The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

had them passed on them. The work
is we'll executed and the spurious coin
is hard to be detected from the gen,
uine.
The saw mill of Mr.. J.. T. Spencer on
Buffalo was parti. lily destroyed by
fire last Sunday morning. The fire
was discovered in time to save every.
thing but the carriage and a part of
the track. The loss is estimated at
nearly 800, says the Lenoir Topic.
Sampson Democrat: The heavy
frost of Tuesday, night, the 2Osh, did
great damage in Sampson. Fruit was
injured and most of the beans and
early vegetables which had come UP
were cut down. But the heaviest blow
was the less of the ~huckleberry crop.
William White, who lived near
Columbia, went to fish his nets while
an intoxicated condition, fell overheard
and was drowned in the Scuppernong
river. His body has been dragged for,
but not yet found. The deceased was
q married man Of considerable family.
Yadkin Ripple The Sheriff of Wilkes
has advertised over 1872, 600 acres of
land for taxes.-The checklist thing
lately discovered was found by some
revenue raiders in this county. It was
a blockade shanty on the doors of
which were the regulation. government
locks.
Salisbury Sun: Charlie Cutting, who
spent yesterday in the city, tells us
that Mr.. Newton Carver's maidstone at
Lexington, was applied Saturday to a
colored man who was bitten by a mad
dog several weeks since. The maidstone
adhered and stayed on the wound for
three days.
Charlotte New: Yesterday afternoon
the Charlotte printers union was or
ganized with the following officers:
President, g. L. Dooley vii g presic ent,
w. L. Gardner; secretary and treas
urer, A. T. Yoder; recording secretary,
W. A. Jones; sergeant at arms, E.
Feeperman.
Franklin Times: A chicken was
Matched cut at Mr.. Z9b. Baird 's last
Wednesday with four legs on thelower
part Of the body, two of them set right
and the other two reversed suitable for
walking in an opposite direction. +
was a fine representation of q Pritch
ard populist.
Passengers who came down the
Western road on the Chattanooga train
this morning tell US that there was
snow in Morganton yesterday. There
was no considerable amount of it, but
the fact that it showed in May is sum
cient to produce the shivers, says the
Salisbury World.
Our friend r. A. Stroud, who is en-
geged in the tan bark business, felled q
chestnut oak last week which meas
ured s feet and 4 inches in circumter
eHce, and he pealed the bark from it
for 1O6 feet. That is ahead of any
thing we have heard of, says the
WIkesboro Chronicle.
There Yves e desperate fight Saturday
night in Buncombe county between
revenue officers and moonehiners. in
which twenty five men were engaged.
An illicit still was found in g. tobacco
barn and was captured, as were four
moonshinerg, L of them, named Ell,
bridge, being badly shot.
Statesvillo Landmark: During the
term of the Federal Court 20 men and
9 women were convicted and sentenced
to jail for terms ranging from one tc
SIX months each. Two, Ike Church and
Jake Miller, were sentenced to the
~penitentiary at Columbus, O., fol
eighteen and fifteen months respec
lively.
Lenoir Visitor: John Minish, an EN-
ploye of the Granite Falls Catawbe
county, cotton factory, was attempt
ing to put a belt on q wheel at the fac
tory when ne was caught by the bel
and thrown around several times
breaking his back and otherwis
mangIing his body. He is not expected
to recover.
} The Marion Furniture factory ha
| resumed work. Tt suspended a few
days to take stock and ascertain how
| the business was getting on and founC
after taking stock and balancing &C
, counts a credit of 25 per cent. on it
3 outlay. The stockholders were so er
J couraged that they increased thei
capital stock.
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