The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-02-20


oL starting a weekly paper in the near
future. He will probably start it next
week, says the Winston Sentinel.
Two bashful young people, each aged
6O years, of Mecklenburg county to
eVade the parents we suppose, eloped
last week and went to South Carolina
ana were happily married. When two
hearts are fully bent upon uniting
there Is no use in trying to estrange
them. Cupid 8 darts are not easily
lodged.
Greensboro Patriot: A party of
revenue officers, including Nick Me-
0ane, of this place, made a raid in
Granville county last week and de-
strOyed an illicit still at which we're
over ZOO gallons of corn whiskey.
- Farmers in different portions of
the State are turning their attention
to hop culture.
Our truckers are busy planting potG.-
toes. Several thousand dollars are
kept in the community this season,
that used to go out for seed potatoes.
Our leading truckers now raise their
Owl seed potatoes, and some of them
nave made fair profit selling their
surplus product of the same, says the
Kinston Free Press.
A few days since a e youth was
sentenced to Jail for thirty days in
Columbia, for stealing newspapers
from subscribers. His plan was the
old one, pursued now in Wilmington,
of following the carriers at a safe dis
lance and stealing the papers soon
after they were left, says the Whining
ton Star.
Tho P1rIip r+oo bvo,oL of Tho Moro
head Banking Company closed its door
business to Durham, where it will be
absorbed by the parent bank. The
Burlington branch has been in opera
ton nearly four years and has been a
great convenience to Alamance people,
says the Alamance Cleaner.
The curious spectacle of a cat fight
ing a plaster paris figure was witnessed
in a New Berne store. 1t was the life
size figure of a small dog. A peddler
entered the store to sell it, and set it
down. The cat took it in reality for
n of her hereditary foes, bristled up
wrathfully, made a mad spring for it's
back, knocked it owe and broke it.
New Berne Journal: Mr.. R P.
Williams who went North on business
COuL1SCISu Will U10 0lGCUIlC oJ
informs us that he knows the iron for
the track has been purchased-he saw
it loaded on cars for shipment, but a
delay occurred in consequence of a
mistake by a register of deeds in alb
stract of title which has been rectifed.
Nj. Lewis Husketh, popular farmer
living near Boyce's mill, had the mis-
fortune to break his leg Wednesday.
He vas hauling rails with a wagon on
which there was no body" His legs
were hanging down from the front of
the wagon when they struck a stump,
He will recover, says the Durham
Globe.
Saturday night Pitt county jail
furnished lodging to no prisoners, the
Jail being empty for the first night
since it was built twelve years ago.
There were two prisoners confined there
Saturday morning, but Sheriff King
accepted bonds for these during the
If the Jail stays empty long, however,
some people will be mie sing their de-
serts, says the Greenville Reflector.
Oliver Hayes, colored was killed in
Pocket township n day last week
caused by a tree falling on him. He
and his son were clearing a piece of
land. After telling a tree he called to
his son who was cutting on another
tree to come and assist him in trim
ming it up. The tree was left about
half cut and a gust of wind blew it on
Hayes killing him instantly. The o
was slightly injured, says the Sanford
Express.
Wade 5boro Messenger Intelligencer:
The town of WadesbOrO Incurred a
debt of $40 in coping with a recent
case of varialoid in our midst. The
bill was presented to Mr.. VIM. Preston,
the patient, and he refused to pay it,
consequently the town has brought
suit against him for that amount. 1t
is said that Mr.. Preston is quite well
to do and there is little doubt but that
he will be compelled ultimately to set
tie the bill.
Shelby correspondent Charlotte Oh,
v On saturday it was discovered
that some vandals had opened the
grave of Mrs. Cynthia Reeves, who
died some three years ago. Upon ex-
animation it was found that the re-
mains had been robbed of some valu-
able iewelry which had been buried
with the deceased. The robbers opened
the grave, split off a portion of the
coffin, removed the gloves from the
feshless hands and took the rings the
dead woman had worn. No clue.
Winston Sentinel: News is received
here that last Sunday evening a man
named Slaughter, of Carroll county,
Virginia and JnO. Bare and jim Long.
of Allegheny county, N. c., had a
difficulty near Gray postofice, in Allie
ghany, when Slaughter stabbed Bare
to the heart, killing him instantly. He
also cut Long very severely across the
abdomen, and his recovery is very
doubtful, The place where the homicide
occurred is verY isolated. and the de-