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

20 it"AIy SnOC and killed q fine
cog belonging to n of the party.
Falue SoOo, says the Windsor Led9er.
Lexington Dispatch: The North
Carolina Smelling Company of New
JeFsy' ha been been Incorporated with
d capital steck of 81, 900. 600 and has
purchased the works of the North
vile.
Mount Airy Neus: The Nears is glad
10 r this week of a new project of
the Messrs. Prather and J.. D. Smith.
Two of our largest mercantile firms, to
oulld a handsome block of stores. The
0iock will be known a. Commercial
Block"
Monroe Register: A two-year old
child OF Mary Barrett, colored, who
lives near the A. M E. z. Church, was
severely burned on Tuesday afternoon.
IG was left in the house alone and it is
supposed that it's clothing caught
On fire.
1t was reported on our streets Mon
day that Frank Broadway, who killed
Lee Caver in Boon township, a year or
two ago, had been captured. Sheriff
Griffith says the report is entirely
without foundation, says the Lexington
Dispatch.
Granville county commissioners have
granted liquor license to all saloons
now at Oxford. The application of a
new firm was refused. So the whisky
question is, the Dag remarks, settled
for the present in favor of the bar
Q men.
Wednesday night, Mr.. James Elliott,
of Marion, who was walking in front Of
the new four story hotel, ard some
cOwardly ASA sin fired two shots from
the other side of the street at him.
Fortunately, says the Free Lance, both
shots missed.
Charlotte Chronicle: a strange
fatality seems to hang over the house
of the late Thomas Brown, of Hunters
vile. Mr.. Brown died week before
last, his child last week, and his wife
IS now lying cri ically Ill, with little
hope Of recovery.
An old negro. Ransom Robinson,
was burned Ill a cabin near Charlotte.
He was left alone in the house by his
wife Saturday night. She went off to
spend the night with a neighbor. Sun.
day morning, the NeIcs says, the house
was found in ashes.
SAaAh CpLI Il ~ tCC oONtfG' u
woman Oied in Stanly county a few
da. s ago, and acknowledged on her
death bed that she stole money and
slipped it into her husbands pocket for
which he is now serving out a sentence
IN the State prison.
The new POnderosa tomato, referred
to in the State Topics, just lacked one
vowel of being named by a citizen of
/ 7 nnOip on1 aEinD him ar%it1A6 %O tho
prize Of $3.50. DIR. Buxton suggested
and sent on the name Of POnderous,
| says the LenOir Topic.
Oxford Day: There was a "festival'
| Saturday night at the house of Bella
| Newton, a cOlored woman living on the
| plantation of VIM. Register, near Bull
locks. There was a gu lrrel between
two men present which resulted in the
| death of M Of them.
Durham Recorder: We are informed
that a great many are suffering in
| Orange from a very severe attack of
| the grip. Many families are Frustrated
| by it, some cases as many as three
and five per5)nsin asingle family being
| all Ill az the same time.
Wadesboro Messenger: DR.. Edmund
| f. Ashe died at his home in this place
this morning at 6 80 o'clock, after a
lingering illness Of three weeks. DR.
| Ashe was in his 10th year. He was
| He was one of The most widely known
physicians Of the State.
The new Y. NJ. @. A. Hail at David
son College has just received a gift of
about $3.50 worth Of handsome furni.
ture for it's parlOr and reading room,
| presented by several of the Charlotte
merchants and DR.. and Mrs. J. B.
| Shearer of Davidson College.
Asheville Citizen: John Warren,
one of Buncombe's good old citizens,
| seriously i'll. Mr.. Warren is thought
to be the Oldest man in Bunc0mbe
county. IF he is spared until the 1st
of February he will oe 1U2 years old.
The Durham SIN expects the Lynch
burg and Durham Railway to be eX-
| tended to Apex or Sanford, and then
| connect with the SeabOard Air Line,
making almost a direct line south. The
| Lvnchburg and Durham has gone into
| the hands of the Norfolk and Western
management.
Lumberton R06eSOniGn: We learn
| that a young man tore out a mules
| tongue at the old bridge in this town
| last MONDAY. Inc allIudI IldO o6CoLlo
contrary ami while the man was ex-
~asperated with him, he grabbed at the
mules tongue, which was protruded,
and tore it out.
Tt is now intimated that Hamlet
NAV yet grow up into a great health
and winter resort 4 New Highlander
| has recently made some purchases
there and it is thought that q colony
similar to that located at Southern
| Pines will be the result, says the Rock
ingham Rocket.
Weldon Neus: Mr.. w II. Bobbitt,
a leading business man of Littleton,
died at his residence in that place on