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

enough water gushing out from his
various springs to supply a large city
containing all the minerals that are
valuable to health-seekers.
Oxford Ledger: Tue recent hail
storm did a great deal of damage in
some sections. Mr.. J. B. Parham, of
our W county, had 81 window lights
broken cut of his house, and the hail
stones, 1t is said, were SO large that
they made about 100 holes in the tin
roof OF his dwelling, He also had
some 800 yards of plant-bed cloth torn
to pieces.
AshebOrO Courier: Revenue officers
): >. Worth and J. S. Free seized an
Illicit distillery in Pleasant Grove
township on last Monday, belonging to
John Macon and Martin Thornburg.
Ihornburg was bound over. - The
County Alliance, so several of the
members tell us. Endorsed the Oca a de-
mands, but said nothing about the St.
Louis platform.
MI. j. W. Wharton, Jr., tells the
Greensboro Record a snake story. He
treed a huge snake, which he saw go
into a hollow twenty feet from the
ground. He cut the tree and in cutting
into the hollow cut the snake in three
pieces. When laid upon the ground
1t was over six feet long with an enor-
nous body, and was known as the
cowsucker snake.
Gilbert Edwards was arrested at
Asheville for selling whiskey on Sun
day, the Citizen says, and was bound
over to court. Revenue officials cap
tured eve gallons of whiskey belong
ing to Edwards, hidden 1 Edwards
trunk, in a boarding house on North
Martin street. The outfit for the dis
pensing of blockade whiskey was com
plete, there being tunnels, bottles,
cOrks, etc.
A dispatch from Weldon says: Dur
ing the storm yesterday there was con-
siderable hail near here, and a farmer
coming to town to day reported a sin
gular phenomenon, An unusually
large hail stone fell in his yard, which
he picked up, and to his great surprise,
he discovered a tiny frog imbedded IN
the ice. He quickly liberated the little
hopper, and to his still greater conster-
nation, the frog hoped gayly away.
Concord Standard: Mr.. D. s. Tel
bert entered 81 acres of vacant land
we'll timbered in Albemarle township
not long since, which cost him about
$13. - Willie Fink, son of Jno. A.
Fink, of No. 5. killed a bird Friday
evening that even DR.. Herring can't
classify. 1t is pretty nearly all neck
and legs, and certainly not at home in
this cline. It is probably a close kin
to a crane. The boy killed it on the wing
with a rock.
Roxboro Courier: Mr.. James Hol-
loway, of Holloway's in this county,
and so well known by the people of
Person county, died at his home last
Friday night, of pneumonia. lie was
in his 22nd year. - Henry Hill, a
cOlored man, who has been living in
Roxboro about Is months, was found
dead near MI. J. r. Chisenhall's bar
this morning. 1t was learned that he
had been dead only a short time.
Cause not learned.
Frank Buckner, a postmaster in
Buncombe county, and his cousin,
Startling Buckner, are under arrest.
The postmaster is charged with alb
stracting checks from letters and his
cousin with being implicated in the
confessed that he passed six checks in
Asheville amounting to 1921, given
him by Frank Buckner, for which he
received one half of the proceeds. The
endorsements were forgeries.
New Berne Journal: To show the
variety of the truck shipments that
are now leaving New Berne, we took
down list of those carried out by the
steamer Neuse of the E. @. D. line
yesterday. 1t was not al large a ship,
ment as a number the Neuse has already
taken out this season, but there were
55 boxes of asparagus, 300 boxes OF
cabbage. 81 of radishes, IL of turnips,
and 16 of lettuce. These, at prevailing
prices, will sell for about 81, 500.
Burlington Herald: Some miscreant
on mischief bent, takes occasion after
night fall to remove foot bridges tC
entrap unwary w~ayfarers and bicycle
riders. Several people have sustained
painful injuries. - queer story Of
assault is told by a colored man named
Henry Jeffreys who was found on
Davis street Saturday night with a
pistol wound in his hand and a severe
bruise on the head. He claims to have
been assaulted by two strangers.
Near Stems, on the o. & G. Railroad,
in Granville county, last Saturday,
Mr.. Hinton Reams, aged SO years,
committed suicide. Two years ago he
lost his wife. For years he had been
a sufferer from an injured leg, and il
is supposed that these things impaired
his mind. The Durham Sun says
Some $50 yards from his home his
body was found in the woods, lying
partly in the forks of a tree. Near his
side lay a double barrelled piston.
The storm last week in BERTHE county
was very severe. Rain fell from ter
o'clock Friday night in n continuous
stream until after daybreak Saturday
morning. Damage was done to the
roads and a number of bridges were
washed away. Hailstones as large al
pigeon eggs were found next morning