The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-23

uFSG COllogeS OF II SOuGl. IutI0 diC
now about 230 students here and there
Is as much thoroughness in the differ
ent departments as in any college OF
the country. The enjoyment now
reaches about $500, 900.
A curious story is told by the Kin
stOn Free Press Of a man IN Lemon
county who can write but can't spell.
His wife can spell but can't read nor
write, Together they can write a
letter, which is legible, but which
neither can read-he writing down the
words as she spells them.
Salisbury Herald: John Boyd, the
famous BOstian bridge wrecker, instead
of being in Charlotte Jail during the
sensation last week, vas really IN jail
here This was known by a number
of persons here, but was kept quiet Tor
obvious reasons. He was sent to the
Charlotte Jail Saturda. night.
Stanly NeaCS: A warrant which was
held for several months for the arrest
of Frank Whitley for making crooked
and Whitley was placed in Ill. Whit
ley's brother, who came to go on his
bond, was also arrested for a similar
otfense and put in the lock up.
The injunction against the Georgia,
Carolina & Northern r ilroad, block
ing It's entrance into Atlanta, has been
dissolved. The road will soon be in
regular running order between Monroe
and Allan a. Then work will com
mence on a branch line, the Charlotte
NeIcS states, from some convenient
paint along the c., @. & n, to Char
lOtte.
An attempt vas made Friday night
to burn Mr.. H. L. Fennel's carriage
and harness stores at Wilmington, but
vas unsuccessful, only a small portion
of the stock being damaged by the fire,
which, the Star says, was apparently
klndled with the purpose of destroying
the whole building if not the entire
block.
Mr.. Miles Jordan. who was seriously
burned by the accidental burning of
his house, eight miles north of Troy, in
which his wife was burned to death,
died last Monday. He was, the Stanley
Vidette says, what might be C )nsidered
a "miser," and had accumulated a
large sum Cf money, the most of which
was saved.
Gastonia Gazette: We learn that
Flo Summey, of Lincoln county, and
a son of Mr.. Summey, near Beaver
dam, were bitten by a mad dog last
Sunday. Scores of stock and hogs
been bitten and killed lately lii
one scarciUy-dOgs. They have been
right and left.
The TarborO SOutherneT a V there
Will be ten millions Of pounds of to
barcO made in EdgecOmbe county this
year, even if the crop is no better than
1t was last year. The Rocky Mount
says its information Is that
there will be a large increase In the
acreage planted in tobacco in Nash,
Wilson and Halifax.
They have a "Spinister Club" in
.sheville which assesses every bach
elor So Tor ahy charitable object they
in view and they always send
round and collect it. They sent to
Judge Shuford's assessment,
the other day, and he non plussed
them by refusing to pay and offering
to marry any one of the spinsters the
club would designate.
While returning to his home in Fork
township. Tuesday, Mr.. w. f. Atkin-
son was thrown out of his buggy by q
runaway mule and painfully injured
about his head and body, from which
affe It's he died Wednesta at 2 p. m.
Deceased was 62 years of age and
leaves a wife and eight children, says
the Goldsooro Headlight.
Sanford Express: A Northern man
is TRYING to purchase a rock quarry
near here for the purpose of going into
the brOwnStOne bushes. There are
already two quarries in extensive
operation here. The brOwnStOne bust
ness is fast becoming an extensive
thing in Moore county. The resources
are great and ineXhaustible.
Rocky Mount ArgOnUut: There were
seventeen persons baptised at the Bap
ist church on last Sunday. - JnO.
{. Arlington has been elected captain
Of the Rocky Mount Light Infantry n
place of H. r. Thorpe, resigned -
The Increase in the value of real estate
Rocky Mount during the past SIX
months has been very great.
Charlotte Npars: MI. H. G. Cowles,
clerk of the Federal Court, is here to
get the final settlements Of CharlOtte's
unfortunate stock holders in the Ma
tional Express Company. Two or
three of the largest stockholders have
paid up in full. Altogether, citizens
Of Charlotte have paid the snug sum of
$50, 600 to the assignee of this com
Dany.
Windsor Ledger: Hersey Outlaw,
a thir teen-year-old boy, while tending
the cotton gin on the farm of Mr.. Chas,
who lives about nine miles
here, had his right arm caught
the gin last Wednesday morning
and terribly mutilated. Hewas brought
to town and Doctors Pugh, Gurley and
amputated the arm below the
Jennie Austin, a negro woman, was
taken from jail by unknown persons
last Thursday night and whipped Sc
The woman had acted out
rageously. While drunk on the streets