The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06

and three pecks of corn has just killed
two Digs that tipped the scales at 72O
pounds and in z months with two
COWS made and sold 372 pounds of
butter.
The fish caught last year in North
Carolina were valued at $1.057, 600 to
the fishermen. The money received
by the shore industries dependent on
the fisheries, such as oyster canneries,
fertilizer factories. etc, amounted to
81, 123, 600. The capital invested in
vessels and appliances for fishing is
81, $50, 600.
On Wednesday of last week a horse
attached to a buggy, in which yer
Mr.. w. T MedlIn and Miss Bette
Boseman, ran away in the upper end
of town throwing the occupants out.
Mr.. Medlin escaped injury, but Miss
BOseman was dragged some distance
anu quite seriously injured, says the
Weldon NeGS.
About sun up yesterday morning the
gin house OF Mr. A. b. Young, located
near the depot at Concord was burned
to the ground. In addition to the house
and machinery, 3 600 bushels of seed
and eight bales OF cotton were burned,
and n worst feature of 1t all Is that
Mr.. Young had no Insuran e, says the
Charlotte Ne1OS.
There came lea being a serious ac-
cldenG in Charlotte Monday. While
n Mr.. " alter Fares was driving his
team r. the railroad near the Rich
mOnd & Danville depot, the south
bound passenger train ran Over and
killed his team, perfectly demollshIng
his whole outfit. Mr.. Fares barely
escaped with his life.
Lumberton RObeSOnGan: Truss Gov
lngtOn, the mulaLtO who was tried and
acquitted last winter on the charge of
OutragIng a cOlOred woman in MaxtOn,
was shot and killed at Bennettsvllle,
s O., last week by a negro who was IN
MaXGOn for some time with the Hobby
Horse men The shooting is claimed
to have been accidental.
Mr.. J. w. Hughes, who is living at
the Bullock plantation has the finest
crop of tobacco in Ergecombe county.
Mr.. Hughes is from Vance county has
had 18 years experience in the tobacco
raising business. and his knowledge in
handling the golden weed in all its
stages, seems t. be- perfect, says the
Rocky Mount Ph0niG.
Charlotte Netrs: A little negro named
Sam Robb, who is porter for Hudson's
beef market, went out with one of
those cas- iron single barrelled 81 SO
guns to day for a Thanksgiving hunt,
and he was brought ba; * at noon with
his face shot, torn and powder burned.
The gun couldn't stand the load Sam
put in it, and exploded.
Tlo cAO-o of NJ 49, VIZ VTTzLA- -
GoldsborO street, was last Monday
night, entered from a real window,
and a number of arti les stolen. The
window appears to have been broken
open by an ak The full extent of the
robbery has not yet been ascertained
nor is there any clue to the guilty per
Mrs, Nolan, wife of Capt. Jas. Nolan.
superintendent at Carolina Beach, was
so badly burned last Saturday that it
is feared that her injuries will result
fatally. Her clothing caught on fire
from a burning brush heap IN the yard,
and before the flames were extin
guished her garments were almost en-
tirely consumed, says the Wilmington
Star.
Joe. Parker, a young man who lives
in Wake county, near Morrisville, has
invented a kind of combination pillow
that can be made to do the work of
three or four different implements.
simply by moving a single bar, The
farmers who have seen the model are
much pleased with it and think he will
make good thing of 1t, says the Dur
ham Sun.
A post mOrtea examination held
over VIM. TIlman, cOlOred, who was
shot and mOrtally wounded last Fri
day night by Ben Huskins, revealed
the remarkable fact that the bullet, a
go calibre) had passed through the
Negroes heart, Notwithstanding which
he lived from Friday night until Tues
day afternoon, says the Charlotte
Democrat.
Charlotte Ne1Us: Mr.. w. @. ScrOnce,
of Lincoln county, came to tho city to.
day on the hunt for DR. D 0 DonO,
ghue's mad stone. Mr.. ScrOnce was
bitten by an alleged mad dog last Sat,
urday. The doctor applied his rock
to the wound and it adhered. Mr.:
Scronce, therefore left for home feel
ing that his Thanksgiving was not q
failure after all.
An aCrlQonG OCCuFT0u III Il6 COuLOS
last week. Mr. James Coley, a young
man living in ShOccO township, accl
dentally snOt himself while out squire
hunting. 1t seems that he had dis
charged one barrel of his gun and was
reloading the empty barrel when the
other fired. shooting him IN the face
and killing hum Instantly, says the
WarrentOn Record.
Charlotte Necs: Mr. Zeb Morris, OF
Cabarrus county, was in the city to
day and took out a warrant for the
arrest of Monroe McCraven, a white
man who this morning shot at Mr.
Morris four times. - A messenger
came hurrying to the city late this
afternoon for a doctor. He stated thai
Byron, the son of Mr.. w. G.. Steele,
had been badly shot.