The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-04

Wadesboro was fined $40 and sent to
the Albany Penitentiary for one year.
Near Spainhour's Mill, this county,
Monday, a blockade distillery, owned
and operated by a man named Kirby,
was captured and destroyed. The
owner escaped Officer Patterson, who
bossed the job, says the Winston Re-
publican.
Farmers have been hauling in their
wheat this week. Tt had q fine time
drying, and most Of 1t is now nicely
stored away in barns or in stacks. The
threshers will doubtless start on their
rounds in a few days, says the Newton
Enterprise.
Farmers were very scarce In the
city to day, but~fhose who were here
were in good spirits over the crop pros
poets. All agree that wheat and oats
are fine, corr is doing splendidly and
the outlook for cotton is good, says the
Charlotte News.
z. B. Burlesor, a merchant of Min
neapolis, N. O., made an assignment
last Monday, The preferred creditors
were J. Allen Smith, w. B. Lockett &
Co. and the Knoxville Provision Com
pany, all of Knoxville Tenn, says the
BakerSVHl0 News.
Murfreesboro Index: Mr.. G.. w.
Grimes, of this place, was last week
granted a patent on a fly fan. He has
manufactured and sold a number of
them and they give entire satisfaction.
He calls it THE Breezy Fly Fan" and
it is just what its name implies.
Winston Sentinel: Col. Peter De
Graft, the accused murderer of Ellen
Smith, is in Forsyth jail. He was ar
rested at twelve o'clock last night by
Sheriff Macarthur and Policeman AID
ans at the residence of Gideon Russell,
near Pitts bar-rOom, west of Winston.
High Point Enterprise: Mr.. Hassell
Ward died last Saturday night at 9
o'clock at his home in this city after
an illness of four months of consump
ton. - Mrs. VIM. Dorsett died at
her home at Trinity College last Sun
day. She was a daughter of Rev. MI.
Blob.
Mrs. A. w. Traps, during a case of
mental dependency, occasioned by
several weeks of illness, cut her throat
with a razor, in this city on Thursday
last. The jugular vein was severed
and death was instantaneous. Much
sy mpathy is expressed for the bereaved
family,
A Mormon preacher wants to preach
in the court house. The logic of this
thing is: If a Mormon tries to preach
MOrmonism in this town-ride him on
a rail. The wicked doctrine of Nor
monism should not be tolerated any
where this side of Utah-and not there,
says the Durham Globe.
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Fender county, belonging to Messrs.
Halves & Sellars, was damaged by fire
last Tuesday night to the extent Of
$3.50. The fire was accidental. The
owners of the distillery have had the
necessary repairs made and expect to
resume operations next week, says the
Wilmington Star.
Caswell News: Growing crops are
looking splendid and our farmer friends
are corrs spondingly pleased. They are
now in the midst of wheat harvest,
and one can soon hear the rattle of the
threshing machine. Dat crops very
good, especially winter oats; spring
sowing also quite promising. Corn is
coming right along.
The first piece of cloth woven by the
Erwin cotton mill was turned out last
week. This factory will make a speciality
of fine cotton dress goods, and soon now
Durham women will all be wearing the
latest Paris styles in cotton fabrics, the
only difference being that they will be
grown, spun and woven in North Caro-
lima, says the Durham Globe.
Goldsboro Argus: Every day-morn-
ing and evening-scores of visitors
frequent GoldsbOrO's mineral spring
on the model farm of Mr.. Geo. D. Ben
nett, just beyond the Raleigh railroad,
to the south Of the city. Those who
have visited the most famous mineral
springs, in all the country, say that
the water of this spring is supurb.
DR.. J. M. Hays on Monday while
riding rapidly on his bicycle to see a
patient collided with a colored man,
throwing him to the ground, skinning
one of his hands and tearing both
knees of his pants. The man was not
hurt. The doctor was good pluck and
mounted his wheel and attended to the
needs of the sick, says the Oxford
Ledger.
While cooking supper Wednesday
evening the clothes of Mrs. James Bass,
near Newton Cotton Mills, caught on
fire. Her two little children threw a
quilt around her to smother the flames,
and the quilt and most7of her clothes
were burnt off before the fire was ex-
tinguished. She was painfully, but
not dangerously burned, says the New
ton Enterprise.
Washington Gazette: One day last
week a bear caught and killed a hog
in Chocowinity township in two hun,
5roH vor1c Of Mr. Vim SunoTSS ToSi
dence. Mr.. Spears dog interfered and
was also killed. Mr. Heath, the Vance
boro mail carrier, reports bears very
plentiful in that section and says he
passed one of the vicious brutes on the
road a few days ago.
Statesville Landmark: Mr.. G. w.