The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
STATE NEWS.

OWL doors. says the Carthage Blade.
Mr. .Jno. w. Vaughn, of Stokes Co.,
had a horse stolen on last Monday
night week, says the Yadkin Ripple.
We learn there were II conversions
or the PRESBYTERIAN meeting just closed
at Francisco, says the Danbury Re-
porter.
Mr. Jonas Williams, of Fork town
shin had a valuable mule killed by a
bull. last Monday, says the Warrenton
Record.
Concord Standard: Lawyer G.. M.
RulIa. of Lexington, died Wednesday,
of consumption, at the age of thirty
four years.
A B Wheeler, the embezzler of
George Vanderbilt's money, has made
restitution of $17, 500. which is thought
to be about all the amount stolen.
Watauga Democrat: There are now
nrosnects for an abundant corn crop in
Watauga. Corn has done the best
growing for the last two weeks ever
known almost.
The Charlotte News says that while
Mr. w. S. Caldwell was saving logs at
the saw mill Wednesday, he killed
thirty seven copperheads that crawled
out from under the slabs CD the
ground.
Greensboro Record: Mr.. Robert G.
Gorrell, we'll known to the citizens of
Greensboro, and for many years a resi-
dent of the place, died this morning at
s o'clock, at his residence near Guiltord
College,
Mr.. J. w. Kistler showed us on Tues
day the largest eggs we have yer seen.
It was Iaid by a large Langshang hen
and measures 81X64 and weighs + Of
a pound. Who can beat it, asks the
MooresvilIe Register.
Rocky Mount ArgonaUt: 1t is with
regret that we chronicle the death of
Miss Josephine Jenkins, which sad
brother, DR.. J. D. Jenkins, at Mobiles
Mill, in ~Edgecombe county.
Our enterprising townsman, Frank
Vaughn Esq has taken out a patent
for a new car coupler. There is more
money and more thought in invention
than anything else, and we hope our
friend may be n Of the lucky, says
the Elizabeth City Falcon.
The town of Derita has not been dull
lately Mad dogs have kept things
lively there. The residents have been
Staying every suspicious looking dog
that comes along, and that will be a
good locality for sheep raising next
year, says the Charlotte News.
Last Monday Mrs. Alex Helms, who
lives on Mr.. T. FL. Wolfe's place was
on the stable roof attending to her
dried fruit when she fell and broke her
right arm and hurt her left one right
badly. DR.. W. D.. Pemberton attended
her and set the broken limb. Monroe
Enquirer.
Mr. @. W. Baker was walking around
Sims pond this morning when he saw
a large turtle moving about in the
shallow water He shot the turtles
head off. The turtle weighed 35 pounds
and was one Of the largest fresh water
turtles on record, says the Charlotte
News.
Hayesville Advance: The fact that
Clay county has made the best crop of
wheat, oats and grass, and has the
finest prospect for a big corn crop it
has had for a number of years, has
inspired the people with new life, and
it is seldom n hears the words ''hard
times"
John Warren, q colored butcher of
the city was seriously gored in the
thigh by a steer near Camp Palmer
Friday while he was trying to handle
him and will be laid up for a while
with the wound. He had a very narrow
escape from being killed, says the New
Berene Journal.
Weldon News: Mr.. John L Kitchin,
ofScotland Neck, was painfully injured
at his grist mill in that that town last
week. A pully few out of position
and struck him across both ewes, in
t1lctlng painful wounds. Mr.. Kitchin
IS about Is years of age and is a brother
of Hon. w. II. Kitchin.
Goldsboro Caucasian: Robert Bry
ant, an escaped convict, was arrested
by Sheriff Spell and others in Halls
township n day last week under
warrant of maltreatment of his family.
Bryant was taken to the State peniten-
tlary the following morning to serve
out the remaining two years.
Earnest Darlington is the owner of a
tine b. eed of chickens, Of the war hawk
variety, and he priced them very
nlghly, especially the young rooster.
but that particular one is a dead
chicken now. He died yesterday, and
the verdict Of W. T. Darlington is that
he committed suicide, says the Dur
ham Sun.
Concord Standard: Messrs. J. w.
Fisher, Jr., and @. A. Seaborn, of No.
III, were at Henry Tolbert's on Monday
evening. The horses were stopped I'M
der a tree and during a thunder storm
the tree was struck by lightning and
S0oth horses killed, each man losing a
morse. Another horse not ten feet off
was uninjured.
Maxton Scottish Chief: Deputy Col
lector W. G. Hall captured and de-
stroyed a blockade still on Wednesday,
the 18th of July, with nineteen stands,
TOUR hundred gallons of beer, one