The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-04

lecGors Mofitt and Troy, with Marshal
Mothtt, raided the blockade still of
Frank eagle, in Moore county. They
destroyed the still and six hundred
gallons Of beer and a barrel Of low
vine. The owner of the still was abb
sent, but the fire was burning, says the
s tnford Express.
Monroe Enquirer: On last Tuesday
morning when Lewis Thomas, a col
ored farmer who lives about five miles
east of here, went out to feed his stock
ne found that some dastardly fend
had cut both the jugular veins and
that the animal was then bleeding to
death. The horse belonged to Mr.. A.
j. Hargett, of this place.
Mr.. E. j. Garrison, a thrifty farmer
OF Steel creek, was in the city today,
and In his wagon he had Is different
articles of produce for sale. He sold
out all his truck and in addition booked
a dozen orders for long handle gourds
to be delivered in the fall. He is grow
ing them with handles four feet long,
says the Charlotte News.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Reports are to
the effect that there was a very dam
aging hail storm in parts of Yadkin
county a week or 70 ago. Whole fields
of tobacco have been almost entirely
riddled, and the farmers have been
blowing up the fields, preparatory to
sowing wheat or something. Other
crops are also badly injured.
A joint canvass has been arranged
between Messrs. A. w. Graham and
Thomas Settle, candidates for Congress
in this district. They will speak in
Orange as follows: Chapel Hill, Sat
urday, Sept. 29Lh; Hillsboro, Monday,
Oct. 1st; White Cross, Tuesday, Oct.
2i; Cedar Grove, Monday, Oct. 9Th,
says Hillsboro Observer.
John f. Falls was arrested and
bound over to court before III. Cab
aniss, q. s. Commissioner, on the
charge of aiding and abetting the es-
cape of a federal prisoner, John Well
mon. The latter was under arrest for
blockading and it is said that Falls
aided him in his escape from Thomas
McEntire, says the Shelby Aurora.
Alamance Cleaner; Last Wednesday
afternoon, in Burlington, during the
storm, lightning struck the residence
of Mr.. VIM. j Thomas. His eleven
year-old daughter. who was sitting
with her head against the woodwork,
was instantly killed and other mem
bers of the family were severely
shocked. The house and furniture
were also much damaged.
President McIver has had over 600
applications for admission to the State
Normal and Industrial School. There
are only eleven counties from which no
applications have been received. Only
400 students al be admitted, as the
present recitation rooms will not &C
commodate than that number.
About $50 boarders can be accomo-
dated in the dormitories and the other
$50 will board in private families,
Albemarle News: A fight ensued in
the court house at Salisbury Wednes-
day Immediately after the adjorun
ment of the Congressional Convention,
but tAad no connection with the con-
vention. One man simply called en-
othera Populist and the Populist called
the other fellow a Republican, and as
each had a sufficient cause for a fight
they went at it, but were separated
after scratching each other a little.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Mr.. J. III.
Hopkins gives the following of one
stalk of cotton: Walking through his
crop he found an unusually tall stalk.
He measured it and found it six feet
high and six feet across. He counted
the bolls and forms and 80 bolls and
262 new forms, making in bolls and
forms 344. The seed was planted 10th
of May, came up first week in June
and was chopped out between 10th and
18th of June.
Mr.. Randolph Redfearn came in on
last Tuesday morning from his farm
in Arson county with the first bale of
cotton of the 1894 crop put on this
market. Mr.. Redfearn was but a few
minutes ahead of Mr.. Ell. J. McManus,
of Sandy Ridge township, in this
county, who has the honoro of being the
earliest Union county cotton farmer.
Mr.. McManus was followed by Mr.. J.
L. Rollins of Chesterfield county, 8. O.,
says the Monroe Enquirer.
Taz. Williamson, colored, of Caswell.
was killed by falling into a well last
Wednesday, He was digging the well
for Mr.. J. r. Burton and had put in a
blast the evening before, and went
down in the morning to clean the well
out. He brought cut one bucket of rock
and went down after after another,
when he was taken sick. He ordered
the hands to draw him out, and as he
was nearing the top, he fell back, frac.
turing his skull, and otherwise mutilat
ing him.
Charlotte Observer: A Mr.. Martin,
aged SO, bought license Saturday tC
marry a Miss Thompson, aged 81, near
Wentworth, Rockingham county, she
out of consideration for his age agree
ing to meet him at the house of his SOB
a few miles distant from her home,
Sunday night all was ready, the squire
present and supper spread, but the
festive bride failed to materialize. The
benediction with which the guests were
dismissed by the disappointed groom
has never yet been used in church.
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