The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07

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fully conducted the Salamanca hotel
IN Asheville has added another hotel
to his list. Mr.. Cobb has Just pur-
chased from a stock company, headed
Dy y. M. Pace, the e hotel building
and grounds at Hendersonville.
New Berne Journal: News is re
ceived here by private letter of a muir
der that occurred at Long Acre, O. SEC
tlOnot Washington county. A Jealous
minded white woman SO mutilated her
husband with a razor while he was
asleep, that he died from the effects
TOUR days afterward. The woman is
stated to be in jail.
High Point Enterprise: Many of the
older citizens of GuiIford remember
Uncle Johnnie Carter" who at one
time was in charge of Friends School
at New Garden, now GuilfOrd College.
he died May 2nd, at his home near
Plymouth, Kansas, to which State he
moved in 1867. In August he would
have been 81 years of age.
GOldsboro Argus: The death Of Mr..
Richard Rayn0r, one of the Oldest
citizens of our county, occurred at his
home in Grantham township Sunday
just from old age. The old gentle
man had been quite feeble for some
years and on Saturday afternoon he
said he felt sleepy and lay down to
take a nap-and walked no IRE
Kinston Free Press: Evangelist Fife
closed his meetings at New Berne Sun
day. There were about $50 CONVEX
slOns. -- There was a sad Occvrrance
at Tilghman's Crossing, about three
miles below Kinston, on the A. & N.
@. Railroad, last Thursday. The truck
train struck Roscoe, the nineteen
months-old son Of Mr.. J. O. Gray.
The cars on the R. & A. Railroad
ran over and killed a fine blooded
mare and cold belonging to Mr.. w.
week. The loss is considerable. The
mare was a fine animal, and the two
could not have been bought for three
hundred dollars the day before they
were killed, says the Moncure Echo.
Henderson Gold Leaf: A phe-
nomenon in the flower kingdom is a
geranium of three years growth, raised
by Mrs. Henry Perry. It has twenty
six stems, upon each of which is from
fifteen to twenty petals. On twenty
five of these the flower petals were
white, and on the twenty, sixth stem
there were sixteen red flowers and one
white.
Concord Times: Mr. MiIas B. Leslie,
a highly esteemed citizen of Concord.
while talking to DR.. Lilly in front of
the doctors office on last Friday morn
ing, suddenly fell to the pavement and
expired. Mr.. Leslie has been suffering
greatly for many months with a sore
hand that had affected his whole sys-
tenn. He was about sixty-four years
of age.
Sanford Express: Cotton chopping
is the order Of the day among the
farmers. The cool weather has had a
bad effect upon cotton, causing the
kilns aud about 80, 900 feet of lumber
were destroyed by fire at the saw mil
of Omohundro & Diggs, two miles
from here to day. 1t Originated from
one of the kilns. Loss from two tc
three hundred dollars.
Lexington Dispatch: William A.
HedriCk, cOlOred, vas committed tc
jail last week by A. M. Young, Esq.
for larceny. Hedrick could not gel
anyone TO go on his bond, but after
staying in jail for two days he made 6
mortgage to the State for his appear
ance at the next term of the Superior
Court. Hedrick has about 250 acres
Of land and made a mortgage on it fol
$500 in lieu of a bond.
Asheville Gazette: Sunday night
in an alteration near the French
Broad Baptist church, Claud Jones
and Charlie Wynn became ingaged IL
an alteration, and Wynn struck Jones
with a stick on the head inficting 6
painful wound. Wynn was carried
home in a buggy by DR.. Thrash, and
is yet confined to his bed, and prob
ably will be for several days. Both are
youths about Is years of age.
Morganton Herald: Mr.. VIM. Powell
says he believes he was the youngest
soldier from this county in the Con
federate army, being a little over Il
when he enlisted. - From a small
garden strawberry bed Mr.. w. G.
Hogan has sold on the Morgantor
market this season $25 worth of Der
ries, besides abundantly supplying his
own family. Mr.. Hogan has less ther
one sixteenth of an acre in berries.
Dunn Times: Nh. J. R. Barefoot O.
Sampson county, has a field of cottor
six acres in two counties and three
townships. - Mr.. S. P. Hudson O.
Sampson county states that he raised
a SOW and kept her until she was five
years old in the swamps, and then she
went totally wild and was not seer
until a few days ago Mr.. M Bas:
caught the same SOW while out hunt
ing. She is more than ten years ole
now.
Lumberton RObt SOniun: AS a result
of our one week of court the Jail get
two recruits, the chain-gang five, tn
p~enitentiary three and the gallows il
likely to get one. The impression
seems to prevail that the sentence o
VIM. Mckinney ought to be commuteC
to imprisonment for life. AS tn,
sentence stood he was to he hung on tn,