The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15

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steam, lear Union Ridge, was burned
last Saturday. The mil belonged to a
joint stock company Toe fire was
accidental. About 50 600 Insurance
was carried on the mill and two nun
dred dollars on stock but the loss is
nearly twice the amount Of insurance,
says the Graham Cleaner.
Mr.. Frank Glover informs US that
there was a rise in the Cape Fear Sun
day of over 2 inches. As there
been no rain in the section tributary
to the Cape Fear for over a month, the
ONLY explanation that he can make or
this phenomenon is that the tide acCs
to some extent as high up aa this point,
says the Fayetteville Observer.
Charlotte Observer: Calvin Eller
was convicted of murder in the second
| degree at Ashe court, for killing Roy
| Latham last April. Mr.. @. M. Car
son got back Saturday night from At
/ lanta He says the Exposition is a
! credit to the South. The display Of
| the Southern products is fne. North
| Carolina leads all other States IN gems.
Murfreesboro Index: A disastrous
fire occurred in the town of Jackson,
| Northampton county, on Sunday
night. The Episcopal church. the
Academy, the residence OF Mr. Frank
| Ridley, a coach shop, M0Ore's cotton
and about thirty bales of cotton were
burned No Insurance, except on the
| church, which was insured for only
81. 200.
Thursday night several negroes en-
| tered Abrams store and were in the
/ act Of robbing il when Officer Sid
| Davis appeared on the scene. One Of
them opened fire on the officer and hit
a button on his coat. Mr.. Davis re
turned the fire wh6n the thieves ran
Two OF them-SimmOns and Mike JET
! feraon were captured a. town, says
the r )Cky Mount Phoenix.
Durham Sun: On the 22d Of Sep
| TENDER Mr.. w. L. Laudrum, a brake
man on the Southern Railway. fell from
| a freight car, caused by the handle on
top pulling put and rotton wood Civ
ing away, from which he sustained
very painful injuries from which he
will not quite likely get over for some
| time, has instituted suit against the
company for $40, 900 damages.
The sheriff of Ashe county passed
through last night on his way to Raj
| eigh with O prisoner for the peniten
tiRry. The prisoner was Calvin Eller,
who was convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing Roy Latham
in Ashe county last April. He wa.
cow cGed on ,ciTcumstantial evidence,
and Is sentenced TO the penitentiary
for twenty years, says the Greensboro
Times.
We are glad to see that low freights
on apples from Mt. Airy have been Sc
cured. On the last lot received by
Mr.. Samuel Willis it IVES only
twenty n cents per crate, almost a
third Of what the transportation OF the
first nes cost. This is reasonable
enough and the apples are coming
down IN good quantities and becoming
more abundant than northern apples
says the Newbern Journal.
A correspondent writing the Elkin
Times from LOngtown, Yatkin county
says; Near mere there lives a remark
able young man, aged about % years.
He was born where he now lives and
has never stayed away from home
over q night in his life. He has never
seen q court house nor sven been to
any town. He IL stout, in robust
health and is perhaps the happiesJ boy
in Western North Carolina.
The Salisbury World says the house
of Beck Henry, a dissOluGe white WO
man living two and a half miles from
Rowan post Office, Rowan county, was
blown up with dynamite Tuesday Of
last week. The neighbOrs had asked
her to leave the community and she
refused. While she was temporarily
absent her children were COaxed out
of the house and some dynamite put
under it and set off.
Durham Globe: Duham's revenue
receipts sail continue very heavy, and
show that she easily leads any place
in the State in the manufacture of to
baccO. The receipts for September
we're $63, 500, 16. Still we have no pub
lie bullding.-Severai farmers who
we're in the city Monday report frost
Monday night. They also say the to-
baccO crop was damaged considerably,
especially in low grounds, which had
not been cut.
On last Thursday evening about four
o'clock, the gin house of Miss Lucy
Staten, who lives about eight miles
from town, was burned, with thirty
bales of cotton, together with all her
farming implements The cause of
the fire vas from a spark from the
chimney of the engine, as the wind
was blowing at the time toward the
gin house. she estimates her loss to
be between 81, 500 and $4,000 with
81, 900 insurance, says the Tarboro
Southerner.
Rutherford D mocrat: Zebulon
Whitesidee, who las been running a
brandy d+stillery in Chimney Rock
township near Ayr, met with a serious
and peculiar accident one day last
week. There was a leak in the pipe
which carries the new-made brandy
from the doubler to the cistern room.
He undertook to stop the leak with