The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-20

several nights ago the barn of s. E.
saunders, In Nash county, was set on
IRE Dy Incendiaries, burning a large
9uanGlty OF grain and forage. While
me FAMILY was at the fire the dwelling
noSse was entered and $3.50 in money
sEolen. A reward has been offered for
tne capture of the guilty parties. One
negro has been arrested and is now
Mr.. J. A. Walston, of Falkland,
writes the Reflector that Joe. Parker,
a seVenteen-year-old coIored boy, was
crowned at Parker's landing on Tar
river, about s o'clock Saturday night.
he was Swimming with Matthew Little
and must have been asleep or had a
n5 and fell out of the canoe. The body
was found next morning about 10
o'clock.
Lum Sprinkle, a white convict who
broke out Of the Davie county Jail
n was recaptured several weeks ago,
made his second escape last Sunday.
he managed to get the cell door open
and while the assistant jailer was feed
ing the other prisoners, Lum walked
out: In order to make no noise he
pulled off his shoes and went out in his
stocking feet.
One of u citizens hearing that if
a dose of whiskey were administered
to a dog he would not grow any more
thereafter thought he would try it on
a young flee he had which had attained
to as large a size as he wanted him to.
So he got five cents worth and gave it
to him. The result was the dog was
dead IN ten minutes, says the New
Berne Journal.
Jast after our going to press on last
Tuesday night Mr.. r. j. W. Carson, of
Bethel, who vas over here attending
court, received a telegram informing
him that his dwelling house was burned
to the ground. He saved but few of
his household effects. He had no in
surance at all on building or furniture.
1t Twas supposed to be set on fire by
rats, says the Greenville Reflector.
Albemale News: William @. Bar
ringer, who knocked Jim Dennis in
the head with a sledge hammer in
Montgomery county a few weeks ago,
is still n hiding. Dennis has so far re-
covered as to be able to work - Mr..
Elisha Dobey, who lives about seven
miles east of here sold a piece of gold
In Aloemarle Monday that weighed 40
dwt He refuses to tell where he found
it yet.
According to the Wilmington Mes
senger a gang of negro boy thieves
have been going about that city steal
ing from the merchants. The smallest
boys would be sent in to do the stealing
and the large mes would dispose of the
articles. Three of the boys have been
detected. They stole two watches from
a show ase a month ago. Enough
evidence was developed to hold two
the third one has not had his trial.
New Berne Courier: When it tran
spires that a murderer stands round
the scene of his crime for half a day,
surrounded by a miscellaneous group
of men among whom are officers of the
law, and no effort is made by those in
authority to arrest or detain him, but
in fact every effort is made, positively
and negatively, to aid his escape, it is
time for those for whose protection the
law i5 made to investigate the matter.
Webster Herald: a terrible accident
occurred last Friday on Trout creek,
above the forks of the river, which
cost one man his life. A Mr.. Johnson,
driving logs for Messrs. Buffam 6
Cummins was loosening a jam of logs
in the creek when he got caught among
them, and was literally crushed out of
all resemblance of humanity. Mr..
Buffam started with the remains for
Maine, where the man formerly lived.
A sixty gallon Illicit distillery in
Jones, has been seized by revenue
officers. Those connected with the still
escaped and we're not arrested. Jones
is the brother of Sunday Jones who
was killed in Smoky Holler last year,
and he failed to show up at the last
term of the court as O witness in the
case on account of being afraid that he
would be arrested for illicit distilling,
SAYS the Durham Sun.
Charlotte Observer: Tuesday morn,
ing at o'clock the store house at Brief,
Union county, known as Folks old
store, occupied by Messrs. Biggers &
Tucker, was totally destroyed by fire,
Biggers and Tucker slept in the rear
portion of the store. The fire was well
under way when they awoke and they
barely escaped with their lives. All OF
their clothing and effects were burned.
There was no insurance.
Doctors Whiteside and Johnson OF
this c1Gy performed a very OellcaCo,
but successful surgical operation upon
the five year old boy of Rev. @. M.
Murchison last week. The child had
been dangerously i'll some time from a
complication of diseases. Among them
was pneumonia, which resulted in a
bealing on the lower part of one lung.
The only chance was to make an in
cision which they did, from which ran
oboI1f O OI1art of mattnr SAWS the
Hickory Mercury.
Sanford Express: Mention was made
some time since in the Express to the
effect that a freight train was wrecked
near pine Bluff, Moore county, on the
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