The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

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south Carolina who has money, has
written a fri nd at this place who also
handles the fifty lucre, and proposes to
SGarG another bank at this place, II
aOout $4,000 additional stock al be
secured, We understand that part OF
q SIC, 600 has been taken and it will
nkeIy De an easy matter to get the
amount necessary.
From a private letter we learn that
our friend Nh. T. Q HUMPHREYS is
again located in Louisville, Ky. For
Gne past year he has been located in
Denver, Col, where he says times have
Deen unusually dull, owing to the price
OF He describes Denver as being
q prettlest, cleanest city he ever saw.
he returns to Louisville at the urgent
request of his former employer, says
the Roxboro Courier.
How time flies! And our friends,
nelghbors, and brethren go with it.
Inc Gastonla Presbyterian church was
organized, says Our Church Record,
July 16, 1882 with twenty three mem
bers, of which original members only
ten now remain. They are Mrs. @. E.
Adams, Miss Margaret Bell, Sonora
Bell, Esquire and Mrs. B. Ct. Bradley,
Capt. and Mrs. J. @. Holland, Mrs.
Z. II. Morrow, and Mr.. and Mrs. A. M.
Smyre.
Necessity, the mother of inven-
ton" has recently given birth to a
child rather out of the ordinary: The
republican postmaster of Henderson,
railing to get a successor in the usual
way, attempted to sell to another man,
estimating it at 5000 and taking a
mortgage on the mans farm. 1t cost
the would be p. m. 1892 to find out
That he couldn't get an Office that way,
and now his land is in jeopardy to pay
the bill.
Liberty Herald: A colored man Civ
ing his name as Brooks, who claimed
to be a Dr., a Rev. and a lawyer, with
LII. d. appended, recently induced a
colored woman in this community to
pay him $25, which she got by mort
gaglng her humble home, for which he
promised to get her husband psrdoned
from the p~enitentiary, where he was
sentenced some years ago for burning
the barn of MI. Craven near Mr.. Thos.
Hinshaw's store.
Washington Gazette: Tuesday Will
liam Finn was -incarcerated here in
the county Jail for killing another negro
at Six Landing, in the Roper swamps.
1t appears that the negroes playing, as
they often did, and ''fOoling" with each
other, when Finn snapped what he
supposed was an unloaded pistol at the
victim. AS is almost always the case,
the pistol was loaded and the bullet
took effect in the stomach and the
negro died In a few hours.
Mr.. Odom, who lives near Bethel
church in Northampton county, re
Gently moved to another place near by.
A few nights ago he went to the place
he moved from to get some chickens
that he left there. When he arrived
at home and was opening the gate the
chickens began to hollow, and his son
thinking that a thief was after them,
seized a gun and fired in the direction
of the noise, striking his father in the
arm, INJECTING a painful and ugly
wound.
Our townsman, A. E. Lloyd, when
he is not selling you hardware, has
turned his attention to rare and Pc
culiar coins. He has two he prizes
very highly. One is a email three
cent piece. In coming it the die missed
the mark and took in only half of its
face. Did you eve see a coin of a
similar nature9 The wonder is how it
ever got out of the mint that way.
The other is a dollar, made of North
Carolina gold, 81 g., and C. 1t bears
the name of A. Bechtler, says the Dur
ham Sun.
Several months ago Miss Mary Hines
moved from Boone, Watauga county,
N c., to Hickory, bringing with her a
pet cat. For several days the cat was
penned up, but appearing perfectly
satisfied with it's surroundings Miss
Hines turned it loose with no thought
of it's flight. However, the cat promptly
disappeared, and returned to Boone it's
old home, a distance something over
fifty miles, crossing the CataWba river
and several other streams. We vouch
for the truth of the story, says the
Press and Carolinian.
In Wake Superior Court last Thurs
day Judgment was entered IN the u
of W. S. Barnes, Secretary of the North
Carolina Farmers Alliance, against
John P. Kerr, of Asheville, for $40, 600
damages for libel. Mr.. Kerr, in his
paper, the Citizen, charged Mr.. Barnes
with having falsely certified that w.
T. Crawford, member of Congress from
the ninth district, had signed the ALI
ance demands three years ago. Mr.
Kerr has published a retraction and
apology and this was exhibited In
court. He had also paid the costs,
counsel fees and other charges and MI.
Barnes has withdrawn the prosecution.
Liberty Herald: There is a very
peculiar and pitiable old man who lives
two or three miles northeast of here.
His name is John Bunton. He had
been deranged for many years. For
the past several years he has lived
under a brush shelter and slept in a
bed of leaves. He does this in preference
to living in a house and sleeping in q