The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-03

GOOEo 5taGlOn Tor which there is no
oeed and he cannot trace it back to an
owner. He has entered it at HIlsboro
as State land.
At the Arista Cotton Mills, of T. &
a. Fries, last Friday morning, Lee
danes,. the foreman, was painfully if
not seriously injured. He was on top
OF the boiler, doing some repair work,
When his foot slipped and he fell sew
era1 rect upon the pump, the force of
n fall rendering him unconscious for
tor some hours and it was feared for a
Wnl!e, that the effect would prove
LaGal, says the Winston Republican.
tuesday morning about l. $50 o'clock
pistol shots fired in rapid success
sion rang out upon the midnight air,
startling the participants in a colored
festival at the Flour Warehouse. All
but n bullet of that deadly discharge
took effect in the body of Ed. Brewing,
a colored man. It was Tom Williams
another young colored man that pulled
the trigger Of the pistol with such fatal
effect, says the Fayetteville Observer.
Frank Nichols, son of Rufus Nichols,
had a arrow escape from death on
Tuesday. He fell from a portable en-
CINE attached to a steam thresher at
Capt. John A. Roberts, in the lower
part of Cleveland county. He was
hurled between the boiler and the band
wheel, and his thigh was broken. If
he had not turned the throttle valve
and shut off the steam while in the act
OF falling, he would have been instant
ly killed, says the Shelby Aurora.
Candidates are said to be as thick in
Franklin county as blackbirds. And
the funny part about it is, that they
are afraid to say which party they be
long to. We have heard that whoever
expects to get elected this year in old
Franklin will have to have two nomi-
nations, or nomination and one
Endorsement. To one who is not in
the race it is funny to see the awk-
ward efforts being made to carry water
on both shoulders, says the Search
light.
The Star reports that there is but
little change in the situation at the
Wilmington cotton mills. About forty
out of over two hundred former EN-
ployees are at work. This includes
the overseers and some others who
have new vacated their positions.
But the weavers are still out and de
clare they have no intention of return
ing to work at the reduced wages and
there is said to be a little likelihood that
the mill owners will recede from the
position they have taken.
Durham Sun: We are told that a
fellow was here some weeks ago repre-
sentlng a Norfolk house and Who was
selling organs, ranges and other things
upon a small payment of cash on the
goods he represented, the said goods to
be delivered in a week, and the balance
would be collected monthly at 81 q
month. We hear a car load of stuff
vas sold in this way. The goods were
to be here last Thursday sure. They
haven't come yet, and the impression
is that the parties who bought have
been fooled.
Farmers from all quarters report
that a disease that now amounts to an
epidemic is thinning out the hogs. 1t
is not cholera, for the animals have
none of the symptoms of that com
plant. The trouble Is something alto.
gether a mystery to the farmers or hog
doctors. Mr.. Julius P. Alexander has
a large number of swine and every one
of them is sick. He says he has done
everything he knows to do and they
continue to get wOrse Several other
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Charlotte News.
Doc Rabb and family made a hasty
move from Spartanburg county tC
Forest City. a heifer, nearly grown
accompanied the moving family, and
thereby hangs a tale. Mr.. Rabb was
in the act of selling the bovine when 6
hotly pursuing party from South Car
DINA interfered and seized the heifer
which Doc Rabb had mortgaged anC
driven unlawfully out of the State. HI
was arrested after one and a half hour
sojourn in Forest City and returned
the Shelby Aurora.
Elizabeth City NeWs: Evangelist J
E. Scheduled has just closed, thu
week, one of the most successful re
vivals that the Methodist church O
this town ever saw. Hundreds have
been converted and hundreds more
have determined to do better. Thu
church has been too email for the con
gregation and many people had to g
home, who came after the church wa
filed, which was long before service
Several of the mills and business mel
closed last week to attend the religion
meetings at the Methodist church.
The purity of the air in the State Cal
be adjudged when it is stated that nice
delicious strawberries are daily On tn,
market. Black0erries are just com
pany for they do not occupy the fel(
alone. These strawberries r as PLUMP
and firm as the season were. 1t take
a pure atmosphere to produce suci
results. Other fruits are kept fresl
for a time correspondingly long. Th'
fruit dealers and grocery men rarely
ever loses anything by rot in Uhei
| stock. Sweet potatoes of last year
| crop, raised right here in Mecklenburg
are served every day which is anothe.
fact that places North Cardinals eli
mate on a parallel with California;
| saws the Charlotte News.