The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27

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dustry and we wonder why more or
orr peopled do not engage in this indus
f~v. saws the Fayetteville Telegram.
MI. Dolph Mosley, who lives a few
| miles from Elkin, has a curiosity In the
shane of a Young mixer. He has a
Young heifer one year old which gives
milk daily. The truth of this state
ment is vouched for by the best pc pie
In MI. Mosley's neighborhood, says the
| Cor cord Standard.
A drove of fifty western horses were
| sold here Wednesday and Thursday at
public auction. They we're wild and
| unframed and had to be lassoed. Three
or four of them we're killed in trying to
| subdue them Bidding was fairly brisk
and prices ranged from $17 to $50, says
the Reidsville Review.
The istiIlery of Mr.. Theodore Turner,
a few miles east of town, was seized
Wednesday morning by Deputy Col
lector Packard. Thursday morning
Mr.. Turner's whiskey, nearly 1000 gal
Ions, was brought here aid deposited
Halls orc Observer.
Last fall Mr.. L r. Whitener sowed
six acres in "a on his farm on the
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| sixteen bushels He threshed 343 bush
| els from the six acres. The oats aver
aged tairty three pounds to the bushel
They we're of the rust proof variety,
says the Hickory Mercury.
We do not think a grain of Western
corn has been shipped to this county
this year ard the prospects are that as
MI ch will be made again this year as
uo-r uonr1S ncIIF m OtInn will 0pmnnn
The amount of Western meat sold here
this year has also been much less than
in previous years, Gays the Whitevllle
News.
Last night about $50 o'clock Mr..
Louis Harvard, aged about 70 years,
living nine miles below Durham, died
of drOpsy and q compliCati, n of dis
eases. Miss Dezzie Brown, a young
lady II years of age, died at her home
near the Pearl Cotton Mill Saturday
night of typhoid fever, rays the Dur
ham Sun.
A correspondent informs the RAleigh
Press that Rev. Anderson Ives, colored,
whose home is in Halifax county, but
who has lately been engaged in mission
work in Pennsylvania, has run away
with the wife of a white man up there,
Notwithstanding that he has a family
of his own. The tluAnts have been
captured.
Two small boys, one a son of Mr..
w. G. Webb and the other a son of Mr..
Tom Hodges, in Belvoir township, were
out with a gun Wednesday afternoon.
Young Webb had the gun, and while
trying to shoot a bird accidentally dis
charged it, the load striking the Hodges
boy In the thigh, making a bad flesh
wound, says the Greenville r fectOr.
During a game of cards played by
two colored boys yesterday afternoon
at Southport, an alteration arose and
the boys began throwing brickbats at
each Others, the result being that Syl,
vester Workman was struck on the side
of the head by Lorenzo Gibbs and had
his skull frac' ured. Examination was
made by DR.. Watson, who says there
is no chance of Wortham's recovery.
The case of the State against John
McInnis. on the charge Of numbering
Bruce HOrner in January, 1862, a
taken up about II O'Clock last Thurs
day, and was given to the jury On Fri
day afternoon about 5 o'clock. The
State had a very weak case, and the
prisoner made a strong g of self
defense. The jury returned a verdict
of not guilty, says the Carthage Blade.
We regret to learn of the heavy loss
Mr.. W. E Spruill, the efficient post
master at Llttleton, has recently u
tanned in the burning of his handsome
dwelling at that place. We have been
unable to obtain particulars, but learn
that the fire originated in the cook
room ard that Mr. Spruill lost nearly
all Of his furniture together with the
dwelling. His loss is partially covered
by insurance, says the Weldon News.
Willie Wilbon, aged fifteen years, of
NeWbern, N. c., accidentally sWal
lowed a peach stone and 1t has lodged
in his a 9ophagus about nine inches
from his mouth and about one inch
above the stomach. The reason why
the stone will 20 no further is that
there is a structure at the point it has
reached caused by his drinking concen-
trated Iye when a small child. AS it
has lodged he cannot swallow any
thing.
At last accounts Marshall Cain, the
murderer of his brother Fillmore in
Davie county, had not been arrested
and there is little expectation that he
will be. We hear that he spent the
night after the murder at John Reavis',
in Eagle Mills township, in this county,
and it is believed he ia staying in the
vicinity of his home. It is thought by
some that he will surrender to the off
GERS Just before the next term of Davie
court and fight his ase in court, set
ting up the plea Of self defence, says
the Statesville Landmark.
Winston Sentinel: Last Sunday
night a fight occurred in the nPighbor-
hood of Mr.. Dave Smitherman, Yadkin
county. in which Pink Murphy was
struck with a rock and his skull crush
ed, leaving the brain exposed. A war
rant was issued Monday night. charg-