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

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thirty eight years o d, and had nearI1
served out his term as sheriff of Merti1
county. ~
A divorced Union county man has
0een gong from house to house in
OaOarrus on the lookout for
2 W1Le' everywhere he went he was
inclined.
In a letter in the Moreanton Herald
Rev. X. l. Patton, of that place. who
was the Populist candidate for Con.
gress In the Eight district in 1892. an.
nounces ms purpose to go as a mis-
slonary to China.
Inc oldest person in Union county
10 Mrs. Mary Hargett, of Monroe, aged
W years. Although blind she ia in
good health, and a remarkable fact is
GhaG n has never taken over SO cents
worth of medicine.
Loulsburg Times: Mr.. Geo. TeasIv.
OF this county, is entitled to rank amOno
the best farmers. He has lust sold the
last of his tobacco crop, made on five
acres, and he says that it brought him
81, 100, clear check.
Mr.. J. +. Liggett killed a large gray
eagle on b farm of Mr.. w. e Parker
near Enfield, which measured seven
feet from tip to tip. The bird was one
or the largest and most ferocious ones
ever seen in that county.
Rockingham Rocket: On last Sun
day morning about three o'clock the
old Hamlet wooden mill was consumed
by fire It is not known how the fire
originated, as the mill had not been in
operation for some months.
Yadkin Ripple: The saw mill of Mr..
j. w. w. Williams, near Borbush, re-
Gently cut up a log that was five feet
Elk inches In diameter and made 4, 588
square feet of lumber, with sticks
enough to stack the lumber.
Stanly News: Every day reveals
fresh evidence of the terrible work of
the late cold snap. Early wheat is
probably ruined, peach trees in some
places are killed, and ward evergreens
and shrubbery are also killed.
Married at the residence of Mr.. Pink
Bumgarner, on Sunday, the 22d, Mr..
Robert cCall and Miss Hester Howard.
The groom is about so years of age and
the bride is a blushing young girl of 1S
summers, says the Lenoir Topic.
New Berne Courier: The steamer
ANOO0O LO0UC4 Id ACOO uB OIR dIkO
of truck, principally cabbages The
platform of the Atlantic and North
Carolina depot was also well filed with
crates Of truck to leave this morning.
Squire A. A. Sudderth says that all
the apples r not killed and that there
will be more than people expected. He
says he thinks there will be a great
many late apples, but all the early fruit
hoo hnnn RTIln6 cnUC tho I.nOnSw TiOYNT0
The time for the commencement at
the State Normal and Industrial School
has been changed from May 90 and "a
to May % and %, so that it will not
clash with the State Press Association,
which meets at Morganton on the 23d.
The steam saw mill belonging to Mr..
Frank Smith, in Cedar Grove town
ship, was destroyed by fire last Mon
day night. Mr.. Smith lost a good deal
of lumber and about ten thousand
shingles, says the Hitlsboro Observer.
Rocky Mount Argonant: Mr.. John s.
Virgins, of EdgecOmbe county, had
the misfortune to loose his stable by
fire on Sunday night. Three horses
and four mules were burned up. The
fire is supposed to have been the work
of an incendiary.
Yancey vile News: The trial of
Dick BrOadnax was concluded Thurs
day, the jury rendering a verdict of
guilty. Sentence of death was pro
nounced by judge Shuford Friday
morning. Friday, June 1st, was desig-
mated as the day for his execution
Oxford Ledger: Mr.. Howard Dorsey
has a fine yoke of oxen WEIGH he makes
good use of. One of them is a fine
traveller and whenever he can't spare
a horse from the wagon or pillow why
he lust bitches up his OK to the buggy
and takes the road at a four minute
gait.
The Beaufort Herald tells of another
enormous haul of fish there. Messrs.
Isaac Noe, J. T. Johnson and others,
while fishing hauled their net around
a school of fish that was so large that
thew had to cut it in two and leave
part of the fish. They caught enough
to load a ten ton boat.
Concord Standard: Several farmers
tell us that where the wheat was not
forward, you can not tell there was a
freeze. The prospect for a good crop
we're nez er better. The advanced wheat
of course suffered severely, but the
recent copious rains have worked
wonders on this wheat.
/ Charlotte Observer: Charlotte has
added to her list of enterprises the
Charlotte dye works. - There is con
siderable complaint that the United
| States revenue officers in North Caro-
lima are enforcing the revenue laws IN
a way that is very oppressive and un'
reasonable in many cases.
A chicken thief made visitation early
Yesterday morning on Jane Cobb, col
ored, residing on McRae street neal
Walnut. The fellow bagged the fowls,
h11t their SQUALLS awakened Jane, who