The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-15

~ 1850 ~
distileries In Collector Hally burton's
district, composed Of Caldwell, Burke
and Mcdowell, and twenty of these are
in Mcdowell, eight in Burke and two
in Caldwell. Several Of them are under
suspension at present.
Raleigh Post: The colored citizens
OF Winston are not dismayed by the
failure Of Jim Young's GRzettee. They
have organized q company to publish
q weekly paper to be called the Twin
City Herald. They will celebrate g..
Patrick's day by bringing out the first
issue.
There was an exciting fox chase in
the heart of the city Monday night.
Reynard, close pressed by q pack of
hounds in full cry, entered the city,
and tearing down Dick street, eluded
the hounds by crouching Of the piazza
Of Mr.. e. L. Pemberton's residence
Fayetteville Observer.
Charity and Children: State Super
intendent of Public Instruction Mebane
seems to be doing the best he knowns
how for the public schools. We are
glad that he displays so much zeal, and
all good citizens ought to help him in
his work, and not discount what he is
trying to do by sneers and criticism.
Last Wednesday night A. s. Thomp-
sons cotton house on his plantation on
Back Swamp, containing eight bales of
cotton and sheds built around it, with
a buggy and q wagon, were destroyed
by fire. The house must have been set
on fire az there was no other probable
way for it to have caught. Lumber,
ton Robesonian.
Charlotte News: Senator Jeter O.
Pritchard has gone up another rung on
the ladder of fame. He has at last had
his picture printed in the patent medi
cine advertisements, and SION the
North Carolina Senator will be herald
ed to the world as taking sixteen dom
bottles Of noted remedy and being
entirely cured of a corr on the left
ear.
Concord Standard: Judge McIver
at the Rowan court Saturday sentenced
MIR. Jno. D. L. Kluttz, the man who
shot Mr.. w. H Hoff at the Rowan
chain gang, to the penitentiary for five
years. The defendants attorney asked
for a new trial but was refused. A
notice Of appeal was then given by
the counsel. The bond was increased
from $500 to 81, 600.
Raleigh Post: Mr.. J. A. Mills, the
President of the Raleigh and Cape
Fear Railroad, has closed q contract
for the construction of the first twenty
miles of the road. Arrangements have
been completed with the penitentiary
authorities for the use of convict labor.
The contract provides that work will
commence at once. AS soon as Mr..
Wade al complete necessary arrange
ments he will put the convicts to work.
Tuesday morning as Sheriff Monroe,
Of Rowan county, was passing through
the city en- route to Raleigh with three
recruits for the penitentiary, he spied
an escaped convict from the Rowan
chain gang standing in the door Of the
mems waiting room. About the same
instant the negro, whose nameis lillian
der Harris, spied the sheriff. A look
was enough. The negro few. The
sheriff notified the police and before
noon MI. Pearce nabbed the bird
Greensboro Telegram.
There came near being a serious &C
cident at the Bame gold mine Tuesday,
Will Fesperman and Ranze Walton
we're drawing up q large bucket of rock
and dirt. When at the top Mr.. Fesper
nan let go his end to land the bucket.
The iron crank at the other end twisted
off and the bucket started down. FEES
perman caught the rope, and by main
strength succeeded In stopping the
bucket. 1t was a very dangerous I'm
dertaking but it probably saved the
lives of two colored men at the bottom
of the shaft, 40 feet below.-Salisbury
Sun.
Walter Yelverton, of the firm Of
Sauls and Ormond, of Eureka, met
with a painful and serious accident
Saturday night. He was preparing to
close the store, and the town policeman,
who had been standing in the store,
came towards the front to go out, when
the latter's pistol dropped from his
pocket on the floor and exploded. The
ball passed through a board and then
struck Mr.. Yelverton in the leg below