The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12

found about five miles from the church
very badly hurt. 1t had been run
against a wire fence by some one and
left.
Beaufort Herald: Mr.. Watson
Lawrence and crew, of North river,
hanpened to a good streak OF luck last
week. While fshingin New river they
caught at one RAUL 525 barrels Of roe
mullets, being about %, 600, and weigh
ing On an average OF twenty four
pounds. The haul will net them some
thing lear 81, 500 at present prices.
Dr(0 Elijah Becton is in trouble. He
is a colored man who is found to have
been prescribing contrary to the status
of North Carolina regulating the prac
tice Of medicine. He was arrested
| Saturday and put under a 800 bond
by Mayor Ellis for his appearance Mon
day morning for preliminary trial at
the City Hall, says the New Berne
Journal
Yadkin Ripple: The amount Of pro
duce row being shipped from
Mount Airy is simply immense. Two
express cars are run daily and handle
only a part of the shipments, as Gne
bulk of the produce goes by trelghC.
Thousands of crates of cabbage, apples,
onions, Irish potatoes and chestnuts
leave that place daily for all parts or
| the country.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: Henry
West, an elderly colOred man, seems
possessed by a terrible fascination for
chickens ard pigs; he has served eight
sentences in the pen for stealing them.
A few days age he reached home at 3
o. M, from a stay at that worthy in
stitQtion and at 9 o'clock was again
caught robbiDg a chicken house. He
was tried and imprisoned.
Charlotte News: In North Carolina
the production of gold was 2 $50, O61
ounces fine, valued al $48, 166 "a; and
of silver 3, 6S1 rs ounces fine, valued at
"a 76O "A, a total value of $50, 926 SO.
Cabarrus county leads all the others in
the gold and silver produced in 1894,
the figures being IS 681. 81. Rowan IS
next with Sc, 100 10. The production
in Mecklenburg was S., 081 81.
About five o'clock yesterday after
noon Squire @. A. Barbee heard a case
against Pat Broadwell in which he YVES
charged with fraud. Broadwell is a
horse trader and it seems that the
fraud was committed in m~isrepresent
ing a horse while on a trade. He was
bound " to court under a fifty dollar
justifiable bond, which be gave, says
the Durham Sun.
Wadesboro Messenger: One of the
most horrible affairs it has ever been
our province to chronicle took place in
LanesbOrO township last Friday. On
that day Mrs Eliza Caudle, widow of
Rev. Allen Caudle, was burned to death
while fighting a forest fire. Rev. Al
len Caudle, the deceased lady's husband
died suddenly in the woods, two or
years ago, while looking for his COWS.
Danbury Reporter: We learn that
corn, n some sections of the State is
selling at 30 cents per busheI, much
has been sold in this section as low as
| 80 or 35 cents. -NotwiChstanding we
had a heavy killing frost the first day
of October, and real winter frOsts
every few mornings, now the last day
of the month, cherry trees in this sec
ton are full of blossoms looking as
fresh and bright as If it was April.
Uncle" Eli Shankle, of Stanly
county, in conversation with the editor
of the Stanly Enterprise, stated that
he had been keeping house for forty
years and that he had never bought a
bushel of corn, sack Of -four, or a pound
of meat during this time. He also
stated that he had raised a family of
seven boys and seven girls and had not
paid more than one hundred dollars
doctor bill, says the Concord Standard.
Governor Carr has ordered a special
term of Jones county Superior Court,
to be held this month, to try a dozen
or more alleged Beaufort conspirators
addicted for swindling life insurance
companies by the grave yard insur-
ance method" The trial commenced
at Beaufort, but after the jury had re
turned a verdict of not guilty" in two
cases, Judge Graham removed the
others from Carteret to Jones county.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Mr.. Rasmus
Larsne, a Dane, representing a colony
of Danish settlers in Colorado, was
here laat week looking at our country.
These Danes are somewhat dissatisfied
with their present location in Col
orado, and are looking for a new loca-
ton. Mr.. Larsne is very favorably
impressed with the State of Wilkes,
and will revisit us, and he thinks there
is a strong probability Of his colony
settling in the county.
Rockingham Rocket: EeQuires w.
T, Long aud A M. McAuIay held a
court de LunGtGcO inguirendO at the
court house last Tuesday, to inquire
into the sanity of James Walter Nc
Laurin, of Hasty, in this county. AT
ter hearing the evidence the court ad-
Judged Mr.. McLaurin to be of unsound
mind, and ordered him to be carried
to the State Hospital at MOrgantOn.
Mr.. McLaurin was formerly a prom
inent and prosperous farmer of lower
Richmond.
SOME EXCELLENT LITERATURE
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RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 1. 1895.
DEAR BRETHREN: i have on hand sew
eral hundred copies of the addresses of