The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-27

had to confess Judgment on last
thursday to the sum of SIS. OUO. Hard
times and short collections was the
cause, says the Rockingham Rocket.
Last Sunday night the store of Mr..
L. =. Whitaker, of Trenton, was
broken into and robbed of pocket
knives, cologne and other articles. and
q new suit OF clothes belonging to Mr..
=. Brock, the clerk, says the Kinston
Free Press.
superintendent of the Penitentiarv
Leazar says the drop in cotton hits
the penitentiary hard, causing a loss
Of $50, 600 as compared with last years
prices. The product is 1000 bales.
He reports the % crop as 100, 600
bushels.
Col. Cunningham favored us with a
call yesterday. He says the Republi-
can and Populists combine beat him
on the 9th, but they can't beat him
raising corn, His crop this year was
over 1000 bushels, says the Rox6oro
Courier.
Mr.. Moore, of Martin, who lives
near Hamilton, killed four turkeys at
one shot a few days ago. Rev. W. J.
Smith passed soon after his good shoot
ing and he gave the good clergyman
one of his turkeys, says the Scotland
Neck Democrat.
r s. Anderson has been appointed
postmaster at Callahan, Davie county,
TO fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Chas. Anderson; and j. f. Killian
at Chronicle, Catawba county, to fill
vacancy caused by the resignation of
W. O. Wentz
High Point Enterprise: Mr.. L L
Thomas was here Tuesday and brought
with him q large block of kaolin. The
mineral has been discovered in large
quantities on Mrs. Oates plantation
near jamestown and specialists are
already looking after it.
On Nov. Is, 1894, D. Hoyle Elliott
and wife, Maggie Elliott. Cshe being a
party to this conveyance only for the
purpose of conveying her dover and
homestead interest in the real estate)
made an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, says the Shelby Aurora.
Willard Wick colored. brakeman on
the train. had one of his fingers cut off
Wednesday by the train. He had had
the position only a few days, having
taken the place formerly held by the
man who vas killed at the bridge near
Franklin last week, says the Murfrees-
boro Index.
The champion turnip has been
brought to thus Office by Mr.. r A, Cald-
we'll. He brought it in yesterday, and
it is a fine overweight, eight pounds
including the top, circumference %
inches. Those figures must stand TN
til somebody beats the record. says the
Gastonia Gazette.
The barn and stables of DR.. r. W.
Ward, of Verona, Onslow County, to
gather with forty bales of cotton, were
destroyed by fire Friday night. DIR.
Ward met with q similar loss about q
year ago. He has the sympathy of
many friends in his trouble, Gays the
New Berne Journal.
A runaway marriage occurred Sun.
day near New BerRe The contracting
parties were Mr.. Allen Bender, of
PollOcksville and Miss Jennie Latham,
of Riverdale. The parents Of the bride
thought she was too Ooung, but she
and the groom thought otherwise, and
love woD, says the Journal.
The young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Garrison, of Pineville, celebrated
her first birthday Friday. The &C.
casion was one of much interest, the
child's grandmother, Mrs. Barnett,
doing her part to make it memorable
bv presenting the young lady with
81, 900, says the Charlotte Times.
Hickory Press: The Methodists of
Hickory have finally paid for their
beautiful lot adjoining the residence of
DR.. Whiteside on the east, and they
purpose erecting in the near future q
church building that will be worthy of
the large membership of the church
and creditable to the city.
We are told that Mr.. Davie Avery,
ayoung man SO years old, living in Sand
Hill township, has never caught a fish
with q hook and line, and has never
shot a gun but one time and then at q
tree which he missed. There la per
haps no other such case In the State,
says the Kinston Free Press.
The Winston Sentinel says that
| Judge Battle renders a decision to the
eff Ct that the real estate and other
property. owned by the Moravians,
and not used for churches and schools,
ETC., is subject to taxation. The case
is an important one and will go to the
Supreme court for its decision.
The New Berne Journal says J @.
Thomas and g. B. Latham, poll hold
ers at RIverdale, Jpn preliminary
trial before E. G.. Hill, Esq we're
bound over Monday to the Superior
court on the charge of deposlting
ballots of voters in wrong election
boxes and then rejecting them.
Gastonia Gazette: A little three
year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. I. N.
Price, of Glover. was burned to death
last Saturday. The little fellows suf
f4rings from the burns were dreadful
until death relieved him Sunday
morning. His clothes were ignited
while playing about a fire in the open
i cation field