The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14

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and has aomething over a hundred dol
lars in the treasury. The board OF
commissioners and mayor have q
aged affairs well, says the Topic.
We notice in several of the State pa
pers the scarcity of blue birds. 1t IS
said that the long and severe winter
killed nearly all of them. A genGle,
man told us the other day that ne a
not seen q blue bird this spring. Ihey
froze during the winter, says the Lemon
Topic.
MI. E. B. Ray, farmer, lives 3 miles
south of town. He informs us that he
owns a hen that recently Matched IL
chickens in two weeks. They +
strong, healty and lively. Mr.. Kay Is
q reliable man, and what he says ne
believes to be true, says the HlllsOoro
Observer.
Jacob Mccall, of Long Greek town
ship, was here to day with a wood lDls'
which he had captured near Long
creek mills. He brought in the bird
expecting to sell it to the circus, u
was disappointed to learn that there
was no circus here to buy it, says the
Charlotte News.
A letter from Franklin 10 Chief Clerk
Rogers of Collector Carriers Office says
that the livery stable belonging to D.
Cunningham at Franklin was de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday. The horses
were barely saved. Some $500 or $500
worth of feed was destroyed, says the
Asheville Citizen.
Chef of Police J. r. Melton has gone
into the bee business in earnest. He
has been hiving stray swarms now for
several days and has been successful
up to yesterday, when he found a
swarm in a tree on Second street, in
front of Fennell's stables, says the
Wilmington Star,
One farmer in Nash county planted
last year 80 acres in cotton, 8 in pea
nuts and IL in tobacco. He cleared on
the tobacco land $1O4 Sc per acre, On
the peanut patch 81 48 per acre and
lest ''clear money" on the cotton
amounting to over $65 CO., a the
Rocky Mount Phoenix.
Rev. W. H. II. Lawhon. of Chatham
county, owns a horse, % years old,
that he has been driving since 1880 in
travelling to his appointments, and in
that time has travelled over 40, 900
miles. The horse, Notwithstanding
his age, is apparently as good as ever
and can travel 40 miles a day.
Mr.. William Wilson, of H~annersville,
had the misfortune to have his saw
mill and grist mill, including about
80, 600 feet of lumber, on the UWhar-
RE river, washed away last Saturday
night a week ago. He got back part
of the material. His loss is over
$500, says the Lexington Dispatch.
Little Julia jackson Christian, the
six year old daughter of Mr.. w. E.
Christian, will unveil the Confederate
Monument on the Doth. Little Julia is
the grand child of the illustrious sol
der, SSonewall Jackson. 1t was q
happy selection on the part of the
ladies-it could not have been more
fitting.
The Wilmington Messenger says
that Gus Morris, a young man, near
Wilmington, was to have been married
on the 18th of April and had made all
of his arrangements accordingly. On
the Saturday preceedir g the date fixed
for the marriage he went to Whining
ton tomake some purchases and has
not been seen since.
Salisbury Herald. AS pretty a lot
of Jersey cattle as were ever seen in
Salisbury we're here Saturday. They
came from the Rockwell Park Stock
Farm of Capt. E B. @. Hambley and
were shipped to George Vanderbilt's
estate at BlltimOre. The herd consisted
of eleven animals and were sold, we
understand, for 81 600.
The Windsor Ledger, hitherto a
strong administration paper has come
out in favor of silver and speaks in no
uncertain sound on that question. If
our memory is not at fault it was only
a few months ago that it's acting editor
was writing to the Aulander Dispatch
that any one who criticised the Presi-
dents financial policy should be his Sed,
says the Lasker Patron,
G. w. Womack who lived at the
Rocky Mount Mills drank a bottle of
laudanum last Friday from the effects
of which it was impossible to resusci
tate him. DIS Speightand kimberley
used the stomach pump and did all
that was possible, but could not save
him. He had been drinking several
days, it Is stated, and could not sleep,
says the Rocky Mount Phoenix.
County Commissioner, w. A. Mad
dry informed us Monday that a new
born negro baby was found lying in a
basket in the woods near Mr. John
Sharp's home, in Chapel Hill township,
Sunday, May 9Th. The mother of the
child is unknown, and until other ar
rangements made, the baby will be
cared for by Henry Mitchell's family,
on the Robson plantation, says the
Hillsboro Observer.
New Berne Journal: Messrs. A. j.
Phipps & Co., are now making regular
shipments of crabs to various of the
large Northern cities. They get the
hard crabs from Morehead. They re
ceived ten barrels Friday and six
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