The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09

average shipment of pine wood is "a
cars a week. This wood goes to
Gastonia, Lowell and Charlotte. It
Is delivered on the cars at Grover at
81 per cord. The Fire Tan Clay Man
utauturing Company, of which Mr..
M. L. Turner is manager, ships about
II cars of clay every week to Clay
vile, Virginia.
Winston Sentinel: Rev. DR.. F. H.
Wood, presiding elder of the Greens
boro district, was kicked by his
horse Sunday afternoon on the knee,
the wound being so painful that he
was Obliged to cancel an appoint
ment. He turned the animal out to
Craze and as he passed him he play
fully kicked up his heels. DR.. Wood,
being too close to him, was hit on
the knee.
Goldsboro Headlight: A double
header freight train on the Carolina
and Northwestern Railroad was
wrecked at the yard limits in Lenoir
Tuesday morning. Engineer J. w.
Palmer, jumped and was caught un-
der a fiat car of lumber and Instantly
killed. The fireman escaped injury.
A cOlOred fireman on the second
engine, Sam Greer, was painfully
bruised.
Monroe Enquirer: A little two
year-old child of Mr.. Daniel Walkup
of Jackson township, died of poison
ing last Tuesday. Mr.. Walkup is
building ahOuse and one of the work
men had some tablets which he was
taking and the little child got them
and swallowed several of them and
died in a very short time. We are
unable to learn what drug the child
took.
Salisbury dispatch, 5th: At the
caucus of Populists held here today
A. G. Shuford was nominated for
Congress from the Seventh district.
1t is now a three-cornered fight.
HOltOn says he won't come down ;
ShufOrd states he is in to stay. The
caucus sends delegates to the Middle
of-the-Road convention at Raleigh
next week and endorses Barker and
Donnel1y.
Tarboro S~outherner: This morn
ing DR.. A. B. Mobiles brought to the
Southerner office two stalks of cot
ton, one of which had taken the
second growth, and was full of young
bolls and blossoms. The other
showed no new bolls, but a few bios
SONS were to be seen, along with a
few empty bolls from the first pick
ing. There was no cotton on either
of the stalks.
Monroe Journal: Those who kept
late hours Friday night tell of an
unusual occurrence in the passing of
numerous flights of birds, The birds
were about the size of apigeon, with
a white breast and dark sides and
back. There were thousands of
them, passing in continuous drOves
from II to l o'clock and going north
east. They were flying low over
the house tops, sometimes darting
down around the electric lights and
among the wires.
Greensboro dispatch, 5th: The
trial of the six registrars indicted
for refusing to register negroes in
the August elections has been set
for next Monday in the Federal
Court. Hunter l.. Wall and J. T.
Thompson of Winston, w. l.. Roper
and R. O. Fry of Montgomery county,
J. A. Perry and William Powell of
Burke county. The bill charges
Thompson with turning down TWEEN
ty-four negroes; Wall, twelve
Roper, four; Fry, seven; Perry,
seven and Powell, nine.
Sanford Express: Two hundred
and fifty sheep were recently shipped
from Sanford to a sheep ranch on
the Southern Railway in Virginia.
They were picked up from the farms
of Moore, Chatham and Harnett
counties, and as they were in poor
condition the ranchmen purchased
them for a mere song. After graz
ing in the Shenandoah Valley for a
few months these sheep will sell for
S. and So apiece. Every summer the
farms of this section are stripped of
their sheep in this way. Shipments
of cattle are also occasionally made