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

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last week. Three colored applicants
were granted license and one failed to
pass.
During a severe rain and wind storm
at Rocky mount, T. II. Braswell &
Sons four story tobacco prize house
collapsed. The rain damaged the stock
ABOUT $1,000. The American tobacco
company occupied the lower floor, but
its loss is small. The ~totaIloss is about
So, 500.
Weldon NeWs: Prof. Holmes, State
Geologist, has been in this locality
lately pursuing his work. He has with
nm a camera and has taken negatives
OF many scenes and places of interest
around Weldon, photographs Of which
he will have on exhibition at the
Worlds FAIR.
Raleigh Chronicle: An odd thing
in connection with the candidates for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor is
that they are both "S~partans." Mr..
Elias Carr lives at Old Sparta, Edge
combe county, and Mr.. Rufus A.
Doughton's home is at Sparta, Ale
ghany county.
George Beck, living in Conrad Hill
township, ten miles southeast of Lex
ington, was Instantly killed by a falling
limb. Beck was 80 years old. He
leaves a wife and two young children,
He was a son of w A. Beck, who
last Legislature.
Concord Standard: 1t has leaked
out that Col. James Wilson Long is
lying in wait for a Congressional can
didate. It comes to light that Col.
I 0oO v-S1l IL - 1D11Sl0k4 f>,n IIOo0uOCr
if Hon. A Leazer is. If Mr.. Leazer
gets the nomination, Col. Long will
run Independently.
Rocky Mount ArgOn0ut: George
Harper was taken to the Insane Asylum
in Raleigh, on Tuesday. He owned a
saw mill two miles from town, and by
energy and perseverance had &C umU
lated considerable money. 1t is charged
that he was made insane by the use of
Keeley's tobacco cure.
The contractor is pushing the work
of grading the Oxford and Coast Line
Railroad at a rapid rate and the train
will roll into Oxford about July LIST.
A few days ago three labOrers were
buried beneath a mass of earth. Two
were unconscious when taken out and
one received injuries of the spine.
Evangelist Fife has just closed a
series of meetings at New Berne, and
has gone to his home in Fayetteville
for a few days rest. He will begin a
series of meetings in GoldsbOro next
week. The Journal says that he did
good work in New Berne and was
given a purse as q free will Offering.
Greensboro Workman: Wesley
Smith was much struck today with
the long bearded man whom he had
seen in town, and brought to this Office
a written statement as to the name of
the man, the place of his residence and
the length of his beard-5 feet 4
inches. That is a wonderful beard.
kilograms report the capture of Rich.
Lowry, alias Rich. Herring, who muir
dcred Capt. j. G.. Forsyth at Norman
dale, Dodge county, Ga, in October,
1890, and has since been st large. A
reward of 81, 700 had been offered for
his capture. Lowry went to Georgia
from Scuffletown, Robson county,
N. c..
Charlotte Nelr8: The potato bugs
have been botheringG Gen. r. Barrenger,
in common with nearly everybody else
in Charlotte, and to get rid of them the
General resOrted to Paris Green. It
killed the bugs. The chickens got the
bugs, and now there are dead chickens
scattered all abOutth General spOultry
yard.
Concord Standard: There are four
| big families in No 6 township, of
Cabarrus county. One family has IL
children, all single; second, - and all
single; third, II and all single, 3 dead;
fourth, 10, and 3 married. Total A
Ali the parents are living. We have
four families with an enumeration
of 81.
The general news from the farming
| section round about Charlotte is that
the farmers are in cheerful spirits and
hopeful of a good year. The people in
the country are getting on well, and
the Observer says the refrain hard
times" has about died out. The sea-
son, SO far, has been a splendid work
ing one.
A feature of the sham battle at
Charlotte last Friday was the partici-
patton in the Hornets Nest skirmish
line of Rev DR. A. @. Mannaway, the
chaplain of the company, He made
himself useful l passing ammunition
and in Otherwise assisting the skirm-
ishers. The NelCS says his participa-
ton in the fight was appreciated by
the troops.
1t Mitchell county superior court the
jury agreed in the case of the State VS..
William Whitson and Thomos Whit
son for the murder of Richard Byrd.
The verdict was guilty" The attor-
neys for the defense have taken an
appeal to the supreme court. They
have been taken to Asheville Jail for
safe-keeping.
New Berne Journal: A child of MI.
Jas. Gray, who lives at Tilman'5 cross
ing, a mile from Caswell Station was
accidentally killed ny the special truck
train Thursday. - Henry Johnson,
colored, a brakeman of the A. & n. @.