The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-17

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has been at Moreh6ad and New Berne
acting as news correspondent for several
leading papers Of the State, is now.
about embarking on a urnalistic
career for himself. With that end in
view he went up to Durham about q
week ago and has now bought the
entire outfit of the Lynchburg, Va.D
Daily Earth. With this outfit he in
tends to run a live weekly at Durham,
to be known as the Durham Times.
Master Rob Gray has developed into
an expert gardner. He and his uncle,
Robt. Gray, have gone into the truck
ing business right extensively and have
so far met with more success than they
expected. They now have on the mar
ket some of the finest bull nose pepper,
used for picking purposes, that was
ever brought to the city. They find
ready sale for The tremendously large
pods; and here is another pointer for
truck farmers, says the Charlotte
News.
Fl. Q. Pennel tells us of the most
wonderful specimen of chicken that
we have heard of. It is at Mr.. John
Gathers and was Matched out last
week. The little chick has four dis
tlnct feet, and almost two bodies. The
second body which is attached to the
main body by something like a tube,
lacks a head and neck in being com
plete. The chick is alive and doing
we'll, and walks around just like any
other chick would, a y the Wilkes
boro Chronicle.
Gene Henderson, a young man of
this neighborhood, took up an idea
that he wanted to immigrate to Texas,
and In order to help him on the way,
his uncle's aunt, Mrs. Laura Hender-
son, says he purloined from her Mon
day night $15 in hard money. She had
a warrant issued for him and yester-
day afternoon jailor Harvard over
took and arrested Gene at Yates
Chapel and he is now in prison await
ing an investigation of the case, says
the Durham Sun.
Morganton Herald The Populists met
yesterday in the court house to appoint
delegates to the State, Senatorial and
Congressional Conventions, Rev. r L.
Patton, pastor of the Morganton Bap-
tist church, announced himself as an
independent candidate for Congress,
and said he would fight it out on that
line unless providentially hindered.
There e several speeches, the tone
of which was a trifle disparaging to
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Democrats in general.
Charlotte Observer: A white man,
Thomas Smith, was shot and killed by
John B. Mccormack also q white man,
at MurdOck Smiths residence, at Row
land, a little station eighteen miles
from Lumberton, Thursday night.
Both men we're we'll respected, and it
is a sad berea7e ment for their friends.
Both were drinking. Mccormack is
the same man who was tried for the
killing of a mulatto nan at the same
place four years ago, at the house of a
disreputable Croatan or half breed, but
he claimed self-defence and was acquit-
ted. Mccormack has not yet been
arrested.
H~endersonville Times: twenty-five
years ago MI. ice Capps, who resides
four miles east of Hendereonville, be
came Disguised with the speed which
his oxen we're making, and in order
that they might move along faster he
cut a small sycamore CAD. After the
CAD had fulfilled it's mission, he car
lessly stuck it into the earth, little
thinking he would ever find another
use for it. But nature asserted herself
and the twig took root and grew to be
a large tree. Last week the same man
cut down this same twig, from which
he sawed as fine a meat block as eve
we saw.
Winston Sentinel: All the prisoners,
six in number, confined in Yadkin
county Jail at Y~adkinville, made their
escape Sunday evening. They had
sawed out of the cage and when the
wife of the jailer went up in the pass
age way 10 give them water they
H~ooHo1 hon Aown on1 oc0onoH ont of
the door. The three Carson negroes,
who were convicted at the last term of
court for larceny and sentenced to the
p~enitentiary, but took an appeal to the
Supreme court; Weaver and Haas, two
white men, who robbed the store of S.
H. WilmOth, at Boonville, and then
fired it, and George Williams, a South
Carolina negro who was concerned IN
a cutting ARRAY at Jonesville, were the
prisoners.
Charlotte News: Rev. Dr.. Greasy is
now getting better. He has been right
sick, but the fever has about left him,
He is vet very weak. - Sam Harris,
once a we'll known darkey of this city,
was killed by falling from a train at
Wolf Trap, Va, Saturday night. He
was out of money and made an attempt
to Jump on a moving freight train, in
tending to beat the train az far as pos.
sible. - Sam Caldwell, colored, the
murderer of Bob Rockingham, of Pine
vile, had a preliminary hearing before
the mayor this morning. The witnesses
were here from Pineville, which has
been the cause of the delay in giving
him a hearing. The evidence was SO
convincing of Caldwell's guilt that he
was bound over without bail.
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