The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
NEWS.

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and Cotton Seed from the South
A Knights of Pythias lodge has been
organized at Lexington.
Wilson Mirror: The recent heavy
rains did great damage in the country.
Storm" cotton sold here last week at
about 4 cents.
Several United States prisoners at
tempted to escape from the Statesville
jail last week, but were detected in
the act and failed.
The post Office at Sharpsburg has
been discontinued. Address all Sharps-
burg mail hereafter to Elm City, says
the Wilson Mirror.
A little colored girl was burned to
death in High Point day the past
week. 1t was the old story. Playing
near the fire, clothing igniting, injuries
fatal.
New Berne Journal: Mr.. Walter
Meadows, Of near Trenton, aged %,
on Sunday the 14th inst. after a weeks
illness of malarial fever and pneu.
monia.
Hendersonvile Times: It is said the
chetnut crop in this county is very
fine. Many bushels have been mar
keted since the heavy frost of the past
few nights.
Winston Sentinel: Mrs. J. G. Fagg,
of Salem, who has been in failing health
for some time, died at 1850 o'clock
this morning. The deceased was about
"A years old.
Monroe Enquirer: We learn that the
freshets last week did not do O great
amount of damage to the corn crop.
The corn is hard and the creeks did not
stay up very long.
Col. J. o. Pickard, a Randolph
farmer, sold 1000 pumpkins one day
the past week for which he received
o%ne-tourth of a cent a pound, says the
Winston Republican.
Warrenton Record: We regret to
have to record the death of Mr.. ". S.
Wainwright, which occurred at his
late residedce on the night of the 18th
inst, of cancer of the stomach.
Mr.. John w. Talton and his son
John came near being drowned in the
river near Smithfeld. They were
thown into the river with a buggy on
them. So we learn from the Herald.
Newton Enterprise: There was a
sad case suicide in this county Wed
nesday afternoon. Mrs. Julia Settle
myTe while In q delirium from sick
ness got her husbands razor and cut
her throat.
Yadkin Ripple: On last Friday Mr.
Henderson Jones was found laying
dead in the road and it is supposed his
horse ran away and killed him, as he
was last e driving on toward where
he WAS found dead.
Henderson Gold Leaf: We are sorry
to learn of the death of Mr. Robert w.
CLAW, well known as q commercial
salesman, which occurred at his home
at Clays, on the Durham & Northern
Railroad, at twelve o'clock Tuesday
afternoon.
Greensboro Record: The Synod of
North Carolina meets in the First Pres
byterian church here Tuesday night,
when DR.. Hoge, of Wilmington will
preach at 8 o'clock. Business meetings
will be held each day, but at what hour
is not yet known.
Superior Court of Carteret county is
over the docket was light and court
held but two days. The negro who
broke into MI. Abe Lees store at Mer-
rimon was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for three years. This was the
only convict, says the New Berne
Journal.
The Chief Postofice Inspector of the
United States has been informed by
Inspector Conrad, at Tarboro, n. c.,
of the arrest of w. G. Harrell, post
master at Old Sparta. N. O., for EN-,
bezzling money order letters. Harrell
is held under q bond Of thousand
dollars.
Up in Jobs Cabin township last
week, Worth Church and Milton Nc
Glammery got into a difficulty while
working the road, and Church struck
McGlammery with a crowbar, doing
some serious damage on the latter's
head. "Liver regulator" was along,
says the Wilkesboro Chronicle.
Alamance Cleaner: We understand
there are some Mormon missionaries
working across the northern portion OF
this county and the southern part OF
CasWell. Our informant Gid not think
they had met with any success in Ala,
nance, but thought they had received
some encouragement in Caswell.
Charlotte News: Judge Victor @.
Barringer, who was appointed by
President Grant in 1874 a justice Of
the international Court of Appeals Of
Egypt, returned to America on the
Kaiser Wilhelm H., on the 17Jh, &C
companied by Mrs. Barringer, after 6
continuous residence in Alexandria o.
twenty years.
Yesterday afternoon as W, N. Kin
ney was driving out to his farm, hit
horse took a notion to kick, and kicked
so vigorously that he broke the buggy
t.. pieces and turned it over With Mr.
ney consist of a broken collar bone, 6
scalp wound and several bruises, says
the Lexington Dispatch.
Mr.. S. B. Stephenson brought into