The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-03

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weight 16 pounds and has never gained
but WI pouI Dis since. He is an Intel
ligenG bright boy, aud never sees a
SICK day. He goes by the name OF
Little Jack" Says the Durham Sun.
Little Lillian, daughter of MIR. and
Mrs E K Proctor, came near beng
poisoned hv taking CarbCllc acid last
Friday. Fortunately not enough was
swallowed TO prove fatal, but she was
| badly burned IN the mouth and face.
This should be a lesson to mothers to
keep poison u of reach of children.
Says the the LumbartOn Robesonian.
Bill Coley can tell 'em if he wants
to. In this weeks Davie Times he says
an old hen nested on Is eggs in the
Times Office wood house and in the re
CURED limit for incubation came off
with 10 little chick, and the biggest
yet, that four OF tho eggs did not hatch,
In plain English 10 chickens from II
eggs-when Says the Winston Re
publican.
Rev. John A. Wray resigns as pas
tor Of Broad Street church, this city to
accept q more remunerative field of
labor at MIlledgeville, Ga. He has
served the congregation here one year.
His salary will be 81, 600 a year and
parsonage. The church he goes to cost
$I5, 900 and has a membership Of 800
He will leave Winston about the 18Th
Says the Winston Republican.
Mr., W. Q Beasley informs us that
there ia q rattle snake at large III the
city. He first heard him around lis
plumbing establish ment about three
weeks ago after a heavy rain. Since
then he gOT q slight glimpse Of the
snake as he was crawling lntO a hiding
place. A cOiOred man d Y he saw
him and that tie rattle is quite a large
one. Says the Newb5rn Journal.
a white man was found dead on the
railroad track, just beyond the section
house, yesterday morning. We have
been unable to find out his nan e. but
1t Is believed hat he was a foreigner
He was seen at LuCama SatuI day
night and Sunday morning. He was
GecentIy dres sd and wore a mustache,
but no beard The left side of Lis head
waa crushed IN n eye was missing,
Says the Wilson Observer.
DR. Reid Russell went out to see a
patient near Hamlet one night last
week, aud while he was in the house
his horse broke loose and left him He
did not fiTd him till three days la er.
aud when he dld find him he had just
about lost all of a new set OF harness.
However. the doctor was considerably
relieved to get the horse, as he had be-
gnu to fear some n he'd stolen him
Say the Rockingham R)cke+.
The latest Is a story to the fleet that
a man from the country started to
S~tatesvlll6 with a basket Of eggs, pack
ed in cotton, on one of the hot DAYS of
last week, and when he presented them
for sale it was found that two little
chickens had been Matched out on the
way. AS Ii will require at least a week
to make them salable az spring poultry,
they were taken back to the ir native
heath. Says the Carolina State.
Crops of all kind are fine. Some
think corn will not command over
81 25 per barrel cash at gathering time
Fruit and vegeth bles are SO plentiful
that one connot give them away. We
have heard of some complaint of dam
age to tobacco by fl "a bugs; but some
will complain any way. We have
great for thanksgiving this year
for such abundant CROPS. Says the
Reidsville r view.
Qlte a severe wind and rain storm
pa s9d over RlXb0ro yesterday be-
tween 1 and 2U'cIOck. 4 large double
chimney at Mr.. Z D. Checks resi-
denco was blown down, which smashed
through a sheet iron roof and carried
away part Of the ceilIDg with it. At
Dr.. Wise's it blew over bis grainery,
and at Mr.. j. s. Bradsher's house on
Lunar street. it blew over a small cut
house. Says the RoxbOrO Courier.
Mr.. Nelson F0ushee, OF this town
ship, has an old spectacle case that has
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lily for more than a hundred and
twenty five years. 1t was brought
fr )m France by one OF the Fouohecs
before the Revolutionary war, He al
so has q vest that he bought in 1851,
and was married in it in 1851 and again
four ears ago, and might still serve
again as a wedding garment. Says
the Chatham Record.
LIST Thursday United States Com
missioner Frank Hall had two men
from near the Stokes county line be
fore him here for illicit distilling-
Messrs. Alb Webster aud Walter D4l
ton. Though each entered a plea of
not guilty, The Commissioner did not
think so. They were held to bail in
the sum of 5000 each for their appear
ance before His Honor, Judge Dick, at
the fall term OF the Federal Court at
Greensboro. Says the R3.dsville Re-
view.
Early this morning, while cooking
some preserves, Mis- Sadie Owens,
who resides with the family of Rev.
Mr.. Bristow, IN the northern part of
the city, was startled bp the falling Of
q snake across her neck from the loft
above. She threw the reptile from her
neckto the floor, and screams attrac ed
the attention Of some near by neigh
bo5s, whO came to her reccue and the
snake, which was Of The WhIteoak
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