The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07

Rocky Mount has O09n larger than
usual this season, says the Tarboro
Southerner.
The grim monster death has again
visited the home of Mr.. Jonathan A.
Luther. This time Miss Esther was
called away. This makes the seventh
and last daughter of Mr.. Luther, says
the Alamance Cleaner.
The colored Presbyterian synod of
North Carolina has decided to build an
industrial school at North WilkesbOro.
There has been SIS, 600, 900 contributed
to their race since the war for school
purposes, says the Elkin Times.
Mr.. William Burkett, and employee
of the @. T. & Y. Y. Railway, while
coupling cars Tuesday had his thumb
crushed. DR.. McGougan was sum-
moned and promptly amputated it,
says the Fayetteville Observer.
Apeddler named Prutrynscheincider,
attempted to take his life one day this
week by shooting himself in the fore
head with a % calibre pistol. The ball
hattened on his skull and he was only
dazed, says the Smithfeld Herald.
Washington Progress: The Old Do
minion Steamship company will IN the
near future build new steamer for the
Tar River route. She will be a stern
wheeler-to carry about one hundred
and twenty five ton carrying capacity.
Winston Sentinel: The grand jury
of Stoke court failed to find a true bill
against Mayor Gentry, of Walnut
Cove, for the murdero of Louis Poindex,
ter, colOred, on Easter Monday. The
Mayor returned to his family a free
man.
Capt. w. Fl. Snow left Monday for
Louisiana where he has his barn inter,
est to look after. On the oath he will
deliver an address on Tobacco Culture
before the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College, says the High Point Enter
prise.
Rutherford Democrat: In a drunken
row John Melton shot and mortaly
wounded Elijah Waters The ball
entered the body under the heart and
lodged in the spinal column. Melton
fled Immediately after the shooting to
the mountains.
John L. Harris has shown the Aurora
an ak which is in fairly good condition,
and was bought in 1857 of Read Nc
Gosh, when he sold goods in Shelby in
the present Abb Blanton stand. The
axe has been in use ever since 1857, says
the Shelby Aurora.
A large sea turtle n the FIST to be
shipped from here this season went off
on the steamer Neuse yesterday for
Baltimore; Messrs. Geo. N. Ives & Son
were the shippers The turtle weighed
one hundred and fifty pounds, says the
New Berne Journal.
The county Jail has been empty just
about a month, but last Monday ThCs
Twitty. colored, was committed by
Mayor Henderson to await trial at our
first criminal court. He is charged
with the heInous crime of rape, says
the Warrenton Record.
Windsor Ledger: Owing to a mis-
understanding of the town election
law, which requires the registration
books to be kepl open for six Saturdays
preceding the election here this spring.
The old Mayor and Board of Commits
sioners will hold over till 1896.
Charlotte News: Louis McHenry,
the tramp who was assaulted in
Marion on the 25th of March at night,
died at 9 o'clock to night. Bunk Finley,
who is charged with the assault, es
capped from MorgantOn Jail last week
He will be tried for murder if caught.
Lawrence A Lackey, who lived
near Stony Point, Alexander county,
fell beneath a freight train at the
Statesville depot Monday afternoon
about 5 o'clock, receiving injuries
from which he died a few hours there
after, say the Statesville Landmark.
Alex Gardner, a young white boy
IS years old, made a criminal assault
upon a colored girl of II years near
ElIerbe Springs, this county, Tuesday
of last week. A warrant was issued
for him and he is now lodged in the
county Jail, says the Laurinburg Elk
change.
Rob Phifer, a II year old colored boy
who IS we'll known in this city and
who, it is supposed, was beating his
way on the Charlotte bound train
Saturday night, fell off or was thrown
from it cracking his skull, died Sunday
night at 1 o'clock, says the Concord
Standard.
Geo. L. English shipped Is, 900
pounds OF monazite Thursday to New
York. L. A. Gettys will ship 300, 600
pounds this week to Gloucester City,
New Jersey. j. r KIrksey will ship
5000 pounds to N. Y. These three lots
are worth nearly 81, 900, says the
Shelby Aurora.
We learned from Mr.. Thomas M.
Cheek, who was in town last week,
that Rev. L B. Turnbull, of Durham,
has been conducting a series of meet
ings in the Presbyterian church at
Mebane, and that eleven persons had
recently joined that church, says the
HillsborO Observer.
Warrenton gazette. Tom Twitty, a
a colOred boy aged about seventeen
years was committed to jail last Mon
day by Mayor Henderson and Justice
Allen for the alleged rape of a little
colored girl about eight years old.