The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-21

cas- opened All but four of the
cattle loads were. bought in jackson
county, for which about $12 600 was
paid 1 ss
The body of Mr.. A N. Weaver,
formerly of Pennsylvania, of whose
drowning we told in our last ISSUE,
was recovered and buried at Cherry
Point, his home since moving to this
locality about three years ago, says the
New Berne Journal.
Mack" DOwdy. the champion tur
key hunter of Moore county, has killed
several very large ones since the lat of
November. He never falls short of 20
or 80 turkeys during the winter, and
generally sells them at fair prices, says
the Sanford Express.
AIbemaTle News: Mr.. J. A. Shankle
has a gOurd vine from which he has
gathered forty eight we'll developed,
hard gOurds. Joe says there were
others that did not fully mature, but
so many of them he did not take the
trouble to count them.
While the wind was blowing SO hard
last Wednesday IT. blew down the
kitchen of Mrs. S V Atkinson, at the
SCreeter place. She and her grand
daughter were both in the kitchen, but
fortunately escaped without injury,
ssys the GreenvilIe reflector.
There were twenty-four immersions
at the First Baptist church yesterday
eight In the m rning and sixteen at
night. Six new members were also
added to the church at the morning
service, says the Winston Sentinel of
the 18th. ..-
Sheriff Allsbrook has made an as
signment Of his property 10 his bonds
men. We understand that his lIabIlI
ties are about S. 500, and assets nearly
sufficient to cover them There will
be no loss tn the county, says the Scot
land Neck Democrat.
L~AaksvIlle Gazette: Mr. G. S. Ham
lin has al eleven and a half pound
beet on exhibition at the hardware
store. - a couple of Mormon mis-
aries were in town yesterday. They
tried to secure a house in which to
preach Sunday evening, but failed III
the effort.
The Stokes county jury failed to
down Sandy Stevenson but SuDerin
tendent Blair did. AS soon as the
Professor discovered who Sandy was
he gave the accused murderer notice
that he could not longer attend the
West Winston School, says the Win
SION Sentinel.
The little seventeen months-old child
of MIR. q. W. Stockton, of LittimOre's.
was severely burned by falling into
fire one day last week. It's internal In
iuries proved to be serious. and the
little one fingered until Sunday, when
death relieved It's sufferings SAYS the
Shelby Aurora.
The WirstOn Sentinel learns that
exSherif Bailey, of Davie county
whose warehouse, together with / 500
time ago, was tried before a United
States Commissioning a few days ago
4 case was not made out agalnst HIM
90 the action was dismissed.
Mr.. Pat Miles killed one Of his fine
hogs last Monday, which dressed 334
pounds. 1t wanted two days of being
twelve mouths old. As he converted
nearly all of Ii into sausage and lard,
it worth nearly II quite sixty dollars,
or about the worth of two bales of cot
ton. says the WarrentOn Gazette
Greensboro Re I'd: Trinity's excur-
sion to L. nchburg Saturday was a
su cess If the game of baH was not.
There were five coaches, all packed.
- Poor Trinity !! Thirty to nothing,
ard only a half a game at that, Is too
nad. That's what the Universi Y of
Virginia did for them at Lynch5urg on
saturday.
Mount Airy News: It is estimated
that there are abcu1 s., 900 investe /
IN bicycles III Mount Airy. -- The
granite quarries are shipping large
quantities of stone. - R-v. Fl w.
L-slle, of Pinnacle, evangelist of the
Methodist Protestant Church. has gone
to take charge of the Midway circuit
in Tennessee.
The store of Mr.. Richard Johnson,
at the old bakery Corner, near the
\ G N @ cotton yard, was entered
Monday nis ht. througha book window.
and the money drawer was rIfpd of
several dollars in small change, Moth
ing else in the store was disturbed.
There is no clue to thief, says the
G 'ldsbOrO Argus.
G. w. Bryan, Of Halifax county,
gatnere1 80 bushels of corn from an
acre of ground. But for the storms.
he avs he would have made 100 -
Floating item: In that same county
about 1860 or 81. we knew over 100
bushels OF corn per acre to be gathered
from some eighteen or twenty a;re5-
Edi.or Messenger.
The Rutherfordton depot Of the G..
G.. r ulrOad, was burned on Monday
night of this week and the passenger
train came down Tuesday all bIsstered
and the windows broken Oh the side
next to the fire. We have none OF the
o r~Uiculars IN the case, either ae to the
origin of the fire or the damage done,
saws the LincointOn Courier.
From a private letter we learn that
MISS Mamie Bagwell, the charming
daughter of R4v, j. 7. Bagwell, for
mnrlu nastnr IF the Methodist Church