The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13

hsu VI GA6 prices GnGy DTIng IN the
northern markets. The prices continue
to rule low, and with but little pros
poets of an increase.
Wilmington Messenger: About a
hundred and fifty people went down to
Wrightsville yesterday to see the big
whale that was stranded high and dry
in front of the Carolina Yacht Club
house on Thursday morning.
DR.. J. N. Parker exhibited to US
Tuesday g dead chicken Matched the
day before, of the Shanghai variety.
that came out of an egg weighing i
ounces. The chicken was eight inches
in length, says the Goldsboro Head.
light.
Two men in Rutherford county, Bill
Bridges and q young man Toney had g
little shooting scrape last week. Bridges
shot Toney and Toney will probably
die. 1t seems that a woman was the
cause of the trouble, says the Shelby
Aurora.
Twenty. five coIored people were to
have been baptized in Belo's pond Sun
day but on account of the inclemency
of the weather the services had to be
suspended when the thirteenth candi
date was reached, says the Winston
Sentinel.
Two white tramps went to the house
of Miss Eliza Heptinstall, who lives
near Halifax, and in the broad, open
daylight robbed her of a gold watch,
chain, and locket and other valuable
trinkets. The men escaped into North
ampton county.
Newbern Journal: Messrs. Geo. N.
Ives & Son, the fish and oyster men,
had a large sturgeon in their fish house
here yesterday, which was caught by
Will Styron in a drift net. The fish
weighed about $50 pounds and brought
the fishermen SEQ.
The church of the Good Shepherd,
Raleigh, will undertake the erection OF
a church to be known as the Bishop
Lyman Memorial, to cost not less than
800, 600 nor more than $25, 900. Building
operations are not to commence until
$40, coo in cash is in hand.
Judge Simonton has ordered the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad to be
sold as an entirety. No bid of less
than two million dollars is to be &C
cepted. Clement Manly and Eugene
s. Martin are named as master com
missioners to make the sale.
At court at Greenville Jesse James
was found guilty of assault with a
deadly weapon and sentenced to a year
in Jail. This is the case in which James
stopped Rev. A. @. Hart on the road in
Pitt county and treated him with in
dignity, making him dance, etc.
Wadesboro Messenger Intelligencer:
Mr.. John Talton, who had been in fail
ing health for some time, died at the
home of his son, Mr. Alec Talton, near
here, Saturday. The deceased was in
the 95th year of his age and was prob
ably the Oldest man in the county.
Salisbury Sun: Col. ". a. Houck
and Mr.. W. II. Miller, who are in the
city today, tell us that the fruit in their
orchards was not harmed by the re
cent cold snap. In some portions of
the country, however, peaches and
other fruit were killed and it is thought
the supply this year will be smaller
than last year.
Mrs. @. b. Wiley, of Winston, has
in her possession a paper printed in
New York in 1895. 1t bears the writ
ten signatures of George Washington
and Thomas Jefferson, in English,
French and German. She also has an
other relic. 1t is a letter written to
her husband, the late Rev. DR.. @. II.
Wiley, by Henry Clay.
Yadkin Ripple: A very loud noise
was heard and q bright fash of light
was seen about day on last Sunday
week. The explanation of the pheno
menon hes just reached US. A colored
man named Carson, living in the edge
of Iredell, says that it was a meteor,
that it passed throug his house and
bursted just afterward.
Salisbury Sun: Mr.. ]. g. McNaugh-
ton, who, some time since, invented
and had patented a bicy Gle attachment
of much merit, has received an Cfer
of 81, 600 for the right to sell the attach
ment in the United States. The offer
was refused by Mr. McNaughton, who
will not sell the right for several thou,
sand more than the sum offered,
Smithf1eld Herald: Mr.. Jesse