The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-12

MIS- OOSOUu A0E'
din, who resides at SO Pine street,
about 10 o'clock last Tuesday night
took the contents OF two one n bot.
ties Of laudannm with suicidal intent.
Inability to agree with a member of
the family is given as the cause. Mrs.
Hardin admits that it was her inten
ton to take her life. DR.. Eug. b.
Glenn gave medical attention and the
young woman is out of danger.
Concord Standard: Mr.. D. Fl. Nc
Eachern, OF MI. Pleasant, was in the
city to day and reports having discov-
cred that he was in possession of a
KlondiEe all of his own on his old
plantation, known as the John Fisher
place, on Little Cold Water, four miles
east of this place. Mr.. McEachern
says that there are two veins on the
property, and that the ore taken there
from is paying him 81 per bushel.
Greensboro Record: Things keep
''evoluting." This morning q gentle
man dropped into this Office with a
tiny little chicken, which he said saw
the light Of day without ever seeing
the inside of an egg, so far as Gan be
judged. Mrs. John Ottenburg killed a
chicken yesterday and was preparing
it for dinner, when she ran across three
young chickens, one of which was
fully matured, but with nc egg or even
shell near.
Rollins correspondence Morganton
Herald: The evangelist, MI. Perry,
conducted a two weeks meeting at
Cid Rain Hin which close ten days
ago. / am told he claims IA CONVEX
sions, of which q good number were
converts to sanctiication, and some,
thing like 35 accessions to the church.
Mr.. Perry is Deliver in sanctif1cation
and divine healing, and our people fell
prostrate, as it were, in sackcloth and
ashes.
Greensboro Record: W. B. Farrar
has just made and perfected a most
valuable contrivance-a self locking
paddock of the combination variety. II
has three cylinders, or rather one long
cylinder divided up into three, by
means Of which an almost innumerable
number of combination can be effected.
It's workings are similar Co those on a
safe, with marked lines, figures, etc.
It is practical, can be made for a song
and it looks like it would soon super.
sede all the old style locks.
Raleigh News and Observer: This
has been a week of big sales of tobacco
at Louisburg, and the prices have been
quite satisfactory. Cotton, also, il
moving freely and is of splendid quail
ty and by reason of the dry weather
very little trash. The crop in this sec.
ton will be at least one fourth lesE
than was expected on August LIST. The
dispensazE has just closed its first
quarters business, and shows q net
profit of nearly 5000. The profit is di
vided between the town, the general
county fund and the school fund.
Wake county has, almost within
hailing distancne of the capitol, some
of the slickest moonshiners that ever
watched a still. A few nights age
Frank Scott, a Raleigh colored driver,
carried a couple of revenue officers out
to New Light township. They LEFT
him alone with the carriage while they
went out to make the raid. While
they were gone the moonshiners held
Scott up, looted the carriage and made
him drive back to Raleigh, leaving the
officers to walk home. Four men and
a woman have been bound over al
Franklinton for the Notwithstanding
with a deputy collector and highway
robbery in holding up the negro driver,
Exchange.
Greensboro Record: There are buns
and deadbeats of all descriptions, and
the various ways resorted to by these
gentlemen of the road" to pull" the
people, IRE numerous. A fellow claim
ing to be a Junior is said to be "work.
ing" the differen towns throughout the
state where a council Of this order has
been instituted. He goes from place
to place, gets the names of the local
council, and, having familiariEed him
self with the signs, tokens, etc.,
peculiar to the order, has but little
trouble in working his victims for q
quarter or more. The members of the
Junior Order American Mechanics
throughout the state, and Virginia as
well (tor he is heading that way),
should keep a lookout for this impog
tor. He s a deadbeat Of the first
water.