The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-29

so1eoeO OeSWeen seventh and Eight lost
we've noe Oramah chickens Tuesdav
n1gnG between - o'clock and morninS
His Dog was poisoned. He prizad tie
very highly as thew were
postmaster Wilson and Capt. Buford
are IN Washington to obtain an Ga
tlonal $500 for the Winston p~ostoffco
says the correspondent of the CharIotto
observer. They talked with Ponro1
sentative Bower and were to 90 to the
Dep artment. Ule
about half past ten o'clock SUNDAY
night the Waterman at Moodv's nil
discovered a fire in the planinp mill
next TO the dry kiln. It was evtin-
gulshed with the loss of only about S7E
the principal damage to belts saws the
New Berne Journal.
Randolph Bivins, a seventeen voar.
Old boy, convicted at CLAW conrf last
week o. sheep stealing, was sent to the
P~enltent!ary o two and a half years.
his brother, Jim Bob Bivins. who was
equally as guilty, had left the country,
says the Franklin Press.
In a row at Robbinsville. Graham
county, last Friday, jasper Gunter
shot his brother, Jessie, and it is
thought, mortally wounded him. He
Is still olive, but expected to die anv
time The row started about some
manure. Jasper fed after the shoot
ing. 1870
Some negroes had a fight on Mr.. w
Il. Kennedy's plantation last SATURDAY.
night. One negro was cut on his arm
and another, named Graffenreid, was
shot with a gun. DR.. Jno. A Pollock
dressed h wounds. The wounds were
not serious, says the Kinston Free
Press.
Statesville Landmark: Mr.. Alvin
Summers, of Sharpsburg township,
who passed his Seth mile post in Feb
ruarY, has this spring, cut and dressed
set of barn logs He did all the work
hlmselt-felllng the trees in the forest
and preparing the logs ready for the
building.
Mr.. w. P. Elliott, of Wilmington,
while on his way from Wilmington to
this city Thursday morning fell from
the front platform of the second coach
Of the 9. +. & Y. V. passenger train
and received injuries from which
he died Saturday evening, says the
Fayetteville Observer.
Salisbury Truth: Mr. J. A Cozort,
of Franklin township, came near hav-
ing a serious accident during the thun-
der shower last Saturday. A flash of
lightning very near him caused his
team to run off, when he was struck in
the face with the breast tree that
knocked him ~senseless.
Charlotte News: The stand Of cot
ton is said to be very imperfect, es
pecially on red lands. Many farmers
are blowing up and planting over.
This seems to be especially the case in
the southern part of the county. The
cotton that has sprouted has a very
healthy looking growth
Washington correspondent of the
Winston Sentinel: Patrick Henry Win
ston, of pleasant memory in North Car
DINA, in spite of his political fckleness,
has come out in a Spokane paper and
declared himself a Populisb. He says
he can't see the difference between a
Democrat and a Republican.
Durham Sun: Mr.. William L~unsford,
of KNAPP of Reeds, in Granville county, a
brother of Register of Deeds Pat Luns
ford, died this morning at his residence
in that county. The fatal disease was
consumption, and he had been confined
to his bed for sometime. Mr.. Lunsford
was in the sgd year of his age.
The Sentinel says an amusing scene
occurred in the Winston court house
Tuesday. A witness was put on the
stand in an intoxicated condition. He
was made to walk the floor to see if
his evidence was competent. He was
also requested to draw ont of his
pocket a flask containing old ''bug
juice"
Charlotte News: The receipt of cot
ton at Charlotte for the year ending
September 1, 1898, were L ,768 bales
The receipts from September 1, 1893,
to date are 10, 1884 bales, showing a
total of 113 bales over the whole of last
year, and over three months to go on.
To-day's receipts were twenty five
bales.
Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. j. T. Dees,
who lives about four miles south OF
Monroe, killed a very strange looking
fowl a few days ago. It had very long
legs and a long neck and was of a
brownish color. It measured three
feet and four inches from tip to tip Of
wings. Its feet measured seven lnches
across
Corn IS hard TO nnQ In SGanly county
Some farmers, near Gladstone, had &c
go all the way to the Richmond and
Danville railroad bridge in Rowan
county. Then they failed to get the
amount needed. Our correspondent
SAYS that the distilleries have used ur
the supply of corn, hence the scarcity
saws the Concord Standard.
Lumberton Robesonian: Grape on
Mr.. James @. Smiths store door shows
that the ''pale horse" has made his ap'
pearance at the door of another mem.
Der Of that large and Influential
family. Tt is but a few weeks since
the mother passed away, and about