The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-08

body of the latter after the murder, is
now IN the care of Clerk of the Court
Stafford. The letter, which was sup
posed to have been lost, was found in
the office of Messrs. Glenn Sc Manly,
says the Winston Sentinel.
Winston Sentinel: Charles Pepper
is numbered among Forsyth's Jail
BIRDS" AS a horse thief said once,
Pepper picked up a rope and a mule
followed him. The animal was stolen
from w. w. Fulp, of Kernersville,
and is said to be 81 years old. Pepper
was captured in Moore county.
Henderson Gold Leaf: Crops have
suffered greatly for want Of rain lately
and will be cut short in consequence.
Upland corn will not yield anything
like as we'll as it promised to do with
favorable seasons, dry weather coming
| just at the time rain was most needed
to give vitality to the plant and de-
velop the a r
Charles Shores, of Jonesville, N. c.,
was drowned in the Yadkin river at
Elkin, n. O., Yesterday morning, about
10 o'clock. He, in company with some
more men, was In the river SEEMING for
fish when he got In water beyond his
depth and was drowned before assist
ance could be given him, says the
Winston Sentinel.
Newton Enterprise: Tom Linney,
colOred, of this place, was cleaning out
a well near Lincolnton Wednesday
morning when he began to feel the
effects of bad air. He siGnaled to be
pulled out, and the windlass hands got
him near the top of the ground when
he tainted and fell back, crushing his
| Cly1In and aoZjn hiC 5GN7Tl1or
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. Neil Jami
son, a well known citizen OF this city
who has for some time been showing
signs Of mental arrangement, yester
day became so violent that he was con
fined to the TOmbs for safe keeping
An effort will be made to get him in at
the asylum at Morganton, as his case
seems deplOrably hopeless at present.
Mr.. J. @. Coffey, of Risden, who was
in Lemon last Thursday, tells us that
they had a very hard hail storm at
Risden on Wednesday evening, the
heaviest that has fell in that neighbor
hood for two years, The hail stones
were about the size Of partridge eggs
He tells Us that the hail damaged the
corn considerably, says the LenOir
Topic.
Stanton Kennedy, colore6, who lives
On Mr.. w. L. Kennedy's farm near
Falling Greek, was before Justice
Moore Tuesday for cutting his wife
last Saturday afternoon. The knife
just grazed her left breast, causing but
little injury. He was bound over to
| court in the sum of $500, and, failing
to give bond. was lodged in Jail says
| she KinstOn Free Press.
Last Thursday evening about four
miles east of Monroe the engine which
MI. Stacy Bundy had in charge ex
ploded, throwing she fireman, Evan
der McIntrie, colored, about so feet,
landing him on top of a box ar. Mr..
Bundy was turned round in his seat,
and every one who saw the wreck say
that the escape of both engineer and
fireman was a miracle, says the Rock
ingham Rocket.
Monday night in Salisbury, near the
Mt. Vernon hotel, two rather promi-
nent colored men were killed almost
instantly. They were run over by a
shifting engine and cut in two. One
was the head waiter at the Mt. Vernon
and the other a head workman in
Gaskll's tobacco factory. The men
were not drinking, we learn, but fool
ishly standing on the track, says the
Concord Standard.
Recently Messrs. J. A Wilson &c.,
| Of Wilson's Mills, made some seats for
one of the colored churches in Kinston
and when the work was completed the
| trustees of the church sent them the
money by express. The bill was only
| about $50 and the money sent weighed
over nine pounds. There were about
seven hundred one and two cent pieces
and no piece was larger than ten cents,
says the Smithfield Herald.
Cave Ramsey, an ventive genius and
bl0ckader of Cleveland county, has
been arrested and will be tried this
week for running O liquor still on
| Buffalo. He utilized a huge iron wash
pot and a wooden cap, and made corn
whiskey that would kill a man with
out fail. When the rude still was first
found, Ramsey was hid in a pile of
brush in the field and said he laid down
there because he was sick, says the
Shelby Aurora.
High Point Enterprise: Ever since
the young man Murdoch was drowned
at Logan's Factory people have been
constantly seeing him on the river
banks near the spot where he was
drowned. One negro declares that he
was run for half a mile down the river
by something that looked unearthly.
At one time the ghost got sonear to
him that he felt the breeze from the
stroke of his bony hand. We don't
believe in ghosts, but there is some
thing wrong at Jimtown.
Deputy Sheriff Johnston was down
in Clear Creek township yesterday,
and visited the Surface Hill gold mine.
He says they are finding a lot of pretty
nuggets, and the ore continues to be
very rich. Mr.. Johnston thinks the
bill is full Of little pockets. and that