The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-11

ANO "a Six nllSS DOIO" gO"AS I'LL @hUA0
day evening, two young SONS OF the
late John Mahaffey, aged about II and
IA, were fooling with a gun. b gun
went off, and the oldest boy was badly
shot. He will probably get over it,
says the Wilkesboro Chronicle.
Last Friday night the barn of Mr..
Calls, six miles from town, was con
sumed by fire. The loss in feed was
about a hundred dollars and the build
ing fifty dollars. By merest accident
Mr.. Calls awoke in time to save his
three horses. The cause of the fire IS
unknown, says the Washington GA
z9tte.
A report comes from the neighbor-
hood of Boomer of a peculiar case Of
emiction, how true we are not aware.
One day last week there was a severe
hail storm in that section. The crop of
Andy Laws was seriously damaged.
This angered Laws and he cursed the
storm and HIM who sent it. Laws
soon after went to bed and has not been
able to speak since, says the Wilkes
bOro News.
An old resident of Hamlet observed,
a few day S since, that forty years ago
there were 100 sheep to every man in
that section. Now there are 100 men
to every sheep" But for the worthless
ours that abound everywhere there
would have been no su IN change of
ratio; and the farmers would find it
profitable to kill out the dogs and re-
store the sheep to the cd range, says
the Rockingham Rocket.
One night last week, three masked
men went to the house of a man
named @. E Barnes in the Gold Rock
section, who had been charged with
making slandefous reports about a
young lady, ard gave him a severe
whipping. The next day he had three
men arrested and tried before Esquires
w. R. Mann and Allen Whitaker who
bound two of them over to court, says
the Rocky Mount PrOe1ix,
Reidsville Weekly: Nose Hodnett
shot and dangerously wounded Peter
S!ade, (both colored) last Saturday
night. He suspected Slade of improper
relations with his wife ard had warned
him to stay away from his house. Sat
urday night he caught him on his
premises and shot him. The wound
was thought to be fatal ct first, but
Slade is better nov and may recover.
The bullet lodged near the liver.
One of the largtsi crowds that ever
assembled on the banks of Tar river to
witness a baptism here, turned out
Sunday morning to see Rev. II M.
Malloy, who is conducting the great
revival at Sycamore Hill Baptist
church, colored, baptize rs people
The actual time the minister consumed
IN baptising this large number was 35
minutes from the time the line of can
didates was formed in the water.
Clinton Democrat: Mr.. Schulken, a
travelling salesman representing a Viii
mington house, was passing through
a section in Sampson county last week
when be saw a sight he had never seen
before. This was two women pulling
a pillow and a man blowing them. They
were all white. The team SHE'D at Mr..
S3hulken a little when he passed along,
but when he got by, they got down to
business again and turned up the
earth.
Mr.. Thomas W. Hill, of this county,
met with quite a strange and almCs
fatal accident on last Tuesday. He
bad started to r leigh with a fl )ck of
sheep, and had gone only two or three
miles when some of them ran out of
the road into the woods. MI. Hill a
into the woods after the sheep and his
LOOU aug IL q AoP 2L4Cs ALI AO y
thrown with such violG nee on the
ground as to rupture a blood vessel III
his nose ard cause him to bleed almost
to death, say s the PittsbOro Record.
AIamance Cleaner: Joe w. Allen,
the barber, has a very smart hen. She
came eff with q fine brood of chicks on
first Sunday and just three weeks later
commenc d to lay again.--Mr. al d
Mrs. Ernest Jones of this place have a
baby boy just four months old TO dav,
that weighed 285 lbs. last week. IN
weight, fer his age, he equals the fat
babies of the side shows. The little
fellow has never been sick a day in his
life and is excet dinghy good humored.
The father and mother are average
size people and neither of them feshy.
Mrs. Maynard, who works at the
Victor Mi s, appeared before E<quire
D. G. Maxwell, this afternoon and
lodged complaint against John Haw,
k;0s, foreman of the mills, whom she
charges with shooting at her son Irwin
Maynard. The boy some weeks ago
had ell the fingers of his right hand
cut off in the machinery in the mills.
According t Mrs. Maynard's state
ment her SOD, not knowing It was
against orders, was fishing in the pond
at the mill, when Hawkins picked up
a shot gun an. fired at the boy. One
shot penetrated his hat, says the Char
lotte News.
Mr.. Peter E, Smith, of Scotland
Neck, tells the Sanford Express how
Egypt, in Chatham county, got it's
name. His grandfather, Peter Evans,
bought a farm in Moore county, in
1880. He always made good crops and
had corn to sell. There was a year of
dry weather in Chatham and Moore