The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-02

con by his colleague, the Hon. John
Randolph, Of Roanoke in 1898. The
cane is in good condition, and looks ss
if it might be good at the c'ts' of an
other century.-Littleton NeWs-Re
porter.
w. 81 G bert, bankrupt hardware
msrchanI from Winston, who q d to
California, has formally declared to
United States Commissioner Peacock
that he will no longer resist the legaI
eff 1Ft to send him to North Car DINA
for trial On the indi stmenG charging
him with having concealed @ portion
of his assets with intent 20 deiraud his
creditors
A white cotton mill employee in
Rowan county, named Will B1sG, at
tempted as a joke to vaecinate a negro,
but the latter snos him aud then q sd,
folio we'd by the white mans friends
The negro was taken by the SnerIf
who carried him TO Statewide for safe
keeping Bost vas shot In the abdomen,
and more than q foot of his intestines
was removed. He died last Saturday
Salisbury correspondence Charlotte
o Iserver: JJhn Gushing, q young
man Is years of age. fell dead at his
home at this place "a b He was an
emplly e of the Southern Railway and
If an ansi-cigarette regulation, such as
is ABOUT I'd be enforced in SJuCh Caro-
line, had been applIed by the com
pany to this division he would yet b.
living. The funeral was held at the
Baptist church Tuesday afternoon.
The number of deaths from the ty-
phoid fever epidemi at the State Nor
NAL and Industrial College, at Greens.
boro, is fJurteen. Tn sick girls re
m ain at the institution, all the rest Of
che patients having recovered cuff
GENTLY to travel home Miss DAVIS,
one of the students. continues desper-
ately i'll. The re-opening Of the Nor
NAL has been postponed for some weeks
after the first OF Janusry.-Ooncord
Times
Miss Evelyn Bailey of the State No.-
NAL INC IldusErIaI College, died there
D cemOer 2Osh Of typhoid fever. She
was a sister of the Mlss Bailey who
died sJme weeks ago OF the same
disease. Both girls we're from M cks-
vile, N. O. Toe case of these two Rlrls
vas especially pathe'iG. They we're 90
much devoted TO each other hat it was
q subject of comment. and the younger
more than once made the remark that
If her sister died she would nave moth
ing to live for. When the elder sister
died it vas e~crupulousiy kept from
her.
The sheriff Of Hay W cd county
brought a rapist-a white mRn-to the
peDitentisry yesterday to g a a =
teen year sentence. Burt 8 n,tn is the
name Of the convic5. HIS victim vas
his niece, who is only eight years OF
age. TIE plea of guilty or attempt to
commit rape vas entertd with the CON
sent OF the prosecution, and Judge
Stevens sentenced Smith to imprIson
menE in the p~eniren,iary for q term of
fifteen years This 10 the c ase IN wnicn
lynching vas threatened, and the local
military Company vas cale1 cut Co
prevent ~lynchIng during the summer
R .leigh Post.
Cleveland Star: There are two
women in No 8 township, this coun 3,
who have been living in two miles OF
each other for yer 30 years and Meth
er has ever seen the other. BO b are
abou 80 years old and both are we'll
preserved and eDjoy good health. o.
of the ladies has not been TO chu Oh
for fifty years. The last time she did
go The Gov 9 got out of the lot and tore
down q fodder stack, 80 she came co
the conclusion that she ought not TO go
any more. Sac visits very little and
seldom leaves home. The other lady
ia a devouS cnurca member and a5tenos
regularly. There is no Ill will between
the families, but it just so happened
that these two old people have lived
tnIs close together tJr such q long
period and have never seen each
other.
A recent Pittsboro dispatch says:
News reaches here of q very singular
and romantI3 marriage which took
place in Bald win township, in this
county on last Sunday in which Mr.
Elias Harris, a very respectable ano
we'll TO- do farmer. 73 years of age, a. d
a MISS Ell ckman, a maiden lady ,ftome
IS or 40 summers, were the contract
Rho@ NJ HawPia