The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-10

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ing Is now going on. If what we hear
oL q threshing so far is correct, the
crop In Catawba this year is the poor
est d a we ever heard of. Some good
armer are only getting two bushels
% a acre, and fields that made from
20 to 80 bushels to the acre last only
turning out about five this year. The
pest yield we have heard of is IL
bushels per acre.
Inc following persons were wounded
In the Sunday fight at Advance. Davie
county: Will Davis, shot in the breast
and leg; Jess Davis, cut in the back,
wounds serious; Noah Sherman, shot
IN b breast; Roma Sherman, shot in
the leg; John Davis shot in shoulder;
Bostlck and Oscar Davis, beaten on the
heads with sticks. The three latter
boys live IN Forsyth county. The fight
originated about a girl says the Win
ston Sentinel.
Charlotte News: Crops everywhere
are reported in a very Furnishing con-
dltlon. The rains have put life into
them and they are growing in a man
ner to astonlsh the farmers. - The
seven year old son of Mr.. Breckenridge
Pegram, of Yorkville, met his death in
a most peculiar manner Saturday even
ing. He was playing on top of the
Narrow Gauge Railroad turntable, and
fell Of, breaking his neck and killing
himself instantly.
There came very near being a serious
accident on the Carolina Central Rail
road, at the crossing near here last
Friday evening. One of the rails broke
while the down train was going over
1t, and flying up at the end, struck the
brake beam under n of the cars, and
had it not been for the presence of mind
or the conductor, who put on the air
breaks and stopped the train, the whole
train would probably have been de-
rallied, says the Lumberton Robesonian.
On last Thursday Joseph Gibson the
popular young editor of the Gibson
Headlight became involved in a dis
pute with a mulatto, boy, which re-
suited in Mr.. Gibson's shooting him for
calling him names that no decent man
cares to take. The negro died on Fri
day. This was a most unfortunate
affair for this young man whose future
was so bright and is regretted not only
by those to whom he is neal and dear
but by the entire neighborhood, says
the L~aurinburg Exchange.
There was a singular death in Raleigh
July I'd. The fifteen-year-o old son of
Mr.. Phil Taylor cut his hand with q
piece of glass. He tainted and fell his
head striking the floor, but he quickly
recovered and continued to play with
other boys. After supper he com
planned of a severe pain in the head,
went to bed and vent to sleep. At
midnight his mother found him I'm
conscious. Two doctors were SUM-
moned but they we're too late to save
his life and he died in two hours.
A special to the Charlotte Observer
mining property, four miles from Abe
marie, Stanly county, has been sold to
Richard Eames, Jr., and New York
associates. There have been found on
this property several thousand dollars
in nugget gold within the past few
months. The last rich discovery, pro-
ducing one nugget of % ounces, was
located by Capt. H. A. Judd and it is
due to his skill in this line that the
mine is on paying basis"
The old family mansion of Capt.
Turner w. Battle was destroyed by
fire on last Saturday night. The pic
lures and considerable Of the furniture
in the lower story we're saved but all
the furniture in the upper story was
lost. There was no insurance. The
mansion was a double one, the old
house being built by the grandfather of
Capt. Battle, Jacob Battle Esq, nearly
one hundred years ago while the newer
part was finished by his son, Mr.. James
S. Battle, in 1854, says the Rocky
Mount Argonaut.
News comes from Vanceboro that a
burglar attempted to enter Mr.. w. B.
Morris house last Saturday night a
few minutes before 10 o'clock. The
burglar when discovered was trying to
make his way in by hosting a window.
He had succeeded in hosting the win
dow and was in the act of entering
when the screams of Mr.. Morris two
DAUGHTERS caused him to fall out of the
window and ''burn the wind" Great
excitement ia being created over it, as
nothing like that was ever attempted
there before, says the New Berne
Journal.
Winston Sentinel: About five years
ago the marriage of Miss Clemmie Use
and r. B. Brewer was celebrated In
Winston. The family relations not
being pleasant a separation followed,
and last year the court granted the
husband and wife a divorce. 1t ap-
pears that dissatisfaction still existed
as a new courtship was renewed which
resulted in the couple reuniting their
love and affections last night-the cere-
money being performed by Rev. L L.
Albright. The Two took the marriage
vows with as much e~arnestness as they
did the first time.
Henry Clay Sisk, shot and killed
Berry Lane in Golden Valley township
on Friday afternoon last. From what
we learn they were drinking and en-
gagged in a conversation when Sisk said
Something about a sign of rain which