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

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been In Virginia with his family nearly
all summer. He has been at Wanes
ooro for the last two weeks and had a
great meeting there. When it closed
there were four hundred converts,
nearly all of whom have joined, or
slgn1hed their intention of Joining, the
different churches.
The Lenoir Topic publishes the fol
lowing recipe for diphtheria, with the
recommendation that it has proved
successful in many cases in which 1T
has been tested: One pint of apple
vinegar, ne-half pint sage tea, three
pods red pepper, n tablespoonful
burnt copperas, of alum and one
of common salt. Mix with a half pint
honey, gargle and swallow every half
hour.
Winston Sentinel: Capt. Hawkins,
conductor on the Mooresville and
Wilkesboro roads, is quoted as saying
that the Bible agent who was thrown
from the train while attempting to
steal a ride in Wilkes county a few
days ago, was badly injured and for a
time it vas believed he would die. He
was restored to consciousness by the
train men applying the air-brake to
his mouth.
Miles Simmons, cOlOred, of Bachelors
Greek says that the land is so rich in
his neighborhood that it sprouts grub
worms. He exhibited one at the Jour
nal Office that had three perfect shoots
protruding from It's lifeless body from
one fourth to one half an inch in length.
The s%upposition is that the worm had
swallowed some kind of seed which
terminated and began to grow, says
the New Berne Journal.
Charlotte Observer: Rev. Father
Francis yesterday presented Mrs. A.
Tankesley with a large crayon of Rt.
Rev. Bishop Haid, and Miss Agnes
Manning one Of himself, as an &C
acknowledgements of their work for the
new Catholic church, these two ladies
alone having collected about $500. The
walls Of the church are almost up, the
window frames are in; the large front
window to be especially beautiful.
Mr.. J. @. Shut, who has charge of
the county convict force, writes The
Sentinel that James Prather, who was
shot by A. f. Landreth, one of the
guards, several days ago, was not
killed as reported. His injuries are
will will recover John Hill and Will
burn Walker, the two convicts who
made their escape during the row.
are still at large, says the Winston
Sentinel.
MI. Eli Hinson, one of the interested
parties in the Surface Hill mine, brought
to the mint today six hundred penny
weights of pure gold which was mined
at thai place. The stuff made a mans
eyes water in such times as this Mr.
| TTS---a $500 TIT H. 1900 E
hands are still working very hard and
trouble. He says the gold does not
appear to weaken in the least, says the
Charlotte News.
Rockingham Rocket: In the lower
end of Richmond and in Robson coun
ties the mosquitoes r said to be SO
numerous that they actually drive the
cotton pickers from the fields late in
the afternoons. They are more num-
erous and ~pestiferous hereabout than
usual, due no doubt, to so much wet
weather two weeks ago. 1t is suggested
that the recent storm drove millions of
them inland from the swamps in the
eastern part of the State.
Rockingham Spirit of the South:
On Tuesday last Mr.. John M. Patter
son, town marshal of Laurinburg,
brought to town and lodged in jail
James II. Barefoot and Joseph Jordan,
both white, charged with arson and of
robbing the store recently of Messrs.
Mcmillan 6 Robbins, of that town.
The lease" was worked up by Mr. T.
@. Hawkins, who claims to be a de,
tective from Atlanta Ga and the
developments promise to be startling.
Last Thursday night Deputy Sheriff
A. J. Arlington and possee arrested
Neil Mcintosh at his home on Fosters
creek, Madison county. AS Arlington
attempted to enter, Mcintosh met him
with a raised axe. Arlington fired
the ball passed Mcintosh and hit his
~two-year-old child, inficting a prob
ably fatal wound. Arlington had sur
rendered himself to the sheriff and is a
desperate chracter, and had previously
resisted arrest by Arlington, says the
Winston Sentinel.
Recently a little four-year old son Of
Dock Walker was playing with a Irvine
string near a pig pen. He had the
string around his neck and climbed
upon the pen to look at the pigs, when
the string fell into the pen, a pig think
ing it was something to eat picked 1t
UP when the string began to tighten.
The little fellow held tight and the pig
pulled and but for the timely assist
ance of the boys father, he would
probably have been choked to death,
says the Shelby Aurora.
High Point Enterprise: Mr.. D. Fl.
Parnell tells us of a singular incident
which occurred at the machine shops.
It appears that sometime ago an old
hen was e to hop up on the brick
work of the boiler and in a few min
utes she came down cackling. No one