The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-18

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of the fire is unknown, says the Win
ston Sentinel.
Goldsboro Argus: We regret to
chronicle the death of Mr.. Joseph M.
Smith, one of Greene county's best
citizens, which occurred at his home
near Shine, Tuesday of this week, of
pneumonia, at an advanced age.
Mr.. w. E Farley sold at the Hyco
that reminded one of old times. The
load weighed 600 pounds and brought
him 1896 90, which is an everage price
of $32 Sc, says the R0xboro Courier.
Mr.. D. s. Barrus, of Pennsylvania,
had a a load of horses shipped here
last week. When the car arrived
Thursday a leg of one of the horses
was broken. The animal had to be
killed, says the GreenvIlle Reflector.
1t is reported here that Mr.. Eimore
Rowe and Mr.. Bob FROST got into a
difficulty at or near some ones still
house and the former struck the latter
on the head, with q rail from which
he has since died, says the Hickory
Mercury.
Mr.. Walter Daniel, son of Mr..
David Daniel of the Battleboro SEC
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rested q cooked gun on his toe, the
other day, and shot it off. He will
have to hustle along with only nine
toes now.
Oxford Ledger: Capt. Willie Lands
has resigned as captain of the Gran
vile Grays. He has made the com.
pany a most excellent officer. His
resignation is due to the fact that his
hIIcInn0o InfnFncfC HnUOond his onfTWn
attention.
Rockingham Index: We are sorry
that Mr.. Coon Hicks had his hand
hurt by falling on a glass at DR..
FOwlkes' drug store a few days ago..
His feet slipped and he fell with his
hand against the glass door, which cut
it very badly.
A colored man near here lost his
wife on Tuesday. On Thursday he
was engaged to be married, and on the
three weeks, he carried anew wife and
four children home with him, says the
Warrenton Gaz cite.
The Charlotte Observer of yesterday
says: The strongest testimony yet
given to the scarcity of money is that
of the presiding elders of the North
"a 4RA4 SSA4OAOAOOP VAN 4OPO40 NHS
tressing financial conditions through
out the bounds of the conference.
An excursion form Indiana rolled
into this State the past week, with
some eighty odd aboard. The majority
we're former North Carolinians who re
turn to visit the land they love so we'll.
Some Is or 90 are from this immediate
section of the State, says the Winston
Republican.
Mr.. a. Morris has killed two hogs
weighing 422 and 465 pounds. P. II.
Turner three that made LOO pounds
of pork, the heaviest weighing 4O9
pounds. Marion Skinner is not dead
or skinned yet.-~He expects to pull
the beam at $50 pounds, says the OK
ford Ledger.
Yesterday morning there were 16
prisoners in our jail. Eleven of them
are colOred and 4 white. One is a wo-
man, charged with house burning.
One is a y. s. prisoner, Robt. Brooks,
who is under a thirty day 'ssentence for
retailing liquor without license, says
the Carthage Blade.
A Mr.. MuIdoon, one of the workers
at the bridge, who fell about sixty five
feet from the bridge to the water sew
eral days ago, is nc better If as well as
he was at our last issue. Pneumonia
has set in, and the doctors are begin.
ming to despair of his recovery, says
the Rockingham Index.
Three young men. Miller Rush, Ed
Bradley and Will Rhodes were tried
before N. P Rankin, Esq, last week
On a charge of cutting saddles and
brides and shaving horses at a social
party at Mr.. D. N Garland's in Smiths
Bridge township n night recently,
says the Franklin Press.
The Jackson Wing CTenn) is full of
the Fife meeting. Among other things
it says: 1.-The meeting conducted by
Mr.. w. P. Fife, lay evangelist, is
growing day by day in it's influence in
the community. He is n of the most
earnest and business like men in re-
ligious matters ever in Jackson"
Charlotte News: The most interest
ing case that has occurred in Charlotte
police circles in some time is that of
Emma Clark and Dave Taylor,
charged with arson, and incidentally
it reveals some detective work on the
part of two of Charlotte's finest
Officers Number and Cunninggim.
E A. Eskius, of Vanceboro, and
Harry Nelson, of Nelson's ferry, killed
a wild hog Tuesday on Hog Island, 6
miles from New Berne. He weighed
400 pounds net, very fat and sold in
the city yesterday at 4 cents per Id.
They shot the animal six times with
buck shot, says the New Berne Jour
nal.
Elizabeth City News: The Great
Fountain tract" containing $4,000
acres of land located in Camden and
Currituck counties, has been sold to
the Richland Colony Company of
Kittery, Maine for $25, OOO.-A party
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