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

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e Hidden has shown us a handsome
lot of cut garnets, and among the mum
Der were a couple OF purple garnets
The latter are beauties, and ProfeesOl
Hidden says they are rare.
Monroe Enquirer: More pea vine
! hay has been saved in Union county
| this year than aver before. The clat
ter of the mower can be heard or
every hand. The day of buying baled
hay has passed in this section.
Concord Standard: Mr.. John Bost
the aged man who was one OF the un
fortunate victims in the boiler explo.
sion at Safrlts' planning mill on Sep
TENDER IL, whose skull was so terribly
crushed, died Friday night.
The report of the Agricultural De
partment shows hal no less than $50
brands of con m9rcial fertilizers are
sol3 in this State. Under the old sys
tenn each of these would have been re
CURED to pay $500 license tax.
The County Commissioners, in their
meeting yesterday, discussed the ad
visibility Of holding an agricultural
mass meeting next month. 1t is plan,
ned to form an agricultural society,
says the Hendersonviile Times.
Carthage Blade; Mrs. John Wick,
who resided five miles northeast OF
this town, died last Saturday. -
Corn pulling has commenced and the
crop is q very large one. It will likely
sell at about two dollars a barrel in a
month.
On Tuesday tho stable belonging to
Mr.. Thomas Jackson caught fire from
ashes that ha1 been thown inside, de
STRIVING the stable aud burning his
horse to death. The community
symDath'zs with him, says the Wash
ington GIz9tte.
Lincoln D amCcrat: The last will
and testament of the late Mi joseph
@ Cobb was admitted to prOnate Sep
TENDER %, showing the emount Of his
estate to be about SIS 600. 60 600 of
which is personal property, mostly
bond and bank stock.
Monroe Enquirer: Johnson Ed
wards, an old colOred man. was caught
IN the saws of Nj. l.. M. Little's gin,
in Marshviile township, last Tuesday
and was margled in a horrible man
ner. He fingered until Wednesday
morning when he died.
The Aberdeen telegram says that at
K9yser, Moore county, last Saturday
afternoon Jack Aston met his mother
in law on the road and they had some
words, when Aston knocked her over
the head with a barrel stave, from the
effects of which she died.
The dry kiln at @ V. Cummings
saw mill at Fair Plains Yves destroyed
by fire last Saturday. Part of the
plank was saved, but are damaged
very badly. It was with great Difficult
ty that the cav mill was saytd, says
the WIkesbOrO Chronicle.
Mr.. Briggs, the inventor of the Win
stOn cigarette machine, has Invented
another machine which is said to be
equal, If not better, than his first
patent. He was prepared to give the
B1nsack people another tilt had the
decision been in their favor.
Winston Sentinel: There are at
present about 800 men engage in pre-
pairing the Cranberry mine. in Mitch
ell county for the resumption of &C.
tive work Experts cay that 400, OOO
tons of ore r IN sight. A Thousand
tons a day can be taken out.
r 1ckingbam Index: The streams are
getting very low. Pee Dee river is re-
ported lower than for many years.
The water vas not running over the
factory dams, and on Sunday while
the gates were down you could sep
across the creek below the mills.
A lemon from the store of one of our
merchants was shown US a few DAYS
ago. The popularity about it was,
that the recent extremely warm dry
weather had caused the seed to germ
mate and send little shoo s or sprouts
out through the rind, says the Graham
Cleaner.
In Walnut Grove township last Sat
urday night, the dwelling house oil
Thomas al!ard was totally destroyed
by fire. Everything was destroyed
except a few cloths. He has a family
of wife and six children and is a Grip
pied man and poor, say S the Wilkes
bOro Chronicle.
Baggage Agent r L. Farris killed G
tarantula at the depot yesterday. Il
had climbed from a basket Of banan
mas, which the neWsboy had left il
the baggage room, upon the wall. Il
was an ordinary S zed one, but looked
every iuch az dangerous as it Yves, says
the Salisbury World.
Our readers remember the murder
of Bob SOCkwell a week or so ago by
Albert FOust, his son in law. The
murder was committed near Gibson
vile, and Foust succeeded in eIudine
the vigilance of the officers until las
night, when Sheriff Hoskins "sCOOped'
him in, says the Greensboro T mas.
Wade boro Messenger: An old coloreG
couple, both of them baretooted and
otherwise scantily clad, we're married
by f q Jas. @. Parsons at the cour'
house Monday. They said they haC
just come out of the cotton patch
where they had jointly accumulated
enough change to pay for the license
According to the sworn statement
made t o the Board of Trade by th'
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