The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-09

OuE1An sun: d. Il. Corbett h6s q
very remarkable hen that he bought
from a darkey. After he bought her
last spring she laid 45 eggs and then
Matched out a brood of chickens in
June. Since that time she has laid 1873
eggs, only missing five days in June,
and is still laying, although she has
been moved twice-once toSouth Low
ell and then back to Durham.
Winston Sentinel: a gensleman who
came in from Mocksville this morning
says there are 200 men at work on the
M~ocksville extension near that town.
Winston shipped 1 249, 5s1 pounds
Of manufactured tobacco this month.
The stamp sales aggregated $74 974. Sc.
The Western North Carolina M. E.
Conference will meet at Asheville on
November 17Eh. Bishop Hergrove will
preside.
Mr.. H. T. Greenleaf, Of Elizabeth
City, will bring suit in the Superior
court against the ~corporatin OF Eeza-
beth City for the sum Of $4,000 for
using his ground in the widening of
Matthews street. Ae is the owner of
a equare of property the rear of which
is on that thOroughtare, and when the
street is widened a piece of his ground
twelve feet wide and the length of a
block will be cut eff. For this the town
pays him n dollar, and in n
quence he will bring the suit for dam
as es. -News and Observer.
Greenville r f4ctor: We have
known and heard of many different
things being brought to market for
sale, but never until Saturday did we
hear of acorns making a market pro
duct. A mar brought a load of them
to town that day ana they sold readily
ct ten cents a bushel, to be used as hog
feed. Hogs are very fond of acorns
and they always thrive when roaming
in an oak range where the nuts abound.
It strikes US that at ten cents bushel
delivered they are wonderfully cheap
feed, yet we fail to see much profit to
the seller at that price.
StatesviIle Landmark: There is a
matrimonial case of unusual interest
near Hendersonville. One Alex Joiner
ha. just been married the third time
to the same no Some few years
ago he was married and he and his bet
ter half (or ''wusser'O lived together
for some time. They finally could not
i onroo nrG cnnnrntnH 6SuNrno uUuc
obtained by DoA. After a time Mr..
Joiner began to pay his respects to his
former wife and after a second series
of courtships they were married again
Ere long a second divorce was applied
for and granted. A few months ago a
third courtship was begun anded in a
third marriage about three weeks ago.
They are now living in perfect har-
mony.
Monroe Enquirer: An old colored
man, whose name we could not learn,
is out twenty dollars by coming to the
show here last Tuesday and not keep
ing his wits about him. He asked a
stranger to change a twenty dollar bill
for him. The old colored man got two
ten dollar Confederate notes, ''repre
sentipg nothing in Gods world now
nor naught in the waters below it." for
a good twenty dollar bill which had
been given him for his five cent? cot
ton. The Confederate notes were
simply advertising limitations and
had been soaked in oil to make them
plant and unlike the crisp Confederate
note. We have one of the notes and
must say that we do not wonder that
the old colored man was fooled with it.
The matter was reported to the police,
but nothing could be done, as the man
who was guilty could not be identi,
fed.
Charlotte Times-Democrat: GA broil-
er farm is something as new as the
chainless bicycle in these parts, but
Mr. Sanders, who came here recently
from Maryland, is to establish one on
his place three miles from the city, on
the Providence road, Mr.. Sanders is
originally from Virginia, but has been
living in Maryland for several years,
where he was engaged in raising early
Spring chickens for market. He has
bought what is known as the Shake
speare Harris tract Of land. Recently
he has built two good-siz:d houses to
be used in chicken raising. The old
hen will be done away with in these
modern hatcheries, incubators being
used to hatch out the little chicks.
There will not be a setting hen ON the
whole of this queer poultry farm. The