The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-20

@AS 4OA WdS mdU0 IN "a hours. a dis
lance OF 400 miles, says the Winston
Sentinel.
Hickory Press and Carolinian: This
city was greatly shocked about $50
O'CLOCK Saturday morning by the an
nouncement that Miss Alice Jones, a
daughter OF Mr.. John Jones, had com
mitted suicide at the house of Mr.
VIM. M. Mccall, just east of the Bap
list church.
Ashe Pioneer: Reeves, who was
sentenced to imprisonment and fine
Tor the shooting of Greer, was taken
from the county jail by unknown per.
sons on Friday night of last week.
The sheriff and posse pursued them to
the Virginia line, but failed to over
take them.
New Berne Journal: We hear that
a negro and and a white man got into
a dispute at LAGRANGE over the election
Tuesday, and the latter shot the for
mer in his forehead. The ball glanced
and travelled around to the back of the
head and the wounded man was going
about yesterday.
Some months ago Joe Shields was
arrested in Durham and confined over
night in what he claims was q very
damp, uncomfortable cell. The weather
was so cold hat the water froZed in
the cell. Shields sued the town for
50, 600 damages. The jury gave him
5000 and he appealed.
Officers Smith and Sechrest ranfin
on seventeen negroes last Saturday
night at a house in the Eastern part of
the town. The most of them were en-
gagged in gambling. Mayor Horney
fiued the whole crowd and warned
them against a repetition of the breach,
says the High Point Enterprise.
M~urfreesboro Index: Richard, a
colored man, train hand on the Muir.
freesboro and R and T. roads, was
killed Sunday night at the bridge
where the "a. and D, railroad crosses
the Seaboard, near Franklin. He was
on top Of a car and his head struck the
bridge knocking him off and killing
him instantly.
Winston Sentinel: Several porkers
were slaughtered in Winston Salem to
day. 1t is estimated that at least
20, 900 pounds of meat will be raised in
Winston's hog" ward. The two
long to Messrs. Jas. and Harris IN
Miller, of Salem. They will weigh
about 400 each.
1OOAOOIO NOuL4C4 Liz W. "A
| Jones met with a very painful and
serious accident last Monday. She
was standing before the fire when her
dress caught fire and before it could
be put out burned all her clothing off
her. She was badly burned from her
heels to her head, and has suffered a
great deal since.
Mr.. r. II. Johnston, of L9wsonville,
showed us two fine ears of corn the
other day that were raised On his
farm. They were 12b inches long, z
inches in circumference, " and their
combined weight was So pounds He
told us that he had about 100 barrels
like the sample he brought up, says
Webster's Weekly.
Clinton Democrat: Hon. D. Fl. Nc
Lean has long been accounted the sill
yer tongued orator of the Cape Fear.
Though not as strong physically as he
once was, yet he retains all his old
time powers as a captivating speaker.
His speeches in Sampson have won
the admiration of people, who have
always had a kindly feeling for Mr..
Mclean.
Some of the Millers at Obids, Wilkes
county, got into a big fuss on election
day and Lewis Miller stabbed his
cousin, inf1jcting a very dangerous
wound. The doctor said there is very
little hope for his recovery. The fell
low who got cut so badly had used his
knife on Lewis Miller, and had started
to run when he was cut by his cousin,
says the Chronicle.
Yadkin Ripple: We learn that
Burk Kirby was shot and killed near
Dalton last Saturday by Rob Harris
on account of an old fuss. Kirby was
once tried for his life in this county.
Mr.. Sam M. Spears told us of a
beet that he pulled from the patch of
Mr.. L. s. Fleming that measured 81
inches in length, the top measuring Is
inches, leaving Sc inches of beet.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Mr.. B. F.
BRYANT had the misfortune to cut his
foot with an axe a few days ago while
splitting some timber. Mr.. N. Biggs
gathered eighty five barrels of corn
from four and one half acres of land.
He said that had not some hogs been
on a part of the corn besides come
casualties by the winds he believed he
would have gathered 100 barrels.
On Friday of last week license was
issued for the marriage of ESQ Allen
A. Wilmington, and Marian Vannoy
both of Union township. Allen A.
Wilmington is now owe "a years old,
and Miss Vannoy is Al years old. Mr..
Wilmington is the Oldest magistrate
and has held that Office the longest of
any man in Wilkes county, and no
doubt the State, says the Wilkesboro
Chronicle.
Louisburg Times: The editor re-
grets to chronicle the death of Mr..