The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01

Tor killing Frank Montgomery, of
Fatrlck county, Va, q few weeks ago,
came very near passing in his checks"
lew days since by swallowing a piece
OF MS brass watch case. A physician
gave him an antidote in time to save
his life.
Last Sunday night while Messrs.
FRANK White and VIM. z. Jones q
at church some thief entered their
rooms over the store of Mr.. T. M Small
and robbed them of a valuable valise
OF clothing, the property of Mr. Jones,
and about 81 80 In cash belonging to
Mr.. White. says the Edenton Fisher
man and Farmer.
that a nugget of gold has been found
on Brasstown 1x2 inches in size. -
Inc parties who purchased the Muir
dock mining property, on the head of
B~rasstown, have organized under the
name OF the "Hiawassee Gold Mining
Company, at Shawmut, Me-, and will
commence work soon.
Hendersonville Times: Warrants
have been sworn out against J. J. Mel,
son, proprietor, Tierney, clerk, and
Geo. Sammey, colored, charged with
completely and burning the Wayside
Inn. Summey was arrested last Fri
day and placed in Jail. Nelson and
Ilerney are still at large, but officers
are In pursuit of them.
While working in the lumber woods
near Todd's Cross Roads, last Friday,
Mr.. Levi j. Hughes, a well known
citizen, was killed by a limb striking
him on the back of the head crushing
IN the skull. 1t seems that the tree he
was Telling broke off the limb of another
tree in its fall with the result of killing
him, says the Windsor Ledger.
Charlotte will soon have another
freak to put in a circus, when a good
one.comes along, says the News FOard
Archibald, a fifteen year old darkey,
working as shine" in the Charlotte
hotel barber shop, is bleaching off as
white as cotton. He has always been
darker than the gingercake, but o
there are spots on him as white as
snow.
New Berne Journal: A love affair
was ~singularly abruptly terminated
Friday. A young a arrived in New
Berne from a distance to marry the
girl of his choice, and presented him
self armed with a license and with a
minister on hand, but she told him she
was only jesting-didn't mean it-and
he sadly departed on the steamer Neuse.
Foor fellow.
Warrenton Record: About eight or
ten years since, quite a German settle
ment was made In our county, north
of Ridgeway, and we are pleased to
learn that they are all doing we'll.
They entered upon their lands under
some disadvantages, but they have
proven to be a hard working, economi-
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and doing well.
closing UP the South Carolina dispen-
saries has completely laid put as many
as q dozen enterprising individuals
who had invested or arranged to invest
in distlllery plants in the counties
bordering on South Carolina. In Union
and Arson counties alone fully a dozen
distilleries have been surveyed. All
were located close to the South Caro-
lima line.
People who went early to Sandy
Creek church in Tyro township last
Sunday found q gallows standing a
short distance from the church door,
and a mound near by made to resemble
agrave, with a headboard bearing this
inscription; Sacred to the memory
of Charles Becker" The perpetrators
of the outrage are unknown; likewise
the object Of it, says the Lexington
Dispatch.
We have heard of a cat Matching
chickens, but did you ever hear of a
hen Matching a kitten3 Some days ago
Mrs. A. G.. Headen, of this place, had
a hen that was trying to sit, but Mrs.
Headen not wanting her to sit removed
the eggs from under her, and, noticing
a day or two afterwards that the hen
was still sitting on the nest, she looked
and found her sitting On and trying to
hatch a kitten, says the Pittsboro
Record.
Simon johnson, a negro, claiming
to hail from South Carolina, took q
brickbat last night about midnight and
broke the show-window at Turner
Williams restaurant and helped him
self to a large pound cake. Officer
Cofer was near by and rendered John
son an irresistible invitation to take
lodging and board at Hotel Zlglar-
where he will have to substitute beans
and corn bread for cake, says the Win
ston Sentinel.
Windsor Ledger: News reached here
Sunday evening that Henry Anderson,
colored, who was sentenced to be hung
for the murder of Marcus Cullipher
near Merry Hill last fall, and who
escaped from Jail here, had been killed
on Saturday between GAINESVILLE and
Williamson, in Martin county, by the
deputy sheriff. Anderson was, work,
ing in the lumber woods when captured
and broke and ran when the sheriff
fired two bullets into his body, killing
him.
A thieving burglar at Cherryville a
few nights ago entered the bed room OF
Mr.. M. Carpenter, took the keys from