The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04

Rice and Herman Sechler, the young
China Grove couple whose attempted
elopement was frustrated last week by
the interference of the brides half
brother, tried it again this week and
succeeded IN escaping to South Caro-
lima, where they were married.
On Monday night, the 18th inst at
about 8 o'clock, the barn of Mr.. T. II.
Davis, Of Emmons township, was
burned, together with two horses, two
wagons, n buggy and all his feed,
wheat, etc. There was forty bushels
of wheat in the barn belonging to Mr..
w. F. Curry, which was also burned,
says the Lexington Dispatch.
The Atlantic Hotel, of Morehead
City, has been purchased by a syndi.
cate composed of Messrs. T. A. Green,
Jas. A. Bryan, F. NJ. Simmons, James
Redmond, @. E. Foy, and DR.. Charles
Duffy, of Newborn; G. W. BlacknaIl,
of Raleigh, and E. A. Humphrey, of
Goldsboro. It will be under the man
Rgement of DIR. G.. W. BlacknRIl.
The Edna cotton mills have put in
$50 new looms and have added 200
hands to their force. The mills now
work night and day, having two sets
Of operatives. Their capacity is five
million Is, 900, 0OO) yards of cloth per
annum. The pay roll calls for ebout
$75 .OCO per year. This is the largest
plant in the State W Weekly.
Swarms OF chinch bugs have made
their appearance in the black jack
section Of North Carolina and South
Carolina. The farmers of these sec
lions fearing the ravages of the pests
have decided to plant grounds that had
been prepared for corn in cotton as the
damage to the latter from these bugs
is less severe, says the Charlotte
News,
Goldsboro Argus: The Goldsboro
Furniture Manufacturing Company is
an organization Of which our citizens
generally may justly feel proud. Their
latest charitable act was to donate the
bedroom furniture for the new build.
ing of the Odd Fellows Orphan Home
in this city. Some idea of its value
can be as~certained when it is stated
that it required about fifty suits to fur
nish the building.
Concord Standard: Mr.. N. M. Barn
hardt, keeper of the county home, told
US that his wheat is waist high on an
average and that it is pretty and green.
He is quite proud of the prospects for
a large crop. He also reports twenty
acres of healthy looking com. Far
mers from other sections say their
wheat is dying in some places, and
that the chinch bugs are doing con
siderable damage.
The belated passenger train of the
Southern Railway last Saturday even
ing about 6 o'clock, when nearing this
city, ran into a wagon and two mules
belonging to Mr.. Douglas Hastings, Of
Fork township, and the occupants, a
colored nj named Iona ellis and
two colored men, we're hurled into the
air. The woman and the mules we're
instantly killed, but the men escaped
with q few bruises.
Near Battleboro on Sunday two col
ored boys, named Charles Whitaker
and Joseph Neal, had a fuss. Whitaker
got a gun and shot Neal through the
neck, killing him almost instantly.
Whitaker dragged the body off to a
marsh and hid it, then went back to
where he had committed the deed and
washed up the blood. When Neal was
missed his people began a search and
found the body Monday in the march
where Whitaker had hid it.
It's doubtful whether a more charac-
teristic farmer could have been found
in Arson county than Mrs. Vina Tie,
who died recently at the age Of 80.
Her farm is situated nine miles from
Polkton, and there in a little log cabin,
overlooking the creek that divides it,
she lived alone since the death of her
husband, which occurred fifty years
ago, and devoted her attention to her
farm, working literally night and day.
Gwyn Il. Lenoir of Yadkin Valley,
Caldwell county, on his way home
Monday afternoon, Was riding at a
pretty rapid rate, when his horse fell,
throwing Lenoir violently. When
picked up, unconscious, it was found
that in the fall he had bitten his tongue
almost entirely eff about one and a
quarter inches from the tip. 1t was
some hours before a physician could