The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-31

III CnaU county, aIChOugh as many as
seventeen murders have been com
mltted IN one year. Mitchell is i'm
proving every way, morally, socially
and financially.
Roxboro Courier: Deputy Collector
John +. Woody informs us that he was
on a raid last week with the following
result: At BOuldings Mountain, near
Stems, Granville Co, destroyed still
and 600 g lllOns beer; near Knapp of
Reeds, destroyed 500 gallons of beer
and still worm; near Bennehan Station
destroyed $50 gallons of beer.
Franklin Press: Mr.. D. J. Meadows
brought into our Office one day last
week a variety of minerals and gems
of various kinds that he found in ditch
ing on his place. - The grand jury
last week found a true bill against
bud" Bradley, charged with the
murder Of Terrell Curtis, April 14th,
1892. Bradley has not been arrested,
but is still in hiding
John Barlow, who was sent to the
p~enitentlary from Davie county several
weeks ago for the murder of James
Faircloth, is dead. He was taken to
one Of the p~enitentiary farms and put
at work ditching. He contractedfever,
from which he died a few days ago.
And so, says the Times, ends the last
chapter of the tragic story Of the Bar
ow-Faircloth murder.
Smithfield Herald: Freeman Sand
ers, a white man about 40 years Of age,
who has a wife and children who live
near here, is confined in Jail here for
insanity at the request Of his vile. He
is not judged by the county physician,
DIR. L. L. Sasser, as insane enough to
send to the asylum, but he had threat
ened violence to his wife, and to pre-
vent it the authorities placed him IN
Jail.
MI. Willie Clayton who has been for
some time employed on the G. Q. &
N. Railroad was severely scalded IN
his engine which jumped the track not
far from Atlanta, Ga, last Thursday
night. Mr.. Clayton was brOugh here
Friday morning and is now resting
easily. His injuries though painful
are not serious and we hope to see him
out again soon, says the Laurinburg
Exchange.
Goldsboro Argus: Several orphans
have arrived at the Odd Fellows Or
phans Home, just opened near here,
and the little ones + being cared for
and cultured with a thoughtful and
kindly supervision by superintendent
Whitfield, which marks him thus early
in his new charge as the right man for
the responsible position. God bless the
orphans, and prosper their new home
in our midst always
Mr.. RObt. Hines. living on Fourth
street, near the bridge Ove the Caro-
lima Central Railroad, was robbed of
nearly all of his household effects, dur
ing his absence from home yesterday;
the thief carried off, besides, a double
barrelled gun. A white man named
JnO. GoOding, suspected of the theft,
left the city on the sOuth-bOund train
last night and messages were sent over
the wires to stop him, says the vii
mington Star.
We learn that there is q man living
near Kenly that is over sixty years OF
age that a run as fast as a hawk can
dy. On one occasion he was sitting in
his yard when a hawk flew down and
caught a young chicken in it's claws
and was leaving with the chick, this
spry young man ran after the hawk,
caught it and killed it with his hand
before the chick was killed. This is
vOuched to Is a true story, says the
Smithfield Herald.
The New Berne Journal gives later
news of the assassination of Richard D.
McCotter in Pamlico county. Il says
the shot was fired from ambush, that
assassins are suspected and that devel-
opments r being awaited, Mr.. Nc
COtter separated from his wife about
twenty years ago, and three or four
years ago received. white cap" let
tiers, Oh account of intimacy with an
other woman, it Is said; and had e
c8ived another letter since.
Kings Mountain NcwS: A drummer
who has travelled over Tennessee and
Kentucky states that Mr.. Wares patch
of wheat is the finest he has seen. And
Mr.. Vim. Falls, Sr., says it is the finest
he ever saw. "A colOred boy who
lives with Peter Forney, named Will
Wagner, was swapping a pistol last
week which he supposed to be empty,
but as usual he came to a loaded cham
Der which was discharged, and the ball
entered his leg just above the knee.
Morganton Herald: Mr.. J. r. Erwin
brought to town last Monday a horned
snake, which measured four feet nine
inches in length and weighed two
pounds and ten ounces. 1t was killed
near the mouth of Silver creek by some
hands at work out there, The horned
snake is yellow and brown spotted,
slightly resembling the rattlesnake,
and the sting of it's horn, which is on
the tip of its tail, is said to be as poison
GUS as the bite Of the rattlesnake. The
horned snake is very rare IN this section.
New Brine Journal: In her eight
trips made during the last sixteen
days, steamer alone, the Neuse Of
the E. Q. D. line, has taken out nearly
200, 600 boxes of just two kinds Of
truck-cabbage and peas. The exact
figures are cabbages, 6,806; peas,
9,436 total, 1922, besides truck of
other kinds. Cabbages have been
shipped from here ever since Feb
rnarV. and the shinments will keep UP