The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03

found to be on fire. The property
comprised a wheat and orn mill, saw
mill, planning and shirge machine. The
flames left nothing but smolderlng
ruins. The entire loss is estimated 8
Sc, 600, as there was n % insurance 20
cover damges.
Last Wednesday morning a little 4
wear old child of Anna COTpenlng,
colored, was so badly burned that 1t
died Wednesday night. The mother
had gone cut of the house and left the
child in the room with another child,
and while she was gone its clothing
caught and was burned entirely off be-
fore any n came to its relief, says
the Lenoir Topic.
Wadesboro Messenger: Washington
McLendon, colOred, who lives in the
Brown creek neighbOrhood, Is the ia
Their of % children, % boys and three
girls. In naming them old man Wash
drew heavily on the Bible, giving
nearly all of them scriptural names
There is in the family an Adam, Eve,
Noah, Enoch, Matthew, Sarah, JOB,
Daniel, Isaiah, etc.
News has been received in Mt. Airy
of the assaulting of the three and one
half old daughter of r. W.
Marsh. of Eldora township, Surry
county, recently, by Will McCarter, a
sixteen year old white boy. The child
reported the csse, was examined and
found to be terribly abused. McCarter
is in jail. He has a bad character, says
the Winston Sentinel.
Ashboro Courier: The Empire Min
ing Co., chartered in May with a cap
ital stock of 5000, OGO, has purchased
and consolidated the Henry, Pierce
and two Laughlin mines in this county
and will develop extensively. The
company proposes to equip and operate
100 to 200 tons free mining plant
within a short time and later on e cyl
inder plant for sulphurets.
Oxford Ledger: Rev. Starvation
Bill Registers grandmother, who lives
just outside the corporate limits of
Oxford, says she is 100 years old, and
is now enjoying her third set Of teeth.
She is a we'll preserved old colored wo-
man. Our townsman, Mr.. R.. 7. Smith,
examined her present set of teeth and
says they are as sound as a dollar, and
she eats anything she wants to.
The taxable value of property in this
State, on the 1894 valuation, for 1895
taxes, as made up In the Office of the
State Auditor is as follows: Value of
of land, $115, O82 1928; town lots, $43,-
OC6, 141; total, $158. OSs, 1854. Personal
property, $40 S91, O37. Railway prop
erty, $24 sol, 999; Pullman cars, $31,
DAB; telegraph lines and telephone
lines, 1912 6O2; steamboats, and: canals,
$2s9, 0O3. Grand total, $3.50, 634, AIS.
Raleigh Press-Visitor Mr.. Hart
we'll Scarborough, the is year-old son
of Hon John @. Scarborough, State
Superintendent OF Public Instruction,
was shot in the left hand and side
Charles Sledge, colored. The accident
miles from the city, and was purely
accidental. Mr.. Scarborough had q
close call for life.
Winston Sentinel: The Methodist
Protestant conference, in session at
Greensboro, will probably adjourn
next Monday. Rev. W. A. Bunch, of
Burlington, was elected president of
the conference, on the second ballot,
receiving 40 votes out of sc. It was
decided that the pastors for next year
should be appointed by a committee,
consisting of the president, two minis
tiers and two laymen.
Charlotte News: Miss Mary Wal
lace, daughter of Mr.. Albert Wallace
died at his home near Huntersville,
yesterday afternoon, from blood
poisoning, which resulted from having
a tooth pulled several days ago. She
was 10 years old. The announce
ment in yesterdays News of the re-
ownership of the Elliot Furniture Com
pauy created q genuine surprise in the
city. The figures, it is believed, will
be over $25, 600.
On last Sunday morning a large
wild turkey gobbler went to Mr.. John
Whitley's yard and made itself at
home with his domesticated turkeys.
On last Monday morning Mr.. John
Whitley brought a very large wild
turkey gobbler into town. Mr.. Whit
ley says that it is NJ ones business
when that turkey was killed. He al
lows no wild turkey to come up to him
Sunday morning before Thanksgiving,
says the Monroe Enquirer.
StanIy e. terprise: Tuesday night
Deputy Marshal Krider, of Salisbury,
and MI. J. W. Bostian were walking
up the streets when they noticed a
wagon heavily loaded passing, and
Mr.. Krider thinking probably it might
be loaded with blockade whiskey, stop
ped it, and as he was getting up in the
wagon the two men in the wagon got
out, and that is the last of them; they
went in the direction of South Caro-
lima as fast as their feet could carry
them. Krider took charge of the wag
on and team and its load of four bar
rels of blockade whiskey. The whole
thing is supposed to be worth about
$500, and belongs to Nathan High
tower, of Arson county, near the
South Carolina line. The names of the