The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-05

Ing 4OSS was Sl,OOO. The build
ing was a total loss; a portion of the
furniture was saved, says the New
Berne Journal.
The residence of Mr.. d. M. Rigler,
ABOUT four blocks south of the graded
school and on the Dilworth electric car
line, was totally destroyed by fire this
morning at 2 o'clock. The fire origi-
mated from a defective fue in the new
adoltlon to the residence, says the
Charlotte News.
Shelby Aurora: d. L. Jarrett has
been working his land 16 miles above
Shelby and has found a nice deposit of
monozlte. He was offered $4,000 for 80
acres OF bottom land containing mono
zite and some gold. He showed us a
small piece of gold he found while min
ing for monozite.
Last Wednesday neal Cleveland in
Rowan county, deputy sheriff H. G..
Owen was shot and killed by a negro
named Whit Ferron. Owen was try
ing to arrest him. The negro is said
to have been a desperate criminal. He
was arrested, however, by others who
were with Mr.. Owen.
A four year-old colored girl, daugh-
ter Of Puss Atkinson, colored, was
burned to death in Fork township,
Friday, during the mothers absence.
The child was asleep, and it is supposed
that a flying spark ignited the premises,
which @ entirely consumed, says
the Goldsboro Headlight.
1t is reported that a marriage which
was to have occurred in Statesville
Monday night did not come off on &C
count of the failure of the bridegroom
TO report. The minister was there, the
bride was ready, the lights were rimed
and burning, but the groom came not,
says the Statesville Landmark
Mr.. Ed. Blake, of Idaho, in this
county, conducts a dairy, and the
motive power for one of his churns is
most ingeniously contrived. It is a
well trained dog that operates the
churn by treading upon a step and
brace in some respects similar to the
attachment on a foot lathe, says the
Fayetteville Observer.
At the last term of the Superior
Court at Salisbury, the J. B. Lanier
administrator was permitted to resume
work o the Reimer mine. Arrange
ments have been made with MI. John
Jacobs, of Philadelphia, and Captain
John Wilkes, of Charlotte, to take
charge. They will start the mine, mill
and COLONIZATION plant.
Rutherford Democrat: About ten
thousand dollars worth of ctock in a
CO operative cotton factory was sub,
scribed yesterday. A practical mill
man sometime ago proposed to equip a
mill with machinery If the citizens of
RutherfordtOn would subscribe stock
enough to put up the building. Only
nhAar% 900 M "nc nnnononV- RAm chic
purpose, and that is in sight.
Rockingham Rocket: It is said that
many doves, cartridges and other
birds have starved and frozen to death
during the recent ''unpleasantness. "
Sleet and nov so efectually covered
the trees and ground for several days
that they could get nothing to eat, and
in many places where they rOost. mum
bera of them are seen lying on the
ground dead form cold and hunger.
Avery Butler, the young white con
Vict who some time ago Waylaid and
assassinated his father at Clinton,
Sampson county, and was sent to the
penitentiary for life, is again at large.
Not many months ago he escaped, but
committed a crime in Catawba county,
was arrested there and returned here.
Tuesday night he put up q job on a
guard and escaped, iberatlng two
other prisoners.
Goldsboro Argus: A special com
mittee leaves today for the battlefield
of Bentonsvllle, for the purpose of re-
moving the remains of the Confederate
heroes who died in that fight to the
spot set apart for their final resting
place, where the monument raised to
their memory blythe Goldsboro Rifles
will be unveiled on March Goth, on
which occasion General Wade Hamp,
ton will be the orator.
Regret to hear that our subscriber,
Perry Dover, a popular merchant at
Clover, s. O., lost last week $3.50, with
which Policeman B L. Lay departed
for parts unknown. Mr.. Dover placing
too much confidence in Lays honesty,
gave Lay $3.50 to purchase a check
from the Glover Manufacturing Com
pany. Lay did not buy the check as
/ ordered or return, but mounted a horse
and fed with his friends money, says
the Shelby Aurora.
The alarm of fire at 4 o'clock yester-
day morning was IN account of the
breaking out of fire in a small house
on Fourth street between Dawson and
Wright, owned and occupied by Fred
Guyer, colored. The fire department
was promptly on hand but owing to
the poor water supply in that part OF
the city, the house wasd destroyed along
with two others, one occupied by Berry
Blount, colored, and one by Mrs. Sabre
Davis, says the Wilmington Messen.
ger.
Wikesboro News: Wilkes county
probably has the Oldest citizen in the
State in the person of Mrs. Katherine
Besheares, of Jobs Cabin township.
From q correspondent at Summit we
learn that Mrs. Besheares has lived to