The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-21

from all through this ST ction report
tnaI wheat is looking well, and say,
that II no hail ~lnterferes there will he
a good crop harvested this year.
James Hickey was released from the
Jonesboro Jail Thursday, having given
bond Tor his appearance at the next
term OF court. His bail was fixed at
$4,000, says the Bakersville NeuUs.
Francis D. Winston, ESQ of Wind
sor, invites correspondence, from the
students who have attended the |" Hor-
ner School" looking to the erecting of
a monument to the memory Of James
II. HOrner.
The Allegheny Stur says that last
Thursday week Geo. w. Woodie. ESQ.
of Ashe county, committed suicide by
drinking laudanum. He had drunk
a pint Of liquor and then took a vial
of laudanum.
One of the heaviest rains ever wit
messed by the citizens up there fell in
the Dallas section Tuesday afternoon.
Much damage was done to fields AMI
crops by the washing, says the Gas
tOnia Gazette.
Red Springs Comet: The rains last
week have given the farmers all they
want to do. Oats are ripe and the crop
is very fine. Corn and cotton are
looking we'll. The prospect is good for
a splendid crop all around.
An Indignation meeting was held in
Asheville last night by the people of
the town who objected to a license
granted for retailing whiskey on Pat
ton Avenue. The commissioners were
prayed to invoke the order.
Raleigh Visitor: Intelligence has
been received at the Revenue Depart
ment of the seizure near Tabernacle
GuilfOrd county, of a 80 gallon illicit
dlstlllery, owned and operated by two
men named Foreman and Alfred.
1t is estimated that owe three thou
sand people will attend the Teachers
Assembly at Morehead in June. The
estimate is made by Mr.. E. G. Harrell,
Secretary of the Assembly from CORE
spondence he already has in hand.
Durham Sun: Ned Mitchell, col
ored, met his death yesterday after
noon by falling out of a bucket and
back into a we'll he was engaged in
digging, some sixty feet deep, on the
place of ex-Sherif John V. Rigsbee.
1t is stated that the Rev. Alex,
Sprunt is likely to be called to the
First Presby terrain church of Memphis,
Tenn. He is preaching in that church
during the summer vacation of thu
aged pastor Wilmington Messenger.
The acreage of cotton in this com
munity is unusually small. Hardly
half a crop has been planted. We are
glad to know, however, the young
cotton plants are growing fast despite
the vet weather, says the Moncure
Echo.
Mr.. Rufus COchrane, who lives on
the Lawyers road, Z miles from the
city, engaged in a battle early this
morning with a mad dog. He sue
ceeded in killing the dog, and was
himself unhurt, says the Charlotte
NelCS.
The committee of arrangements for
the celebration of the centennial of the
organization Of Buncombe county, held
a meeting yesterday morning and the
Asheville Citizen says it was determ
ined that August 18th should be the
great day.
While playing with some children,
Charles, the nine-year-Old son of Mr..
w. Il. Hosea, in Pikeville township,
had the misfortune to fall from a fence,
Wednesday, and break his right arm
just above the wrist says the Colds
bOrO HeGdt1ght.
An uncomfortable crime was at
tempted on a little girl, a daughter Of
John Parks, in the southern portion OF
the county, last Thursday morning, by
an unknown negro. The negro was
scared away and has escaped. says the
Salisbury Waterman.
Some months ago Thomas Gooch
discovered gold bearing quartzIn Gran
Vile county, near Dabney. He began
the work of development at once and
has struck g~old-bearing quartz twenty
feet below the surface which will assay
from $15 to 800 per ton.
The internal revenue collections at
Durham for the month of of May, says
the San, amounted to $58, 1913. O8. Since
August, 1889, the office has taken in
for the government 81, 871, 00O,O2. A
pretty big tax to be paid out on useless,
not to say harmful %luxuries.
New Berne Journal: The man who
prefers a city weekly to a home paper
because Its got more In it reminds
US of the cOuntryman who picked out
the largest pair of boots in the box be
cause they cost no more than the
smallest pair that fitted him.
White caps in Caswell. Some parties
in diguise took Alex. Stephens and
Henry Moore, cOlOred, and beat them
numerically, in Stoney Creek town
ship, for stealing some meat as was
alleged. Several parties were arrested
and tried before Justice w. Fl. Rice.
A little orphan boy was brought
here Monday by his grand father who
was seeking advice of counsel to start
prosecution against a man named
Eason for whipping the boy unmerci-
fully. The parties all live in Wilder's
township, says the Smithield Herald.
The Red Springs Comet says: A