The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-23

"OAO AHO U1DSL VAu
Wagner Company moved the ma
chInery of the factory this week to
B1ltlmore. 1t was carried on the
steamer Alpha.
Saturday night, about 9 o'clock. there
was a row on Faucets Row, generally
known as Box Car Row, in which one
of the participants got shot in the right
thigh. Ed. Aston was the n who
was shot and Will Meeks is accused of
having done the shooting. Both are
colored, says the Durham Sun.
We regret to learn that the barn of
Mrs. w. 81. Davis, at her residence at
Westmoreland, was burned on Satur
day night between nightfall and bed
time. 1t is supposed to have been the
work OF an ~incendiary. 1t was not in
sured an0 did not contain much agri
cultural products, fortunately, sayst the
Elizabeth City Economist.
The biggeste eel on record was brought
into town ast week by II. Minton, of
Goshen, and was purchased by Mr..
Stokes Lane. 1t weighed five pounds
and IA ounces Mr.. @. Y. Miller got
the hide and drummer Hubbard tells
us that there has already been So
worth Of shoe string made out of i5,
says h Wilkesboro Chronicle.
Williamson Sun: Mrs. Henrietta
Rogers, widow of John r Rogers, died
at her home Saturday, October 65h.
- At her home near Goose Nest,
Mrs. Louisa Coakly Cotton departed
this life IN her eighty second year.
She was born in Edgecombe county
May 9th, 1912, and she was the eldest
child of John W. and Nancy S. S D.
Mayo.
Goldsboro Argus: The Argus has
seldom had to chronicle a death the
peculiar circumstances of which wel e
sadder than that OF Miss Bette Q. Holt,
sister of the late DR.. Jno. w. Holt,
which occurred at her hOme-the home
of her late brother-yesterday after
noon at 4 o'clock, being just three days
and IL hours after the death Of her
brother.
Last Friday night Sheriff Griffith
arrested r lbert Moore, who was wanted
in Wake county for stealing a horse.
According to Moore's statement. he
had taken the horse while he was
drunk, and after riding it until he be-
came sober, he left it with a woman
near Hillsboro, and was trying to get
away from the scene OF his crime, says
the Lexington Dispatch.
There was a sad case of suicide in this
county Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
julius ~Settlemyre while in a delirium
from sickness got her husbands raz n
and cut her threat. Drs. Campbell
end Whiteside were sent for who did
all they could to save her life but ehe
died about mid night, about ten hours
after the wound was inflicted, says the
Newton Enterprise.
Winston Sentinel: J. T Breach was
tried III Surry court last Friday on the
charge of numbering his wife last
spring at Pilot Mountain. He was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree and sentenced to ten years i'll
the ~penitentiary. There was sumo
doubt as to his guilt. He claimed that
his wife shot herself and as there was
no eye witnesses, the evidence was all
circumstantial.
On the 28th of September some per
son or persons stole from Mrs. Elizt
beth Story, who lives on Buffalo, $27O
in gold. There were four twenty dol
lar pieces, and the remainder of the
money was in five and ten dollar pieces
A rewardOf $25 has been offered for
the arrest of the thief We hear that
some other persons living there had
been robbed lately, says the Lenoir
Topic.
Yesterday evening about 4 o'clock,
while Mr.. D.. w. Pope was out in the
field weighing cotton for his hands at
his home near here, Anderson Goats,
son-in law of Mr.. Pope. came up, and
after a few words, in which Coats was
the aggressor, drew his pistol and shot
Mr.. Pope, the ball taking effect in his
bowels. AS soon as this was done,
Coats left for parts unknown, says the
Dunn Times.
A negro named Freeman was killed
near Mildred on Monday night. 1t is
said he belonged to Hunting's show
and was head cook. 1t is supposed
that he fell from the car while in mo-
tion, and falling upon the track re-
suited in instant death. There was an
indention in the back part of his head,
supposed to have been caused by the
fall, and part of one foot was cut off,
says the Tarboro Southerner.
On Monday morning of last week
Mr.. S. M. Dyson, who lives in Little
River township, thought he would go
out squirrel hunting. He got down
his gun, set the stock down on the
floor, pushed the hammer back with
his foot and blew in the barrel to see
if it was all right. Just as he blew his
foot slipped off of the hammer, which
came down and the load was discharged
into Mr.. Dyson's mouth, making a very
painful wound, says the Lenoir Topic.
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The best yields of wheat are on lands
that have a grass crop in the rotation,
especially of clover. The growing of
wheat and corn in succession, with no
Echanee from them for a number of