The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-03

being the man who killed ]. b. Miller.
has a crap" in one of his ears, bitten
out in a light by his uncle, as a
Little River subscriber writes to the
Topic.
win colts were given birth to on
last Wednesday by a mare belonging
to Mr.. Daniel Q. Holt, near here. One
was large and the other small, but
both of them died, says the Alamance
Cleaner.
Raleigh Chronicle: When the $500
license tax was imposed on each brand
of fertilizer there were only So brands
on sale in the State. Now there are,
34S brands on sale under the tonnage
tax system.
Smithfeld Herald: The cotton fac
tory will be built. - Sheriff Filing
ton took Mrs. w. G. HOlloweIl. wife
of Mr.. w. G. Hollowell, and Mrs. J. c.
Ballard to the Insane Asylum a Raleigh
last Saturday.
Winston Sentinel: Mrs. Julia E.
Wilson, wife of Judge Thomas j. Will
son, after an illness of several months,
breathed her last at 1 o'clock this morn
ing, of heart disease, at her home on
Second street.
1t was rumored at Winston, the
Sentinel says, that Mcknight, who as
sisted in the robbing of Mrs. Taylor,
at Mt. Airy over a year ago, has been
located in West Virginia, and will be
arrested shortly
The negro George Houston alias
Edward Whitney, who was arrested at
Winston Friday night upon the charge
OF being the man who murdered police
man Moran in Charlotte is still in GUS
tOdy, the Sentinel reports.
Statesville Landmarks: After the
first a was over many people have
found that all the peaches are not
killed, There are a good many left in
places, but all in all, the prospects for
a peach crop are not ~fattering.
Norwood Vidette: Mrs. John Swar
ingen, who lives down on FL. @.
Turner's plantation, met with a pain
full accident last Monday. While cut
ting some wood, a piece few up and
hit her In the eye, putting it out.
The Raleigh Signal says that Mr.. @.
T. Bailey, Jr., of Raleigh son of Rev.
DIR. Q. T, Bailey, editor of the Biblical
Recorder, has allied himself with the
Republican party, and was in the re-
cent Republican State Convention.
Siler City Leader: Mrs. Jonathan
Blackstone, aged about so years, of
Long Branch, Alamance county, died
on Tuesday, the 18th inst, of measles
Her son, Quincy Blackstone, died a
few days before of the same disease.
Mr.. Henry Shaffer, while fishing in
M~ecklenburg county a day or so ago,
caught an eel which had 81 fish hooks
in its mouth. Some of the hooks had
bits of strings to them, showing that
| tho limos bod hoon hrOHon hu tho oo1
Dom Sheridan, a printer at Whining
ton, is dangerously hurt. His throat
was cut from ear to ear Monday even
ing a drunken negro attempted to
murder Sheridan after the latter had
tried to keep him from being run over
by a train.
Spyker Smith. D. D.. died at his resi-
dence OF his grandson in this place
last night at 1870 o'clock, in the Saith
year of his age, after an attack of
bronchitis aggravated by the weak
ness of advanced age.
Wilson Mirror: Our whole COM
munity is grieved to know that failing
health has compelled A. w. Rowland
to retire from business, and to seek
that rest and quiet which he so much
needs. He has been engaged in bust
ness for twenty years.
We hear that one of our Mason Cross
boys is going down to Marion, 8. O.,
after a wife about the 1st of May. Our
young men should patronize home in
dUstries, especially in domestic mat
tiers. Don't cross the line, says the
Laurinburg Exchange.
Southport Leader: Mrs. Annie Rus
sell, wife of the late Charles Russell,
and sister of Capt. T. M. Thompson,
died on last Thursday evening at the
Carolina House. Mrs. Russell was
born in this city So years ago and has
lived here most of her life.
Wlkesboro NeaUs: The Rev. James
McGrady, cOlored, says he is a. Demo
crat; that he votes that ticket, and
also that he has never failed to get q
favor when he applied to Democrats.
The colored preacher requested us to
make this statement for him.
Greensboro Record: The Kelley In
stitute patients-some seventy odd
had their group photographed yester-
day.-At the meeting of college pro-
fessors at Greensboro Saturday, April
23d, there will be organized a State po-
litical and social economic society.
A gentleman of this city, who knows
uC1OO4 AO 0POOh0, was LII IL COul4O4
on Sunday. He says the wheat crop
is fne-far beyond his expectation
and that from present appearances
there will be a good fruit crop, says
the Hickory Press and CarOlimIon
Sunday night Chief of Police Smith
captured a strange negro who was well
loadedfor burglary. Hehad his pockets
full of different sizes of keys and knives.
The negro was on the premises of MI.
J. F. Joyner just before being cap
tured, says the Greenville Reflector.
Passengers who arrived on the Caro-
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