The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

risks were written, $911, 875 premius re-
ceived and 1901, 142 losses paid. By
the life companies, S13. OPS, 900 risks
wire written; 81, 328. 922 premiums re-
ceived and 1878, OPP losses paid.
Fayetteville Observer: This morn
ing Mr.. F. R Rose, real estate agent,
showed us a letter from Casper, Wyo-
ming, making iIq1iry about farm
lands that could be purchased in this
section; and adding that this fall quite
a colony Of farmers intended immi
grating south from that country.
Deputy Sheriff Farrell brought to
Jail last Saturday Gus Judd and Stella
Arnold. They had been charged and
found guilty in a magistrates court OF
rocking the train near Merry Oaks.
They we're each bound over to court IN
a 5000 bond. in default Of which they
we're lodged in Ill, says the Chatham
Citizen.
The property of the Elliott Furni.
ture Company in this city, was sold to-
day at public auction, by Mr.. R E
C~ochrane,~ receiver. The property was
bid in by Mr.. J. P. Sawyer, of Ashe
vile, for So, 900. Mr.. Sawyer is a cred
itor to the extent of 81. 800. The sale
is subject to a decision by the court,
says the Charlotte News.
Last Thursday morning bright and
early, ten revenue officers made a raid
in Boon township in that section kown
as HORSE Shoe Neck" where they
found five "moonshine" distilleries
running in full blast with about 3 600
gallons of beer on hand, which they de
s5royed and arrested two men, Will
Smith and Dave Hairston, and carried
them to Winston, says the Lexington
Dispatch.
The Marion Messenger says that Mrs.
Hattie Cooper, formerly Miss Bass,
having served out her time in the
county jail for "blockading," was re
leased on Wednesday. Her fine of
800 had been taken off. She took the
insolvent oath, then joined her hus-
band, going to their home at Elk Park,
Mitchell county. There are still about
Is in Ill, most of them women, for the
same offence.
While the West bound train on the
Southern road was standing at the
Durham depot Tuesday, says the Sun,
a passenger who was apparently a den
fist, as he had his forceps and other
dental instruments with him, pulled a
tooth for another passenger. A gentle
man on the platform remarked hat as
the dentist was practising his profes
sion in Durham county without license,
he should be made to pay the tax.
winston Sentinel: Deputy Collector
Hunt and Deputy United States Mar
shall Clement, with a posse of special
officers, went On a raid in Davie county
last Monday and succeeded in captur-
ing and destroying a moonshine distil
lery in Buck hills, near Fork church.
They destroyed three stills and cap
tured two prisoners-Abe Forrest and
J.. P. Sohey, both white, who were OPP
Grating the distillery.
The Durham Sun is informed that a
certain countryman, who had chickens
and eggs for sale, stepped up to Trinity
church, Tuesday, and knocked at the
doors Of the main part of the church
and at the Sunday school room. He
no doubt thought il was a hotel, or else
he must know the reported love for
chickens that most of Methodist minis
tiers have. Someone suggested that
possibly the countryman may have
wanted to make an Offering to the
Lord.
Our attention was called on Satur-
day to a telephone manufactured by
our neighbor and friend John Blue.
We understand that it gives a great
deal better satisfaction than those now
in use on lines running in and from
town. Besides being an improvement
on the hearing and talking qualities it
looks better and is in reality better
work. This is but another feather to
Mr.. Blues reputation as inventor and
mechanic, says the Laurinburg Ex-
change.
Charlotte Observer: There are 90
suits of so, 600 each against the Cum
no k Coal Mining Company for the loss
of life of miners last December Re
ceiver Henzey says these suits preci-
pitated the receivership. The mine, he
says, was well protected that all coal
mines are subject to explosions, and
the richer the coal the greater the