The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-03

Snln0. He was dne0 81, ana Hubbard
began hustliDg around among the other
shines" to raise the money for the
man who cut him, says the Charlotte
News.
The house Of Jesse Hall, colored, on
the Salisbury road, three miles from
town and near the residence of mir.
John Lingle, caught fire Tuesday while
the family was IN the cotton field, and
was completely destroyed, together
with all it's contents. It is not known
now the lire originated, sayst the States
vile Landmark,
Clinton Caucasian: The largest pea
vine we hAve heard of this season is
growing IN Mr.. Geo. PoWell's garden.
Inc vine measured 81 inches in circum-
t9rence just above the ground, while
Cn9 funners reach out 10 feet on either
Sioe' making the entire circumference
GI Cne plot covered by the vine 70 feet.
Inc vine IS full of green peas.
Mr.. A. S. Barrett. who is the in
Ventor Of a new paint known as Bar
rett's Elastic RoofPaint, " contenpIates
h erection of a paint factory in this
city by January 1st, 1894. Besides
manufacturing his own paint he viii
make several other kinds aud travel
men from this point to all parts of the
country, says the Charlotte News.
Henry Q. Davis deserted his wife at
ItlcKory, N. q, and ran away with
MS neIghbOr Mrs. Busbee and fed to
charlotte one month ago. This week
ne was caught while at work in Char
lotte spoke and handle factory. The
guilty pair were put in Jail. The Oh
server says when arrested Davis begged
to be killed, or allowed to commit
suicide.
Durham Recorder: An old farmer.
who lives four miles south of Durham.
told us Monday that he had been tax
ing notice Of various old signs. He
said the III husks are thicker than
usual, the frogs have gone down deep,
the birds are going South much earlier.
Our old friend said we would see a
mighty freeze-up before the first of
January.
Mt. Airy News: We learn that Rev.
}. N. Stalling5 has a splendid school at
Low Gap. - Reports from Stokes
seem to indicate that the tobacco crops
are going to turn out better than the
hard rains made farmers expect. --
The Mount Airy Male Academy has
enrolled to date 65 students. The en-
rollment is far ahead of the number
this time last year.
Mr.. Wesley Batten, who lives near
Jerome in this county, showed us a
rattlesnake's rattle Monday which had
twenty sixty rattles and a button on
it. His nephew, Mr.. J. G. Battan, liv-
ing at Green Cove Springs, Florida,
sent 1t to him. 1t is quite a curiosity
l these parts, the rattIesnake having
long since been exterminated, says the
.Smlthfeld Herald.
Fire broke out about 10 o'clock Mon.
day night in the barn on Col. K M
Murchison's plantation at orion, IN
the Cape Fear River about twelve
miles below Wilmington. The barn
and it's contents was entirely destroyed
There we're 4, 900 bushels OF rough rice
in the building, $50 bales rice straw, a
the Wilmington Star.
Rev. Jack Mills gives the bachelors
a lick after this fashion in the last
issue Of Charity and Children: A
bachelor asks us for a boy to raise.
We do not believe the Lord ever in
tended that bachelors should raise
children. We can furnish widows,
old maids and young women, as good
as any man ought to desire; but what
does q bachelor know about children?''
Mr.. Harry West, a wealthy farmer
living in CORTLAND, Norfolk county,
Va, just across the Carolina border,
and who married Miss Sally Brooks, of
Elizabeth City a few years ago, had
his barn with it's valuable contents en-
tirely destroyed by fire on Saturday
morning. 1t was probably accidental,
Judging from the time of it's Occurance.
Cause unknown, Gays the Elizabeth
City Economist.
Newton Enterprise: Mr.. E. Cant, of
ClairmOnt, sent us a few days ago a
fine sample of rice Of his own growing.
There Is a great deal OF it growing in
the county this year, and as a general
thing it is very promising. Some of it
will be cut for hay, and some will be
allowed to ripen to be gathered for
food and chicken feed. It is said that
it makes a most excellent hay, and the
yield Is enormous.
Newton Enterprise fanny body wants
to see peach seeds by the hundred
bushels just step into Smyre, Rhyme
& Co. s and J. r Gathers warehouses.
Mr.. Gather has one pile of 900 bushels
and another of 400 and has shipped
200 or 800 bushels. The two firms to.
gether have bought from the farmers
of this section not less than2, 500 bushels
Of peach seed. The price paid was 81
cents a bushel, making 1875.
One of our citizens said Monday that
IF our preachers don't change their
preaching, so as to deal with the issues
of the present day, as directed by de
signing men to enslave the people,
christian denomination that will; and
it will be a large one." That gentle
man i 8 not an Allianceman or a farmer,
but one. who is not blind and entirely
deaf to some things, says the Hickory
Mercury.
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