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SIXTEEN PAGES -SECTION ONE—Aages 1 to 8. The News and Observer. VOL. XLIX. HO. 92. Leads aHNortMSarolinaßailiesmNews aMGireulation THE IDEAL HOME FOR FINE APPLES President Van Lindley of Western North Carolina. HOW OUR TASTES CHANGE The Strawberries of the Eastern Coun ties Are Most Profitable. WHAT A LIVE SOCIETY COULD DO Great Work That Lies Before the Horticultural Society. The State Now Stands Third in Number of New Varieties of Fruits. At the meeting of the Horticultural So ciety held in Asheville last week, these officers were elected: President—J. Van Lindley, of Pomona. Vice-President— W. F. Massey. Secretary and Treasurer—Franklin Sherman, of Raleigh. District Vice-President —George E. Boggs, R. C. Simon, Oliver Warren, J. S. Westbrook, O. VV. BlackweW, D. E. Parker, C. R. B. Caldwell and Dr. Balm sere. Executive Committee —B. Van Herff, P. H. Beck, J. F. Gulliver, J. Van Lindley and Franklin Sherman. THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. Mr. J. Van Lindley, president, then delivered an address as follows: “As president of the society, it be comes my duty to point out the work for the. society, and to give my own opinion and observations of the fruit interests of the State, or at least a few pobxUr —-- ' ... v I ~ ' “Eastern North Carolina. The grow ing of strawberries has become im mense. About 12 year’s ago, while at tending a nurserymen’s association at Chicago, a question was asked: ‘What are we going to do about growing strawberries? We no longer get fancy prices; the south gets the fancy prices, and when our strawberries are ripe prices are down.’ A party answered: ‘Go South, young man, if you want fancy prices." 1 > Then the noted editor, the late Orange .Judd, took the floor, and pictured great tields of strawberries about Norfolk and Charleston that he had seen the past season, the fruit rotting in the field, and was a disgusting sight, and said that too many had already gone south. So his words were discouraging to every southerner or any one think ing of going south. At that time grow ers in eastern North Carolina were shipping only a few crates a day dur ing the season, but now, regardless of what the eminent editor said, as high as twenty crates a day are being shipp ed, netting the growers a good profit. Ami now strawberry farms are open ing up rapidly all along the line from Goldsboro to Wilmington, which is the main strawberry section. “In middle North Carolina all sum mer fruits succeed well; only a few' va rieties of winter apples will succeed. The same can be said of the east also, as there is not a farm in the entire State but what can have a supply of fruit if they knew what to plant, vari eties, etc. Here comes in the work for places in the United States. So he who they have beeu compelled to listen to and take advice from missionaries sent out by the nurserymen; and by them much*advice has been given, and great improvements have been made. “New fruits, or foreign fruits: Some are disposed to work against foreign fruits, forgetting that many of our old fruits are from Europe. The Bart lett pear is from Europe; Neverfail or Geneting apple, and the majority of old standard pears and plums are of Eu ropean origin, which were so popular twenty years ago, but since the intro duction of the oriental fruits, princi pally from Japan, the pears and plums, they have nearly isolated the old varieties, and nearly every one who plants a pear today wants Keiffer. Le- Conte, Garber and Magnolia, all of the oriental class ;or if plums, he wants lied June, Abundance. Burbank, Wickson, and all Japan varieties. Three-fourths of our sales are from this class of stock today. “Peaches are ripening now five weeks earlier than when 1 was a boy. New varieties: The Elbert,a peach originated about twenty years ago in Georgia. Today it is a national va riety, and lias made peach growing a success in Georgia and many other places in the United States. So he keeps up with the fruit interests needs to plant new varieties, or he might get left. The world is moving; everything is changing for better; the same thing occurs in varieties of fruits. Improvements in varieties are as great as in any other line of busi ness. “Western North Carolina, the ideal apple section of America. I have been preaching this doctrine for thirty years. Soon after the war, at a«neet ing of the American Pomologieal so eiety at Richmond, Ya,, a collection of western North Carolina apples carried off the prize. The same results have l>een obtained wherever they have been shown on either side of the At lantic. Hundreds of letters have f answered from people writing me on North Carolina fruit growing, and I could cite them to western North Carolina ,anl telling what could be done, and some day it would lie the apple paradise of America. Mr. George E. Boggs, of Waynesville, this year’s crop pays hint for all he has ever done to his orchard. Mr. M. H. Cone, of Greensboro, N. C., has in the past three yars planted about 30,000 apple 'trees near Blowing Rock, in Watauga I county; and other parties are now seeing what can be done and are plant on a larger scale. So it w ill be but a few* years before western North Caro lina will be what is claimed for the ideal apple section of America. Why do I say it? Because the climate, soil and elevation suits the apple. What you want to do to make a success is plant the proper varieties; take care of the trees, then properly put the fruit on the markets. In gathering apples they should be handpicked and placed in barrels, not poured in; care fully sorted, each size put to itself. It costs some more to gather and pack in this way than it would to shake and frail the fruit to the. ground, then pitch them into wagons and off to market, every apple bruised, and, of course, would not bring one-third the third the price the handpicked and barreled would. A wagon load of ap ples passed my place, from Patrick county, Ya., a few days ago. The man had traveled about. 70 miles over a rough road. His wagon-bed; was full, piled in loose—not an apple in the lot but what was bruised and in a decay ing condition.; and varieties, too, that if they had been properly handled would have, kept in a sound condition till March. Now is there any danger of over-production? I say ‘No.’ We are practically on the border of the apple-growing section. Jvook at the broad cotton States nearby that, pro duce no winter apples, the growing manufacturing towns all through the said country, and I believe I have never heard a man, woman or child say they did not. like apples. So there is a vast territory that Western North Carolina could and should supply. “The apple bulletin sent out last July gotten up by the Secretary of Agriculture, T. K. Bruner, gives much good information on apple for western and other sections ot North Carolina. 1 am glad to see Mr. Bruner take such lively interest, in fruit, growing. “1 wish here to give a little ex planation. All States have a horticul tural society, and nearly all except North Carolina get State aid. They are in direct corespoudence with the Pomologieal Department at Washing ton: and being president of our Mate Horticultural Society for several years of course I was appealed to when the subject of the Paris exposition came up. Having no means, our secretary, Mr. T. L. Brown, arranged with the ,Washington department to $75 to go towards the expense of getting up o collection of Western North Carolina apples. T could not do it. Dr. Me- Iver of the State Normal College, would not let Mr. Brown off to do the work; so I appealed to Mr. S. L. Pat terson. our Commissioner of Agricul ture, and finally made arangements for everything to be turned over to his secretary, Mr. T. K. Bruner, who Droved to be the proper man. He knew but little about fruits, and I never knew him to take much interest in pomology, hut lie took the work iiv earnest, and after travelling all the western section of North Carolina he then took the exhibit to Paris. After that short lesson, of one season he became so, interested and enthusias tic over the w*ork, and Avith what he saw in. his search for apples, he was able to get out what is known as the Apple Bulletin, which is equal to tha of any good student in. pomology. That was work which should have been done by the State Horticultural society, but we had no State aid. and we welcome Mr. Bruner as a co-work er in horticulture. ‘The Pest Commission is a board or ganized under State laws, with full power to do what is thought best to keep out of our State, or exterminate in the State, whatever is dangerous to trees, insects which injure fruit and fruit trees; one of the main ones is San Jose scale. They have recently sent out, an order prohibiting every nurseryman in the State from ship ping nursery stock unless it is thor oughly fumigated with hydrocinic gas that, kills every living insect it comes in contact with. I consider it, a good law, ami one that should be obeyed to Ihe letter; and it is a good protection to fruit growers. All live -nursery - to fruit growers. All live nurserymen are continually introducing more new tree diseases than any other class. So it, is important lor their OAvn pro tection. To strictly follow the in structions of said commission, others should obey their instructions if their premises are affected. “I have alluded to the State Horti cultural Society. A few of us have kept, up the organization for 20 years. We have worked hard, and have spent our own money, most of us, to keep alive the fruit interests of North Car olina. We have had a petition before nearly every legislature for the past. 20 years. At, one time we came very near getting the appropriation. We asked only SOOO a year, ample to jk»v our secretary and public our ronorts. I think an horticultural so-ictv in North Carolina is \cr\* important. A live horticultural society' could bring in more emigrants of the better class than any institution in the State for the amount of money spent. It is our duty to watch varieties, note, their success in various parts of the State, look up new varieties. On new varie ties that are national standards our State stands third in number of va rieties. I am sure that if we had a, lively-working horticultural society avp would soon stand No. 1, as 1 know from what. I have seen at fairs from Western North Carolina and other parts of the State that there are yet hunlredw of valuable varieties yet un known that would be standard fruits when* known. RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 23.1900. 'WILL NOT OPPOSE THE COLLOM BILL Reply of Wilmington Cham ber of Commerce. A POSITIVE STAND TAKEN Objections of Louisville Board of Trade Considered and Answered. POWER OF THE INTER-STATE COMMISSION The Opposition of the Louisville Board Involves the Very Existence of the Inter-State Commerce Commission Itself. Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 19, 1900. The Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, through a special committee appointed for that purpose, has prepared a report on the “Cullom Bill’’ that is so excellent that I send it to the News and Observer, the exponent of just railroad regulation, in order to insure for it a wide reading. The report is as follows: To The Chamber of Commerce: Your committee to whom Avas referred ihe communicaUon from tue Louisville Board of Trade, asking the concurrence of this oody in opposition to the “Cutlom Bill” beg leave to submit the following report: We haA'e not thought ! t necessary to go into an extended discuo-oa of the merits of the proposed bill. Tbe matter has been thoroughly considered by the Chamber within a year, and a report by Mr. J. Al len Taylor, recommending the passage of the bill was adopted. The chief objection to the bill which is now mentioned >y the* Louisville Board of Trade, was then pre sented by Mr. Taylor, but the necessity of some radical legislation, such as em bodied in the Cullom Bill, extending and enlarging the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission seemed to be so pressing that it was thought best to over look several possible objections and re commend the adoption of the hill as a Avhole rather than that there should seem to be any division among commercial or ganizations on this all-important ques tion. The communication from the Louisville Board of Trade calls attentoin very prob ably to every possible objection to the bill. These objections are presented in such terms as to cause them to appear unduly important, and we believe that any one who is Jesirious of continuing the ex istence of the Interstate Commerce Com mission. and who will weigh the objec tions carefully, can but come to the con clusion that they are of much less conse quence than the Louisville Board Avould make them appear. We were .so fully persuaded that prac tically the entire commercial interests of this country admitted the necessity of the extension and enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Com mission. that the closing statement of the Louisville Board that the “proposed leg islation is ill-considered and unneces sary;” together with the fact that some of the objections presented, seem to be of such insignificance, while made to appear ali-important; and the additional cir cumstance that there is not a word of commendation even for those portions of the bill which all could advocate, but its unconditional rejection is urged; cause us reluctantly to adopt the conclusion that some iniluence not entirely in sym pathy with the interests of the patrons of transportation lines, is agitating Avhat seems to be a concerted opposition to the bill. * The first objection urged by the Louis ville Board in regard to the propesed amendment to the “long and short haul clause” of the Interstate Commerce Law is doubtless Avorthy of careful considera tion and has some weight. However, the decision of the United States Supreme court in the Social Circle Case, is a bar to the arbitrary enforce ment of the clause, and there is no reason to believe that the Commission would ignore competitive conditions in respect of water competition. There is no question but that cases do exist and may hereafter arise where it. Avould be umvise to make it imperative for transportation companies to charge no greater compensation for a shorter than a long distance over the same line. But the hill provides that the Commission shall he empowered to suspend the rules in special cases, and Ave are forced to be lieve it is much better that this power to suspend should be given to the Commis sion rather than left to the Avhim of the freight agent of the transportation com pany. The second contention of the Louisville Board is that transportation companies should not be prohibited from changing tariffs, except upon sixty days notice, but that they should be permitted to change iheir rates at any time when the exigen cies of competition seem to demand it. So far from this sixty day provision be ing objectionable, it is quite the reverse. All transportation lines are equal before the law, and a cut rate by one line would subject the offender to a very heavy pen alty, which the law makes positive and continuous should the violation continue. The contention, therefore, that an hon estly disposed line would be made to suf fer is not tenable and is utterly without force. Sudden and radical chances are one of the evils of traffic conditions, and , filed sixty days before it can become op erative, will serve to enable the Commis sion to intelligently investigate the sit uation; thus giving stability to traffic con ditions. It often happens that a majority of the Commission is in different parts of the country hearing separate causes or prosecuting investigations .and shorter notice than sixty days would not give the Commission time to submit the cause to the hearing of a full court without interrupting other important business. In the light of these facts, it seems that this particular objection is very much strained, and certainly cannot be held to be in support of stable rates. This contention together Avith the next which opposes the publication and distri bution of a National Classification to be observed by all lines engaged in inter state Commerce, are both questions upon which even railroad experts are not agreed, and certainly do not give cause for unequivocal opposition to the entire bill. The fourth anl last objection to the bill is simply and plainly opposition io con ferring greater powers on the Commis sion. It was not to be expected that this portion of the bill would be adopted without strenuous opposition, but it Avas hardly to be expected that opposition would come from any organization of bus iness men. This opposition involves the very existence of the Interstate Com merce Commission itself, for every one knows who has given the matter any con sideration at all, that as at present con stituted, and under recent decisions of the courts, the Commission has been emasculated to such an extent that its powers, are virtually NIL. The Louisville Board says “the whole effect of this section (7) *s to give the Commission absolute power over the rates of all interstate traffics.” We were under the impression that the object of the law creating the Commission was to give it this power. Certainly the public sup posed the Commission had this power un der the law. and It was exercised up to six years ago, when the question Avas raised and the courts decided that it did not possess it under the law as it then stood. This bill we hope will legally con fer this power upon it. The Louisville Board says “under the provisions of the law as it now stands, the Commission has the power not only to hear complaints filed by shippers or com mercial bodies, or others, but also to make investigations of its own motion.” j,What tremendous and far-reaching conse quences are involved In this? Even your own committee could to as much and their investigations would accomplish the same results! Any one who has Avatched the “hearings” of the Interstate Com merce Commission, including that in our OAvn city, and has noticed how permanent ly and calmly every complaint is put to rest, can but come to one conclusion, and that is that the Commission itself has decided not again to expose its own ira potenev to public gaze, if it can aA’oid it The power to investigate in the re stricted se. se in which it belongs to the Commission does not extend to and em brace the right to legislate a remedy. Under the present law’, this power is lim ited to a judicial determination of the fact: and while the rate may be adjudged scription would operate to restrain its enforcement, except on appeal, the Com mission is without power to prescribe and legislate what in its judgment is a proper and righteous rate. In a Avord, its pres ent now’ers are judicial as distinguished from legislative, and the primary purpose of the “Cullom Bill” is to remedy this defect by clothing the Commission with powers requisite to accomplish the pur pose of its creation. With the judicial and legislative powers operating in con junction, the purpose to regulate inter state commerce wil 1 become a realized fact. Under present conditions an analo gous case would be a system of civil juris prudence wherein a tvrongful taking and holding of property having been estab lished, the court would be powerless to force restitution. Such a condition would be a travesty on justice, and such a system would not be endured, and yet the traffic conditions which restrain the growth and arrest the progress of Wilmington are no less a travesty on equal commercial opportun ity, w’hile the Commission is pov/erless to give redress, and therefore, obviously reluctant to pass a judicial opinion in the absence of power to legislate a remedy. The final argument of the Louisville Board in opposition, we are Avilling to quote in support of the bill: “The Com mission under this law, if enacted, would become rate-maker for ail railroads, and would have power to affect the commer cial interests of every city and town in the united Slates . . . and w’ould per mit the Interstate Commerce Commis sion to absolutely dominate the transpor tation and commercial interests of the' entire country.” As this would be in exact accord with the decisions of the Supreme court of the United States in the celebrated Granger cases and many others since, that the control of common carriers and their reg udation as to rates and in all other mat ters rested in the government, Ave may feel no uneasiness as to “the revolution ary character of the legislation.” The president of two great systems cf railroads in a recent address to the In terstate Commerce Commission spoke as folioAvs: “Men managing large corporations, Avho would trust their opponents with their pocket book with untold thousands in it. will hardly trust their agreement for the maintenance of tariffs Avhile they are in the room together. Good faith seems to have departed from the railroad world so far as traffic agreemenfs are concerned.” And again the same gentle man says: “Regulation by the people has come to stay, and a railroad manager who does not recognize that fact is a back number.? Fully sustaining this position, ihe Interstate Commerce Commission in its 1899 report says: “The situation has become intolerable, both from the stand point of the public and of the carriers.” Tariffs are disregarded, discriminations constantly occur, the price at which transportation can he obtained is Hue- THE TAX HEARING COMPLETED HERE The Next Hearing Will be at Wilmington. IT BEGINS ON DEC. 27TH Nearly a Score of Witnesses From Durham Examined. IS NO SYSTEMATIC UNDERVALUATION The Evidence Taken Here Has So Far Been a Complete Refutation of the Contentions of the Railroads in Their Com plaints in This Case. The State yesterday completed the taking’ of its evidence in the railroad taxation cases at this place for the present. * The next hearing’ will be at Wil mington on December 27th. The witnesses put on the stand yes terday with one exception, were from Durham county, and their evidence did not materially differ from that given by the Wake and Johnston witnesses. The exception was Mr. James W. Stevenson, register of deeds of John ston county Avho testified, not only as to the general rule, but especially as* to particular tracts in the county that were overvalued or undervalued for taxation as shown by their sale since. The list, of tracts that brought less than the taxation value was much the larger and for most of those that brought, less than the assessed value there was some circumstance that ful ly accounted for the difference. The Durham witnesses were almost to a man assessors and they were most emphatic in their declaration that the true cash value of assessment had pre vailed in their county, and that in 1899 all lands in the county were, taken a* a rule, assessed for all that they would have brought on the market. In the city of Durham property has increased very rapidly in value in the past year. Some of the witnesses thought the increase had been about 50 per cent in case of the most desir able property. Others put it at from 20 to 25 per cent. In the country, remote from the railroads, they thought the increase in value had been less marked. “But* whether in town, or in coun try,” most of the witnesses said, “a fair cash value was placed on every acre of it for taxation in 1899.” One of the witnesses, Mr. C. R. Wil son. said he was summoned here for the railroads when they xvere taking evidence, and that he came, but when (’apt. Price privately questioned him a.s to what his testimony would be, be (Capt. Price told him that he (Wilson) would not be needed by the railroads, so he was paid his per diem and mile age and sent home. The witnesses put mi the stand yes terday were as follows: C. W. O’Bdien, B. W. Matthews, Jas. W. Stev enson, B. W. Barbee, J. W. Allen, C. R. Wilson, G. D. Markham, J. W. Bur roughs, J. J. Thaekston, W. P. Clem ents, G. 11. Blackwell, M. W. Carring ton. J. A. Henderson, D. A. Turrentine, Dr. W. N. Hicks, J. \. Rigsbee, J. R. Harp and R. G. Russell. Bribed By Their Own Pockets. (Nbav York Journal.) Many a man is called incorruptible Avho is bribed every day of his life. Many a nation, including our own just at pres ent, has been bribed without realizing it. The man who would rage justifiably at the suggestion of a bribe, the man Avho would spurn an offer of any am.ount from another, can be easily bribed by the money in his OAvn pocket. This writer has in m ! nd a man of great ability, who illustrates singularly well the corrupting power that lies in a man’s own money. When the man mentioned was young he Avas enthusiastic in the cause of the people. His ideas were sound, his ambi tions lofty. He had nothing, and his sym pathies Avent out to others who were as poor as he. Today his inmost feelings and ideas are the same as of yore. But his financial condition has changed. There used to be nothing in his pockets. Noav his bank account, safe deposit vault and real estate foot up twenty millions of dol lars. The man’s daily life is at variance with the good instincts that were planted in him originally. He used earnestly to sympathize with every effort to increase wages when he worked for wages. Now he pays wages, and the money in his pocket corrupts him and imre , >~ ’' ! > n to cut down where he can and to grudge where he might welt be liberal. To a friendly critic he will say in per fect good faith: “Property has a quieting influence. Money brings responsibility. Consistency is all very well, but financial matters of ten change the early hasty views,” ets. The money in his pockets corrupts him; he is bribed by his own fortune to violate his conscience. No other man’s money could tempt him to go against that which he knows to be right. His own fortune thmks for him, acts for him, and changes him. Do not belieA’e that man must own twenty millions to be controlled by the money in his pAirse. How many men of small fortune, how PRICE FIVE CENTS. many men of practically no fortune were bribed by their pockets or their future financial hopes in the late election? The Republican party managed to cre ate the impression that Avith them lay financial prosperity. If a voter said: ‘ Trusts are dangerous, vicious and ille gal.” The Republican party replied: ”ls you destroy trusts you will frighten rich men: rich men will lock up their money and you will not be able to get any of it.” The country, bribed by its pockets, vot ed to continue the trusts in power. An extremely intelligent politician, Mr. Steckler, said to this Avritcr long before election: “The savings bank depositors decide elections. If the Republicans once suc ceed in frightening them they are sure to win.” The Republican party, with ingenious falsehood and plausible talk, did succeed in frightening the savings bank depos itors. It was no great sum of money that bribed the average savings bank depos itor. Seventy dollars, two hundred dollars, perhaps five hundred dollars sufficed in tens of thousands of cases to dwarf all noble considerations in the minds of the voters. Imagine the average hard-working man saying to the Republican party: “Why do you ignore the Declaration of Independence? What excuse have you to offer for changing our system of govern ment without the people’s Consent?” The Republican party replied: “Never mind the Declaration of Inde pendence, and as to your other question, we don't want any excuse. Listen to this. You have two hundred dollars in the saving bank. Haven’t you? Very well. Vote for the Democrats and that money will shrink to one hundred dol lars.” The statement is false, and the voter feels that It is false. Yet he has some slight dread that there may be some thing in it. He knows all about his two hundred dollars. He pats and loves the greasy brown bank book. About other things he can only speculate. RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY. Fupili of Buin’s Creek Academy Appeal For Aid in a Noble Cause. To the Editor: Buie’s Creek Academy, Ihe largest preparatory Bchool in North Carolina, was consumed by the flames at 4 o'clock on the morning of December 20, 1900. No clue to the cause,* as vet, can be obtained. The following resolutions were adopted by the student body, and we trust that all will heed to the needs of the principal, and the cause of the in stitution: Resolved 1. That we, the students of Buie’s Creek Academy, do hereby extend our deepest sympathies to the principal and faculty of our much loved and ex cellent institution. We pray that God may visit, them by his spirit, and teach them to be resigned amid calamity. 2. That we will ever stand by, and up hold the excellent Christian faculty for their kindness, and for the many helps extended to the poor boys and girls of our State, by our principal. 3. That ’.ve feel that the trouble and loss is not only upon the students, facul ty and community, in this Christian work, but upon the entire State, and therefore, Ave appeal to every generous hearted edu cator and Christian worker to support the institution, and see that it is rebuilt; for nothing could do more for the glory of God, and the cause of education. 4. That we, the students, will use every effort to raise by contribution, in our respective communities, funds to rebuild, and extend the work of the institution. ’We pledge our loyal support in the effort to extend its patronage. May God put it into the hearts of the people of our re spective communities and State, to rally to the support of this most excellent in stitution, and its able faculty. (Signed.) E. B. POE, H. A. RIVES, J. D. HOWELL, J. B. TUG^ELL, LILLIE MATTHEW?, PENNIE DANIELS, NORMA BURT, R. T. UPCHURCH. J. A. CLARK. Committee. Buie'3 Crock. N. C., Dec. 29. Armenian Customs In Erzerum, Armenia. Christmas-tide is the season when the maidens fancy they can choose the love of their dreams, and they have a unique way of getting tho question decided. In the early morning, before sunrise, the maiden makes a corn cake. While it is in the oven, she dresses herself in her prettiest costume, for this is an offering to fate and she must look her best. When the cake is done, tho maiden bears it to the roof Avherc she places it on the terraced house-top, then hides herself behind the great chimney. Suddenly there comes a whirr of wings, and she sees a great bird looking toward the cake. Finally he swoops down in sAvift flight and seizes the maiden’s offer ing to fate. This is the supreme moment. The girl’s eyes never waver a moment in watching the bird's flight, for where he rests will be her future mate, of she chooses to have him. If the bird flies far away her fate will not he settled during the coming year. THE NORTH CAROLINA YEAR BOOK. Warren Record. We note that the News and Observer Company, of Raleigh, announces that they will issue an annual North Carolina hand book of ihe leading events of the State about the first o January next. This is a good move, and we hope that the enter prise Avill be so successful as to cause the News and Observer to issue one every year. It is a good tiling to have the events and facts of each year put up in a nutshell, in a convenient form. Let it be full of useful information told con cisely and we believe that it will he accepted by ihe people of ihe State. Suc cess to you, Brother Daniels, in this work.
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