OH a o OF hay yesterday and
was right badly hurt. The wagon on
winch he was riding was coming down
the abutment of the Eleb9 bridge, few
miles from the city, when Mr.. Mangum
lost his balance and fell to the ground.
he was unconscious for some time
after the accident happened.
The Monroe Enquirer makes the fol-
lowing suggestion: If you are not
ashamed of your farm get a sign
painted with your name on it and nail
up IN a conspicuous place near your
mouse If this idea was generally car
rled out it would be found a great COM
tort and convenience to strangers trav-
cling through the country.
The Richmond & DanvilIe Railroad.
by order of Judge Bond goes into hands.
OF Receiver. That will not interfere
with the operation of the road nor the
effectiveness Of the service as same
othcers Will retain their places. 1t
SIMPLY means that some others than
the syndicate are to have a finger IN
the pie as to the profits, says the Will
son Mirror.
ROXboro COuri7r: Mr.. w. A. ellis,
near Bethel Hill, was in town last
Monday and gave us a pleasant call
He had with him some fine specimens
OF copper, silver and iron + dis
covered on his property, and that of
DIR. Merritt, in this county. Mr.. ellis
is confident that when the mineral of
this county is developed it will open
the eyes of the world.
Asheville Gazette: The recent acci-
dents on the Murphy branch has caused
the railroad commission to notify Col.
A. B. Andrews to discontinue the
mixed passenger and freight trains on
North Carolina Railroad, and to run
the passenger and freight trains en-
tirely separate. This it is believed will
reduce the danger of accidents.
All the employees of the r. &. D.
Railroad at this place, from R l.
Vernon the agent, down to the night
Waterman, were discharged this morn
ing, receiving the notification direct
from General Manager Green, At the
same time, they were all reemplOyed.
This course was necessary by reason
of the appointment of receivers for the
road, says the Greensboro Record.
A certain trucker of Mount Olive
who shipped eight barrels of potatoes
to New York recently received last
Monday eight two cent stamps as net
returns from his shipment. Another
trucker of that town who shipped
eleven barrels was charged up by the
commission merchant with 43 cents
deficiency to pay freight and incidental
expenses, says the G0ldsbOro Head
light.
Kings Mountain Neu8: We are
reliably informed that some SINE ago
Larken Kiser and Gus Weber killed
in one day from three brush piles
seventeen snakes, and they think some
may have been burnt, or escaped, and
they did not get them all. This hap
| pened on the head waters Of Sellers
Fork about two miles above the place
where Bob Rhyme saw the monster
snake.
Morganton Herald; If there are any
who think this is not a fine grass cOun-
try, let them look at the State Hospital
grounds and get the reports Of the i'm
mense yields of hay. By skilful man
agement what was q few years since
an old hillside field, grown up in pines
and furrowed with gullies, has been
made to produce as fine clover and
timothy as can be found in Western
North Carolina.
On last Saturday evening, a negro
was killed on the G., C. & N. Railroad,
uear Atlanta. The train was going
into Atlanta, and a train on the
| Georgia Railroad was coming out from
the city. The darkey in getting out
of the way of the train on the Georgia
road, jumped on the track of the g.,
@, 81 n. in front of the passenger train,
and was instantly killed, says the
Monroe Enquirer.
Rockingham Spirit Of the South -:
We are informed that a young COlOred
boy a few days since captured a pet
kitten in front of a residence in this
town, and after cutting off both Of it's
fOrelegs and it's nose, left it on the
sidewalk. If this young brute should
live to be older and commit some nor
rible crime against the laws of society
and the State and be lynched by a
mob, he would have no sy~mpathizers.
Greensboro Record: Mr.. 7. L. Chick,
mOulder in Sergeant's foundry, got a
a small piece of coal in one of his
fingers about nine years ago, which
has panied him at intervals ever since.
The other day he discovered something
working towards the surface on his
finger. Without much trouble he eX-
tracted it and found that it was the
piece of coal which had worked around
and almost came out of itself. His
finger healed up at once and he suffers
no more inconvenience from it.
John Hands, colored, a barber, lives
in a house in the vicinity of the rock
quarry. John has a SICK child. Sat
urday, the child was taken from it's
cradle and carried to another part of
the house by it's mother. Just then a
blast went off in the quarry. A rock
as big as a persons head crushed
through the roof of Johns house,
smashed a hat rack and landed in the
cranile. Had this feat been performed
ten minutes sooner, the child would
have henn killed SAWS the Charlotte