The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-19

O0liS d BOou STORY which was given him
by O doctor at Apex The doctor called
on a sick man and left a plaster with
instructions to his wife to put it on his
chest at a certain hour. When he re
turned he esked how the plaster
worked. She replied, Very we'll, I
think. We did not have a chest here,
but put it on the trunk"
A recent issue of the Wadesboro
Messenger says Wadesboro has q new
society. 1t is called the Matrimonial
Bureau" It is composed of ten or a
dozen Of u fair young ladies It is
managed OF this wise: E sch young
lady takes her turn at entertaining the
bureau. She invites her gentleman
friends and requests each of them to
bring a young lady member.
Lincoln Journal: Two or three
weeks ago J. Calvin Hoover in tearing
up a hog pen ran a nail into the palm
Of his hand for over an inch. Since
then he has been desperately ill, suffer
ing untold agony. His hand swelled
enormously and it was feared he would
have blood poison and lock jaw. There
IS now a large hole clear through the
hand, but Mr.. Hoover is better and
will recover.
Jacksonville Times: Last Thursday
q little colored child, about two years
of age, attempted to cross the railroad
at Holly Ridge just ahe6d OF the north
bound train. The child very FORUM
ately stumbled when about two feet
from the rail and fell with his head be-
tween two cross ties and against the
rail The traiE passed over it without
inhicting a scratch, but had the child
been six inches neare the rail when it
fell it would have been crushed to
death.
The Cumnock coal mining property
in Chatham county was sold last Fri
day. A gentleman of Philadelphia be-
came the purchaser at $40. OOO. 1t is
understood that the property under its
new management is with Henezy's
friends. This purchase price is not
sufficient to cover q first mortgage
bonds which are some where in the
neighborhood of 500. 600. So the sec
ond class bonds and damage suit com
promises, which come In third, are not
In it.-Ex.
Winston Journal: A Journal re.
porter learns from a gentleman, who
was at BoonvilIe last week, that on
Monday morning while the sun was
shining the air became white with fall
ing fakes like snow, except they were
not cold, but were of a greasy nature
and many of them were much larger
than snO fakes, being two inches long
in some instances The people became
greatly interested and some of them
very much alarmed. Ashes from for
est fires probably.
One day last week Mr.. Luther
Thomas, of Lanes Creek TO wnsaip, had
an experience with snakes which he
does not wish to have again. A large
copper head snake bit the mule he was
riding on the leg and Mr.. Thomas got
down Co kill the snake and after he had
KILLED 1t discovered that he had stepped
over two other large snakes. He lost
no time in killing all the snakes within
sight and looked for more reptiles
The mules leg was badly swollen for
sometlme, but il stuff red no serious
effects from the bit .-Monroe En-
qlirer.
The millennium must be nigh at
hand. We are constrained to believe
this, not because Evangelist Fife is
amounting people with oil and curing
them of bodily inf1rmIGies. but because
a Charlotte man who used two gallons
Of blockade liquor three years ago was
so lashed by his conscience that he paid
the tax on it. Ordinarily when the
average cltizsn can use corn juice free
from the stamp OF hated PUBLICAN and
escape detection, he coDgrasulates him
self and says nothing aOoutit. We fear
the Charlotte man is too good for this
world. -S5atesville Landmark.
The Oldest Methodist preacher 10
North Carolina, il not in the world is
Rev. James Needham, who lives near
Mt. Airy. He is now in his 99th year,
and if he lives three years longer he
will have lived in three centuries. he
Is in good health, and remarkably full
OF life and vigor, and breaches yet,
with power and fervor. He began
preaching when 10 years of age. You
can get some idea of the length of time
he has lived and the many and won
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