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The ncanoke Beanoiv iboOfiicial Papcsr "oTVa8h ington County, v J , Published Every Friday by Tna KoANOKE PUBT-ISHIHO CoMPAKY. Y. FLETCHElt AUjJB JN, - Editor. Subscription price, $1.25 per year. Advertisement inserted at low rates. , . ibituar notices exceeding tt m lines, five cent hue. Couut the word, allowing eight to the line, and acn money with MS, for all in esxers of ten ' The editor will no be responsible for the views f oorrespondontd. ' . . All article for publication mast he accompanied b? the full name of tae Writtr. . "Correspoi.denti are repeated not to write on bat one aide of the paper . L.tk.,'pa All communications mut be sent In by Thursday morning or they will not appear.- Addreea all jomraunjcaUonato ........ - ITIIE ROANOKE BEACON. - - - ' Plymouth, N. C. We appeal to. every reader of Tna Boahok BEAro; to aid as in making it an acceptable and profitable medium of new to mir eitiBcna. bet hvmoath people and the public know wnat la going on tuPlym.MitU. Report to n all item of uewi-thP arrival and depannre of friends, social event, death., aoijoiw il.neui, accident, new buildings, new enterprieea and improvement of whatever character, chance, in bu.ne.y-indeed auything and everything that would be of Interest to our people. . ,.. . , .. 'fi FRIDA, DECEMBER 9, 1892. . . , . : i r CJoxgbess is again; assembled at Washington,' it'liaviug met Monday. T.bis '.vill be thq last session of the Fifty-second Congress. Many of the Congressmen are there for the . last time, while others will occupy - seats in the Fifty-third Congress. The death of Jay. Gould, tho great financier, which occurred on the 3i instant, caused a cliekln the wheel of railroad work, of which he was the distinguished head of many, but the stop iS only for. a moment, and the -work goes on as though he had never lived. The New-Haven, Conn., Register, oi a rccenij uaw) fe1,ca . of the public and military life of our able statesman,' lion. Tlios. J. Jar-vis-, and say's that if the South is to be honored with a cabinet appoint ment no bQtters,man could , he selec ted than Thos. J. Jarvis, of . North Carolina. - Mr. Bland, of Missouri, father of the Bland Silver Bill, and leader of the free coinage- movf-nunt, does not seem to ba very hopeful at the prospect of a free coinage bill from the next Congress, but he will stick to.tho movement and, if it fails he will then favor the coinage of the 126,000,000 ounces of bulliou that is -i.U ril ..il.iiK mill turn nnf in nie xreaaiirj, hhiuu mu mi. w $162,000,000. " ' . This bullion was placed in the Treasury under the Sbeiman act, and there is no reason why it should not be coined and placed in circula' tion. ".. m THE FUTURE OF FARMING Wilmington giar . ;. Mr. C. Wood Davis, of Kaunas, ha6 devo- .ijn mnp.n timA nn.i ftiiflniinn in atTir-min. 'Himro oi me aericn mr&i lcanstrv in inia country. lie has written much that ia in -i tereating, and while w do not agree with Vtiin in oil Vkia Ann)nciino w a Agk KaIIsva ; with him ia the bright future of the Amer ican-farmer, ue nag , reasoned mmseli into the bslinf that the indastrv of the farm has reach sd the bed rock of deprcsou and that henceforth it will be lifted np until it becomes ne of the mnt prosperous ef all our industries. " His argument is this. There is just so rnaoh land ia this country which can bt devoted to the growth of cereal,aud focd B.uSa for man aad beast. With the Da kotas the uortlm h limit of the wheat area has baeu reached, and it will not be many year, even at the pn sent rate of occupa tion, before all th aa liable griii-growing lands will be taken up and be under culti. vation. But the population increases, he contends, more rapidly than the increase of aoreage, and thertfjre the iaceaae'of pro duction is not proportionate to the increased demand for consumption, 1 the t result of which must logicall j b highur prfcee for products, 'and at (be same time a steady a.dranr.1 in vninn r f.ifinw. laua Taltinn it fn ,1 ik.i it. rt -to v jiouu iua jut. vj. im reasons from correct premises and that 'there U ground for the conclusions he draws, Itum ara fiotw things he seems to hate overlooked la his calculations, lie reasons on the Dreu mpt ion that as the tiovsrnnimt bndi are taken up the availa ble supply cf certal preduciag landu will ie eihausted and does not take ipto account the millions of acfta of land throughout tl-a country, which are or mny be made ftnaxraiu-prodaeinc lauds, npn which no j,.: uu hai ever been grown. . He also rea. f -ii3 npen lha premmptka that the jild rt graia per acre will continue the same. I' it in tht as in all other t a-un tries where iE'ellisence prtvai!s among the people ts iht i landu become higher in value, and wfcsa thcrea'rd no mere cheap Government Pi jrailrciyj latwls; open t ruarket, an-l .mm must of ccslty b content wiik iiuaJJer f iirna, then mor attbtion will be nf , n it i -i! :tu. v ut ari,;t.tnre. ad wore effort Made to inerease the produetive et. paoity or the soil. This is sometfefBC to whtoh very little attention baa yt been Rlvea la the Ualted States, fresh lands beisf so tasily ieeur4 that there was really: necessity for io creasiug tho capacity of tho lands ader eulti vatien, and peeple have go on from the first settlesaent of the ountry to 'the present day cxhaaating tho fertility of the soil, with bit little or no effort to keep it up or to rsure it. Wo speak la n general way for there are of coarse exeeptiouev It would not be Jest to suppose that all the farmers farm in the thoughtless, mechaoioai way that the largo majority of them do. ' As proof, however, that farming aa rule in tho United State is done in a shiftless, beagling way. tho average yield of wheat per acre in the country is less thin twelve bushels, and there are hundreds of thousands of sores which , when first pot ' under cultivation would predece from twenty five to thirty bnshels, which will not now produce twelve, for the simple reason that the stupidity which "cultivated" it. as it was called de stroyed it, robbed it of its fertility, denied it its plant food, starved it, and aa some me a work a horse bard, starve him and kill him, so these so called farmers starved their lands atd worked them to death A brain, less snan can destroy the best land ia the world, but it takes a man ef seise and in. dustry to make aUrile land productive. W.theut making the toe broad assertion that all the farmers of the West are brain less or that all the farmers of the East are men ef thought and sense, the latter have taken their comparatively barren lands and now gather more eera per acre from them than the frraers ef Illinois and Iowa' (the two great corn 8ta(es) gather from their rich and seemingly inexhauetible prairies Why ?. Because the poor soil of Jlew Eng land oompelled the farmer . to aaaiat nature, starve or emigratewhile the originallv rich lands ef the two States named, and of others, made the farmers careless and pre vented effert to preserve the fertility which so generonsly rewarded their labors. The corn crop of the West is no ler-ger a profitable crop. Why f . Beeatue the average farmer has to cultivate three acres to get what he sheuld get from "one, and what he would get if his own folly had not so impoverished tbe land aa to serieus'.y impair if not to destroy its productive cap acity. In calculating the future possibilities of supplying the demand for food all these things must be taken into consideration, and it must bo remembered that this coun try i capable of producing, even with its present acreage, with thorough methods of culture, tbre times as much as it new pro duces. But this improved cult ere will not be until the iDcrtaaed demand raises prices, and with it so inerases the value of land that binall farms instead ef large farms will be tho rule. But the very conditions that bring this about and foroe better raethed will con. tribute to the ' preaperity of the American farmer, and help to make the agricultural indnstry one ef the most premising and favored industries in tho country, especially in the South, where the natural advantages over other sections are so many. N. C. BUILDING AT CHICAGO- Balei'gh North Carolinian. Mrs. F.orence II Kidder aod Mrs. Sallie S. Cottea, lady managers ef the Worid's Fair from North Carolina, undertook a year ago to raise a pkrt and, if possible, tbe whole of the amount necessary fer the erection of a Siate building at the Worid'e Fair- . They have secured $1,000, but as $9,000 was needed they have isaued a state meat that, not recieving the needed co. operation from the men of the State, the plan has been abaadoaed. The ladies are in no wise responsible for the 4 'Castle ia the air" whioh was dedicated ' as North Caroliaa's bailding at the Worid'e Fair last October. Whoever ia responsible has made us the laughing stock of the world. That gratdly heralded dadioatioo of North Car. o!ina's buildiug, wkich will never be seen except on paper,' will be known ia history as ih Great Fiasco." It is a shame open us that we have failrd to crest this building, and it makes us rediculous to have blazoned to the world an account of what we will not do. All honor to the noble women who did ail that they eonld to send the State to Chicago in holiday attire ! It has beeu suggested by Sirs Tucker, president, sad lire. Cctten. secretary, that the $1,000 contributed be nsed to erect a permauent memorial ia the State to the memory of Virginia Dare, the first white ehild born ia America, and eaob contributor will be asked to transfer his money to that end. . . North Carolina will have no bailding at the World's Fair, but in the great bailding it has beon given desirable space and those in charge of getting np the exhibits are rerking earnestly and intelligently to eel lfCt an exhibit that will be worthy of the magnificent and unsurpassed resource of the 6tte. We bad no building at Boston or New Orleans, 'or Atlanta, where North Carolita's display was greatly admired, and we will win even greater glory from a grand display at Chicago. Tbe antbori ties now state that the $25,000 appropri ated by the last legUlature, from tbe direct land tax fund, will be available, and, that, with the expenditure by tbe Agricultural Department, will give us aa exhibit that will be incomparably superior to any bare, tofure made by tbe State. Double Battery Galvanic Belt, Soli by w. W. Leary. Roper. N. 0- Cure heart dJBease, Jtheumatism, Back ache andtmsny other diseases without medicine. Best by mail p6t paid to any address oa reoeipt cf 0i' e al:ar, SOSIS PRACTICAL SUGGES TIONS BY A SUCCESSFUL . FARUEfU Newborn JosraaJ, We had a Tory pleasant call from Mr.vD. 8. Amaa, one of Onslow county's most prosperous farmers, yesterday afternoea. Mr. Amaa considers that there is one of tho brightest outlooks stioad for farmer who put their iutllect into their occupation that taere has ever bea. ew Ideas and meth ods are coming to the front In agriculture, aad the man who keeps abreast of the time, instead ef following in old rota," will reap a tleh reward. " - ,J Making a fall crop of Irish potatoes is an innovation that is eomiug into more and more extensive practice now. Mr. Amaa V.Id ns of his experiet.ee along this lino this year. ' ' U pUnted the first shallow, bat .got po Btanct ; b tried again two or three week later, planting whole potatoes deeper Tis time he teenred a good stand. He omit ted manuring until this was assured, and then applied the manure by plowing c!oe to tbe potatoes, snd putting it where it would prove moat ef ective, . making a slight difference in time in tbe applications to the two aides. The result wan an excel, lent yield. Mr. Am an has an idea that the best results Ul be obtained, by plastl ing the full crop directly after digging the spring one, and be intends to try the expe. riment next year. y ,. - . . : Mr. Amaa is convinced that there is a great future for North Carolina fruit grow, era. He says that, putting estimates low there is good money in it. . Only two bush sis of apples to a tree aad 150 trees to the acre, gives $300 per acre with but little trouble or expeass. -;--: . ; - . 1 ': Mr, Amaa is welt pleased with results from Keiffer pears. They . are large ' aad fine, bear several bushels to the tree,' ripen late, when there is a strong demand for such fruit and keep well He ' bsl some of tbe f rait at bia borne new; Mr. A man said counting five bushels to the tree and putting them at only $1.00 pel bushel there is $5 00. Wo mentioned to Mr. Ainan that pears ef this same variety raised in Craven county aold in Ncwberne this year ' at $1 25 per peck and single -ones sold - fer five cents each. Mr. Amaa replied to this that ia all be wls saying be was keeping the figures low enough to be safely conservative in every regard. " " . ' , , . . Mr. Aman baa a very poor opinion of buying butter, etc , from " the North. He thinks the farmers of this Stats ought, , at least, to make enough for the aaeof their families and to anppiy North Carolina citie . He believes in farmers making their own supplies and more. Us t uly says that if a anaa makes cotton and sells it without a profit and then buye goods on which there is a profit, be will be bound to have bard times. Mr Aman carries oat What be advises others to do. He make yearly thousands ot dollars worth of diversified farm products aad ia rendered thereby independent. -The worth of such men t a community ' csa hardly be duly appreciated. OUR RALEIGH LETTER. BAX.tI.oK, N. C, Dec., 6, 1893. The Stat Board of Canvassers after an extensive and laborious investigation in re grd to Wil.iatne vs Settle, Fifth. Uiatric, have decided in tavor cf Mr. Settle. : Trio total vote lor that dUtriot i : Settle, 15075; Williams, J 2746 ; W. B Likdaey. 4358 ; Wm. Love. 424; Tho. A. Settle, 73 ; B. 8 Bubertsoa, ' 1, Settle's majority over Williams, S2'J. . At the Metropolitan Hall Thursday night, under the energetic, aud equal to-ovory occasion management of tho General Sec rotary of the X. M. C. A., Mr. James S. Atkinson, there was quite an iattrvsiing musicals, organ, violin, cornet sad flute, blending iu one harmonious wnoio.' : While various athletic performances ea the bar, aud tho "flying rings" by Mesa. Woodall, Womble, Bullock and T. H . Brlgga, Jr., won the repeated plaudits of the audienoe while the juvenile members of the gymna sium, uuder the dircet aupiora of the Gan. Becretary, were exoeediugly graceful and thorough. Next wae the spelling. Bee. Lawyers, M, D's, D. D', literati, newspa per men alt participated and the fun waxed fast as each one would grapple with the word, only to hear Prof Moaos . utter in stentorian tenan, "Wrong J Capt. Al Ion, a speller from Spellersvillo, "alias Franklin oonnty, a plain farmer, bat cram med full of "blue-back' lore, downed us all, and amid Cheers, recieved the prize, a copy of Uevcriee ef a Bachelor. The North Carolina Baptibt State Goa Ycation convenes here next week. Quite a memorable one, celebrating tbe Con ten nal of Missions, and already over five hundred delegates and visitor J have applied for quarters, to which Raleigh will of oourse nobly respond. Mr W. H. SUlliags, loag a resident, genial, yoang. aad thoroughly eatimable, devoted to the cause of the Y. M. O. A., leaves Tuesday to fill the onerois aad ira- ?irtant position of Ass't. Secretary in the . M. O. A, at Kansas City. Mo This ia quite aa honor, though in this ease deser vedly so. Farewell brother I May God' richest blessings attend thy every etop. Had the pleasure of a conversation today with our Representative, W. A. B. Breach, Esq., of Beaufort, w bo leaves tomorrow for his outiee in Wsxliiugtoa City. Iasob-r tiuth. take him en every aide, in every phase of life, business, social and political, h ia tho bao ideal of a man not by. the ft misused misnomer gentleman simply and orth Carolina may well be proud of hot sen. Hi voice aad influence will sure ly bo heard and felt in tbe line of honor and duly, and ia a thoreagb Demoerat Atteuded services at tbe Church of the Good Shepherd and was very much tnteres. ted in a ummary by . Rev. . Mr. Pottlager of the erigio of several of our most besuti." fnl and touching hymns, as. will aa the sermon, logical and interest-centering. The . music i of a very high order, the organist, Miss Hniden. poESeeting exqui.ite skill, and the vooaJ part admirab y ren dered. . I (hink Raleigh ha about aa efficient and correct a corps of guardians of the peace as any city da boaat, - -Cbico. New York and Ral'igh havo ihg boaor of tsirg termed tit three bett arranged and efficient fire syetems in the United States The -weather continue lovely. The temperature is pleasant and no eofd winde. Dr. II. B. Battle, director of the N. 0., exhibit at the World's Fair. Is in Chicago on business connected therewith. .-' ' "j i Lewis, v Tbe "Kuapaack" cigar i the best smoke for 6c at it H. Pattemon & Co'. Drug store. - . . OLIMAXOLOGT OF WORTH CAROLIIfA- , The above is a title ef a publica tion of 184 pages just issued by the N. C. Agricultural Experiment Sta tion. It embraces all of. the meteo rological records ever taken in North Carolina from the earliest , times to the present. The first record is in 1820 at Chapel Hill and was taken bv Dr. Caldwell, . president - of the University..' One hundred and seventy-one separate sets of , observations are embodied in the report ' taken in seventy counties. From the ' results of these observations it is ascertained that the mean annual temperature of the whole State is 59 degrees, and almost exactly the same as the mean annual temperature; of the . whole northern hemisphere. The mean annual precipitation is 53.29 inches Among the table' of contents is ih claded a, brief history of the N. 0. State Weather Service 'Jn co-operation with the U. S. Weather Bureau, a report of work done in 1891, annu al summary for 1S91, tables of nor mals for the State, index , of all ob servations made in the State.' tables of monthly mean temperature; and precipitation at all stations from 1820 to. 1892, tornadoes in North .Caroli na from 1 Si to 1892, sketch of the physical geography, of the jStatej a genera sketch oi tne climate oi the State.,,,-. : . , " . - ., It is believed that few States have ever issued auv Duplication of such permanent value and interest ns the present one, and it shows that .North Carolina is fully abreast or the times Both Had Eczema 7 In Its Worst Form After' -Physicians Failed, Wood's Sarsaparilla' Perfectly Cured. Great mental agony is endured . by parents who see their children suffering; from diseases caused by impure blood, and tor which there seems no cure. This is turned to joy when Hood's SarsaparWa is resorted to, for it expels the foul humors from the . blood, and - restores tbe dis eased skin to fresh, healthy brightness. Read the following from grateful parents t "ToCL Hood St Co., Lowell, Mass. : .T "We think Hood's SarsaparWa ts the most valuable medicine on tho market for blood and skin diseases. Our two children suffered terri bly with tho , Yorst Form of Eczema for two years. We had three physicians In that time, but neither of them succeeded m curing them or even tn giving them a little relief. At last we tried Hood's SarsaparWa and in a month both children were p Coetlr carrel. Wo recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla as a standard family medicine, and would not be without it" Mb, and Mrs. M. M. Somen, tux jfuu Avenue, aiw ya, ra. Hood's Pill ver Ilia, eonatipaUoa, hUtouaneM, laondlco; , lndlgMtloa. . ADMIN1STHA LOU'S NOTICE. naving qualified as administratorf N. U. Gray, deeeaaed. this is to notify all per sons having elaims against . the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the uad r- aisned on or b-fore the 22d day of Nov , 1893, or this notice will be pleaded in bar or their recovery. All persons indebted to said eatate will pl-aae make immediate payment W. 8. IUvemport, hev. 22, 1892. Admiuiatrator. NOTICE. ... Notice is hereby given that aspeeial term ef the Superior Court for Washing ton county for the trial of Civil Case, baa been ordered by Hon. Thos M Holt, Gey. of North Carolina, to commence en Men. day. December the 12th, 1892. and con tinue till tbe business is diaposed of. : This 14th day of no v. 1803. v ' - Jos SKiTTLEmAnn; ; k.. Chairman Brd Co, uom. . Washington County. AOARD. ' " Dr. ltobt. W, Smith ha formed a eopart. nonhip with Or.' Ward. II offers bla services to the ' -people of tho town and country. Whe.n not prof essioaally engaged ho may be found at ho Latham House, nov 22 tf , a , , - . t O. L. PBTTIGRKW, ATTOBNEY-AT-LA W, Practices in all the States and Federal Courts. Offlce. Water Street, . , PLYMOUTH, W. C. T. B. Wolfe, D. DS- " PLYMOUTH, NC OTeelh filled or extracted without pain. , MfMWt wl tar ront huBik. rauiaiatjiMSiH S an mtiif xmn Sieajr.ailfm w.hin yml aanuaur ra sh pian t. i.i wafw im au'm i wall Uia id n. Fallin HEW and -)rftd 7KUdrn of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. SoUer . Altoona,Pa. TOS.ry. .BLOlJjp .GOIflljlS. He Leads, Others Follow ! A TON drop shot all tiftf fast , from to ver at T. W. BiouvT'a : ( ' -PEANUT BAGS direct from lU- POSTUt at bottom prices at nr tv 1), ami. Aa Ha UlMVMl 'iv . : ..: ' i i . - Tn Fikist Stock riWNOPBY HATS in Et Carolina. at t '. . s T.Wa JpLOUXTaV . .a.. . s .. . : . . 7 v. ! JUST RECEIVED anus CAE LOAD two pound ba Wive in half rolla which will bs sold at whoiisali. psicts at T. W- Blocxt'b. . . e- - IMMENSE stock MEN'S tu4 , BOYS' CLOT1J1NO purchased froa , , v, READING llANUFAtTUitiiaet' .vj .7 '.-.,. i the United butts at 1 " "- ". ' . T.,rT. BtoiTiiT'i?;,,. Thf IHCOMFAHIBLI "WHITE" ....-i.'ji'. :."m SEWING MACHINE, only Thirty ... -v ' ' " dollars with 0n to keep themixu ; ,a'- OUDltlt flYA IIAKt, at '', ' ";-.V:VV I. . NOW UNIX)ADINO scheoaer of that magnificent flour, Blou 'a Liadib, purchased at the LOWEST PRICE reached in TEN YKAKS at . . ' . -T. W. Blount ' v A I . , ' - ',.:, . . r. v t . . ... , ... ; You ca 8 AVE MONEY bjr buying your BLEACHED COT-' TON s, BROWN - COTTONS aud HEAVY PLAIDS at y,' Te w". Bwuxti,-' IBliPIEEt,; J. D. GARSTMPHEN StOCB; Of FasDfionnDS'' BlfiDCflkscpy ; fib-fino'V - t' . . . - " Standard arrow, ties n Urn stf. Uivestat , T. W. Bts)NT. t . v. . t i.i : .e NO 8HQDDTV4 CIIEAP 7 JOjllf -TRASH aold at ' rv-mr . a.,' '-aaa '''' " " . T. TT. BLOTvt'sv' r . " . '' '. ' , . . ... ... vVi -c " - i, MACniNJB, onli, $11,00, .wArraan" tedfor five years at . T. r7. BL017WrC; v ; o-3 t) -o-.tft JJ. LIU! Of LA BIAS i Dfia3 i' GOODS diiplavod was never jrtttief' than that now soon st ' " '-"' ' - tf ' -; ' -; . - ; ; 5 ' . A STOCK of UXN'8. WOUWfS1 and CHILDREN'S 611UJCS that ,1a " NOT f L AfAf SBU for 4VALXTY Itlli 0r CHZAtttKSSat TAX c T. W. BLornT'a .v ' , .' s 1 J r 't HONEST t GOODS, H0XBIT WEIGHTS and MEASURES, tva HONEST PRICES are the TXATOHL WORDS at - . T. W. BLeVarVflt. ' , : -it " . . ' '. a.,'IO)f 4w it : ' W & BLOUNT'S : - - J . " i. " ' 1 ; 5 j- if X ... . K.- ' i. ' ' . ,v. . . . - 1, . a J i f ...... , - S ' a. - A '- J ' - ' . -t . V ... -: r I 7n,aiiae i 7 t 'r -
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