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

ASAOAAOnN P0V. n. a.
Brown, of Winston, N. c., who has
been rendered a call to the p~astorate of
the Randolph Street Baptist Church,
preached for that congregation last
night. The people are pleased with
him, and the impression prevails that
he will accept.
Carthage Blade: A mad dog was
killed in the old field near town last
Thursday. 1t was reported that several
other dogs were bitten-A certain
minded that he plowed half the day
the other Sunday before he thought of
it being the Sabbath.
The feature of the approaching COM
mencement of Oak Ridge institute will
be a reunion of the old students May
81 Speeches will be delivered by
various old students, and a good time
generallyln expected. Bishop Edward
R~onthaler, of Salem, will deliver a
~dedicatory address.
Sandford Express: Mr.. @. L. Nc
Dutie, Of Pocket township, died in
Pennsylvania on last Saturday. MI.
McDuf1e went to that State on the
goth day of last February to engage in
railroad work. He exposed himself
too much to the cold weather, which
brought on pneumonia.
Charlotte will have many attractions
for it's goth of May celebration, and
there will be amusements and contests
in abundance. Baseball, football shoot
ing contests, &c, are among the things
promised. The attra ;tiOn for the 18th
is a grand tournament, open to the
Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia.
Salisbury Herald: Spotted fever has
broken out in the western part of the
county. Saturday night, a week ago,
John Brady, a young man near Grace
church, died with it. Last night his
mother, Mrs. V Cooper, died from the
same disease. The doctors did not
know at first what the disease was.
John Robbins, the colored ex-editor
of a negro paper formerly published at
Windsor and New Berne, was arrested
Tuesday on a capias from Craven
county charged with libel. His career
as an editor" was brief, but during
that short time he had been arrested
twice before, charged with criminal
libel.
When Amadas and Barlow landed
on Roanoke Island in 1884, editor
Creecy declares in the Elizabeth City
Economist, they struck the best place
in North Carolina. 1t is, he adds, the
best place for raising truck in North
Carolina. The April cold snap that
ruined many truckers left the crops or
Roanoke island unframed.
Maxton UniGn and Scottish Chief ::
The storm of last Thursday, 14th inst,
assumed the form of a cyclone near
Prong, Bladen county, and was very
destructive. The dwellings of Shade
Wooten, Buck Brown and J. w. Brown.
were entirely demolished, but none of
the inmates were killed. Trees and
fences were scattered in all directions.
Morganton Herald: The big freeze
has come and gone, and millions of
dollars have been sacrificed to the
Frost King throughout the South, but
in the famous thermal belt in the
South Mountain section of Burke
county orchards are still laden with
young fruit, and vegetable of all kinds
have escaped the ravages of the frost.
Charlotte Ne1Us: Two negro boys,
Tom Williams and Arthur Johnston,
got into a quarrel this afternoon.
Williams plunged a knife into John
stOn's left shoulder, making an ugly
wound. DR.. Wilder, who sewed up
wound, says that had it been half an
inch higher it wouldhave proved fatal.
Williams went to jail in default of $50
bond.
Work is progressing weldon the steel
plant at Greensboro and with reason
able weather, it will be finished inside
of six weeks. This is good news and
shows good headwork, as for more
than six months July 1st was fixed as
the date of completion. The share
holders, the Record says will no doubt
arrange for putting this plant to work
at once.
Clinton Caucasian: Acolored woman
and two children, living on J. f. Cald-
wells place near Harrell's Store Samp-
son county, were burned t death
Thursday night, while asleep in a
cabin.-Court convenes here Monday,
May End. Judge Winston presides.
- Mr. Luke McClammy will address
an Alliance mass-meeting at Warsaw
May 9TH.
Newton Enterprise: We have never
before seen so much enthusiasm as is
now asserting itself in Catawba county.
1t supasse any ever before reached
even on the eve of election. We have
received calls and letters within the
last week from representative men of
every vocation, who say they have
never before felt so interested in politi-
cal affairs.
New Berne Journal: A Stonewall
correspondent tells the following adj
ditional facts in regard to the shooting
of George Blount by Souther Hammond
at Vandemere. A physician pro,
nounced Blount dangerously wounded.
Hammond was taken to Bayboro and
jailed, but he and another who was in
Jail broke out that night and made
their escape.
Rockingham Rocket: In some por-
tions of this county the farmers have
acted with wisdom and planted a crop
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