The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-01-08

2S0O $500
than any other place in the State"
Good for Morrisvtlle. I5 is a record to
be proud of.
Kinston Free Press: DR.. r Fl. Lewis
had a live tarantuia last week. 1t was
found in a bunch of bananas at Mr.. w.
H. Whitfield's store and was q terrible
looking thing "A lot of drunken ne
groes had a big row and fight in the
back part of the boarding house of
Nancy Gray, colored, In the DogLown
section of Kinston Tuesday.
Colds orc Argus: The Argus re-
grets to chronicle this morning tie as
signment of Messrs. Chamberlin &
Higgins, who recently opened up a
general retail grocery business in this
city. They assigned yesterday t O DR..
M. E. Robinson for the benz f5 of
creditors, with preferences that will
probably exhaust the assets.
David S5alliags, sexton of the Cedar
Grove Cemetery, was arraigned before
Mayor Ellis, acting as magistrate,
yesterday, on the charge of attempting
rape upon Mrs. w. H. Wharton
Christmas night. Mr.. L J. Moore
represented the defendant and Mr.
VIM. T. Mccarthy the opposite side,
says the New Berne Journal.
Marriages have been lively for De
eember, not only in this, but in ad
joining counties. At Lexington The
register of deeds says he issued licenses
for fOrtY-fve marriages from Dacem
Der 23nd up to last Thursday night. 1t
the other counties have kept apace
with DAVID son the country is safe be
You'd preadventure, says the Winston
Sentinel
Gastonia Gazette: Can the leopard
change his spOts9 Hardly; but a red
rooster may turn white. Mr.. S. E
F0y has a white game rooster which
last spring was as red as any mans
rooster. He began to shed off and the
red feathers kept giving place to white
ones until there was not a colored
feather on his body. The bird is about
two years old.
J A. Bohannon has bought for Capt
J. NJ. Odell and others, the C4tawba
toll bridge water power, two miles
from Hickory, both sides of the river,
with 13O acres of land. This is con
sidered one of the best water powers
on the Catawba river. It is believed
| Capt. Odell will organize a company
and build a large cotton mill on the
property.
A Washington telegram says: ]. Fl.
Watson was shot and Instantly killed
Oy j. +. Bergeron Christmas morning
near Aurora. Watson was a constable,
and was killed while conveying Bur
g"rOn to persons who were to sign his
bond to keep the peace. Thursday
night BurgerOn vas taken from the
lock up at Aurora, and hung to the
limb of a tree near the scene of the
murder,
G~reenville r fl ,ctor: On Christmas
morning about 4 o'clock a crowd went
to a house of i'll repute in Washington,
N. O., and literally broke to pieces
every window ash In the house and
battered the doors. A young man who
was In the house fired at the crowd
with a pistol, a ball entering the left
shoulder of n party and another get
ting shot in the throat. None of the
wounds are serious.
A Mr.. Ward who works at the Sim
mons-Tilgham lumber mill, near
Boyd's Ferry, was a heavy loser by a
robbery a few nights ago. His wife
was away from home and after supper
Mr.. Ward locked UP his house and
walked over to Grimesland. While
gone somebody broke into his house
and stole a trunk, among the contents
of which was $500 in money anda note
for the same amount.
Governor Carr has issued death
warrants for the execution, March 18th.
at Asheville, of Billy Mcdaniel and
Henry Webb, who murdered man
because the latter walked home with a
woman named Winter. Webb and
Mcdaniel were convicted last October
and sentenced to be hanged January
18th, but appealed to the Supreme
Court, which has just handed down a
decision affirming that of the lower
court.
On Friday afternoon W. H. Har
rlngtOn and J. A. Thigpen, who were
elected by the POpulists as Sheriff and
Treasurer and whose official bonds
were rejected by the Board of C)unty
Commissioners, had served
on the Commissioners to appear before
the Superior Court which convenes on
the first Monday in January and show
cause why the said bonds should not
be accepted, says the Greenville Re-
Hector.
Asheville Citizen: Wednesday after
noon, when the ice first began getting
its clutch on the trolly wires a moter
car made its way by fits and starts
from the depot toward the square.
Some of the passengers became very
impatient and spoke rather plainly
about the delay. This was kept up for
some time, till finally one of the crew
remarked Were not running this
thing now-God Almighty is doing it. "
The grumbling stopped.
Charlotte News: A Charlotte com
mercial tourist who came in Wednes-
day morning from a trip down the
Carolina Central, brings the NeaCs an
item of interest to the pnblic and of