The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-01-25

EroI' y. L. murphy, our local weather
prophet, predicted that the present
winter would be an unusually mild one
and advised his friends to buy linen
coats and ice instead of overcoats and
coal. The skeptics jeered of course,
but the Lord delivered them into the
prophets hands, and these warm
January days he is laughing them to
scorn.
Concord Times: On last Sunday
while three girls were out driving, a
wheel of the buggy dropped into a hole
in the road and the three occupants
were dumped out. One of the girls,
who is said to be a good kicker, knock
ed a spoke out of the buggy wheel.
One shoe heel, n ear drop, N finger
ring and a quantity of mud from the
road were missing. But Monday Was a
beautiful day for washing.
Charlotte News: Mormon elders in
vaded Charlotte this morning Two
missionaries of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints are now
in the city, disseminating their doc
trines. Their cards read: ELDER W.
E Robinson, American Fork, Utah Co.,
Utah." and Elder 8. B. Thatcher,
Cogan, Cache Co., Utah" On the
back of the cards are printed the arti
cies of faith as laid down by the chief
prophet of Mormonism Joseph Smith.
Salisbury World: The Southern
railway is reducing expenses at varlous
points along the line. The hours have
been cut down to eight a day at the
Spencer shops and five on Saturday.
Four Car inspectors were cut off. At
Knoxville 40 men were cut off; 90 were
relieved from duty at Selma and q
strike was precipitated in the boiler
makers department at Birmingham by
q reduction in wages of the employees
in this department. We learn that the
cut is only a temporary one.
Asheboro Courier: As the @. f. &
z. V. train approached Mllboro one
day last week, it was discovered that a
box car loaded with cotton was on fire.
The train was stopped, the car cut off
and carried to the siding at the station.
Capt. w. D. Lane opened the door to
the car and pulled two bales out OF the
Car. The whole car was in q bleze and
every effort to save the cotton proved
unsuccessful. There were twenty five
bales, and all were burned except five.
The cotton was for the Worth Manu-
featuring Company.
Greenville Weekly: While saving
a very large log at Mr.. Spiers Crisps
Mill neal Crisp, Edgecombe county
last week, Mr.. w. J. Brown, the saw
yer, noticed something shining in the
log and it proved to be a ball which
had been cut open by the saw. The
log was a very large one (pine) and
squared eighteen inches. Lord Corn
wallis marched through that section In
the Spring of 1871 going to Yorktown,
where he met his defeat, and the ball
is supposed to have been fired in a skir
mish during that march.
Asheville Citizen: P. W. Averitt
says that he returned his fees es at
Corney in the railroad lease case be
cagse it had been frequently stated
that he entered on the suit against his
conscience and convictions and simply
for money. He declares there are
members Of the directorate Of the
) North Carolina railroad with whom he
declined to come in contact, as he says,
For the same reason that any gentle
man avoids contact with persons OF
things whose use in the economy Of
nature he is much puzzled to account
for"
Lumberton R~obesonian: +. Lennon
tells us of a very strange thing that
happened last week near his farm il
Columbus county. A negro was sud
denly taken with a vomiting spell and
threw up a snake that looked like 6
a moccasin seven inches long. The
snake put out his tongue, rolled around
and died. The man thinks that he
swallowed the snake several years age
while drinking water from a pond in
Georgia. He has been in bad health
ever since a short while before leaving
that State, and attributes it to the
snake.
, Greensboro Telegram: Undeniable
, evidence has been found of the pres
? ence of some wild beast In the woods
. around Rural Hall in Forsyth county,
Whatever the animal is, it attacks
only dogs, harming nothing else around
/ the yard. The dog is attacked, his