The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

pretending to be crazy. The Jones
+ Leader asks, WAS he ever &C.
Cused of being crazy before the muir
derT' and adds, IF not, he ought to
take kinks out of a piece of hemp"
Winston Sentinel: The two China.
men who conduct a laundry in the
Starbuck block. on Main street. were
attacked about go o'clock Saturday
night by two big negroes near the
corner of Main and First streets, and
one OF them al robbed # $45. One
of the negroes held him while the other
ransacked his pockets.
The Asheville city government has
definitely declined the offer of Coffin
& Stanton, bankers of New York and
London, to take $3.50. 900 of it's bonds,
coupled with a contract for sewer work
to the amount of 81, 600, 600, on the
ground that the bankers would give
no security either as contractors or
holders of the city's bonds.
just a month ago, Mrs. Esther
Salter, living in Carteret county, left
the house of a kinsman to go to a place
three miles away. She was seventy
years old. No tidings of her could be
gathered, and this week very extern
slve search was made. This has re-
suited IN the discovery of her body.
She had died of hunger and cold.
One day last week DR.. B T. Cox lost
about 4 900 pounds of fodder by fire.
A hand was burning brush i'll a field
about SO yards from where the fodder
was stacked and by the grass catching
the fire was communicated to the fod-
der before it could be extingushed.
The doctors barn and stables narrowly
escaped burning, says the G~reenville
Reflector.
Raleigh Visitor: Grasshoppers are
getting plentiful in some sections,
which Is held to be Indicative of an
early spring and dry summer. -
Everything ne 'essary for the complete
and most comfortable heating of the
Executive Mansion is now in operation.
We doubt if any Governor in the State
is better provided with domestic CON
forts than ours.
Oxford Day.: The dead body of a
new born child was found this morning
in a thick scrubby woods near the
pOOrhCuse. 1t was concealed in a
stump hole, about two feet under the
ground and was we'll covered UP. 1t
was a mulatto baby, and it had been
badly burnt. An arm and leg had
been entirely burned away. It htd
probably been buried a month.
Messrs. Bob. and Pinck Shuford,
each lost a horse last week, from
hydrOphOhia. They were bitten some
time ago, by Mr. Frank Whitner's dog,
which was known to have been bitten
by a rabid dog. The dog that bit the
horses, also bit one Of Mr.. Winners
girls, She feels no symptoms of by
| drOphObia as yet. The horses were
vicious and died q horrible death, says
the Hickory Mercury.
You Hear people talk about home
pride, town pride and county pride,
but suppose they just felt enough in
terest in their county pager to get one
of their ueighbors to subscribe, think
how it would swell the subscription
list. That would be q good way to
show your interest and help along a
home Institution, while at the same
time would be no expense to vou,s says
the Greenville Reflector.
Five cOnvicts were brought here
from Catawba county, and it is re-
markable that two of them were re-
leased on Christmas day, after having
then served a ten-years' term. One of
the COnvicts, a white man, is to serve
seven years and three months for
wreCking a passenger train on the
Chester and Lenoir narrow gauge rail
road, near Maiden, eight months ago.
-RaLeigh Correspondent.
Shelby Aurora: Mrs. Fannie Dog
gett BlantOn, wife of our banker, B.
BlantOn, died suddenly Sunday night
of apOpleXy. She had prepared supper
that night, and going to her room
called for help and tainted. Her hus-
lo-.I -~o-A - Lon IA o.I t. -,o,
reclining on the bed, when she fell to
the floor. She was in an unconscious
and cOmatose condition until II o'clock
that night, when she died at the age
of 81 years.
Goldsboro argus: The news has
reached this city that Maj. w. H.
Toler, who in early manhood was a
citizen of G~Oldsboro, died on tho 18th
inst, at his home in Los Angles, Cal,
of the grip. -A negro man by the
name of Peter Cox, recently returned
from serving a term i'll the penitentiary
for larceny, was arrested for a like
offence at Dudley and brought to this
city yesterday for trial in the court
now in session here.
Rockingham Rocket: A plan is now
on foot for the erection Of a new cotton
factory for Rockingham If this one
is established it will make six that
have Rockingham for their distributing
and receiving point. - An accident
occurred on the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley Railroad at Johns Station last
Tuesday morning. A switch was LETT
open, and the mail from Bennettsville
run into it, smashing up some flats and
damaging the engine. No n was
hurt.
Concord Times: Mr.. Fl. M. Isenhour,
of No. z, brings news of a big company
that has been formed to work the
Isenhour mine. He says that about
fifty millionaires have united to work