The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28

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snip, Rowan county, and well known
II MI. Pleasant, died a week ago of
typhoid fever; his wife died the week
1oLoWlng from the same disease. saws
the Concord Standard.
In view of the change in the tariff
laws, a deputy marshal was here to dav
taxing Jan inventory of the plavino
CARDS on hand by dealers in them
n tax will be ten cents per pack. we
understand, says the Durham Sun.
Danbury Reporter: Farmers report
that there are almost no worms on
tobacco this year. Wedon't know whv
1t Is unless the crop was so mean last
year and the worms so disguised that
they just concluded to quit ''chawin'."
Mr.. Leroy Springs has sold the Big
rails Cotton Mill, near Burlington. to
Messrs. Rosenthal & Barbee, of Raj
e1gh, who will organize a company to
own and operate the property. The
date.
j. G. Creigh, of Richlands, dropped
dead Saturday afternoon at the board
ing house of William Dorsett. in Mt.
Airy. Creigh went to that town about
three weeks ago and has been on a
Protracted spree. He died from heart
disease.
The Misses Winifred and Angela
McCaull, daughters of Mr.. John A.
McCaull, of Greensboro, have accepted
an engagement with the Richard Mans
field Company for this season, They
went to New York Wednesday for
rehearsal.
A difficulty occurred near the mar
ket house, last Wednesday, between
Messrs. Allen Forbes and William
Morris. Forbes received a slight cut
clear across the back and Morris was
cut seriously in the shoulder, says the
Grt enville Reflector.
The call of Mr.. w. T. Caho fer those
dealers having playing cards in their
possession to list the number they have
on hand, has already resulted in over
eleven hundred packs being given in,
says the New Berne Journal.
Mr.. Thos. Ray, who lives about five
miles from town, had missed a mum
Der of eggs from his hen house. He
prepaid two eggs and week before last
one dog and twelve opossums were
found dead near the hen house, says
the Windsor Ledger.
The late rains have been regular
mosquito incubators and the pesky
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~burdensome for the average human.
Hunting parties armed with lamps and
brooms go on nightly search for them,
says the Greenville Reflector.
Sam B~arksdale, a colored barber fell
from the Seventh street bridge late yes,
terday afternoon, a distance of Is feet.
His thigh was broken, and he was in,
jured internally. 1t is said that he was
drinking, and while on the bridge lost
his balance, says the Charlotte News.
Thursday night between nine and
ten O'Clock a raft on the northeast
branch of New river being taken to
the Parmelee Lumber Company at
Jacksonville was struck by lightning
and four out of the five men on it was
badly shocked, says the New Berne
Journal.
We have it on good authority that q
rain of one hour and ten minutes at
Polly Bridge one day last week caused
the water to be axle deep On alevelroad.
The party telling us this is a truthful
man, and says it is an actual fact, and
can be proved, says the Laurinburg
Exchange.
Emma J. Lynch, q colored woman
So years old living near the Steptoe
mill, from January 1, 1894 to August
z, 1894 wove SOC yards of cloth and
worked a one-horse crop also. She
was assisted by her boy who is about
II years old, says the Scotland Neck
Democrat.
Yadkin Ripple: A Mrs. Shaffer,
near Sandy Ridge, Stokes county, re
Gently gave birth to boy triplets weigh
ing seven pounds each. The mother
and two of the boys died. - Mr.. Will
Angel has a hen seventeen years OLD
that brought off a brood of twelve
chickens this spring.
Long Pine, Arson county, has a sen
sation over a most horrid and unmen
tionable crime inflicted upon the person
of a young white woman IN that com
munity by @ man who is very vel
known in that section and is of a good
family. The criminal is in hiding, say
the Monroe Enquirer.
The Wilmington Messenger says that
81 and 50 bills of the old Bank Of
MeckIenburg are being passed in that
city. We hope there is no connection
between this incident and the appear
ance there during the past few days Of
the.C Charlotte military and naval forces,
says the Charlotte News.
A colored individual by the name Of
Charles Harris, living ear MaDgum'E
store, in Mangum township, was ar
rested Saturday for the larceny of two
chickens from Tom feathers. He had
a preliminary hearing before A. j,
Roberts, J. p, who bound him over tc
court and in default of bail he was sent
) to jail, says the Durham Sun.
, Kinston Free Press: Last Thursday
: Mrs. James Gladstone, of Kinston,
made a pot of soap in the house. While
she was out of the house the pot OF
soap turned over and her two year OLD