The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-23

aged to cut, 1t is not known how.
Officers started out in pursuit Of him,
I'll up to this time he has not been
apprehended.
Murdoch Whitfield, the negro charged
with an attempt to commit rape on a
little seven year old white child in
Cedar Greek township, this county,
about two months ago, was only given
seven years in the State p~enitent1ary,
by Cumberland Superior court, now in
session at this place.
Geo. Mills, a colored employee of the
Acme Mining and Corundum Com
pany, was accidentally caught by the
derrick while at work in the mine last
Friday and seriously injured. DR.. J..
+. Carlton dressed his wounds and he
IS now getting along all right, says the
Lexington Dispatch.
A number of our citizens complain
OF cats killing young chickens. J.. @.
b. Morton, on Main street, has lost
forty young chicks recently. This
morning he caught a cat devouring
what he had left. He brought in use
a shot gun and that cat will feast no
more on spring chickens,
AS DR.. w. P. Beall, one of Greens
bOrO's most prominent physicians, was
returning from a drive last week his
horses became frightened and ran
away. DR.. Beall was thrown against
a fence near his home, and received
very serious injuries, breaking his
collar bone and several ribs,
JOnesbOrO Journal: DR.. J. L. Cox
has the biggest onion patch we ever
saw. He has about six acres in this
fragrant product. and some of them
are very fine. Dr.. Cox is making a
success of the trucking business. One
row of onions less than two hundred
yards long will net him $500
Albert Murdoch, cOlored, whose skull
was br )ken by a 1rickbat thrown by
Will Allison, cOlOred, about six weeks
ago, has about recovered and is about
on the streets again. A broken skull
Is generally a matter of small i'm
p~Ortance to the average coIored man,
says the Statesville Landmark.
We have heard that the pest Of
Union county farmers, the Chintz bug,
has been noticed in a few wheat fields.
Last year we were entirely free from
this Troublesome insect and we sin
cerely hope that Our corn and wheat
fields may not be blighted by it this
year, says the Monroe Enquirer.
Winston Sentinel: Jeff Nelson, col
Ored. who stands charged with burn
ing a barn near Jamesto WI, besides
stealing a mule, has been captured IN
CharlestOwn, w. Va. Nelson con.
fesSes to the charges against him He
will be sent for as sOon as the necessary
requisition papers can be secured
For the past four years Weldon's
death rate has been only II. 55 to the
1000 inhabitants during each year.
No town In the State can show a lower
rate of mortality. For many years
this has been claSsed as an unhealthy
place, but facts and figures speak now
to the contrary, says the Weldon News.
WadesbOro Messenger and IntelIi-
gencer is authority for this: Manager
Coward, of the Coward House at
Webster, n. O., is a fatal dreamer.
He dreamed twice that one of his
horses was missing, He got out of
the bed and went to the barn when
he found out that his dreams were
true.
New Berne Journal: Yesterday after
noon lightning struck the livery stables
of M. Hahn & Co., and tore a hole
through the roof, and broke up one
side of a feed box, killed a horse,
hLOOACu u OUjS ICSIO uldIl ONGIS
stunned his father, and slightly shocked
MessrS. Benz. Hahn and Herbert lis
dale.
The cool weather is accounted for.
The Landmark learned yesterday that
Prophet Pierce, of Olin township, had
predicted a big frost on the 10Th. PEG
pie had better take their gardens in
doors to night for when Mr.. Pierce
/ 1nlivvor1 hinoCO1f ohNIt tho "nofLN.
something happens, says the Statesville
Landmark.
The most forward beans are almost
ready for shipping. Prof. Geo. W.
Neal showed us Tuesday some of his
man wax varieties, The former were
four and the latter five inches in length
and the wax-beans had assumed that
rich golden color that makes them so
tempting in appearance, says the New
Berne Journal.
Chalmers Sims has a shepherd pup
seven months old that is a smart one.
| Recently he took $175 from Mr.. Sims
house to the express office, and laid it
down at the safe door. He then barked
to notify some one that the money was
there. Mr.. Sims vas so pleased with
this feat that he at Once set his dog up
to three pounds of beef, says the Con
cord Times.
Mr.. Jno. T. Spencer killed a spotted
rat in his wood pile one day this week.
The ''varmint" had been killing little
chickens. The animal was mainly
viii e, with irregular stripes and spots
of the ordinary rat color. His eyes
were regular rat eyes, otherwise he
seems to have been a mixture of about
half and half Of white rat and common
rat, says the Gazette.
A sad occurrence in connection with
the heavy rains of last week trans
pired in the Wentworth section. Mr..
David Knowles was drowned in at
tempting to cross Roach's creek, which
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