The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-02-14

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eight more good ones to butcher. Ed
Is a mover, and always ome out on
the paying side, says the Boon Demo
crat.
Winston Sentinel: Mrs. Thomas Reid,
daughter in law of the late ex Gov
ernor Reid, died sudnenly at her home
in Reidsville January 81. She was
Frustrated on Friday with a nervous
malady, and hopes were entertained of
her recovery until Tuesday, when she
sank rapidly.
Laura, the three year old child of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Watt Kirkpatrick,
died at the home of her parents in
Saron township this morning at s
o'clock, of dyphtheria. Two of Mr..
Klrkpatricks Chirldren are now very
Ill with the same disease, says the
Charlotte News.
Lenoir Topic: In 1889 the Legislature
passed a law forbidding the hunting of
deer in'Caldwell county with dogs, and
until this year the law has been pretty
well obeyed with the result that it is
estimated there are owe one hundred
head that range in the northern and
western sections.
The champion turkey hunter is Mr.
J.. A Hedrick, of Paramount, who
killed eight wild turkeys in less than
week. There were ten tn keys in
the gang" when first seen. Mr.. f.
L. Hedrick killed one, and the one left
would do we'll to seek safer quarters,
says the Lexington Dispatch.
Charlotte Observer: News was re-
ceived by the Observer from Asheville
at 10 o'clock last night that Mr.. Lloyd
Smith, the night clerk at Battery Park
hotel, whose family reside in this city,
and who is well known here, killed
himself by the accidental discharge of
a pistol which he was handling.
The Charlotte News says the north
bound vestibule train that reached
here Saturday night, struck and killed
an old negro woman, on the trip from
Atlanta to Charlotte. She was on the
trestle over FlOwery Branch when the
train overlook her. She was knocked
to the ground below and instantly
killed.
Mr.. HerOd Allen had the misfortune
to lose his house by fire yesterday.
Mr.. Allen is the blacksmith at Critcher
Bros. Buggy shop, and by hard work
and close economy had managed to
save enough to build him a good sub
stantial residence just out side the
corporate limits, says the Roxboro
Courier.
The Concord correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer says: Your cor
respondent learns from Mr. w. r.
Odell that North Carolina will soon
have another large cotton factory. It
will be situarted at Lockville, a small
place not very far from Raleigh. The
capital stock will not be less than
1926, 600.
Charlotte Observer: Uncle" John
ME Morris died at his home in Union
county Saturday evening, at the ad-
vanced aga of 80. Mr.. Morris was a
remarkably preserved man. He was
II the habit of driving to Charlotte in
q low back buggy every week or SO,
never being fatlgued in the least by
the ride.
Asheville Gazette: David Edwards,
confined in the county Jail on a charge
of m~anslaughter, has made his escape.
Ed wards was pronounced insane, and
on this account was allowed more
liberties than the other prisoners. Of
this he took advantage. With a knife
and an awl he tore out some bricks
and got away.
Winston Sentinel: A wagon load of
dressed rabbits were brought to Win
ston this week from Rockingham
county. They retailed for y and 10
cents apiece. - Powell and Wharton,
general merchants at Greensboro, as
signed yesterday to Prof. O. w. Carr.
The liabilities are estimated at $15, 900,
assets unknown.
Statesville Landmark: Mr.. T. f.
Drumwright, a we'll known citizen of
this community, died suddenly at his
home in the southwestern edge of town
Sunday night about 10 o'clock. He
had been in his usual health but about
the hour named suffered a stroke of
paralysis and death ensued in ten or
fifteen minutes.
We are informed that J. B. Finlay-
son, a telt graph operator at Haw
River drank laudanum Friday night.
but was rescued from death by prompt
attention. His case, at last accounts.
was still considered critical. What
led to this rash act we have not
learned. He is a married man,
Greensboro Record.
Mr.. j. A. Harvey has we'll equipped
shingle and lumber mill, with a ca
Pacity of $4,000 shingles a day, and
ships the products of his mill to every
part of the county. Mr.. J. w. Russ
has a lumber mill on the edge of the
corporate limits of the town, with a
capacity of IL, 900 feet a day, says the
Kinston Free Press.
Greensboro Record: The Mount Airy
Granite Company is booming. Two
prominent business men from Phila-
0elPhia last week gave an order for
S6O, 600 worth of granite. The proba-
blllty is that the order will be doubled.
1t is estimated that it will require
nearly three hundred men to fill the
d IN the stipulated time.
Statesville Landmark Several
months ago Mr.. H. A. Collins, of
pennsylvania, came to St~atesville,
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