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

VIC "CAO 6OA PA4SCO W AOoA S"S "S"
that MI. J.. e. Jennett, the assistant
keeper of Gull Shoal light house was
found. He had been dead since Feb,
ruary 18th and found Saturday about
noon, near Oregon inlet, Over so miles
from where he was lost; some fisher
men found him and took him to Man
teo, Dare county, where his brother
lives and had a nice coffin made and
Sunday evening they arrived at En-
gelhard, and he was buried to-day, Is,
with Masonic honors, says the Wash
ington Gazette.
The Salisbury World says the corn
crib of Henry Yost, of Rowan county,
has been raided fire. quently within the
past several weeks and Mr.. Yost had
threatened the thieves with dire aven-
gence if he caught them. Saturday
morning he awoke to find a miniature
&C fiji l on his front pie zza and inside Of
it he found several matches that had
been lighted and extinguished. 1t is
supposed that this warning was given
by tho e who had been robbing his crib
would visit him.
Charlotte News: The Virgin Cotton
Mills at HuntersvilIe, of which Mr.. J.
Lee Choate is secretary and treasurer,
has gone into the hands a receiver. The
papers were filed at the court house to,
day. Mr.. J A. Bell, of Charlotte, is
the receiver. This action is the result
of a suit brought by Mr.. J. W. Mullen
who had loaned money to the corpora
ton. The Virgin is in trouble to the
extent of about $22, 900. 1t is a small
weave mill, and in his application for
a receivership. Mr.. Mullen says that it
has been insolvent for three gears.
Pittsboro Record: The fruit crop
will be much worse than was thought
some weeks ago. There will not be
many peaches in this county, as nearly
all have fallen from the trees while
small and green.-Tne fatal fash of
lightning that killed Mr.. Bryan's chill
dren at Moncure, last week, played a
strange freak. Near the fatal tree there
was a we'll that was being cleaned out,
Two colored men were at the windlass,
one of whom was knocked down by the
shock and the other not touched, and
yet the man who was down in the well
was struck and right badly burned.
Wilmington Messenger: About a
month ago Mr.. John A. Edens, who
lives at Holly Ridge, thirty-fve miles
from Wilmington, on the Wilmington,
Newbern and Norfolk railway, was
seized with the halluciation that his
femily and friends had entered into a
conspiracy to poison him. He, there
fore, stopped eating, and no amount of
inducement could be hold oub ~ hun
to take even a mouthful Of food. He
also refused to allow a doctor to give
him attention, and the result was that
he died of sheer starvation last Thurs
day. For twenty-five days he had not
eaten a bite.
The Charlotte Observer says that f.
L Fuller, of the D. A. Thompkin Co. s
shop, had somewhat of an experience
recently. He came near being buried
alive. He was at work at HAw River
setting a hydrant in a ditch about -
feet deep. He was lying down on his
stomach trying to fix the pipe, when
the earth, to the extent of 1 OOOpounds,
caved in on him. He had no idea how
long he was under the daisies" for
when when rescued he was hardly
conscious His collar-bone was broken
and one side was injured so badly that
he was laid up at Haw River until yes
terday, when he returned home.