The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-08

court, dropped dead in the court room
at Webster, Tuesday. Cause heart
disease.
The New Berne, Norfolk 6 Whining
ton Direct Line puts on the steamer
Elko today, thus making them now
run four boats q week for the accomo-
dation OF truckers, says the New Berne
Journal.
There was very heavy washing rains
In some portions of the county last
Sunday. In some sections of the county
no rain has fallen yet and small grain
ls suffering badly, says the Monroe
Enquirer.
Hillsboro Observer: The steam saw
mill belonging to Mr.. Frank Smith, of
Cedar Grove township, was DESTROYED
by fire last Monday night. Mr.. Smith
lost a good deal Of lumber and about
10000 shingles.
High Point Enterprise: Mr.. John.
FarloW writes that the Asheboro gold
mine, recently discovered bv him. has
proved to be q good one. 1t lis eX
pected that a Northern company will
loon purchase.
A meeting of the directors of the
Gulltord Rattle Ground Company was
held last week. All arrangements
were completed and committees ap-'
pointed for the grand celebration on
the 4th of July.
Mr.. W. O. Tucker writes us this
week from Mooresboro as follows: NV
COW gave birth to two calves one male
and the other female, They are as fine
as you ever saw, both doing well, says
the Shelby Aurora.
Considerable damage was done in
Goose Creek township by the wind
Sunday afternoon. Fences and trees
were blown down, and several stables
and rlckety out-houses were unroofed,
says the Charlotte News.
Walter Newton, the white man who
murdered his uncle, Amos Newton, in
a house of i'll fame, in Granville county,
Easter Monday, has been convicted of
murder in the second degree and sent
to the ~penitentiary for thirty years.
New Berne Courier: MI. Thomas
Mcintyre killed a whale in New River
Wednesday, which measured twelve
feet in length. He shipped it up to
New Berne yesterday to receive the
gentle touch of the taxerdermist's
knife.
Durham Sun: In fine cattle North
Carolina is coming to the front. Col.
Us. Carr received yesterday six Jersey
heifers, the pick of the Meridale farm,
which he purchased of Aver and Nc
Kinney, Meredith, N. Y. They are
beauties
One of Mr.. Chas. S. Holliste's little
children, Mary, met with the painful
accident yesterday of breaking her
arm. 1t was set by DR.. T. ". Hughes,
and the little one at last accounts was
getting on very we'll, says the New
Berne Journal.
North Carolina produces the finest
wheat in the world. Wheat raised by
Col. Henry @ Thomas, near Thomas
vile, was awarded the first premium
at the Worlds Fair, at Chicago. Score
another for the Old North State
Greensboro Record.
Glenn Palmer, a worthy colored man
in Locust Hill township, had the mis-
fortune to lose his dwelling, furniture,
clothes and nearly all of his last years
crop of tobacco by fire last Thursday.
The house caught from the cook room,
says the Caswell News.
Mai. W. B. Snipe, of this city, has an
apple tree which was in full blossom
when the severe frost came last Easter.
All the blossoms and foliage were
killed. The tree is nov in bloom again
and indications are that it will bear a
fairly good crop of apples.
Mr.. J. W. Langdale, living near
Wellington, this county, had the mlc-
fortune to lose his kitchen and smoke
house together with all his kitchen
utensils, meat, vinegar, fish nets, etc,
on Saturday night about 9 o'clock from
fire, says the Windsor Ledger.
A s~ea-faring man about whom it
seems little is known, was found dead
at the Seaman's Home, in Whining
ton. His name was Miller. and he was
from Pennsylvania. It is supposed
that he died in a fit. He was recently
a patient in the United States Marine
Hospital.
Sanford Express: Mrs. Joe Rogers,
of this community, died on last Thurs
day night. Her death was very sud
den and unexpected, as ehe had been
sick only a few hours. -- The fruit
in this community was not all killed
by the recent frosts. There will be
some late apples.
The family of w. A. Watson, Jr.,
formerly of Lexington, now residing at
Greensboro, were poisoned by eating
cabbage bought at a store. 1t is sup
posed that some poisonous substance
had been used for killing bugs on the
plants. A physician relieved their
sufferings promptly.
Hillsboro Observer: Mr.. William
Holmes, of Bingham township, says
that there are two pekin ducks in
his neighborhood that have laid SO
eggs since the first day of January,
and the ducks are sill laying. No
wonder eggs are quoted at five cents
per dozen on our market.
Shelby Review: A terrific hail storm