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

hood, had been riding around on horse
back. M behind the other and on the
same animal, perfectly friendly, when
they became intoxicated, A drunken
fightfOllowed and Long stabbed Phipps
to death. The slayer is in jail.
Shelby ReUieW: The Lincoln paper
mills of Messrs w. & r Tiddy were
sold last week under foreclosure Of
mortgage, and were bought by r. NJ.
Oates, of Charlotte. for $11, 600. A
party of revenu officers made a raid
into the Three-C section
Friday. They had four blockade stills
located, but when they got there they
found the stills and mOOnshiners gone.
Superintendent Finger and Prof.
McIver, president of the State normal
and industrial school for white girls
at Greensboro, and Prof Alderman,
principal, made an inspection OF the
building, now being constructed, and
found the work progressing as rapidly
as could be expected considering the
weather, In fact, the Record says,
they were well pleased with the work.
Greensboro Record: We learn from
a reliable source that the celebrated
Fisher Hill gold mine, will be again
worked by the e company now own
ing it. This mine has been one of great
value, and when properly worked has
always paid it's Owners~- Report
comes from the county of Wilkes that
the Greensboro revenOodlers had a
rough time up in that country last
week.
Washington Gazette: One of our
farmers living a few miles from Wash
ingtOn last year bought a pony, and
with him cultivated thirty three tcres.
He raised go barrels of corn, $50
bushels of potatoes and 8 bales of
cotton. He says he can IN Ike as
much on cotton at the present prices,
having the improve implements to
work with. as he could five years ago
at the prices cotton brought at that
time.
In Wilkes county the Greensboro
revenue officers had a tough tune last
week. Officers Patterson and Walker
had made q raid on a m~OOnshlner's
still and while they were cutting up
the still, the moonshiners were playing
the same game with their horses. One
horses head was nearly severed from
his body, and the others were badly
cut The m~OOnshiners, the Record
says, also fired upon the revenue men
as they were leaving the still house.
High Point Enterprise: Several
years ago some of the farmers thought
lessly disposed of their sheep to parties
in Virginia, and nov they e where
| they have made a mistake. - There
are now eleven twO-stOry dwelling
houses under contract to be built here
| by spring. - Charles Knapp, the
young German who attempted suicide
here about q month ago, died in Belle
vue HOspitallast Tuesday. His friends
| here sent him there for treatment two
weeks ago.
TarbOrO S~Outherner: Some of the
ueighbors tell it for a fact, that on DR..
N. J. Pittman's Shell Bank farm on
| the river, near DOehead, is an old mule
| which for years has wandered Off every
January and returned the last of March
or first of April. Where this mule
goes no one knows, but he goes and
is not seen till the Spring, when he
returns sleek and fat, and IS a faithful
worker for the rem 4inder of the year.
This mule is said to have DISAPPEARED
this year.
Charlotte Chronicle: Rev. w, E.
McIlwane has resigned as SynOdical
Evangelist of the Presbyterian Church
of this Safe. He accepts a call as
evangelist and manager of the evan
gelistic work in Alabama. - Rev.
w. E. Kerr died at a late hour Thurs
day night, at his residence on the
Beattie's Ford road, at the advanced
age of "a. Deceased was widely known
throughout this section. He belonged to
the Congregational Methodist church,
and was highly esteemed.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. r. 7. Joyce,
a former citizen of this place, says Mr..
w. B. Shelton, of Mt. At. Airy, has a
father and mother living in good health
who have been married sixty five years
and three months. There r. two
| other couples living in Mt. Airy, he
says, who have been married sixty
three and siXty-five years. Six miles
from the same p lace there is 4 Meth
| odist preacher 90 years old. who walks
| six mules to ill a regular appointment.
Rockingham Spirit Of the South :
| Died, at his residence in Beaver Dam
township on Wednesday last, Of heart
| failure, resulting from an attack Of
grip, Mr.. Daniel McDoald, aged about
70 years. - We are much panied to
| chronicle the Death Of ROckingham's
| oldest citizen, w. D. Ussery, Esq,
which occurred at his home last Thurs
day evening at 5 o'clock. Mr.. Ussery s
extreme old age, he being aOout 80
years old, coupled with an attack
of the grip, vas the cause Of his
! death.
The Pennington correspondent of
the Salisbury Watchnan says: NO,
not a kiss, but the impression of a fire
| shovel was what we saw on his lips as
a colored husband walked up to the
doctors office to get himself patched
up, not long since. His wife, in order
to establish herself more thoroughly in
| the household, did, with a fire shovel,
in the presence of his lordship, Doud
Bohannon, and in the light Of day
break, knock in a few of his front