The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-02-25

lock. It contained $31 in cash and
over s., OOO worth of good notes, his
photograph, several towels, a haudker-
chief and the combination to the safe
Bruce was an eccentric Old bachelor
and one Of Yadkln's Wealthiest citizens.
Newbern journal: A portion Of the
cargo OF the steamer Muse Friday
consisted Of fOrty-one barrels Of
ap!naC1 from the 0 ks Farm of Hack
burn & WllletE. The previous day
they sent Of 3O6 barrels Of spinach by
express over the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad, ana will make
another good shipment this morning.
The Scatesville Mascot says that last
fall Il cO!OTed man named Hawkins,
While walking along a puOlic road III
Coo! Spring township. vac met and bit
ten by p dog supposed at the time to De
mad. Tuesday last the man was taken
| sick and was seiz5d with conyuisIODs
which REQUIRED every two mlnutes I'M
til 10 o.c'Cck Wednesday morning,
when he died.
Whitevlile News: It is reported
here the death Of Arch WOrrpl, who
left here about the middle Of October
for shooting q negro. Il leaves Il
wife aud five children XIV. Ell
ward Kelley has completed drafts Tor
the architectural design of the new
Methodist Episcopal church. It will
| 10 a modern 6dIfice, COmmOGiCus and
Comfortable In appointment.
Marahall correspondence Concord
Standard: Here IL q trPstle OF the rail
road about one half nile long. It IL
icing filed up with rock The work
was begun last September and ia tx
! ,npEnH l., 20 HIn1al4t.H n1vt Inrn
Forty men, q steam drill, four railroad
dumps and a mule constitute the force.
The contractor gets for his work $22,-
coo This IS helping Marshall.
The Jacksonville N. c. Times tells
Of a case 10 dispute there, over the
Ovnershlp of a three dollar hog; the
expense incurred to date amounts to
about $50, u as an appeal was taken
from the verdict rende red, the case
goes to the Supreme court, and we
presume that Dy the time the case Is
settled the hog will have died of Ol0
age or be worth about seven dollars q
pound.
Officer J. N. McDlffy yesterday
morning arrested a white man named
Walter Morgan, on complaint Of Mrs.
Williamson who keeps a sailor board
ing house on Mulberry street at he
head Of Nut street. It was alleged that
he robbed one of her bOarderS of 81 As,
and after his arrest the money was
found in the extreme COrne Of Nor
gan's coat, says the Wilmington Mess
enger.
According to the Wilkf sboro Cbron
iCle one Ant. Dula, Of Wilkes county,
married a country woman, and a little
later went owe into Watauga where
he met and fell in love with another
mountain girl. He courted her and
they were married, and, realizing
when it was TOO late the enOrmiJy of
his eff nee, he has jumped the State,
leaving both Of his wives OF q month
in the lurch.
M)oresville Record: Mr.. D @. Draw
lev, one o. u best citizens, Is 60 years
old H Is a farmer. He mas made
money at farming This year he killed
"a hogs, - OF them were n year Old
and averaged 2o5 bounds. The others
vera nine months old and averaged
$50 bounds. In killing these hogs
Brawley shot every Il himself ana
uevcr failed in a single instance TO
bring his porker down.
Mr.. Cicero w Harris. writing from
Washington to the Charlotte Observer,
say that q North Carolina politician
of note SAYS that the Vice President
mas told q North Carolina friend who
visited him recently hat before the
D mocraUic convention shall meet, he
will make a commitment on tire silver
questiOn. H has always been in favor
VI free coinage, and be intends TO take
ground in Its favor IN a letter"
Bryson City Times: o. Tuesday
0ranJnr Loaf an IrHTan fT~m = tpN
named Moses WlInO-a, was beset a0OuC
snDd0wn. On the road near Henry Nea
IlaD's on Oconee Lufta, by unknown
parties and stabbed with a knife II
i've places. The IudIan died Wednes-
dAv morning. The corOners inquest
disclosed the fact that a negro named
Serge Reeder Hrd others were the az
sauItlng parties, R3eder Is now III
jail.
Washington Messenger: Annie Smith
was assaulted on the jaime sVilte anG
Washington railroad near the COlOTed
cemetery mis- morning by a cOlOred
boy between II and Is years Of age.
TIE rascal succeeded III his OutEaudl9h
work. The glrl is about Is years Of
age The negro met her on the track
and asked her If she did not curse him
and without warning assaulted her
twice. Dr.. TayIoe was sent fOr-he
pron0unccs her condition critical in
deed. AS yet the hend has not been
caught.
a wagon was crushed. the mule was
covered and a boy, the Is year Old son
Of J. NJ Bowen, was accidently injured
by a huge pile, sixty cords Of wood on
the railroad from Pat erson's Springs
Station and had a pile of about sixty
cords deposited ct the station. His SOD
was there unloading his load when the
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