The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-02-13

toes Will nave TO be amputat0d, saws
the Hickory Mercury.
BakersviIle Enterprises: The Hawk
mica mine, which has for some time
been operated by J. L. Rorison. closed
down on Monday and the machinery
vas moved to the Cloudland, to be
operated by T. Q. Greene.
A man wrote here from DAnville.
Va, last week asking for work. He
was a skilled workman and said he
was going to have work if he had to
work for his board and clothes, saws
the High Point Enterprise.
Just as the steamer Plymouth was
approaching the N. & S. wharf on
Tuesday she was blown ashore near
the ship yard property, the wind being
very strong at the, time, says the Eden
ton Farmer and Fisherman.
While working a country road in
county, a few days ago, sew.
eral men became involved in a quarrel.
One man was shot dead, two are not
expected to live, one was shot in the
leg and two are in Jail is the result.
Charlotte News: Blockade whiskey
can now be bought within 25 miles of
Charlotte for 274 cents per gallon. so
say those who use it. Supply and de-
mand have nothing to do with this
traffic, only the manner Of supply
ing.
Aurora Age: Mr.. Alex Cuthrell,
gathered sixty-fiv bales of cotton
weighing SIS pounds each from sixty
acres of land the past year. He states
he would have made eighty five bales
had it not been for the great storm last
fall.
Keanansville Christian Herald: We
hear that MI. G. B. D. Parker, of Chin
quapin, had last year 100 acres in corn,
from which he gathered 525 barrels of
corn, and on fifteen acres in cotton he
made thirteen 500 pound bales Of lint
cotton.
Charlotte Observer: Latte, a young
son of Mr.. John P. Caldwell. of Crab
Orchard, was bitten by a mad dog
Monday, and brought here yesterday
to have the mad stone applied. His
injuries, the doctor thinks, are not
serious.
Walter Harris, colored, of Steel
Greek, M~ecklenburg county, set a hen
on eight eggs and when she came off
the nest she had a brood of ten healthy
Two of the eggs were double
and Matched out twins, says the Char
lotte News
The Sound fishermen are now busy
in preparing to tackle the white shad,
the prince of table delicacies. Col. w.
@. Davis will go down to Croatan early
in February. May he have the same
luck as last season, says the Elizabeth
City Economist.
Winston Sentinel: The evidence in
the case of Mr.. Fagg, charged with
counterfeiting is said by those who at
tended the preliminary trial to be very
The principal witness against
him was an ex convict, who contra
himself upon the stand.
A white man named John Chafin,
was found, full of whiskey and asleep
the A. T. & 0. Railroad track Sat
night, and was moved out of
way by two negroes who dis
covered him when the train was within
yards of him, says the States
vile Mascot.
We regret to announce that Mr.. J.
Moore, of G~raysburg, dealer in
general merchandise had made an as
MI. w. E. Daniel. of this
place, is assignee. Nj. Moore s liabili-
ties are placed at about 81, 500 with
assets amounting to over 81, 900, says
the Weldon News.
The Cherryville post Office, in CASTOR
county, was robbed on last Tuesday
night by the thieves cutting out part
of the weather boarding Of the build
ing. They secured $40 or $50 in cash,
a lot of stamps and some goods from
the store. There is no clue as to the
identity of the robbers.
A negro employed on the farm of
Mr.. E. A. Patterson on Kings Creek,
to take a pistol out of his
the other day when the weapon
was discharged. The ball buried itself
so deep in the feshy part of the Negroes
the Shelby Review.
Mrs. Elizabeth Newell, of Grab
Orchard, has just completed a won
derful Counterpart, composed of 400
knit squares. The work is done in the
neatest and latest pattern. Mrs Newell
is "a years old, and consumed six
months in making this counterpart,
says the Charlotte News.
A youth named Thos. Burgess was
drowned at Stonewal Sunday after
noon in the squall near night. He and
some of his young friends had been
out in a sail boat and as they were
nearing the wharf the jibing of the
main boom knocked him overheard,
says the New Berne Journal.
Sanford Express: We learn that
Deputy Collector Kirkpatrick recently
captured a seventy-five gallon illicit
distillery near Carbonton in this county,
owned by Graham Tyson and E. G.
Dark. He al 20 captured another fifty
gallon still near Silk Hope, in Chatham
county, owned by Henry Johnson.
AshevilIe Citizen: 1t is said that the
grand Jury of Alexander county found
a true bill against a judge who was a