The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-24

the word means, says the Lexington
Dispatch.
Walter Baker, a lad employed in the
box works of Pepper & Woodward.
had the misfortune this afternoon to
get his left hand caught in a box
growing machine. The third finger
was severed and mangled and the
second finger injured near the end,
says the Winston Sentinel.
Mr.. J. A White, as soon as he heard
of the death of Mark Phillips, came to
Lenoir and. gave himself up. He is
now IN Jail. His lawyer, Mr.. Edmund
Jones, has gone to Lincolnton to see
Judge McIver, and will try to get Mr..
White out of jail on a writ of habeas
corpus, says the Lenoir Topic.
Morganton Herald: A great deal of
sorghum syrup, of very fine quality, is
being made by Burke county farmers
this year. Very little molasses or
syrup is being imported into this Sec
ton now, the home supply being abun-
dant and much cheaper and better than
that purchased outside the State.
Concord Times: For the past week
there has a drove of fifty or seventy
five horses quartered at the Fair
grounds. A number of them have been
sold to u people at prices raging
from S15 to $50. The horses came from
Oregon and are young and wild, none
of them eve having had a bride.
Greensboro Record: If farming
keeps on in its strides of improvements
the country will be saved after all.
W. w. Simpson, living near town,
shows us a stalk containing 205 pods
of peas. The variety is known as the
stock of Japan pea. Each pod is well
filled and there is no humbug about it.
At Burlington, N. c., Dunk Tucker
was shot and dangerously wounded as
he vas trying to escape arrest. He
had broken jail in which he had been
imprisoned for wife desertion. The
Charlotte News says he is now lying at
the point of death at the home OF his
brother, and has about seventy five
shot in his body.
Rutherford Banner: Under instruct
ions from Collector Elias, Deputy j. @.
Erwin has made more seizures since
he has been in Office than we have
ever known in the same length of time.
A considerable lot of copper stills and
old tubs have recently been sold here,
but they hardly brought enough to pay
the expenses of the sale.
Hickory Press and Caroiinian: The
major part of the lands for sale in
Western North Carolina does not con-
sist of homesteads, but only parts
thereof that the owners are not willing
to hold any longer in the hope of an
advance in prices. Very few Of our
people wish to dispose of their real es-
tate and move to other States.
Charlotte News: Bishop Cheshire's
first official labOrs will be in the par
ishes of the Tarboro district. The
Episcopal residence will be in Char
lotto. Bishop Cheshire is succeeded as
rector of ST. Peters church by Rev.
+. S Stickney, of Washington, n. Q.
Mr.. Stickney will arrive this week and
conduct services next Sunday.
Major Harper, who returned from
Watauga court Saturday evening, tells
US that there is a regular organized
band of robbers over in Watauga-a
Jesse James gang-whO have been
| carrying on their business there for q
considerable time. Eight of them are
in jail at Boone, but a great many of
them are still at large, says the Lenoir
Topic.
Newton Enterprise; A young negro
boy was convicted Of burglary at Gas
ton court last week and sentenced to
be hanged some time in December.
This is one a of conviction for burg
larizing the sleeping o Of a white
man by the name of Allen The latter
awoke and the negro shot him through
the head with q pistol. Mr.. Allen
fingered at deaths door for weeks, but
finally recovered.
Saturday night the residence Of Mr..
/ n 4 HIioorA On South TruOn ctrnnt
was entered from a back room window
and a gold watch, eight dollars in
money and a suit of clothes stolen,
The window was fastened down, and,
in order TO gain an entrance, the thief
cut Stats in the blinds and hen raised
the cash. The police have the case,
but as yet have found no clue to the
guilty parties, says the Charlotte News.
At Washington last Friday night the
Eastern Carolina Dispatch Co.'s ware
house and contents was destroyed by
fire. There were several merchants
having goods in the building at the
time Of the fire. Williams & Taylor,
representatives of the Armour & Co.,
| of Chicago. lost 81, 600 worth of goods;
G.. A Phillips lost 125 barrels of flour,
and others sustained smaller losses.
The total loss is estimated at SIS, 900
which was only partially covered by
insurance, says the Greenville Re
iector.
Henderson Times: Mr.. J. D. Davis
a few weeks since, purchased a noun
tain farm situated three miles west Of
| Hendersonville, and was looking for
ward to the chestnut harvest, which
promised to be very fine. Last week
he went up to gather them, but when
he arrived he found that some party
or parties had preceded him, and a
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