The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24

20 make money will take the Mays
Head Hotel. 1t has been kept opon
Tor nearly 60 years and is q necessity
20 u people and has put considerable
money IN circulation which would be
lost to people If the hotel was not
kepG open, says the Elizabeth City
Economist.
Sheriff Carver received a telegram
Monday evening that Robert Brooks
q been captured in Halifax county,
Va, and that he would be over on the
evening train. An immense crowd
was at the depot when the train came,
Dut the culprit was not aboard. They
had arrested the wrong man, says the
Roxboro Courier.
a man went home the other night
n found his house locked up. After
Infinite trouble he managed to gain
entrance through a back window and
then discovered on the table a note
from his very thoughtful wife, reading:
Il have gone out. You may find the
Q on the side of the STEP" says the
Concord Standard.
Concord Standard: The Durham
Globe learns that the commissioners of
Person county have granted permits
/ to q lot Mormon elders, for one
year, to hold meeting in the court
house of that county, and that the
elders asked the Presbyterian minister
to announce from his his pulpit the
hour of the Mormon service.
Nh. Alfred Joyner, of Farmville
township, had the misfortune to have
his dwelling burned n night last
week, while he and his sister were at
Moye's Chapel, at Church. The neigh
Dors discovered the fire in time to save
only n or two beds. Mr.. Joyner is a
most industrious worthy man and this
loss falls very heavily on him, says the
Greenville Index.
Burglars broke into the Peoples
Bank last night, but the only thing
they got away with was a couple of
keys to the inside doors. From the
appearance of things it seems they
were looking for a cash drawer. No
efforts were made to open the safe,
simply c~Ontenting themselves with ex-
aiming all of the drawers to the desks,
says the Roxboro Courier.
A negro man named Lewis Allen
was brought here Saturday morning
and committed to Jail. He carried
some shot in one of his legs. Friday
night he was providing around Mr..
Currie Faucets chicken roost i'm Mel
vile township. Mr.. Faucet heard the
noise. went out and hailed. No re-
spouse was given and Mr.. Faucet
fired, says the Graham Cleaner.
Yesterday afternoon while Master
Query Pharr, son of DR.. Pharr, of
Newell, was playing with other chill
dren he fell on a broken bottle, which
he held in his hand while running, and
cut a deep and dangerous cash in his
chin and throat. The boys wounds
were bandaged and the little fellow
put In bed. His face is badly dis
figured and probaly will be for life.
Yesterday about twenty miles up
Town creek, Capt Ward, of thesteamer
w. T. Daggett, killed an alligator
which measured eleven feet six inches
in length. He brought the gator to
the city, and he was on exhibition yes
terday at Mr.. Geo. F. Tilley's stall at
Front street market. This makes the
sixth alligator Capt. Ward has killed
this season, says the Wilmington Mes
senger.
On Tuesday morning last the wind
was blowing a gale and the pillows on
Albemarle sound were rolling high
Mr.. Chas. Bunch, one of the oldest and
most exper, enced fishermen in this
section, was on his way to Edenton,
accompanied by a colored man, with a
load of fish, and when opposite the
Roberts fishery was thrown from his
boat and drowned, says the Fisherman
and Farmer.
Alamance Cleaner: Mr.. Geo. T. P.
Clapp, near Brick Church, had the
misfortune to lose his dwelling and
barn and most of their contents by fire
last Saturday afternoon. The fire is
supposed to have originated from a
stove fue, and Mr.. Clapp was in the
field at work at the time Nothing
could be done stay the flames and
nearly all his household effects, includ-
ing 800 in money, were burned.
If the c~anvassing agent of Wake
Forest College is sessful in obtain
ing the $40, 600 desired, the trustees at
their June meeting will establish a
chair of Bible study in memory of the
late Rev. DIR. William Royal; will
elect a professor Of German and French,
and also a professor of economics. 1t
is the plan that Professor Skies, now
director of the gymnasium, shall fill
the latter chair. He is to attend Har-
ward for a year.
We were shown the other day a
great curiosity in the way of IN egg,
which is described as follows. In it's
general appearance it bears a very
striking resemblance to a large acorn.
The large end of the egg is very rough,
which corresponds with the cup of the
acorn and the small end is compare
lively small, understanding the acorn
itself On the small end of egg the let
ter S is distinctly visible, says the
Wadesboro Intelligencer.
Hand Bros, retail grocery dealers
on North Fourth street, made an as
signment Yesterday for the benefit of