The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-29

degrees. There was a hard freeze, but
no frost, on account of the high wind.
People from the country ara of the
opinion that all growing crops have
been seriously injured.
The Bakersville NewS gives a pleas
ing piece of news by stating that
Mitchell cOunty's creditors to the
Three Cs Railroad have been made
preferred creditors, that their money
will be paid by April 1st, and that
work will be resumed along the line
by May 1st, at the latest.
Friday a fire broke out in the picker
room of the Henrietta cotton mills,
burning cotton, injuring belts etc., to
the amount of about 81, 600, In Cleve-
land county, the Aurora reports. The
automatic sprinklers held the flames
in check till the hose was brought to
act on the fire in the cotton.
Winston Sentinel: At Fair Plains,
Wilkes county, last Tuesday evening,
Mr. Thomas Watkins was accidentally
killed at Mr.. w. L. Sinks saw mill.
He was down under the saw cleaning
out the dust and raised his head a little
too high, the saw striking the back of
his head and splitting it open.
The pine wood oil works of Hansen
& Smith, at Malmo, On the Cape Fear
river near Wilmington YER burned
early Saturday morning. The build
ing containing the retOrts and con.
densers was entirely consumed. The
prOprietOrs estimate the loss at 81, 900,
upon which there is 81, $50 insurance.
The Dunn Cent? oil Times expresses
its sorrow for the poor thief who got
only the empty decanter and gOblets
OF h communion set from a church
in Mecklenburg county last week, and
says he was doubtless a Charlotte thief
who had been driven away by the
drought now prevailing in that city.
Mt. Airy NeUS: Mr.. Rufus Roberts
beats the world as a veteran hustler in
the way of building up his town. He
has just purchased fourteen lots on
Lowell street upon which he is erecting
fourteen two and three room cottages.
Five Of the cottages are now going up
and the others will all be up within a
month.
Rocky Mount PhQeniG: There is a
considerable falling off in the acreage
devoted to cotton in this section. The
hard times will eventually place our
farmers on a surer and more indie
pendent footing. - We regret to
note the death at SpringhOpe of Mr..
Burtis Cone Of the firm of Branch,
Cone & Go.
Thename of the place called Weavers
twelve miles below Marion on the 3 Cs
Railroad, has been changed to Thermal
City. The land the Record says, is
owned by Hon. T. D. Johnston Of
Asheville and it is proposed TO lay off
a nice mountain resort-town there, to
be called Thermal City. A large hotel
has been built.
Charlotte NeU3: The peach, pear
and APRICOT trees were In full bloom
when the present snap anne along, and
this morning the blossoms were encased
in iae.-During the storm last night,
a tree thav stands Oh Morehead avenue,
near the iron bridge, was struck and
shattered by lightning. The tree was
covered with ice at the time.
Chatham is again to the front. A
rare curiosity has been shown the
Record, being a dead bird with a live
snake in it. j.. Z. AlstOn's cook was
cleaning some robbins to cook when,
after cutting. open one. a live snake
was found wiggling in it. The snake
was five inches long and its head was
firmly imbeded in the robins gizzard.
Next!
Charlotte Chronicle: The complaint
of bad roads has not been heard this
winter. The country people from every
direction around Charlotte report the
roads in as good condition as during
the summer. The experience of last
winter is not apt soon to be repeated,
as the present county system of work
ing the roads will put and keep them
in good condition
Marion Free Lance: On March 10th,
Mr.. Johnson Ledbetter, a prominent
farmer and citizen of Broad River. fell
on the saw of Clements 6 Ledbetter's
saw mill and his left arm and thigh
were badly cut and mangled, and
would have been instantly killed, had
it not been for the timely aid of Mr. T.
B. Ledbettf r, one of the firm, who
pulled him off of the saw.
Charlotte NeaUS: Mr.. Will Barringer,
who was engaged in the recent shoot
ing affray at Florence, S. O., has re
turned home there, after a visit for a
week among friends in Charlotte. The
sympathies of II people seem to be
decidedly with the B%arringer boys in
The unfortunate affair, and the indica-
lions are that they will be acquitted by
the court 1t was shoot or be shot.
The handsomest armory in the State
is said by the Charlotte NelCs to be
that of the Charlotte naval battalion.
On either side are arranged magazine
rifles, each with the separate number
of every member of the battalion. Be-
tween them are the r%evolvers, and here
and there elsewhere on the walls, the
pistol cases, magazines, swords and
other military belongings are arranged
as wall decorations.
Concord Standard: Frank Cross,
who murdered his nephew, Dick Hall,
of Davidson was tried and convicted
of manslaughter at Davidson court.
He gets ten years in the p~enitentiary.