The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

SGreeG hallway Company. for s., 600,
says the Winston Republican.
Wesley G.. Maroon, of Oneal's town
snip, a few quiet mornings age killed a
Wild turkey gobbler, which Ivey, his
son said, weighed A pounds!! We are
sure this heads the list from 1892 till
1894, says the Smithfield Herald.
Mr.. J. A. Fleming, Unpopular county
commissioner and well known ma
ch1nery dealer, showed us something
OF a curiosity in the shape of a gOurd
Monday. 1t vas of the long handle or
"dlpper" variety and was grown by
Mr.. Clyde Harris, his son, in law. The
handle measured exactly three feet in
length and the whole thing Al inches,
says the Henderson Goldleaf.
Deputy Sheriff McKeithan, of Bruns-
WICK county, came up from Southport
yesterday with Alfred Everett, colored,
who Is charged with criminal assault
on a young white girl in that county
some time ago. Everett was lodged in
the county Jail here for safe keeping.
He is said to be a desperate character,
and to have twice escaped from Jail
heretofore. says the Wilmington Star
Mr.. J. s. Morton of Harlowe, is in
the city on a short business trip. Mr..
Morton informs us that he has no right
to complain of his truck yields. He was
fortunate enough to plant peas late
enough to avoid their being in bloom
during the frost, consequently he has
a a fairly good yield and at fairly
good prices, having received 81 per
box for one entire lot, says the New
Berne Journal.
Asheville Citizen: E V. Brookshire,
Representative in Congress from the
9Th district of Indiana, has purchased
of P. +. Patton the latter's farm on the
HendersOnville road, three mills from
Asheville. The price paid was Sc, 900.
Congressman BroOkshire has been in
Asheville several times, and on his last
visit remarked that in a few years all
the slightly points about here would be
occupied by residences.
Winston Sentinel: At Leaksville Sat-
urday night two of the most remark
able electrical storms eve witnessed in
that section resulted in loss of life and
chant of Leaksville, was struck by light
ming and killed while near his house,
to which he was hurrying for shelter
form the storm. Several houses in the
neighborhoOd wer struck and con-
siderable damage was done.
Lexington Dispatch: Severalfarmers
who have been in town during the past
week have talked about the small grain
crops and have almost uniformly eX
pressed the opinion that the harvest
will be very short. The free re in March
did great damage and the subsequent
dry weather seriously retarded the
growth of that which survived the
cold. Many fields will produce but
little more than the seed it took to SOW
them.
The News of Saturday, told of the
capture aud incarceration in the zoo
logical department of Vance park, of a
North Carolina weather prophet in the
shape of a ground hog, This morning
when the park keeper went around to
stir up the animals he met with a sur
prise. Where he had only n weather
prophet. Saturday night, he had seven
this morning. The six new ones are
all doing well, tays the Charlotte
News.
Wilkesboro News: People from the
country down east say the seventeen
year locusts are filling the woods with
their music. Going throughsom9 places
it is difficult to hear ones voice. The
ground is alive with the young fellows,
who are coming to life every day, and
helping to swell the chorus. Hogs,
dogs, chickens and turkeys are growing
fat on these young ~lOcusts, which are
eagerly sought in the holes in the
ground.
M. J. B. Hartman is a farmer and a
horse jockey, living on the Kennedy
farm to the west of the city. Some
thing was the matter with his horses
and he was advised to feed them lime.
He accordingly mixed liberal quantity
of lime with their food, and since then
DR.. Smith, the veterinary surgeon, has
been busy at work on Mr.. Hartman's
stock The horses may live, but it will
be sometime before they have an appe-
tite. for lime or anything else, says the
Charlotte News.
Burlington News: Great swarms OF
locusts are now spread out over the
country and as the weather warns up
the louder they sing. Their principal
place of song is in the grove known as
the "Omce Lot" where there are thou
sands which sing the same song from
early morn till dewy eve" There are
ten locusts to one English sparrow and
the little birds are no doubt gorged by
this time and would prefer a grass,
hopper, Each locust bears the w
imprint on his wing.
Shelby Aurora: A sick juryman, j;
P. Digh a clever citizen of Rutherford
county, brought CONSERVATION to the
prosecution in Rutherford Superior
Court last Friday and caused a mis-,
trial and legal complications in the
murder trial of Cling Scruggs and Bud
Scruggs, who slew Bryon Goode last
winter. Judge Boykin was crestfalIen
when the juryman twice told him that
he was sick and unable to act as Juror.
This sudden and unexpected sickness
cansed a DostpOnement Of the murder