The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-01-11

has purchased from O. A. Shuford that
portion OF the Paxton farm i'm the
Cherrfeld section heretofore occupied
oy A. i. Paxton, for the sum of 50. 527
The track comprises about 20 acres of
the finest French Broad valley lands.
and adjoins Mr.. Alexander's present
home.
Morgantcn Farmers Friend: Judge
Avery ia of counsel for the commission
ers OF Buncombe in their bond suit
with the 8 & A. r. R.-a great com
pliment this, coming from a land where
lawyers do most abound, where one
can scarcely clear a new ground with
out danger of telling q tree upon some
limb of the law.
Statesville Landmark: w, w.
White, E q, who keeps an accurate
record, says that there were 284 days
last year in which no rain fell. This
does not take into account the rainfall
at night, but there were that many dry
days during the year. Squire White
says this is about an average for sew
eral years past.
Wavnesville Courier: r. e CEnnis)
Sentell, son of Rev. r. A. Sentell of
Clyde, and his wife furnished a little
chance for Christmas gossip and the
gossipers have been busy for nearly a
week talking about their marriage,
which occurred as long ago as August
%, and which only became public
knowledge last Sunday.
Annual passes sent to the new rail.
way commissioners by one Of the rail
road systems operating in the State
were returned. Secretary Brown was
ordered to express by letter the thanks
of the commissioners for the courtesy,
but to say that in accordance with
resolutions which the commission had
adopted, passes could not be accepted.
Fayetteville Observer: A colored
boy named Handon was shot Sunday
night in Seventy, first by his first cousin
of the same name, from the injuries of
which he died Monday night. The
boys we're fooling with a revolver
which they supposed was not loaded.
The shooting was purely accidental,
and an inquest was not deemed nee
essary.
Raleigh News and Observer: On the
LIST of March, President Andrews of
Brown University, will deliver a lee
ture on Robert e. Lee at the State Nor
NAL and Industrial College. There will
be q warm welcome in North Carolina
to this great scholar who is as as indie
pendent in thought and speech as he
is honest in his Investigations and con
victions.
Rev. Robert e. Caldwell, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, Win
ston, who in company with a party
composed of prominent divines and
educators, expects to sail from New
York February 5 for a visit to the
Holy Land, announces that he had Sc
cured Rev. w. e. Groves, of Millsboro
Strings, Va., to supply his pulpit
Ashe vile Citizen.
Friday about midnight a son of
Wesley Vest was turned out of q grog
shop near the old Harrison Pitts place,
on ShaIloWford road, while in an in
toxicated condition. He was unable
to reach home and lay by the roadside
the remainder of the night. He was
found Saturday morning in a comatose
condition, from which he never rallied.
He died Saturday e~vening.-Winston
Journal.
A special from Salisbury to the
Charlotte Observer last Tuesday says:
It is reported that Mrs. Thomas Viii
liams, the wife of an employe at Spen,
Ger, left ~clandestineIy last night for
Florida with her husbands brother,
Mr.. David Williams, with whom she is
accused of being on terms Of undue
intimacy. The clipping wife leaves be,
hind a sorrowful husband and their
two little children.
Morganton Farmers Friend: John
Cunningham, who is well known here,
was almost frozen last week on Lin
vile. He was found by Tom Brown.
ing's wife in a barno of Mr.. Lenoir Ber-
rvs, where he had been for severl
days. Whiskey was at the bottom OF
the trouble, and will cause the loss OF
his feet. tho he will live. He is now
being cared for by Mr.. Berry, who sent
for him as o as his whereabouts
was known.
Durham Sun: Tuesday morning al
ten o'clock @ epeciaI train left Wi