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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER;, DECEMBER 2, 1890. "NERAL STATE NEW?. Cream of the State Tress. T,tin and Grains of Rice from the dTOSTSXpesand Tobacco Stems S ' ?n& ; SUlE of Corn and Grain, 0? ff hMt from the Weet, and Peanuts ofwd Cotton Seed from the South, Oxford is to have a telephone exchange. A knittiDg factory is to be built in Raleigh TVork will soon be begun on Raleigh's electric street car system. A Salisbury bird dog has been sold to flew York man for $4 50. tr 0 Robinson, of Moore county, has tablished a cigar ltuswiy c j.. es v F Moore, president of the bank of Fayetteville, has made an assignment. The internal revenue office has been rented from Statesviile to Asheville. Henry Wagoner, colored,, was killed ffhile coupling cars at Raleigh last week. The Methodist Protestant Conference vill convene in Winston December 10th. 0ne of the four men jailed in Rale gh for burglary, recently, has turned states evidence. A poultry farm on alarge scale is to be established at Auburn, about six miles from Raleigh Bertie county people are deeply inter rested in the project for reclaiming the Roasoke land?. Senator Ransom has purchased a large farm in Northami ton county ; the price paid was $9,500. Jno. Buff, who was injured in the Shelby boiler explosion has since died from his wounds. Better passenger and baggage cars have been put on the Scotland Neck road from Weldon to Kinston. Col. L. D. Stevenson, a prominent farmer living in Wake county, made an assignment last week. Dr. L Gr. Broughton, of Reidsville, was badly hurt by being thrown from his buggy a few days ago. W. F. Stutts, the defaulting postmaster at Carthage, has been arrested and lodged in jail at the above place. The Durham Recarder has a new dress, which adds very materially to the general good looks of that paper. Col. E. W. Graham has opened up a canning factory in Durham, near the Lynchburg and Durham depot. Miss Gertrude Jenkins will report the Western North Carolina C inference pro ceedings for the Concord Standard. Govtmor Fowle has offered $200 re ward for Ira C. Shore, who is charged with the murder of Thos. W. Joyner. The Pamlico county jail was entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The general impression is that it was set on fire. The new factory P. H. Hanes & Co., at Winston will have an annual capacity of fire million pounds of manufactured weed. A negro by the name of Sandy Perry was found dead near Windsor last week with two pint ticklers full of whiskey in his pockets. The Reflector says that two boys were fooling with pistols near Greenville a few da s ago when one was shot through the heard and killed. We learn from the Salisbury Watchman that & negro train hand was run over and killed while coupling cars at the depot in that city last week. The comptroller of the currency has extended the corporate existence of the Citizens' National Bank of Raleigh, until November 30, 1910. Five caces of wine, a donation to the Confederate Soldiers' Home at Raleigh by firm abroad, will be sold at auction to day, at Wilmington. Trout fishing at Marehead City is un precedented, and it is said that eighteen kindred or two thousand trout per day. re bung caught there. The liquor venders are considerably stirred up over the exDress comnanv's jefasal to bring any more whiskey to HutoiL-2toxtoa Union. The trustees of Blackwell's Durham bank have declared another dividend of Jper cent, making altogether one hun ted cents on the dollar. John Clayton, a tenant on Mr. H. E. fiver's fwm, two miles from the city, ahorse olen from him last night, J the Twin- City Daily. j xFirst Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson is very low with pneumonia, Seville, N. C, and fears are enter- 1 that he may not recover. Mm "e Favetteville nnttnn Da1 ts milla burned last Tuesday night Loss een twelve and fifteen thousand doll 8 J msurance about $7,000 - . , 0 ZTf Priday night Mr. Z Cornelison, W Rim towM'3ip. had the mis- lL 6 t0 l0Se hU barn tw0 muleai a a11 of his forage 6tored therein W Mr H ShePherd of Cheeks Iast wee had his barn to burn, ed vSt hrse wc was con- Col. T. L Emery, of Weldon, has I recovered $450 damages from the R. & G. Railroad, for keeping a culvert which caused water to poad on his land. Durham Recordtr: We learn .hat our farmer friends in Orange are sowing large crops of wheat and preparing for an early planting of tobacco in the spring. General Edward Cook, ex-Governor, of Colorado and ex-Minister to the Sandwich Islands has been in Raleigh and had a c nference with Governor Fowle. A tract of land of over one hut dred acres adjoining Southport, was purchased a few days ago by some Northern capitalists, who expect to lay it out and improve it. Montgomery Vidette: Mrs. Bell, wife of Mr. C. W. Bell, who has been vtry sick for several months, died at her home near this place on last Sunday, the 16. h instant. Murfreesboro Index : A gin house, corn mill and five bales of cott m on the Prince ton farm, bel nging to Messrs. T. J. and U. Vaughaa, were destroyed by fire yes terday morning. Tracklaying on the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad, the great line from Monroe, N. C, to Atlanta, has reached Little River, ten miles west of Abbeville village. The Durham Medicated Cigaretre com pany is increasing its business and conse quently enlarging its pay roll. This is all in the way ot' progression, and the Globe is glad to see it prosper. The waters of the Roanoke river are as clear as spring water, and clearer than they have been for years. The river is quite low, and in many places the bottom may be seen quite plainly. The State Board of Agriculture has decided to disjuss the question of holding a State Exposition next year and put the matter in su3h shape that a committee can lay it before the Legislature. Peg-Leg Williams is again in the country ready to stir up the labor. He telegraphed JMayor Hilliard Saturday asking when the planters will be ready for him to move the laborers. A g'n house, corn mill and five bales of cotton on the Princeton farm, belong ing to Messrs. T. J. and U. Vaughan, were destroyed by fire yesterday morning, says the Murfreesboro Index. Beaufort Seaside : A farmer in Hyde county, is the father of six children and they are all twins three pairs; and in addition to that, the birthday of every one falls on the 5th day of October. A few nights ago several parties near Winston got into a row. Plunkett Daniels cut Julius Fisher's throat and he is dead. Two others were badly cut and one my die. Whiskey wa3 the cause. The colored man, jRobert Sturdevant, who was knocked off the top of a moving freight train some days ago by an over head bridge, died at his home in the southwestern part of the city yesterday. Smithfield Herald : Major Surles was brought here Tuesday and lodged in jail in default of $1,000 bail for attempting to burn the guard house at Benson. He gave his bond and was released Wednes day. The Episcopal school for Salisbury is now a certainty. Nearly all of the money his been subscribed that is needed for it and what is lacking will be made up in a day or t wo, says the Salisbury Watch man. Mr. Miles J ackson, of Clinton, was ac cidentally shot by Mr. W. H. Bender a few nights ago. The pistol was a 38 calibre and the ball passed through Mr. Jackson's neck and came near pro icg fatal. A man by the name of Wood abducted the eleven year old daughter of his son in-law David Coley, near Salisbury on the 18th inst The Charlotte Chronicle savs a reward has been offered for Wood. Rev. J. T. Harris, who was elected Superintendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum last September, died of pneu monia in Durham last week, and Rev. W. S. Black, D. D., has been elected his sue cessor. Last week Mr. C. D. Rountree brought us a- green garden pea vine which had young peas and blossoms on it. Were you about to remark anything upon the climate of this section, says the Greenville Reflector. Mount Holly News : One day last week Wilson, son of Mr. D. E. Sharar, who works at Reinhardt & Morrison's cotton factory, got his right hand caught in the carder and had two of his fingers badly torn up. The fire-proof vaults in the court house are very nearly completed, they are both of goood size and will add greatly to the safety of the curt records and other court house documents, says the Salis bury Watchman. R. M. Furman has purchased the Alex ander hotel and the surrounding property, coasisting of 160 acres for $10,00(1 The hotel contains fifty rooms. Mr. Furman is organizing a company to improve the property and the hotel will be rented. Asheville Citizen. The Wilmington and New Berne Rail road is now laid within five miles of Jacksonville, and the bridge over New river at Jacksonville in btiu built and its c instruction is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Lacy Q xerry, of Mallard creek, had his barn burned Sunday and lost a horse, mule, twelve head of sheep, buggy, wagon, and a large amount of feed. The ! origin of the fire is not known, says the Charlotte Chronicle. The stamer Comet sank in Roanoke River a few days ago just above Pollock's Ferry. It was loaded with 150 bales of cotton besides the other usual freights. The cotton was being shipped from the farmers along the river. A white man and woman had a hand- to-hand fight in the lot in rear of our office last week. The woman pick d her adversary up easily and with great skill landed him in an ash barrel on his head. says the Concord Times. One of Mr. Dan Tucker's fine hogs died last night. We hope that there is no disease among the hogs, though we have heard of several dying. This is a matter which the hogolists ought to look into, says the Concord Standard. News is received of a fatal stabbing affray among sailors at Wilmington. The gang of two separate crews got into a fracas on the streets, when one nam d Fred. Johnston was stabbed in the side and in the shoulder, and will die. Little Robert Sherrill, son of Mr. M. F. Sherr 11, of Mountain Creek township, who is only seven years old, picked in one day last week 121 pounds of cotton. We think this is some picking for a boy of i hat age, says the Newton Enterprise. Isaiah and Sanco Roper, colored jointly attacked Randolph McKay, colored last Friday night, inflicting some painful wounds on him with a stick, though Ran dolph is moving around as usual now. The boys left, says the Laurinburg Ex change. Hon. J. M. Brower has instituted snit for libel against Gilliam & Oliver, pro prietors of the Reidsville Review. The Review, duriDg she recent campaign, charged Mr. Brower with having burned his tobacco factory at Mt. Airy to get the insurance money. Messrs. Tom Floyd, Bob Spaugh ad Bob Floy. I killed 18 rabbits and a number of number of squirrels and birds last Sat urday, and it didn't take them all day either. Wc- call this a pretty good day's work in the way of hunting, says the Lexington Dispatch. On Wednesday of last week the dwell ing, kitchen and smoke house of Mr. Wil liam C. Johns jn, of Hadley township, were burned by a spark from the chimney falling on the roof of the dwelling. Only a pare of the contents were saved, says the Chatham Record. Willie Trade wick, the eleven-year-old son of N. B. Trade wick, of Sardis, had his thigh broken several days ago by a horse, which he was riding, running against a tree with him. The little fellow was resting comfortably when last heard from, 88ys the Charlotte Chronicle. A colored man by the name of John Mason, who lives at Hillsdale, last Thurs day saw a covey of birds in the field. He took out his pocket knife and threw it at them and by some means the blade flew out and killed two birds, cutting one's head entirely off, says the Twin- City Dai'y. Information was received at this office yesterday that Vandecar's Shuck house at Mayock was destroyed by fire last Tuesday at 11 o'clock. Loss estimated at $5,000, with small insurance. This is the second time the building has b lrned to the ground, says the Elizabeth City Falcon. Mount Airy News : The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad has hauled about ten train loads of cabbage away from Mount Airy this fall It pains us to announce the sudden death of Mr. Thos. F. Dunnagan, which sad event took place this (Friday) morning about daybreak at his residence. The Windsor correspondent of the Scotland Neck Democrat says that Mr Wm. Byrd, a small farmer a few miles from town, gathered seven hundred and twelve bushels of peanuts from four measured acres. On the same land last year he only made thirteen hundred pounds of seed cotton. Stanly Observer: The Yadkin Railroad is fast approaching the county seat. The convicts are now grading on both sides of the town, a mile to the north and less than half mile to the south. It is now only a question of a few weeks, a month, perhaps, until all will be ready up to this point for the cross-tics and iron. The Durham Globe and Stxie Chronicle have been struggling to raise a sufficient sum of money to send to the lawyers of Willie Davis, the condemned North Caro lina boy in Texas, in order to take ' his case to the Supreme Court. They have raised so far $107.34. Mr. Juliat) S. Carr, who donated some time- ago $200, has sent this amount on in order to save the doomed young man's life. The Buford hotel at Charlotte was dam aged by fire to the amount of $10 000 Sunday a week asro. Most of the fur: i- y ture at.d the 'lu.i.iinsr were insuied in part. M re damage was done by water Un 'v t e Dunn Courier: We learn that Mr. W. H. Pope had the misfortune to lose his cotton house by fire last Monday" night, together with a large amount of cotton, two valuable buggies, and several other articles of property needful on a farm. Rev. Anions who murdered Gibson at Hiwasse, Ga , a few weeks ago has been captured by two Indians. Amons was heavily armed, having two pistols and a rifle. He was taken to Bryson City for cor fmement in jail until the towns county officials arrived to take him to Htawasse for commitment to trial. Muphy Bulle tin. On Monday, about one mile from Sal s- bury, on the Yadkin Railroad, an accident occurred. The new road bed is quite soft yet, and the track giving way, two box cars turaed over and two colored men were mashed into a jelly. This makes six men killed since the construc tion of the road began, says the Concord Standard. On last Saturday a dog that was sup posed to be mad bit a son of Mr. I F. Meacham, of Hickory Mountain town ship. Next day Mr. Meacham carried his son to some one near Chapel Hill, who owned a mad stone, but the stone would not adhere to the wound, so it may be that the dog was not mad, says the Chat ham Record. A white man named Jesse Tump, of Fork township, was committed to jail Monday charged with the forg ng of an order to the amount of $1.50, on Mr. I. S. D. Sauls. We learn that Turner has two living wives, one at Smithfield and one in this county, and seems to be an old hand in the forgery busines0, says the Golds boro Headlight. One oi the mot respectable colored men of this community, named Burton Cotten, met with quite a serious misfor tune on last Monday. On that afternoon his dwelling with nearly all its contents was accidentally burned. He had re cently sold a bale of cotton, and the money for which it was sold was all burned in the house, says the Chatham Record. t Lenoir Topic: The furniture factory is booming and has orders away ahead of its capacity to turn oit furniture. In view of the limited capital of the com pany, the directors thought it best to lease the concern, and last week the fac tory and business was leased to Messrs. G. W. F. and G. F. Harper. They will push the business and enlarge the build ings. A large boiler and a heavy engine have been ordered. Elizabeth City Economist: Rev. C. A. Thomas baptized 36 persons Sunday, 30 of whom were ladies. A boy eight years old, the son of Warren Spruill, colored, shot himself,, or was shot, last last Sunday afternoon and was buried Wednesday. The stories about the acci dent conflict. It was said at one time that the boy accidentally shot himself, and again that he was accidentally shot by Ojtavius Spruill The young thief, Monroe Mullen, who invaded the big store of J. B. Flora's and helped himself to knives and pistoh, was arrested. On Monday morning he skipped the officers and took leg bail. Mr. Neal, who is deficient in running qualities chartered the yard engine and chased the youngster down. He iinally collared the thief in the Knob's creek swamp, where he was up to his neck ii mud and water, says the Elizabeth City Economist. The Franklin Press of the 19th says that on last Sunday evening Dr. J. J. Moore was called to attend a lady living two miles from town who gave birth to a properly developed male child which is still living, and also to a monstrosity, which was a male child perfect in form from about the region of the stomach downward, while the upper part of the body was entirely wanting, there being no indication of head or arms or upper part of the chest. A correspondent of the Scotland Neck Democrat tells the following : " A negro on the farm of Mr. T. W. White while cleaning up a new ground cut down a large gum tree, and piled the logs up and set them on fire, in a few minutes there was a loud report and the logs were thrown in every direction, and pieces of a bomb shell were found lying over a hundred yards from the fire. Tie shell must have imbedded itself in the tree during the late war and been covered by the growing wood." k 4 A special from Shelby on .the 25th says: The boiler of John Cline's saw mill and cotton gin, at Toalco, eighteen miles from here, exploded to-da, demol ishing the machinery and instantly killirg G. Cline, 16 years, old, the son of the owner, and Jno. Chapman was so badly injured that he died in a short time. John BrifTs eyes were blown out and he cannot recover. John Hoyle, another employee, is- dangerously injured, his thigh being badly fractured. THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD FOR A WEEK. Sparks from the Wires. Bt-h -p Btckwuh, of Georgia, is dead. German SocUlists are admitting women to their c'ubs. It is siid that six thousand coal miners in Alabama will go. on strike next month. The New York banks now gold in re serve $87,750 more than the legal require ment. The steamship Tributary, loaded with cotton, was burned at Terrebonne, La., on Saturday. London, Nov. 26. Eight men were killed in an explosion at Bolton, near here, to-day. New York, Nov. 24. Mr. August Bel mont, the banker, died at an t arly hour this morning. Gen. John H. Rice has been brought out as a candidate for United States Sena tor from Id galls. A line of steamers between Galveston and South American ports is to be estab lished. Capital $5,000,000. Rumford Bros', silk mill, at Patters n, N. J., was burned on Saturday. Loss $400,000; insurance $200,000. The wall of a building in course of con st? uction in Jersey City fell on Saturday, killing one man and wounding a number. Dick Humphries, an Augusta white man, h?.s been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the recent express robberies. The United States Rolling Stock Com pany, Chicago, is in the 1 ands of a re ceiver. Liabilities $3,816,000; assets $6,000,000. A Grei k conspiracy for the overthrow of the Turkish Government has been nipped in the bud by the aciion of the Triple Alliance. In O borne county, Kansas, on Friday last, a possee pursued a gang of horse thieves and killed two of them. The others escaped. Brazil, Ind., Njv. 22 The strike of drivers and day men employed in the Block coal mines continues. Over 2,000 miners are idle. In a desperate fight between John Pitchatt and T. C. Allen, at Chattanooga, Tenn., last week, Allen was killed and Pitchatt n ay die. Boston, Nov. 22 B. P. Shillaber, the humorist and poet, better known to the world as " Mrs. Partington," is dying at his home in Chelsea. Louisiana is much exercised over the doings of a gaig of bulldozers near New Orleans. One negro has been killed and several have been whipped. Birmingham, Ala, Nov. 24. Robert Webb, a butcher, butchered J. M. Harri son, a brakeman, at Fort Payne last night, cutting him to pieces with a dirk knife. Webb fled, making good his escape. New York, Nov. 25. The suspension of Richard N. Allen & Co. was announced on the cotton exchange this afternoon. The assignee is F. K. Wilier. The liabili ties are understood to be about $1,000,000. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 24. Johi C. Farrell, ex-superintendent of the Wilkes barre water company, is afflicted with a peculiar mania. He has not eaten a morsel of food for two weeks, insisting chat he is dead. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 24. G. W. King, the guard in charge of a squad of convicts who were at work on a short railroad track near this city, shot and killed J. McCaiL a convict who attempted to escape, this morning. Berlin, Nov. 26 Thirty -seven per sons were lost in the flood at Breux and seventeen at Kable last night. Railroad and business traffic in general has been suspended south of the place. Birmingham, Nov. 24. A fearful trag edy took place at Falkville, Ala, last night. Dr. A. M. Turner, a prominent citizen, while in a fit of violent insanity, choked his wife to death before she could be rescued by the neighbors. London, Nov. 24. It is expected that the Queen's speech, at the opening of Parliament to-morrow, will refer to the Behring Sea dispute as in a condition which gives every reason to hope for a speedy and amicable settlement. Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 22. U. S. Marshal White and his deputies have ar rested forty-three " moonshiners " in the mountain counties of this district. Mar shal White is doing much towards break ing up illicit distilling in this State. Mr. Smalley, London correspondent of the New York Iribune, caoles on the 22d that the situation is " full of the gravest perplexity and peril for the Home Rule cause." He says "English sentiment is unmistakably against Mr. Parnell's con tinued leadership." A Articles were filed in Chicago a few days ago for the incorporation of the "American Harvester Company," at Chicago, with a capital of $35,000 000. C. H. McCormick heads the board of direct ors, and its work will be the manufacture of harvesting machinery. Paris, Nov. 2-5. A dispach from Buenos Ayres says: The fir.an- ial crisis h prevailing in that city. Several credit h'ues have closed, and there wa3 a tumult on the bourse and he police were A charter has been filed at Topeka, Kansas, for the constriction of aline of railroad from Omaha to Gaeston, Texas. The capital stock is $18,000,000, and the length of ;he road nice hundred miles. S. S. Richard on, of NwOrhans, has a farm for which he has refused an Eng lish syndicae's offer of $22,500 000. It is a cotton plantation, or a series of plan tations, consisting of 49,000 acres, to cul tivate which 9,000 negroes are employed. Memphis, N- v. 25. Thomas Allen & Co., cotton factors and commissioners, doing business at No. 8 Madison street, this ci v, made an asignm.-nt this morn ing. The amount oi the liabilities is not y-t ascertained, but it is stated they are very heavy. Heer BergeD, a German capitalist, offers a Teward of $25,000 to any astronomer who will prove to him that there is any thing a Aid in the sun, moon, or stars, or that by any flight of irnapinati n they can be supposed to be inhabited. He gives as his reference Krupp, the car.non-maker, and is in earnest. Elkton, Md., Nc. 24 Dr. Joseph Lort, who had been drinking heavily and was just recovering from i, long-c ntinued spree, in mi take for some quieting drug, took a dose of carv.iic acid last night, and when he re; zed his error he took another dose, witntbe remark: "Well I've fixed myself now, sure." A few minutes later he dropped dead. Kankakee, 111.. Nov. 22. The South bound fast mail on the Illinois Central was wrecked at this place this mornirg. The engineer, Ed. Barker, had or e of his legs cut off and one arm badly shattered. The fireman was crushed to death. The accid nt was caused by a misplaced switch, which sent the last mail train into No. 5 passenger train, which was side tracked to allow the fast mail to pass. Plattsburg, N. Y., Nov. 24. Two brother?, Sammy and Eddie Weller, were were drowned ia Moody pond, Saranac Lake, this morning. The youngest, aged 19, went on the pond to skate against the wishes of his brother. Sammy sat by the window aad saw hi3 brother break through the ice. Rushing to his rescue, he reached over to seize hold of him, but the ice gave way and both were drowned. A DOUBLE ELOPEMENT. Two Farmers Run Away with two Young Girls, Leaving their Families Destitute. Union, W. Va., Nov. 24. John W. McCormick and William Kersder, farm ers having large families, eloped Friday nigt, the former with Pauline Raines, aged J 6, the latter with Sophia Raines, her sifter, aged 19. The abandoned wives and children are left destitute. BURIED IN THE SNO W. Experience of a Man Who Run Away, from His Camp, While Delirions. Old Town, Me., Nov. 24 - Robert H. Pye, who, while delirious recently, ru-hed from a lumber camp in the Ciribou lake region, some 70 miles away from any set tlement, was found three dys later, buried in twenty inches of snow, with both feet and hands frozen, and other wise injured. He escap id from the camp in his underclothing, and when his senses returned h9 found that he was lot. He w& dered about aimlessly, suffering in tensely from cold and want of food. He will live. A BIG BRITISH GR AB. After all the Phosphate Beds and Mills in South Carolina -Ten Millions Involved in the Scheme. Charleston, S. C, Nov. 22. It was learned definitely yesterday that an Eng lish syndicate was negotiat ng for the purchase of all the phosphate lands in this State, together wi h the machinery, etc. Ten millions is said to be about the figures involved. It is not probable that the legislature, at its coming session, will also sell all the entire interest of the State in the river phosphate deposit, the idea be ing to use the money to pay oS the State debt about $6,000 000 -which matures in 1893. RAGING FIRES. Pine Mountain Almost a Solid Blaze of Flame. Jellico Tenn., Nov. 24. Mountain fires have been burning here for the last two-weeks, and last night they surpassed anything in the memory of the oldest in habitant. The Pine mountains are almost a solid mass of fire. Thousands of dollars worth of tirnjber and fences have been de stroyed, and if a heavy fall of rain is not soon experienced, millions of dollars worth of timber will be burned. It has been four weeks sincerain of sufficient quantity has fallen Xo have any effect on the fires, and now every land owner who can employ a man to fight the fire, ha9 availed himself of cuch help, and l&it night there were numbers engaged in this work.
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