The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

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was in town one day this week. He
stated that he expected to cut down
his acreage in cotton this year at least
so per cent. Mr.. Afford made last
ye II over two hundred bales Of cotton.
Charlotte's board of aldermen has
passed an order that the teachers be
notified that the city has no money
with which to pay their salaries. The
closing of the saloons and the conse
quent withdrawal of the $l3, 600 license
for in the revenue bill, is responsible
for this action.
WllkesborO NelUS: News reached
us this morning of the killing of a man
in a drunken row in Ashe county Fri
day, the 22d inst. Emmit Long, of All
Healing Springs, and Bob Phipps, of
the same neighbOrhOod, had been riding
around on horseback, one behind the
other and on the same animal, per
fectly friendly, when they became in
toxicated. A drunken fight followed,
and Long stabbed Phipps to death.
The slayer has been arrested an lodged
mail.
When a south-bound freight train
reached Kings Mountain Tuesday the
cars became detached, and while Tom
Conner, colOred, was trying to couple
them they came together with terrific
force, and crushed his leg. He was
brought to this city yesterday morning
and taken to the cOlOred hospital,
where DR.. r L. Gibbon, the railroad
surgeon, amputated the crushed limb.
Conner is resting easy, and it is not
thought he is hurt seriously in any
other way.
Charlotte NeuU8: Andy Gibson,
colOred, whose home was at Salisbury,
and who was employed as q brakeman
on the Western North Carolina road,
was crushed to death between two
freight cars, at S~tatesville, yesterday
afternoon. Gibson was coupling cars,
and felt at home in the business. He
was stepping backward between two
box cars, when he stumbled and fell.
His body was caught between the
bumpers and was crushed to pieces,
causing instant death.
Chatham Record: At the house of
Lem Fox, In Hadley township on Sun
day of last week, Dub Dark was killed
by Isaac Crutchield, all the parties
being negroes. The deceased at
tempted to prevent Crutchfield from
leaving the house, and in the scufie
| was cut with a knife across the
| stomach, and died next day. Crutch-
field is said to be an industrious mar
and we'll thought of by his white
neighbors. He has thus far evaded
arrest, but it is believed that he will
surrender himself at court next week.
Kings Mountain NeWS: One night
last week Burt Roberts, who lives on
the Paper Mill place, heard his dog
fighting something III the yard and
decided to go to the dogs rescue.
| Luckily as he went out he gathered
his axe, and when he reached the
antagonists he was compelled to make
free use of it to rescue his dog or him
self, our Informant did not know which.
| When the battle was over he found
that the animal had killed his dog,
and he had killed what he took to be
a bear, but later information says that
it was a panther.
High Point Enterprise: Robert
Helper, who some years ago resided al
jamestown, n. c., was lynched by q
mob at Lamar, Mo-, on January 22d,
for the murder of a lady and her little
son in Barton county, that State. The
! sheriff, when he saw the danger the
prisoner was in, tried to get him away,
but he was too late. They surrounded
the jail, overpOwered the sheriff, took
| the prisoner back to the scene of the
murder and there hung him. His last
request was that his family should
come back to Guilford county, n. G,
Henderson Gold Ledf: Mrs. Rebecca
Burroughs, mother Of Mr.. J. E. Bur
rOughs, of Dabney, died at her home
near that place last Thursday, aged s.
years. - Late last Friday afternoon,
a little colored girl, aged between three
and four years, the child of Mr.. A. r.
Wortham's cook, while playing with
his children in the dining room at his
home, was burned so badly that she
afterwards died. No grown person
was in the room at the time and
| getting too close to the CRATE her cloth,
ing took fire and instantly she was
envelOped in flames.
Mr.. James O'Neal and wife stopped
at a we'll by the roadside Saturday to
| water their horse. Mr.. O'Neal got out
of the buggy to draw the water, when
the horse took fright and ran at full
speed up the road. Mr.. w. J. Arch
| ball, Jr., who was near, jumped into
! his road cart and followed as fast as
he could, crying to the lady not to
jump unless the horse ran into the
woods. After awhile he succeeded in
passing the runaway, and by the aid
Of a man near the road he was stopped
without any serious damage, says the
Washington Gazette,
Salisbury Waterman: Tramps con,
tinue to give trouble on the railroads.
Several nights ago one was put off on
east bound passenger train on the
Western road. When the train had
started on the con Iuctor walked to the
rear platform and found the tramp,
who Immediately jumped. 1t was on
a high embankment and fearing the
man had been killed, the conductor
had the train stopped. After they had