The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-05

in the Medical News of July 31st. He
has received a letter from DR.. Max
josef, professor OF dermatolcgy IN the
Berlin University, complimenting him
highly on the excellency Of his method,
and asking for a reprint OF the article.
-Kinston Free Press.
GreenvilIa R fector: And this mat
ter of travelling on paEses and drawing
mileage at the same time is not con
fined to congressman. There are
sberifs in North Carolina who travels
on passes to Raleigh to carry prisoners
to the penite ntiary or patients to the
hospital and at the ssme time draw
mileage and put it in their pockets.
Salisbury Sun: The deeds to the
right of way for the Southern's new
road via Mooresville through IredelI
county, were sent up to Statesville last
night for registration. This about COM
pleaes the preliminary work of survey
ing right of way, and, RSouthern Of
fetal tells us that dirt will be broken
right along by the middle of October.
Concord Times: There was a shoot
ing affair at the Fisher mine near
BImer, last Thursday night. The
shooting occurred at the house of Atlas
FOust, colored, where a crowd OF
negroes had assembled for a frolic.
SID Bhadd rocked Foust's house, and
Foust shot him with a gun. The shoot
isg was serious, and Foust is now IN
all here.
Salisbury Sun, Saturday: Freight
traffic on the Southern was TIED up yes
terdy on account of g. slight wreck
near High Point. The engine and ten
der On through freight No. "A, in
charge of Engineer Christian and Con
ductor @ II. Royal, vas derRiled. The
accident was caused by the train run
ming into a broken place on the track
which was being repaired.
DR.. Kirby Smith, the attendant in
the criminal insane department. at the
penisentiary, is in New York, attend
ing a special course of lectures, and
will not return so Raleig, it is stated.
He was discharged by his father, who
appointed him, in an hour after DR..
KIRBY had made complaint against
him, and in two hours he left for New
York.-Ex.
Yesterday morning at Tillery a col
lored man named Tom Boyd fell in his
tracks and died in three minutes. He
was one of the train hands working on
the freight on the Scotland Neck road.
He had gone into q bar and was ABOUT
in the act Of taking a drink, and The
bartender turned to get the man a
glass of water. When he turned back
the man had fallen without taking tie
drink.-Greeukboro Telegram.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Sink Russell,
Of Moravian Falls, found a snake den
In the roots of a tree, on the edge of his
tomato patch, last week. One Of the
children IN gathering tome5oes came
across a copperheed and gave the
alarm. When the men folks came the
snake ran into q hole a5 the root OF the
tree. By the use OF mettocks and
shovels they followed the snake and
came across a nest of them. They
found nineteen OF the copperheaded
reptiles.
Morganton Herald: Work at the
Mcdowell" mine in the northern part
of this county Is being prosecuted sys
tematicatly. A FIVE stamp mill runs
regularly on a good grade OF ore, and
lately a hydraulic plant has been in,
stalled which will be used to wash
out a placer and aferward TO run the
ore down to the mill from the vein sys-
tenn, Shipments Of gold are mace
weekly. At the Hoffman and Sloan
mines hydraulic work Is being carried
on at intervals.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. W. J. G.
KuykeLdaiI's record in the family
BIble viii read differently from tina
OF most people, as his is a record oi
coincldenls. He was born OF the $50
Of April, and ne has seven children, al
Of whom whom were born on the 80
of April. His father has the same
birthday, also two Of MS brothers. Mr.
Kuykendall has three sets Of twins
aud altogether his family in points o
numbers and dates is an interesting
one. Mr. KuykendaIl is from Pied
mont. He has but recently moved tt
Charlotte TO live.
Raleigh Press Visitor: Thirty si7
convicts were taken to Weldon thu
morning to work on the State farms
| ONLY sixty -nrisOnera remain in thI