The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21

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house at G D. Carriers distillery, one
mile east of town
Kinston Free Press: Willis Watson.
who broke out of the jail here through
the roof Sunday night of last week,
has not been heard from vet. He was
in Jail for breaking in a store at Grifton
about a month ago.
The $4,000 appropriated for the
completion of the deaf and dumb school
at M~OTganton. with the amounts already
expended, will make the building cost
500, 600. The grounds embrace over
two hundred acres.
High Point Enterprise: We under
stand that Mr.. Burwell Cecil has en-
tered suit to recover from Mr. Spencer
Pope $15. 600 damages to character on
account of prosecution in the "calf"
case some time ago.
Newton Enterprise: People generally
are predicting a good crop of peaches
this year, on account of their being
kept back in the bud so late. This is q
| good sign, ont peaches are never safe
in this section until the middle Of
April.
Mount Airy News: Mr. J. Q. Mccain,
who is the happy father of trippleCs,
was III town this week and reports the
little ones, which are no Y nearly a
year old, as being healthy and grow
ing. Two Of them are boys and one
a girl.
G.. w. Jones, of Wake county, was
in town yesterday and gave the Sun a
call. He has Dot been here before
since 1862, when Durham, at that time,
could hardly be called an infant, be
cause it was hardly more than a water
station.
Andrew Howell, of Ashe county
offers SIS reward for Frank HOuCk,
who shot into a party of men and boys
and killed Allen Scott, ~ years Old,
The party who was shooting near
Houck's house, when he became angry
and fired.
On last Thursday a barn on Mrs.
Gibbons farm near Haywood, was
accidently burned, together with its
contents. consisting IF corn and forage,
the property of Mr.. Elisha Pipkin,
who rents the farm, says the Warren
ton Record.
Elizabeth City Carolinian: Mrs.
Isaac Harris, living few mills west of
the city, died very suddenly on Fri
day morning. She had cooked break
fast, as usual, and went out to feed the
chickens when she vas found lying III
the yard dead.
Thomas Davis, of Oxford, a student
at BIrne's Academy in Lenoir, was
stoned by unknown parties while re
turning from the home of a young lady
with whom he had been to church.
One stone inAicting a paint ii wound
over his left eye.
FAYETTEVILLE Observers: Mr.. j.. /.
Sherwood, while out cunning III Thurs
day last, had the misfortune to a'ci.
IDENTIFY shoot himself in the leg. The
shot was out of a parlOr rifle, and it in
hicted a flesh wound, was painful
though not serious.
4 special from GreenvilIe to the
Wilmington Messenger tells that five
negro prisoners escaped from the
county jail there on the night of the
85h. The staple holding the lock vas
filed from the inside and forced, which
opened the door of the cell.
The Hotel de County" has a large
patronage just now There are nineteen
CUES 8, a large majority Of whom are
"sOns of Ham Some are serving out
sentences and others awaiting trial.
Quite a number are held for murder,
says the Rockingham Rocked,
Large quantities of peanuts were
shipped from here Tuesday and Wed
nesday. The price has been gradually
going up for q week or more and those
who sold last week are counting how
much they lost by not holding until
this week, says the Murfreesboro
Index.
The Manufacturers Record says: A
mining engineer Is reported as having
said hat around Egypt and Sanford,
in Chatham and Moore counties, North
Carolina, there are extensive deposits
of high grade bituminOus coal which
could be operated and operated sue
cessfully.
Shelby Aurora: One by the old
Mexican soldiers are passing over the
river and resting under the shade"
| Sunday night Benjamin Justice, a
wounded soldier in the Mexican war
| fought his last battle and at the age of
seventy five years passed after two
days illness.
Mr.. Nixon Padged, who has been
| connected with the Sentinel Office for
several years. and as foreman for the
past year, left this morning for Pilot
Mountain, where he will begin b
publication of the Pilot Times, a IS
ICOlilIIlu weekly newspaper, Says ChO
Winston Sentinel.
We learn that there is about four
hundred dollars in the town treasury,
Tt seems to us with that amount on
hand we might have better streets in
! RoxbOro We think it would mac
adamize the entire depot street which
is so badly needed. Give us better
street or less taxes.
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considerd an old book. 1t is a copy of
the acts of the Legislature dating back
to 1715. 1t was printed in those days
when they made the letter 8 so much
like an f that to read it one would have
To 90 hack and learn over his a b c'a.