The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-21

ship last week, will be taken up and
examined to ascertain whether he died
from wounds inflicted by Bracket and
Michem or not. 1t is said that war
rants have been issued for the supposed
murderers.
The Enquirer says that at Monroe a
brute of a father took his little son into
a bar room and poured liquor down
him until the little fellow was drunk.
The boy tried to get away from his
father but was held by him hard and
fast. The Enquirer we'll adds that
words fail to tell of the deviltry of
such a man."
Rocky Mount Argonaut: Mr.. Charley
Rose, of Nashville, a young man and
son of Martin Rose, ESQ was accident
ally shot in the breast last Wednesday
by his brother, Dan Rose. 1t seems
that they were fooling with a pistol
and it was accidentally discharged.
DR.. Strickland was called in but was
unable to find the ball.
The firm of Moore & Mckenzie. cloth
ing merchants of Greensboro, made an
assignment late Saturday afternoon
for the bentit of their creditors. The
deed of trust was made to Bradshaw
and Scales. The liabilities of the firm
are about S., 600 and the assets are be
lieved to be worth So. 900 at a fair val
uatiOn, says the Durham Sun.
Charlotte Observer: Col. J. T. An
thony will enter for the big shoot in
San Antonio, Texas. He is now on the
~borderland, gun in hand.--Yester-
day a little child of Mr.. James Phifer,
Of the Carolina Central freight depot,
rp0% r0TnfT1tv hT7MncI IN n ~nI hot M
ker. Some one had laid the poker on
the hearth and the child picked it up.
High Point Enterprise: We are to
have another chair factory, to cost
SIS, 900. The company will manufac,
lure from seven to ten different grades
of chairs, including dining chair, rock,
ers, cane bottoms, etc, using mostly
oak and ash. The main factory build,
ing is to be two hundred feet long and
probably two stories high.
Hillsboro Observer: Deputy Col
lector Packard captured and destroyed
a large underground illicit distilIery in
Alamance county Tuesday night. The
smoke went out through a hole in the
ground. Deputy Picard avs that il
wes completely hidden from view, and
one might have passed within twenty
feet Of it in the day time and never
seer it.
Mr.. J. ". Smith tells US that as he
was coming to town Friday morning he
saw a colored nan chopping something
in the road and upon Investigation he
found he had killed a poplar leaf snake
about four feet long and as large
around as his wrist. Who ever heard
of q snake crawling about the 10Th Of
January9 Says the Greenville Refec
tor.
We regret to note the entire loss bJ
fire, on Thursday night of Mr.. B. s
Beal's house in Nash. The family wen
over to attend a marriage at Mr.. Joy
ner's near by, and the fire is supposed
to have originated from the explosion
OF a lamp which was left burning, a.
it started at that place and the lamT
was somewhat out of fix, says thl
r )cky Mount Phe ak.
The Charlotte Gun Club has Learned
that the law against shipping birds on
of the State is being violated almost tt
the same extent that it was last year
Washington is said to be the market
ing place and the club has engaged al
agent there to work up cases. Mum
bers of birds go there from Charlotte
For each conviction the agent bring
about he is to get $25, the club to pay
all expenses.
Ru~therfordton Democrat: MarsI
Duffy, colored, went hunting Friday
He carried his powder in a bottle il
his pocket. The pocket had a hole il
it. Stopper came out of the bottle
Powder came out of the bottle. Founr
the hole in his pocket and gravitatet
into his sock. Duffy held held his foo
to the fire to warm it. Powder caught
Puff! Bang! Ouch! Duffy hobble
around with a stick.
Concord Standard: For such bear
ings from an orchard of one acre i
seldom reported as the case of MI
Martin Kluttz, an enterprising an
!, prosperous farmer and fruit grower, O
No. 6 township, this county, VIII
gathered six hundred bushels @
"TOny" apples last year. The yiel
was q profitable one. He has mRrkete
about 400 bushels, used $50 or NOR
bushels himself, and gave away sew
eral wagon loads
Mrs. Jeanette r. Strong, wife of Dl
} J. P. Strong, editor of the Chariot
Democrat, died at II o'clock Monda,
night, aged 81 years. Mrs. Strong ha
! been a great sufferer for years, havin
been operated upon for cancer. Sh
was a woman of strong mind, wei
cultivated, and possessed ~excellen
traits. She always assisted DR.. Stron
in his newspaper work, and for the las
few years, owing to the failure of b;
eyesight, had done most of the edith
herself.
DR.. P. M. Macarthur, Joe Newton
Co, have on exhibition a curiosity il
, the shape of a living six legged COW
She was raised in Illinois and is cor
sidered a genuine freak by all who hav