The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30

| HsneY died aG Mt. Holly, fElQay EOH
a peculiar cause. Last Monday he
strained his back in lifting a heavy
cross tie, and from this injury he sui,
fered intensely until Friday, when death
relievd him.
The Winston Republican says Squire
A. T. Snody, of the Westfield section,
is probably ahead of the State in last
seasons farming. He received for the
product of one half acre planted in TO-
bacco, 5000. The tobacco averaged
$33 so per hundred.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: The locust
pin factory has begun operations and
1t turns out the pins in a hurry. The
Workmen tell us that they will make
about six thousand per day. They
have q lot of manufactured pins on
hand now-perhaps over $50, 900.
Sheriff Boyd and deputy Sheriff
Estes went down to Raleigh last week,
taking with them Josh and George
Loving, convicted at the last court of
larceny, and J. A. White, who goes to
serve out a sentence for the killing of
Mark Phillips, ~colored, says the Lenoir
Topic.
Murfreesboro Index: Three white
men, Starky and Elijah Piland and
Tom White, were drowned in the
Chowan river, a few miles below Win
ton, on Tuesday. The wind was high,
and the boat they were in capsized.
There were two others, but they were
rescued.
Mount Airy News: The prospects
now are that Surry county will this
year have an enormous fruit crop
The wheat is very small in size for SO
late in the season, but this Is not a dis
advantage The stands are good, and
the outlook for a large harvest has not
been better for years.
Mr.. Newton Smith informs us that
he is in correspondence with a Penn.
sylvania man who wants to buy a site
for a creamery with sufficient pasture
for 200 cows. He is also negotiating
with a northern man who wishes 10
build a cotton mill in this State, says
the Fayetteville Observer.
Sanford Express: While in CONVEX
sation with a farmer the other day, the
Express was informed that some of the
farmers of his community who raised
from fifteen to twenty bales last year
would not plant any cotton at all this
year. Much of their last years cotton
land will be planted in corn.
Clayton Getty S who shot and killed
Eaker in a drunken row at a
distillery just over the line in Cleve-
land county last week, has not yet
been captured. The reports are con
and it is safe to say liquor was
at the bottom of the whole occurrence,
the Forest City Ledger.
A large rattle snake was seen at the
IF Dnl1nnH nnG TDCk Eunn%
streets last night. The snake was dis
covered by, his rattle. There was a
party after him with guns, pistols,
hoes, sticks, etc but he disappeared
before he could be captured and killed.
says the New Berne Journal.
Monroe Journal: AS noted in last
weeks paper, Nj. W. @. Mccall was
kicked by a mule some time ago. At
the time the wound was slight and not
thought much of, but the injury was
greater than at first supposed, and Mr..
Mccall rapidly grew worse, till at 8
o'clock last Friday morning he died.
Mr.. II B. Hunter, Sr, one of our
oldest and best citizens, writing us a
note this week. says that the rain fall
on the 7Th and 8Gh inst, was the heav-
lest in his neighborhood that has fallen
in fifty years. Bridges all gone, many
plant-beds ruined, and land badly
washed, say s the Warrenton Record.
The remains OF Mr.. Louis DeWaine,
of Hub, N. c.. millwright of the But
tiers Lumber Company. reached here
yesterday morning at II o'clock. He
was drowned in the river about three
miles from Hub Sunday, while out
sailing. No one was with him, and
how it happened is unknown, says the
Wilmington Star.
Goldsboro Argus: The death of MI.
Amos Cotton, who has been engaged in
driving the mail between here and
Snow Hill, occurred at his home in this
city yesterday afternoon, the result of
injurit s received the evening previous,
occasioned by his horse running away
and throwing him out on Chestnut
street nea the p~ostofice.
Mr.. w. E. Harris, who lives near
Jackson, in Northampton county, had
the misfortune to lose his stables and
grainery by what is supposed to be an
i~ncendiary fire last Thursday night.
Nh. Harris lost two valuable hortes
one mule, farming implements, etc,
The total loss was about 1000 or
which there was no Insurance.
Hillsboro Observer: One day last
week a countryman sold a hen intown
and by some means the hen got loose
and few up between Rosemond's and
the HillsbOro Exchange, and while up
in the air the hen dropped an egg.
Charlie Bell, Rosemond's driver, who
happened to be standing near by,
caught the egg before it struck the
ground.
Capt. W. j. Bradshaw, superinten-
dent of one of the States farms, on
Roanoke river, says the recent freshet
damaged his oat crop considerably.
He has 300 acres in oats and expected
to make 100, 900 bushels He thinks
the damage will reduce the yield right