The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-05

probably the best paid official in North
Carolina.
Mr.. Daniel Worth, brother of S tate
Treasurer Worth, died Monday night
at his home at Guilford College.
The Agricultural Department re
celves complaint of a small bug that is
destroying the fodder on the stalk.
There are now SI6 lodges of Masons
IN this State, three having been char
tered this year. The order has 1000
members in this State.
Stokes county can boast of three
brothers Southera by name) whose
combined age is 256 years. Their re-
spective ages ace 80. 81 and SO These
three brothers live within two miles
Of one another and are hale and
hearty.
1t is said that nearly all the famous
Eastern Carolina banker ponies were
drowned in the recent terrible storm
ON u coast. A gentleman from Beau.
fort tells the Goldsboro Argus that one
man counted fifty two dead ponies
within a distance of a few miles.
James Lanier, who is probably one
Of the smallest men in the world, was
very seriously injured while playing
at the FIRE engine house in Raleigh last
Sunday evening. While sliding down
q pole he lost his grip and fell about
fourteen feet. He is not over three
feet high and weighs less than forty
pounds. He is % years old.
The Pr operty of the Cape Fear Power
Company, at Lockville, has all now
been surveyed and the engineer 8 are
preparing their working plans. When
these are completed the company will
make some definite announcements as
to their plans. This is one of the finest
water powers in the State. The com
pauy is developing its own property
for twenty,s six miles up HaW River
from Lockville.
A municipal election was held in
Wadesboro 31st ult., upon the question
Of issuing bonds to the extent of $25, 600
for the purpose Of erecting and main
tanning a system Of water works and
electric lights. Tue measure was car
ried by a majority Of 12O of the votes
polled. Wadesboro will now 500 be
equipped and fitted with these modern
conveniences and the major portion
Of the citizens contemplate the new
venture with much pride and gFatif-
cation.
Geo. Sloan, aged 80 years and cashier
Of the Wilmington Savings and Trust
Company, is reported to have disap
peared. He was an exemplary young
man and his Rbsense is u~naccounted
for. The finances Of the bank r in
good shape and President Norwood and
the Directors give q written guaran-
tee to ell depositors who desire it.
Sloan took only the balance of salary
due him, and 800 for which he left his
note with ample collateral attached
thereto.
MI. w. E Clifton, 8. A. Line agent
at Rich Square, has some Of the finest
young pecan trees growing on the rail.
road land we have seen. a year ago
the Seaboard manager sent each sta
ton agent q lot Of pecans with In
structions to plant them on railroad
land at the stations. Mr.. Clifton pre-
pared the ground we'll for his trees,
and now, one year later, he has trees
four and a half feet high. He has
one row of twelve trees planted so feet
apart, that are growing nicely. He
has given them good attention. Rich
Square Patron.
Melville Parker, a negro convict
trusty, Criminally assaulted Bette HUI
dleston, the eight year old daughter Of
William Hurdleston (White) near Dur
ham Monday afternoon. The crime
was committed at the county convict
camp, which 10 only three miles from
Durham. Parker is about 80 years old
and was brought to Raleigh to prevent
IynchiDg, though it is not certain that
he would have been lynched at Dur.
ham. Another negro, Andy McAdams,
aged about 16, outraged q 4 year-old
white girl near Burlington last week,
McAdams confesses; Parker denies his
guilt. Both are now in Jail in Raleigh.
Captain Calvin Barnes, a prominent
citizen Of Wilson was shot in the back
from ambush near that town Monday
night and died 8 ION after. He was
riding in a buggy with two little
grand. children. Joseph J. Jefferson,
q white renter on Capt. Barnes farm,