The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-08

ready been subscribed, and every dol
lar by Fayetteville people.
The Times says Capt. Jas. Master
died at his home about four miles from
| Elkin Tuesday night of last week
aged rs years. He was a soldier il the
Cherokee Indian war and drew a pen
sion from the government.
The Charlotte Observer learns thai
forest fires are raging in Union county
About 500 acres Of woods belonging &c
Northern capitalists have been burned
over. Postum hunters, 1t IS thought,
started the fire. People fought the
fire Sunday.
Two tobacco barns we're burned In
north Alamance last Friday. One was
on the farm of DR.. J. II. Graham, filled
with tobacco belonging to Albert
Walker, colored, ard the other on Mr.
J @. Tate's farm. near Glendale, says
the Alamance Cleaner.
The Rutht rfordtOn Democrat learns
that a corps of engineers are making a
survey of water power at Big Island,
on Broad river, preliminary to build
ing a mammoth cotton mill there. The
Democrat also learns that a big mill is
to be built at Island Ford.
W~adesbor0 Observation-Disclosures
Mr.. J. NJ. COvingtOn dl d at his late
home in L~anesbOrO township last
Thursday morning, aged 70 years. His
health had not been good for a long
tine, and his death was not uneXpecG-
ed.
A correspondent writing from New
London. Stanly county, TO the AIOe'
marie Enterprise, says recently a little
pm pie appeared on the leg OF Jas.
ArIe. He opensd it with his knife.
Il fl mmatlon followed and in three
weeks Arle died.
On last Monday while Mr.. Arthur
London was out riding ia a buggy with
Miss Maggie Bryan. at this place, the
horse ran away and demolished the
buggy, and. in falling out, Miss Bryan
was bruised quite painfully, says the
Chatham Record.
The corn crop Is very we'll matured
and is out of danger of frost. There
will not be an average crop made III
the county, but there will be enough
for the demands Of the people, with
the excellent wheat crop, says the
Boone Democrat.
Mr.. T. H. Carmine caught q white
shad in one Of his nets at the mouth of
Neu5e river, Monday. This was the
second caught IN our waters In the last
few days. They have made their go
pearance unusually early, says the
New B9rne ] uTnal.
The tobacco me r going to have an
arte sian we'll sunk at some convenient
point near the warehouses. The ma
chinery is here for putting down the
we'll. This a good step and we hope
will be followed by more wells, says
the Grgenvllle Reflector.
Mr.. R R Porter, of Ashville, was in
Lincolnton yesterday. Mr., Porter says
Asheville is now on a steady growth
and will soon be the" city of North
Carolina He says $500, 900 worth of
buildings are in course of construction
in Asheville, says the Lincolnton
The big Cranberry iron miDe5 last
week we're put IN operation again, but
a small scale, only IS hands b ing
employed. 1t is expected to gradually
increase this number if the mines pay.
In former times as many as 900 hands
have been employed as n time in
works.
The cotton ginnery and grist mill of
Messrs. E J. Martin s. Son, near Mount
Olive, was burned yesterday morning
about ten O'Clock. Toe plant was quite
o good one, and we understand that
the loss cQulC not have been less than
81, 500 dollars On that alone, says the
New Berne Journal.
Mes*er Joe McCanles5, the II year
old o Of Capt. j. 9. McCanless, of
n,~-S, E~,yvONnS- NJ, $500, ~,,-N-
while out hunting squirrels Saturday
met with a painful accident.
His gUu burst, SCATTERING the thumb
on his left hand, necessitating amputa
ton at the second joint.
Lincolnton, which voted So, 900 In
bonds for the purchase of a machine
shop for the Chester & LenOir railroad,
has a rival in Hickory, which wants
the shop located there. So the Narrow
Gauge railroad has not yet accepted
Lincolnton's generous of3r, and is like
a girl with two rival lovers.
J6y Lovelace, in the Beaver Dam
and west of Snelby, lost on last
Sunday his home by fire. The house
and contents were destroyed. 1t was
accidentally set on fire by his little
children playing with fire in too close
proximity to some loose cotton in an
adjacent room, say S the Shelby Aurora.
Charlotte Observer: At a meeting
of the creditors of Wallace Bros. of
SGatesville, the trustee announced that
the complete inventory showed the
value of the stock of goods and roots
and herbs to De $64, coo. He had re
caIved q cash bid of 60 per cent Of this
amount The creditors advised the
closing out.
On less than six acres Of land inside
the corp 0rate limits OF NorgantOn. Mr..
John ", Campbell last wear raised
l5OO bushels of sweet potatoes which
re sold at a net profit Of a little over
SoOo. de has erected in his DOtato
| p8-C1 at q C0s1 OF 500 y - -