The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-18

udLlo, ul6u on Gn0 farm known as the
Baker place, with the most hOrridI
oaths on his tongue. So terrible was
his language that every one in the
house left 1t with him. Such a scene.
has never before been known in this
community. '...-'.
Norwood Vidette: Mr.. Ed. McSwain,
or Wharf neighborhood, had the mis-
fortune to lose his house and nearly all
It's contents by fire last Saturday morn
ing. The fire was supposed to have
originated from a defective stove fue.
Mrs. McSwain was sick in another de-
partment of the house and came near
being burned.
Col. r. B.. Creecy, editor of the
Elizabeth City Economist, says that
the first ~sixpense he ever made was
from selling bull frogs in Edenton to
old Lamonie, the Jeweler, seventy five
years ago. Bro. Creecy would have
been better eff if he had continued to
catch and sell frogs instead Of going
into the newspaper business.
On Sunday night about eight o'clock
the house Of Tom Jones, colored living
on Mes8rs. Watson Sc Daniels land,
near Rlverdale, caught fire and was
completely burned, together with its
contents, and three little children,
whom the parents had locked up in the
house when they went off to church,
says the New Berne Journal. p
In the trial of John Lingle at LenOir,
which lasted two days and a half last
week, for the killing of John Jenkins
near Lenoir at the time Of the Demo
cratic rally during the campaign times
last fall, the jury, late last Saturday
night, after being out an hour and a
quarter, brought in a verdict Of not
guilty, says the Hickory Press.
A fourteen year old son Of Mr.. w. J.
Mclaughlin, a former resident of
Mecklenburg, vas killed on the big
req hill near the depot in Concord last
Saturday evening. The boy and his
father were thrown from q wagon and
the wheels passed over the boy cutting
open his breast and tearing his lungs
apart, says the Charlotte News.
TarbOro Southerner: Sunday acct
dents. Both happened in the after
noon. j. w. B. Battle had the mis-
fortune to be thrown from his buggy
right nea Macnair's crossing. DR.. 7.
p. Wynn had mis- buggy broken by the
wheels running into q deep hole in the
road, lear Manse EdmOndson'5 house.
A special to the Charlotte Observer
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Walker, q well known and highly
respectable C tz n of this county, died
at his residence near this place Of pneu
monia. His family suffers a double
affljction in the fac5 that his oldest
son, Bascum Walker, died only s. few
hours earlier, and both Will be buried
at the same time.
The Greensboro Patriot learns that
white caps in the shape of young
girls with switches have made their
appearance in the neighborhood of
Tabernacle, GuilfOrd county. The per
son visited was q very respectable lady,
who was taken to task for some un
complimentary language on her part
The visitors did not, however, carry
out their intentions. .....
Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. p. Q. Stin
son, of Vance township, planted a
little less than an acre In sorghum cane
last year, and from it he realized 100
gallons of molasse5, worth 35 cents per
gallon, and % bushels of seed, which
he sold to MessrS. Farley Crow &
Bro, for 65 cents per bushel. There
wasn't an acre in the county planted
in cotton that did as well.
Mr.. IT. Collins, of Burgaw, in a
letter to Mr.. II. w. Collins, Of this city,
states hat Mr.. r. @. Johnson, of Pen
der county, got his barn and stables
burned on Friday, together with his
COWS, oxen, hogs, fodder, farming tools
and $50 bushels Of corn. 1t is said the
fire was the work of an ~incendiary.
Mr.. johnson resides near Burgaw, says
the Wilmington Messenger.
Winston Sentinel: Sheriff Macarthur
succeeded in arresting a few days ago,
TCff Allri0b on nC0nn06 convict from
the pe~nitentiary. Aldrich was sent to
the penitentiary for four years from
Stokes county. He made his escape
after serving only four months. He
has been sent back to Raleigh, how
ever, where he will probably remain
until his term of sentence expires.
John Lyon, the notorious negro house
breaker and horse thief, escaped from
Jail again Saturday morning. He was
captured at his home in Warren
lcounty Sunday night and is now be
hind the bars, however. Constable
Joe Overton and Thomas Ousby, OF
Henderson, and Chief of Police Hal
Macon, of v arrenton, are the men
caught him, says the Henderson Gold
leaf.
While Policemen Number and Baker
were patrolling Wards, about2 O'Clock,
Sunday morning, they heard the noise
of crushing class. They caught a
negro woman, named Kate Hunter, in
the act of breaking into the store of
Mr.. E. T. Creswell, on South Church
street, She had broken a large glass
in the door, and was crawling in when
the officers cameup, says the Charlotte
News.
One day last week, it is said, Mr..
John Lentz was moving his steam saw
mill. While crossing over the railroad
Just beyond H. A. Adams, the bridge
broke in. He cut his mules loose, ran
I'D the road and tried to flag down the
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