The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10

0SAOy &C sons tobacco factory at M6.
AIRY Hy Saturday is put at $50 600. with
SSO'OOO insurance. About 200 persons
are GnroWn out of employment. One
and ten thousand pounds
OF manufactured tobacco and 10000
pounds of leaf were burned.
The Durham Globe states that since
q disappearance of Mr.. Charles e.
CraOGree OF that city. every effort has
been made to find him but all has
proved fruitless. No cause for his dis
appearance can be assigned; and none
or his friends know any reason for
ms disappearance. His accounts we're
found to be all straight.
The three mast schooner Charles T
Strann, of Bethel, Delaware. Capt.. Jno.
A. Marshall, with q cargo of truck
barrels from Elizabeth City for this
place, while beating along under q
strong wind lost her mate, VIM. Cal
Iahan of Chesapeake City, Md, Op
poslte JohnsOns Point about noon Sun
day, says the New Berne Journal.
Winston Sentinel: Rev. w. L. Bethel,
q colOred minister of this city, has
een bound over to court i'm q bond of
500 under the charge of obtaining
money under false p~retense. The
charges are made by the Baltimore
Building and Loan Association, from
which company Bethel obtained money
to build Hotel Bethel on Seventh street.
Concord Standard: Shortly after
sunset, Friday evening, a star (meteOr)
with a long fiery tail was seen darting
through space. Later in the night, a
light was seen moving about in the
northern elements. 1t deepened and
faded several times inside of ten min
utes. The older colored people de-
clare they saw just such signs 10 de
Charlotte Observer: Raleigh, March
N.-The Presidents veto of the Bland
bill was q topic Of general talk to day.
Many people were very indignant
and the Presidents ears must have
burned" Some harsh terms were
used. One man said that the Demo
crat who tried &C defend the admins.
tration this year would have the hardest
task of his life.
The Charlotte News says that at the
close Of the services at the First Pres
byterlan church the question of en-
larging and improving the church
building and Sunday school room was
laid before the congregation. The vote
resulted in favor of the project. It is
OSSAG41VCN gAAd0 IL OuLA VI pAO,OOO VIII
be required, and this the congregation
can easily raise.
Last Saturday night about 10 o'clock
the barn and crib at Caldwell's station,
belonging to Mr.. J. w. Starnee, was
burned. In the two buildings was con
sumed a large amount of hay, fodder,
corn, wheat and oats. The damage
was considerable and had not q cent of
insurance on it. The fire was thought
to have been of incendiary origin, says
the Charlotte News.
Morganton Herald: Our last weeks
issue went to press while the jury was
out in the case of the State vs. Syl-
vanus Morrow and Phillip Williams,
charged with the murder of William
Causby. On Friday morning the jury
brought in a verdict of manslaughCeF.
and Judge Winston sentenced Morrow
to q term of five years in the peniten-
tiary and Williams to q term of eve
years.
Charlotte Observer: From the re-
port of President Shearer of Davidson
College, it was learned that 161 stu
dents have been enrolled this term
the largest number ever connected
with the college. There are nine
teachers giving instru 3tions there, and
the order, diligence, and devotion to
study by the students is worthy of all
praise The health of the students is
very good.
New Courier: Miss odessa Land a
sixteen year old daughter of Mr.. Thos.
Land, of Arapahoe, Pamlico county,
was washing clothes in the yard of her
home near a blazing fire. In passing
the fire her clothes caught and blazed
high over her head. She ran scream
ing to the house, when her mother
threw a blanket round her, but not
soon enough to prevent serious burns.
She is not expected to live.
The most amusing sight on the streets
this afternoon was j. III Stockton, of
Salem, and Rev. Q. A. q. Thomas, of
| Greensboro, riding in an H. M. T."
buggy. Both gentlemen are what some
people call "jumbos." Rev. Mr.. Thomas
| tips the scales at more than 800 pounds
and his friend Stockton is pulling for
that notch daily-and he says if he
don't get there" it won't be his fault,
says the Winston Sentinel.
An exchange says: "a gentleman
perhaps 45 years old remarked this
morning things were getting in a queer
shape. When I was a boy he said,
we had good fruit crops almost every
year, but the trees, all of them, were
great big fellows. Sometimes a frost
would injure the crop. but to the best
of my recollection we always plenty OF
fruit-apples, peaches, cherries, etc.
For the past 20 years if we get an
average crop once in four years we are
lucky
On Friday night of last week in
Pennington township, Bob Dalton,
colored, went to Ira T. Hauser's and
killed one of his hogs, cleaned it, cut
it up and carried it home with him and