The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

Mr.. Hugh w. Harris, lett last night
for Washington in response to a tele-
| gram of a favorable character. He
will very probably get a cOnsulehip in
South America. He has about the
strongest recommendation yet pre-
scnted by any Office seeker from North
Carolina, says the Charlotte News.
John Young, colored, who was sent
to the State p~renitentiary for seven
years, and who was working in a gang
near Carthage, yesterday attempted to
escape. He was shot and instantly
killed by the guard. He had served
four years of his term, and his pardon
had been granted, and was on the way
to the authorities, says the Charlotte
News.
News is received here of the ARE st
at Mt. Airy Of ayOung man, the name Of
whom Is not learned. He is charged with
stealing a horse from a farmer, after
which he traded the animal for a mule,
sold h latter for $45, and then shot at
the officer when he went to arrest him.
The young man is said to be only nine
teen years cid, says the Winston
Sentinel.
The Morehead City News states that
Messrs. Daily Wade and Mack Lewis at
one drop Of their nets a few days ago
caught $50 worth Of fish. 1t also men
tions that Messrs. Charley Willis &
Co., caught seventeen thousand mul-
let's recently. Capt, John E Lewis
tells the News of one of his nets in
which I'VE s., 600 worth Of fish have
been caught.
An extra freight train passed through
Shelby Monday en- quite to Second
Broad river and had on board the en-
tire iron bridge, also rock pillars to be
erected at Second Broad river between
Henrietta and Forest City. This
has been long promised and long de
layed, but it has at last arrived and
will be pushed to a rapid completion,
says the Shelby Aurora.
From Washinton, N. O., we learn
that the dry kilns of the Kugler Lum-
Der Co, which were destroyed by fire
February 25th, will be rebuilt. 4 large
quantity Of lumber, with the storage
house, was consumed. The loss was
between six and seven thousand dol
lars. Walling's saw and planning mill,
recently burned, will be rebuilt, say
the Elizabeth City Falcon.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: They say
hat revenue raider Patterson took
t NO or three deliberate shots at a man
by the name of Roberts down in Love
lace last week, because he saw Roberts
leaving his house as the revenue fel
lows approached. We thought it was
against the law to attempt to kill up
our people. even if it be a high and
majestic revenue raider who pull the
trigger,
Jesse Allen, our pressman, knows
just how to dispose of eggs and if there
is a shortage in the crop about Easter
no one need be surprised. Two of the
compositors in the office proposed to
pay for two dozen eggs on the cOndi
ton that Allen eat them within fifteen
minutes. The eggs were bought and
in just 6! minutes nothing but the
shells were left, says the Durham
Recorder.
Mr.. Doc" Ben Franklin Suite is
the happiest man in Shelby. He has
recently discovered an alum spring,
which is cold and clear, bold and has
astringent taste like alum. Several
visitors pTOnunce it an alum spring,
located three quarters of a mile north
east Of Shelby and within 60 feet of the
Carolina Central Railroad track and
near where the two roads cross each
other, says the Shelby Aurora.
About 9 o'clock Wednesday morning
a little boy Of Mr.. John Fry, 20 months
old, swallowed a small ceiling brad,
which lodged in the child's windpipe.
When Mr.. Fry reached DR.. JOhnston's
office with the child, Dr5. Baker, Aber-
nethy and Whiteside were quickly
summoned, and they at once opened
the throat and extracted the nail from
the windpipe of the little sufferer, says
the Hickory Press and CarOlinian.
Mr.. w. L Bruce, of Boston, recently
bought a mica mine, near LincOlntOn,
and he has just cut from it the largest
sheet of mica that has been produced
by any known mica mine. The sheet
cut is 94x16 inches. The largest sheet
heretofore on record cut was 1Ox10, A
piece split from Mr.. Bruce's sheet
about 6 ply thick, a be seen at
Boyne& Badgers jewelry store. It is
without a flaw and IS as clear as French
plate, says the Charlotte News.
Floating Item: A negro preacher
living near Raleigh, n. O., saw for the
first time in his life the skeleton Of a
whale in the State museum. After
learning what it washo walked gravely
up and down and critically examined
its huge proportions. The enormous
mouth seemed to impress him greatly
he fervently exclaimed: Well, well,
well, I've bin a preachin' de Gospel for
nigh on forty years, an [ sometimes
breaches about de whale swallerin' Of
jonah, but I declare to gracious Inever
believed it afore now; de Bible sho
is true"
Stanly News: Eben Burleyson, a
| good citizen of four miles west Of this
place, was found in an old field which
| was being swept by a fire last Monday.
His clothes were badly burned and
scorched and his hair singed, but his
person bore no evidence Of severe in
%juries outwardly. The burning field