The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
THE LATEST NEWS.
from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

LOT q week.
Mr.. Jas. Jones, of Lumberton, has
made an assignment.
Concord Times: 1t is proper to re-
mark that Chairman Smith knows
nothing about it.
An iron mine company has been in
.corporated In Granville county with a
capital stock of 800, 900.
Hatch Wall, colored, of Stanlv
county, took an overdose of laudanum
monday and killed himself.
Bridge Potter, 90 years old. a resi-
.dento of Beaufort county, walkedtwentv-
-four miles to Pamlico court.
!. A young lady named Alice Flippen,
IN Surry county committed suicide
Tuesday by cutting her throat.
The graduating class at Wake Forest
College this year is the largest in it's
history numbering thirty-eight.
John G. Davis, the ex lawyer and
swlndler of Wilmington, has been put
IN the Insane Asylum at Raleigh.
! 1t is now reported that the Third
will have a candidate for Con
,gress In every district in the State.
In Ashe county, Sunday night, a
young son of Samuel Plummer com
united suicide by hanging himself.
Waynesville now has a handsome,
new brick depot in place of the old
wooden n burned some time ago.
! There is to be still another lodge of
odd Fellows at Wilmington. Over
sixty names are already on the list.
5 James Nixon, a deserter from the
United States Army at Fortress
:Monroe, was arrested Friday at Dur
ham.
] Rev. DIR. T. H. Pritchard, pastor of
the Wilmington First Baptist church
rendered his resignation Monday
might.
The special truck train of the A. &
IN. @. Railroad, resumed it's regular
schedule Tuesd ~ after a short sus-
Ep%ension.
Oats are now being harvested in the
southern part of the State and the
Syield is very satisfactory to the
Farmers.
5 Will and Tom Whitson, brothers,
zhave just been convicted of the muir
sder of Kit Byrd in Mitchell county ten
years ago.
! Concord Times: Charter shares in
Sthe Salisbury Cotton Mill we're sold
there at public auction Monday at $141
ION the 500.
Mrs. Troy Phillips, of Robson
Scounty, was instantly killed by light
sning Thursday while drawing water
Sfrom a we'll.
New Berne Journal: Rev. T. M. N.
George has moved in his new home,
the handsome rectory which has just
sbeen completed.
Dunn Times: Mr.. j. r. Barefoot,
Sof Sampson county, has a field of cot
stOn of six acres in two counties and
sthree townships.
The foundation has been made for
the new jail and it will not be long till
THE walls will be completed, says the
Monroe Enquirer.
Winston Sentinel: Rev. p. F. w.
Peschau D D., of Wilmington, was in
1.-THE city to day and honored the Senti-
mel with a brief visit.
z Rev. A. w. Price, a we'll known
baptist preacher, a graduate of Wake
Forest College, died at Laurinburg a
few days ago, age 35.
Washington Gazette: Henry Harper,
ON trial for killing Freeman Whitley
both cOlored, was acquitted. The kill
sing was in self defence.
Greensboro Record: That was pretty
gluick word in the Blackman trial
He was a%rraigned, tried and convicted
Yin six hours and a half.
John Richardson, of Union county,
twas drowned the other day, but by
! hard word was resuscitated. He says
he "felt good while drowning.
Siler City Leader: Lightning struck
Sthe stable of Mr.. Roe Smith, about
sfour miles from here, last Sunday.
instantly killing a horse and mule.
More harvesting machines have beer
&sold here this year than in some years
SThe wheat crop will therefore, be
good, says the Lexington Dispatch.
The Presbyterian church at LIZ
SGrange was dedicated Sunday by Rev
wv. D. Morton, D. D. Of Henderson
sassisted by the pastor, Rev. A. FL
EMcArn.
More rice has been planted by oul
FARMERS this season than any hereto
sfore. The outlook for a good crop il
Every promising, says the Goldsbort
Headlight.
The first passenger train on the
#Wilson short cut was run Wednes
sday from Florence, S. G., to Wilson
SThis route shortens the distance abou'
Ssixty-fve miles.
Tarboro Southerner: Willis White
ghead, 80, and Major Willis, Is, in de
Fault of 800 bail each, were lodged II
jail Saturday for stealing a hog from
M. @. Anderson.
A fine mule of Mr.. @. A. jackson il
EPikville Township, was bitten by
poisonous snake Friday night, from
the effect of which it died Monday
says the Goldsboro Headlight.
Buffalo doomed, on Sunday, will
the biggest freshet it has ever known
sMuch damage was done. Patterson'
- I'D nnrt Of his dam marI