The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-31

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prosecuting her German studies at one
of the best universities.
Haywood Jones, colored of Charlotte,
attempted to commit suicide Monday
by taking laudanum. The prompt &C
ton of a physician saved the negroes
life Domestic trouble is given as the
cause that prompted suicide.
Mr.. Jno. G. Harrington, reports the
largest Turnip of the season. It was
grown on top of a potato ridge and
weighs Al pounds. Tt is 224 inches in
circumference. The top was 81 inches
high, says the Taylorsville Index.
A young man, Alfred Gaddy, of
Arson County, has been arrested on
the charge of passing counterfeit
money. Most of US down this way
are innocent of passing any kind at all,
says the Laurinburg exchange.
We know Of a good nan in this
county, says the Davidson Dispatch,
who has a pair of pants which he has
worn nearly every Sunday for As years.
He bought them during VIM. Henry
HarrisOns's log cabin campaign.
Rocky Mount Phoenix: Anew named
r Rose who had a store some weeks
ago in the front floor of the Hotel
Brasw has been put III jail in Tar
boro, charged with bigamy. His two
alleged wives r in Rocky Mount
now.
Burlington had a mad dog scare
Monday. A little son of Henry Willis
was bitten. A madst )ne was procured
and applied. Several dogs were bitten
and the "a i'd cur and those bitten
yer dispatched, says the Alamance
Cleaner.
Two hundred and thirty eight penny
weights of gold were taken out of the
Buffalo mine last week, Operations
have just begun. There is no question
about this being the best mine in this
whole country, says the Concord
Sanford Express: Some of the ex-
perienced 'pOssum hunters of this CON
munity inform the Express that it is
almost impossible to find a 'possum in
the woods as they were nearly all
killed out by the almost unprecedented
cold weather last winter.
Raleigh Advocate reports seventy
additions. If it would stir up the
to report additions as we'll as
alleged conversions it would greatly
swell the number. Ministers write of
twenty, forty, fifty or more CONVEX
sions and marry addition"
Charlotte News: The county officials
are getting into a sputter over the first
of the month ghost. On that date
they must have SO, 900 to meet the in
terest on the county's debt, and, at the
present rate of collecting taxes, they
will hardly have 5000
Officials of the State Fair state that
on Thursday the attendance was twelve
thousand, the highest since 1891. The
previous day the crowd was estimated
at ten thousand. The trotting time Of
2 rs was made on the track. The win
ner was a Raligh mare, Alice Burlew.
Goldsboro Argus: A man by the
name of Ellis, son of Mr.. Ben Ellie,
Sauls' Cross Roads, was rraigned
Justice Broadhurst yesterday
morning for stealing an OK. He pleaded
guilty and cited poverty in mitigation
Of the offence, but was sent to Jail in
default of bond.
Concord Standard: Some extra
ordinary finds we're discovered at the
mine in No. g., on Tuesday,
and the stock increased in value 500
per cent. inside of an hour. The ex
element ran SO high that every Con-
cord stockhOlder struck out immedi-
ately for the mine,
Rocky Mount Argonaut: The resi-
1ence of Mrs. Rebecca Arlington, who
lives a few miles out Of town in Nash
county, was entered by burglars last
week and $50, a pair of gold eye glas-
ses, table ware and other valuable
articles we're stolen. So far the thieves
have not been apprehended.
Somebody stuffed the the New Berne
fire engine with powder, and diluted
the water in the boiler with ammonia.
One of the fremen discovered this con-
1iGion of things on cleaning out the
The engineer is suspected.
- The spOrtsmen about New Berne
are now killing blue peters and teal.
Mr.. G. D. Suits met with a right
accident last Thursday even
He was riding a mule, coming
town, and when near the public
building a dog darted out, caus-
the mule to shy. Mr.. Suits was
and in the fall had one of
his ribs broken, says the Alamance
Cleaner.
Sheriff Baird, who started with four
prisoners from Watauga county to the
penitentiary, arrived at Raleigh with
only two of them. The two negroes
who were handcuffed together and their
hands also being tied, in some way or
other managed to get out of the car
window while the train was moving at
rapid rate.
Last Thursday, Mr.. J. M. Griffin ar
rested a negro named Bratton at Wax
haw and delivered him to the Sheriff
of M~ecklenburg county. Two years
ago last August Bratton murdered
James Garrison, col, in Sharon town
ship and made his escape and has been
evading arrest eve since, says the
Monroe Enquirer.
Horace Adams was up before Squire