The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-09

made up.
M. f.. Forestry, a Madison county
farmer, IN his sleep ran through the
window or a warehouse at AsheviIle
railing eighteen feet and severely in.
Jurlng himself. Forester is quite a
som~nambulist.
For several days last week and waek
before fires were raging in the NOM
tains. 1t was north of Lenoir and
every day and night large clouds of
smoke could be seen. The fires must.
have been near Blowing r ok.
Capt. Simpson, a prominent citizen
OF Rutherfordton, shot and killed him,
self yesterday. The deed was commits.
ted at 1870 and he lived until 7 a.
o'clock. Business troubles supposed to
be n cause, says the Charlotte News.
Deputy Marshal J. D. McIver brought
here to jail, on last Tuesday, a noted
negro politician named Merritt Judd,
who had been bound over to the next
term of the Federal Court, on a charge
o. Illicit distilling, says the Chatham
Record.
Mr.. b. +. Fields, a merchant of Fall
ing Creek, made an assignment last
Thursday to Mr.. M. Brewer. Prefer
red creditors amount to about 81 500.
We could not learn the amount of liza
bltlties and assets, says the Kinston
Free Press.
Mr. j. A. Harrell, proprietor of Har.
rells Printing House at Weldon and a
prominent candidate for United States
Public Printer, died at his home in
Henderson Wednesday morning at 5
o'clock of heart disease. He was 81
years of age.
After a hearing before magistrates
for several days, the charge against
DR.. J. L. Edgerton, of H~endersonville,
of plotting to burn the drugstore of j.
L Edgerton 6 Co., to obtain the insur-
ance, was dismissed with costs attached
against the prosecution.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. r. G. Falls,
Saturday, sold his interest in the Blu
ford Hotel to Mr.. B. L. Wedenfeller.
Mr.. Robert Hood, of Morning Star
township, died Friday night at the ad-
vanced age of 20 years. Deceased was
a prominent man in his section.
On Monday, Mr.. James Dawson, of
G~rifton, showed US q shoeslide drill
opener which he recently invented and
patented. 1t is one of the handiest
things for putting on cotton planters
and other seed planters that we have
seen, says the Greenville Reflector.
Mr.. L. Conrad, of Pilgrim, killed a
pig eight months old which weighed
255 pounds. Mr.. 8. J. Finch, near
Lexington, killed one three years old
that weighed 468 pounds, and another
which weighed 413 pounds. These are
fine ones, says the Lexington Dispatch.
The Rockingham Rocket has made a
new departure for North Carolina
newspapers. Tt publishes the name of
a subscriber who owes 1882 for sub
scription and refuses TO pay the bill,
and a Y other names will be added
from time to time unless the bills are
paid.
Revenue officers Means and Tate were
in Burke county last week and made
things lively for illicit distillers. They
captured four distilleries and about IL,
900 gallons of beer and 1000 gallons OF
whiskey. These properties belonged to
men named Lackey, Mullen and Logan
Smith.
Marlboro Democrat: A barrel of ap
pies was received by a party in town
last week, in which was safely packed
three gallons of good old North Caro-
lima whiekey. The officers did not get
that jug. Others, it is said, got some
packed in oranges. They jus had tc
have it.
Plans are on foot to build a Method.
ist church at Jacksonville, which is
expected to cost about 81, 600. -Four
hundred dollars has already been raised
for the purpose, and as soon as the
fund is increased to $500 it is proposed
to begin the work, says the Newberr
Journal.
There are six money order Offices in
the county, to-wit: Lumberton, Lum
Der Bridge, Red Springs, Rowland
Maxton and Alma. Surely with al
these and sixty other Offices in the
county, our people ought to be vel
supplied, says the Lumberton Robe
sOnlan.
AshevilIe Citizen: The Ashevillt
Street Railway Company's gas plan
and system are soon to be enlarged ano
improved. MI. Platt, a New York ex
pert, who was here some time ago, II
now at work on the plans, and wher
these have been completed the work
will be done.
Mr.. r. f. Hearne, who has been run
ming a bar for Mr.. Joseph P. Stewart
| at Wilson. was found dead on Tuesday
in the suburbs of Wilson, with a bullet
hole in his head. A pistol vas found
living by him, but none of the cham
bers were empty, says the Rocky
| Mount Phoenix.
The Newbern fair is to be held Feb
ruarv "a, The fair promises to be the
/ finest everh held in Newbern, and every
BODY knows what that means, as these
fairs are always the best of the kind
| held in the State. We understand that
50 500 in purses will be awarded fol
running and trotting races.
A special from Roanoke, Va, says
| The elopement of Felix l.. Holt and
| A1Lon4n Onrtnr Of GallisEnWn- Rock