The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

son OF W.. ingram, Esq, was thrown
Dy a mule by which he was dangerously
hurt. He lay in an UNCONSCIOUS stete
for some time, and his injuries were
physician. p"
A negro woman who lives on East
Main street killed her babe. The child
was just two weeks old. when the
mother tired of it. While II Law in The
bed beside her, she took a long min
and drove 1T into the child's head. saws
the Durham Globe.
High Point Enterprise: Bids for the
erection OF the colored college building
mere Will be received before the com.
mlttee In New York this week. The
Friends of the North have RECENTLY de.
clded that they would build. The work
will be done at n
The reports from different parts of
the State are to the effect that CROP
prospects were never finer at this time
OF the year. A larger quantity of
small grain has been sown than has
ever before been known, and the corn
acreage will be greatly increased.
MI. Matt White of Hartford has sold
the little bay FLY, Pattie Mine, which
won the first trotting race for a purse
OF 200 at the East Carolina Fair for
$1,1OO more than she cost him a wear
ago. Having her at the Fair paid
Mr.. White well, says the Nav Berne
Journal.
On the State farms on Roanoke
where there r some six or seven
hundred c%ouvicts, only three have
died within the past twelve months.
One of these, died of heart failure, an
other was a guard who would not take
medicine and the third man had a
yellow chill.
Southport Leader: Frank E. Boyn-
ton, botanical collector for Ct. w. Van.
derbilt, who has been collecting plants
in Brunswick county for Mr.. Wander
bilJ'G botanical garden at Biltmore, N.
O., left here for Lincoln county yes
terday. Mr.. Boynton secured several
thousand plants.
The farmers are all busy blowing
now. They have sown an unusually
large crop of spring oats, and have a
big crop of wheat already in. Many
of them are also preparing their land
for corn planting and some of them
have planted early fields, says the
Charlotte News.
The Alliancemen of the county could
materially help the farmers, and raise
the price of the peanut crop by estab-
fishing a factory at some central point.
Suppose they look in this matter of
practical relief, and have a factory in
Pitt county for this years crop, says
the GreenviIle Index.
The citizens of Lumberton held a
meeting on Monday and organized a
movement to hold a fair there this fall.
They propose to raise about s., 900 for
this purpose, and started the ball with
a subscription of 5000 or more. 1t is
stated that the propects are bright for
raising the entire amount.
Select Poetry of North Carolina"
the compilation gotten up by Rev.
Hight @. Moore, is ready for the press,
says the Winston Sentinel. The author
was for a while pastor of the Baptist
church of Morehead; he is now located
in Winston. The collection of poems
is spoken of as a very meritorious
one.
WHY couldn't Davidson county have
a law unto itself" for working con
victs on the public roads, as does
Mecklenburg and several other coun-
ties9 We were talking to a man the
other day about this and h9 said a
good many people were heartily in
favor of it, says the Lexington Dis
patch.
Mr.. Alexander Rose. a member of
the crowd that went to the Allegheny
Jail to lynch Slaughter, and who was
shot by Jailor McCraw, is o improv-
ing His physician, Dr.. Dalton, is
now Of the opinoin that he will get
we'll. Several shot in his hand and
stomach have been successfully re-
moved.
Hendersonville Times: Much anxiety
is felt for the peach crop in Western
North Carolina, on account of the very
warm weather which prevailed during
the first and middle of February, and
the subsequent blizzard which reached
this section Saturday night. Many
trees had begun to bud, while others
had opened their blossoms.
Sheriff Currie has returned from
Florida, bringing with him George
Brown, colored, who was arrested
there by a detective, charged with
wrecking a train on the Raleigh and
Augusta road at Pine Bluff last winter.
If he is proven guilty, he should have
the full punishment for such crimes,
says the Carthage Blade.
Governor Carr has reports of the
capture in Rowan county, OF Joseph
B. Moore and William Littleton, the
desperate and notorious criminal who
broke into and robbed the store Of
Kilrain & Gibson, at Taylorsville Alex
ander county, and for whom an ex
ecutive reward of 5000 was offered last
week. The Sheriff of Rowan made the
arrests.
John B. Bostic, one of the largest
real estate dealers of Asheville a
assigned to J. G. MerrimOn. His liza.
bilities amount to about SIC, 900, n