The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

or other animal standing on the streets
OF Hendersonville without a competent
driver or some person capable of man
aging the same.
The Goldsboro Headlight says
There was a novel marriage in John,
ston county a day or two ago. 1t oc.
CURED in the public road. The groom
wore only a shirt, trousers and hat
and was barefooted. The bride, also
barefooted, wore only a calico dress
and a poke bonnet"
Concord Standard: J. A. Smith who
lives on the John Ranking farm, No. 8
township, killed a spring chicken for
breakfast, and when the gizzard was
opened he was astonished to find no
less than thirty pieces of glass, flnt,
china, and a nugget of gold quartz
half the size of a pea.
Sales have been held on the floor of
the tobacco warehouse every day since
the opening. Because of the early date
of the opening and the backward
season the breaks have not been very
heavy. Much of the weed has been
cured, howevr, and large sales are ex
pected after this week, says the Lum-
berton Robesonian.
Some nights ago thieves entered DR..
DIR. D. B. Zo~llicoffer's store at Grays
burg and took $15 in cash, a lot of
shoes and clothing, pistols, raz )rs,
knives, etc. He suspected three ex
convicss, at R 2anoke Rapids, and when
their houses were searched he found
some Of the goods, the rogues made
their escape.-Scotland Neck Common
wealth.
There is more joy In a printing Office
over the long time delinquent who gets
mad because he ''got dunned," comes
in, cusses the editor, pays up and or
ders his paper discontinued" than
over the "16 to 1" who borrow the pa
per and sing it's praises without con
tributing a cent to keep it out of the
sherif's hands, remarks the Salisbury
Watchman.
Tarboro Dispatch: MI. I. II. Gatim
was asked to day how many bales of
cotton he thought could be found in
the county now. His reply was not
twenty in all--Ever since Monday,
an investigation as to the character of
Q. M. Epps, q colored school teacher,
has been going on. Charge of immoral
conduct towards some of his pupils
have been preferred against him.
Goldsboro Argus: Rev. j. M. Jur-
ney has twelve acres of cotton that
will make eighteen bales. He also has
one acre from which he has sold $67
worth of cabbage, and now has that
acre in cotton that will make one bale.
H. G.. Williamson has the finest corn
in Wayne county, and it was started
after strawberries we're gathered.
Some Of it will make four ears to the
stalk.
One night last week the section mas
ter's house e the depot, occupied by
Capt Ezzall, caught on fire and would
have been completely destroyed had
not the family been aroused when they
were. The blez3 was confined to the
kitchen, where it burned all the wood
work of the room, and some of the
furniture. It is believed that the fire
originated from matches ignited by
rats. -Smitbf8ld Herald.
Qlite O crowd was collected, in front
of the p~ostcfice Sunday afternoon,
listening to the thrilling narrative Of a
tramp that recently escaped from the
Spanish prison in Cuba. His expert
ences, if what he said were true, were
truly thrilling. The boys decided that
they would remain at home for the
present and allow Congress and the
newspapers to do their fighting, says
the Wilson Advance.
Capt. II. f. McCarty, a we'll known
mining man, Of Lexington, N. O.,
strikes it rich, not IN North Carolina
GOLD f=lds Or far if Klondyke, Alaska,
but by the death of his brother, Prot.
B T. McCarty, of Australia who, to,
gether with four servants, was dro IN
ed last November while on a cruise in
mis- private yacht. The deceased leaves
an estate valued at 81. 600, 900 to be
divided equally between Capt. II. T.
McCerty, of Lexington, N. O., and his
brother, e, P. McOarty, of Kansas
City, Mo.-Winston Republican.
A lady just returned from a visit in
Pitt county, reports to the GreenYille
R fsctor a thrilling experience. The
hn,1sa she wss zisiEinn Was near q shirt