The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-11-29

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shot himself The unfortunate affair
has left him minus one finger. Hunters,
be careful with your guns, says the
ROxboro Courier.
New Berene Journal: The loss bv
fire at Camden, N O., a few DAYS ago
Is estimated at $35 900 to $50 600
Twenty families were TT ndered home
less, and all the drug stores, jeweIry
stores, the p~OstOfice and telegraph
office were wiped out.
John Eaton, a negro desperate of
MOcksville was shot and killed there
Wednesday by four deputy sheriffs
while resisting arrest and shooting at
the officers with the declaration that he
would never be taken alive. No blame
attached to the officers
Albert Scales, colored, was tried be-
fore Esquire Pegram yesterday after
noon upon the charge of stealing forty
dollars from Maj w. f. Anderson.
Scales pleaded guilty and was sent to
Jail t. await the next term of court,
says the Winston Sentinel
Laurinburg Exchange: On las Mon
day evening in Spring Hill township
Mr.. M. d Livingston, a deputy, was
shot through the neck and Instantly
killed by Duncan McPhatter, the leader
in the Spring Hill election riot, whom
he was attempting to arrest.
Mr.. L A. Weldon has a petrifed
snail which he unearthed few days ago
from the bottom of his we'll which Is
over SO feet deep The shell and flesh
of the snail have turned to pure stOn
The flesh of the snail is the color of
Orownstone, says the Sanford ErpresS
Hickory Bulletin We wantan office
and frankly say. if we live, we expect
to make application for it; but should
we be defeated in getting it, we shall
comfort ourselves with the reflection
that our successful rival wa a more
worthy man and therefore his appoint
ment just.
TarbOrO Farmers Advocate: A col
Ored woman living over the river Was
severely burned with Iye last week
Some one knocked at the door, and
when it was opened the person threw
lye in the wOman's face Her vision
is almost destroyed, and her face is
badly burned.
AshevlIle Citizen: Thursday about
noon j. F II. Smith, who operates a
saw mill neal Gudger's bridge, in this
county, was leading q log, when his
hook slipped. allowing the log to roll
back upon him, fracturing both bones
Of his right leg about midway between
the ankle and knee.
Charlotte Observer: A railroad
branch of the Y NJ. @ A. is to be es-
tablished here. The railrO I'd has gIv,n
the 8 of the - Up to the
present time about 40. 900 bales of cot
ton have been compressed at the press
at the depot TINS is less than for the
same time last year.
Winston Sentinel: D. II King last
week employed a young man To guard
his ice factory at night. During the
night the guard fell asleep and when
he awoke, to his ast0nishment, a thief
had visited the building and robbed
HIM of his only proUecJi0n-a pistol
which was in his pocket.
Last Tuesday night, between IL and
1 O'Clock, the barn on the farm Of Mr..
j. r Wilson, about three miles from
LenOir on the MOrgantOn road, aud
two mules, one belonging to Mr.. Viii
son and the other to Mr.. WIlbOrn Par
sons, his tenant, were burned. Loss
about 5000, says the LenOlr Topic.
J. l. Lancaster had considerable fun
at the Glen r OK hotel Sunday night.
He Tad an imitation rattle snake thre
feet long. which he put on the floor
1t caused some young men who espied
it to jump several feet away before
they found out it was not the genuine
article" says the AshevIlle Gazette.
Monday night a barn on @. J. Aus
tins farm over the rIver was destroy I'd
by fire AS the fire broke out during
the ihunder and rain storm, the sup
position is hat lightning struck it
Three or four thousand pounds Of cot
ton and about slXtv barrels Of corn
were burned, says the Tarboro AdUO
cote.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. J. S Ram
sey. a cotton buyer and capitalist, Of
S~tatesvIlle, was reported dying yester
day afternoon. -. Mr.. ThOs. l. RltcE
hal the distressing news yesterday
that his two grandchildren sons OF
Mr. John B Ritch, had been burned tC
d, ath at their home In Cascade county.
Montana
Raleigh VIsuOr: A friend informs
us that the mammoth furnace OF the
North Carolina Steel and Iron Com
pany, of Greensboro, is completed, anC
will be in running order by the hrs
part of December next The cost il
estimated at $3.50. 600 This will be {
grand lift to Greensboro and the sur
rounding section.
The s~ixteen-year old son of Mr.. Bry
ant Cherry, named LeOnldas, while
out hunting Saturday, near Noun
Olive, in company with some othel
boys, and dragging his gun over a log
carelessly, it was discharged. sendlns
the entire load in his right arm. almos
tearing 1t from his body, says thu
Gold boro Headlight.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Mrs. julia
Simmons died last Friday at the home
of her son, Mr. Enoch Simmons, Wh'
lives a few miles from town. She was