The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-18

d man asleep on the track. he re
versed his engine and stopped within, a
fe" feet of the sleeper, who awoke
about this time, and ~retreated across
the country.
MorgantOn Herald: The citizens of
Lovelady township have organized a
committee whose province it will be to
rad the tOwnO f sheep killing dogs. The
committee made the rounds last Satur-
day, armed with shot guns and bent
on slaughter.
The entinel's correspondent at Long
town, n c., informs us that on Easter
Sunday Frank Swain had O two year
old colt burned to death and a guam,
tlty of rough food, farm implements,
&c, destroyed by fire, says the Win
stOn Sentinel,
Harriet C~orpening, colored, who
lives In a small house below Major
Harper's has been arrested on suspicion
of being the fire-bug who has been
starting the fires lately. An examina-
ton will be held Wednesday, Gays the
Lenoir Topic.
Miss Annie Reed, of Wentworth, en-.
deavOred to Telis We a headache with
antikamauia. By some mistake she
took fifty grains Of the drug and in a
fewmOments was unconscious. Through
the constant labor of three physicians,
she recovered.
On Friday afternoon the mill Of w.
@. Ferebee, az Bell Cross in Camden
county, took fire and was entirel' con,
sumed. The loss is estimated at 50 900,
without insurance The fire was prob,
ably accidental, says the Elizabeth
City Econmis5.
Greensboro Record: Howl, ye Demo
Gratis, howl! Dave J. Gilmer, cOlored,
has just been appointed postal clerk
between Washington and Charlotte.
He received the papers direct this
morning from superintendent Vickery,
at Washington.
The Presby terrain church at Pollocks-
vile will Don be built. There have
been such generous contributions to it
IN the way Of material that only a
small amount OF cash will have to be
laid out IN Purchasing, says the New
Berne Journal.
Our HulOn correspondent says that
the Dunkard Synod held at that place
closed Sunday night. Large congre-
| cations attended during the entire
week. Quite a number of people at.
tended from Winston Salem, says the
Winston Sentinel.
Twenty two couples went the way
Of the world and got married in this
county during March. May their lives
prove as smooth as q summer sea with
| out even a breath of a March buster
in their domestic harmony, says the
Winston Republican.
Mr.. Frank Meadows, of Emmons
township, had the misfortune to have
his house with entire contents burned
last Saturday. His house was situated
near Pinev Grove church. We sym
pathize with him in his keen loss, says
the Lexington Dispatch.
4 colored woman was placed in jail
here a few days ago, for setting fire to
a cllored Baptist church in Cedar
Rock one night last week. The build
was cntirly destroyed, and it is said
that her husband was an &C :omplice.
says the Louisburg Times
The James City affair at New Berne
seems not much nearer adjustment
than when the officers attempted to
serve the papers a few weeks ago. The
negroes have refused Mr.. Bryan'S
offer, and the Journal says they may
yet have to be fOrcibly elected.
Wayne-Duplin Review: Dubb Oates,
cOlOred, aged 50 years, who works
upon Mr.. J. B. McCullen's place, q mile
and a half from town, is able to chop
an acre Of cotton per day Or cut a
cord of wood in the same time. He
has never been in Mt Olive.
A colored man, named Andrew Will
Hams, was killed on a log train of the
,.,5!.ooI oL1-yo Tho os{vy EN~5lOx- A. NO
understand it, the train came apart
him from the box car with the fatal
result, says the New Berne Journal.
Carthage Blade: Carpenters are
/ going right ahead on Mills planning
mills and dry kilns. There will be
three or four buildings besides lumber
shed, etc. The plant will cover about
four acres of ground, and it Is expected
to be in operation in about a month.
Our young friend Jas. @. Conway
had his right arm badly mashed one
DAYS this week. He is baggage master
on the Louisburg Railroad, and was
coupling cars at the depot here when
his arm was caught between the
bumpers, says the Louisburg Times.
The body of Alex. Lane, the colOred
man drowned last Friday in the river
at Chadbourn's mill, was recovered
last Sunday by men who were dragging
for it. The body was found ear the
| place where Lane was thrown off the
raft by q hawser, says the Wilmington
Star.
The trial of Rollins for the murder
Of Sandy Jones came up in the Dur
ham Superior court last week. After
about eight days proceedings he was
convicted of manslaughJer and sen,
fenced to five years at hard labor in
the p~enitentiary. An appeal was taken.
and bond fixed at 81, 600.
Mr.. N. Mcmillan, a farmer who re
sides in the fine cotton region near
Blenheim, S. O., was in the city on
business yesterday. He tells us that
| the farmera are now nlanting cotton