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2 STARTLING REVELATIONS IS TEE CROPSEY CASE Alleged Evidence That Wilcox Was Seen Struggling With the Girl the Night She Disappeared, t EMPTIf BOTTLE FOUND ON DIVER BANK Was This Bottle Dropped There by Wilcox? EXCITEMENT WAN SAT ELIZABETH CITY The Funeral Bunday. The Body Sent Vorth. Guy Hall to be Asked to Leave Town Mr. AydettMay Waive the Preliminary Hearing and Allow Wilcox's Case to go Direct to the OrandJury. Sympathy For the Pris oner's Family. (Special to News and Observer.) Sufiotk, Va., Dec. 30.—A sad faced com j any of over 800 people this afternoon assembled at the Elizabeth City station 10 say silent adieu to all the mortal part of Ella Maude Cropsey as it was started to its Northern resting place. Nell s mother was 100 unwell to ride down. The interment will occur about 11 o’clock tomorrow in New Utrecht Reformed Dutch church burying ground, 81th street and Sixteenth Avenue, Brook lyn. ‘When Ella was a school girl she trip ped by there every day,’’ Andrew G. Cropsey, who went with the bcdy. Prosecutor Ward said today: “You cab tUate that there will be enough evi ■;t March 3 a hard inturned. istimony f eouvie s admis n empty ver bank A local pottle as declares, against Wilcox Is that>;he was seen struggling v/ith Miss Cropgey in front of her home 1 In an effort to drag her to the river. It is also claimed that. Wilcox can not ac count for all his time that night nor why he chose an unusual route to reach home. A part of the Citizens* Committee be lieves it has a strong State’s case. A soldier says that when Wilcox’s sis ter visited the jail the prisoner said it was no place for her, and on her asking what she might do for him, she was told to bring a quart of whiskey. The confinement is already telling on Wilcox and it is believed his stoicism will vanish before the trial nekt spring. Law yer Aydlett says Wilcox may make an other public statement soon. Ho says ' many untrue reports have been circula ted against his client. There are some Elizabeth City people who believe the Wilcox family is now a more fitting object of sympathy than the Cropseys. Lawyer Cropsey on the funeral train discussed the case freely. As to Wilcox’s alleged struggle with Miss Cropsey, the correspondent of the New York Journal says: Another witness who may be called upon to testify is R. F. Parker, lie told his wife the night after Miss Cropsey disappeared that he had seen Wilcox dragging a girl across the road in front Pof the Wilcox home. It is said he now k>nies this. The committee will examine Jrim on his point soon. i OUT HALL’S ABSENCE DESIBEO. Itizans Decide to Ask Bim to Leave the * City (Special to News and Observer.) Elizabeth City, N. C., Dec. 30.—Today the remains of Miss Cropsey were sent to New York, accompanied by the uncle. The ever present committee and a crowd ot citizens followed to the depot and saw them off. This is the way Elizabeth City people do things. This is the end of Miss Nellie Cropsey in Elizabeth City, but the conviction of the murderer is still in Lie hands of the committee and they have not disbanded, but will hound him to his grave. , There is in town one Guy Hail today. Crowds collected on the cornets and de cided to ask him to leave the city. Hall is the man who. was run out of NorfoVk because of his connection with the Can non affair. He has been run out of Men ton for a similar offense and cannot rc tUOn the night of the disappearance dt Miss Cropsey about eleven. o’clock Cap tain Owens and his mate on a barge saw •i skiff glide across from the opposite s}rorf . to the Cropsey side and slum under actions and other things it is believed he is Wilpox s ally. But to eclipse even the ca--e in interest. A,m ° M '' ’ 1 • believes Wilcox guilty. that llie maj.u rode; Digestion ' *hat men- :by '"/*/-•.. • ' . neglected. tit* " f b- •.. • h, ■■■ : K maparilia told Hall that if he did not leave town he feared he could not protect him. The preliminary hearing of Wilcox takes place next Wednesday morning. There is still thirty minutes for him to account for on the night the girl was missing and every one is.eager to know how he will do it. H. A. CHAPPELL. THREATS NO LONGER HEARD. The Report That Wilcox Has Been Removed to Norfolk Denied. (By the Associated Press.) Elizabeth City, N. C., Dec. 30. —The excitement over the Cropsey case is dying out, and business is being resumed. The talk of lynching James Wilcox is heard no longer, the people having de cided to permit the law to take its course. The Citizens Committee and So licitor Ward are collecting evidence against Wilcox to present to the grand jury when it meets in March next. There has been a report for the past twenty-four hours that Wilcox had been removed to Norfolk, Va., for safe keep ing, the authorities fearing that the peo ple would attack the jail. Tonight Sheriff Grandy denied this. Wilcox is still in jail here, and the town authori ties expect no further trouble. \ Solicitor Ward has insisted that Wil cox be given a preliminary hearing next Wednesday. He was anxious that it should be held today, but E. F. Aydlett, who represents Wilcox, demurred, saying that he had not had an opportunity to consult with Wilcox’s father, who is ill at his home. It is more than probable that Mr. Aydlett will waive the prelimin ary hearing and allow the case to go direct to the grand jury. Any attempt to get Wilcox out on bail will be resisted by Solicitor Ward. Chairman Greenleaf and jjj<V”oTlier members of the Citizens Committee as sert that they have much additional evi dence, of which *he public is in ignor ance. The important piece of evi- the committee has, is an epapty whiskey bottle found on the river --bank in front of the Cropsey home. A local saloon keeper has identified the bottle afe having been sold by him, arid has also stated that he sold one like it to Wilcox. Wilcox is still in jail and refuses ab solutely to make any statement regard ing his conduct on the night Miss Crop sey disappeared. SEABOARD’S FINE NEW TRAINS' Observation and Dining 1 Cars on the Limited After January 15th It was learned yesterday that the Sea board Air Line would put observation cars and dining cars on 31 and 34. the Florida Metropolitan Limited, after January 13. These trains will be made as fine as any in the country, and the present arrangement is to operate them through to St. Augustine, Fla. Mr. R. W. Stump, the popular and well liked ticket clerk of the Seaboard Air Line at the Union station, left yester day for Washington, where he takes a more desirable position in the service of the Seaboard Air Line. Mr. Stump made many friends in Raleigh, who wish for him the largest measure of success. Mr. A. W. Huntley, an efficient and clever young gentleman from Sanford, succeeds Mr. Stump as depot ticket clerk. CONGRESS MUST VINDICATE BIM Schley Regards His Case as Closed, Says Cap tain Parker. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Dec. 30.—Captain James Parker, of Perth-Ainboy. N. J., one of Admiral Schley’s counsel, said today that Admiral Schley regards the case as closed, but that his friends will ask Congress to vindicate him by retiring him on full pay and reimbursing him for the expenses of his trial. District Stewards Meet. The district stewards of the Methodist church met last night at Edenton Street church. Among those outside of the citv present were Rev. B. B. Adams, of Four Oaks: Mr. E. B. MoCullers, of Clayton, and Mr Milliard Mial. The stewards appropriated conference collections for the year and passed,upon mission anti other church subjects that come before them annually. Fpworth League Officers. 'Hie Epworth League at Central M. K. church elected officers last night as fol lows : President, D. A. Pierce. First Vice-president, R. E. Prince. Second Vice-president, Miss Gertrude Royster. Third Vice-president, Mrs. S. A. Camp bell. Secretary. Miss Minnette Woodall. Pianist, Miss Annie Love. All on Board Accounted For. Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 30. —Developments so far concerning the wreck last night at Reusens, do not disclose any fatalities in addition to the four already reported. Machinist Baker, of Clifton Forge, who was unaccounted for last night, tinned up all right today. Some of those who have been to the scene of the wreck in sist that some passengers were lost, but so far as can be learned all who were not known to have been on the train have been accounted for. The high water has retarded the clearing of the track. Grippe Knockers eyre any cold, nr any case of La Grippe In 10 hours. 25c. at your ui’uggist. 1 A MURDERER CAUGHT John Brady Who Bhot E A • Smith Captured at Charlotte (Special to News and Observer.) Elon College. N. C., Dec. 30.—John Brady, the negro who shot and killed E. A. Smith, of Elon College, on Christmas day, as reported in the News and Ob server, was caught in Charlotte Sunday. The shooting, which occurred in a drunken brawl at the home of Deck Whitsell, about throe miles from Elon College, resulted in the death of Smith who. at the time was endeavoring to quiet the mob. Sheriff Kernodle, of Graham, and Prof. S. A. Holloman, mayor of Elon College, communicated with chiefs of police at different points, and Sunday afternoon Prof. Holleman received a telegram from the chief of police of Salisbury, saying that he had captured them in Charlotte. Constable J. B. Gerringer and Mart Cook left Elon college Sunday night for Char lotte to take the prisoners in custody. They will probably be lodged in the county jail at Graham. Smith was the only sober man in the crowd at the time of the shooting. He was a quiet, peaceable, Christian man, and was in no sense responsible for his death. A Great Dam Broken. (By the Associated Tress.) Montgomery Ala.. Dec. 30.—The Hood in the Tallapoosa River has broken the dam of the Tallahassee Electric Company. 180 of the (570 feet of solid masony giving wav. The dam cost ?400,000. The power was to have been turned into Montgomery early in January. Two hundred feet of the Tallahassee Cotton Mills stone was broken and the loss is estimated at $50,- 000. The rainfall was over seven inches and ton feet of water poured over the whole leng’h of the power company’s dam. The Freshet at Richmond. Richmond, Va.. Dec. 30.—There has been a tremendous rush of water down the James river last night and today. The people in the lower part of the city are moving out, and the wharves at jßodketts, are under water. The ex treme lower part of tho city is cut off. Owing to the fact that the wires are down along the James river division of the Chesapeake and Ohio, nothing can bo learned definitely of the conditions above. It is expected, baring calcula tions on precedents, that the water here will reach its height about midnight, and fears are that the freshet will be tho heaviest in years. No fatalities boon reported. Tho lin ppaKirn noc^*foo l ft F^roem end ou s fciaa putting the Gas | Works and Electric Light plant under i water and plunging the city into dark ness. A Mr. Hart at Hazelrun had to take his family out of his house on horse back. Luray reports a great freshet in the Shenandoah, which has seriously inter ferred with the running of trains. At 11:30 tonight James River was still rising. The water in the streets at tho new Chesapeake and Ohio and Seaboard Air Line depot and the Trigg Ship Yards are partially submerged. So far the gas works and the electric light plants are safe. There will be no very serious damage to property. The Floods in Virginia. Roanoke, Va.. Dec. 30. —Railroad traffic in Southwestern Virginia has been seri ously interferred with for the past forty eight hours, owing to the heavy fall of snow and rain during the last two weeks. Many washouts are reported ou the Nor folk and Western main line, the Roanoke and Southern and the Shenandoah Val ley railways. John Wright lost his life in this county lafet night while attempting to cross a swollen stream on a horse. A heavy fall of sleet and snow at Christiansburg today has prostrated the telegraph and telephone lines in that vi cinity. A telegram from Radford tonight says New River has been flooded again for the fifth time this year, breaking all j records. The water rose twenty feet, and spread over the adjacent country, partially submerging trees, houses and railway tracks. THE BHE RIFF HID THE KEYS Eat This Did Not Stop the Lvnchers at Jackson Friday Night The following additional account of the' lynching of Jeter Mitchell at Jackson, was received by the News and Observer yesterday: Last Friday night at 10 o'clock about one hundred masked men came in and called on Mr. J. E. Grant, the Jailer, and demanded the keys at the point of shot guns. Mr. Grant had only the key of the lower jail. Sheriff Joyner fearing trouble, had taken the combination key with him to Garysburg. They procured hammers and chiselr, broke open tho cell and took the wretch to a nearby oak in the court house square and hanged him to a limb fifteen feet high. The body wan left alone where it dangled until next day about 1 o’clock. There was no coroner in the county and the authorities finally had it taken down. SORE~NECK~ Take Scott’s Emulsion for scrofula. Children often have sores on the neck that won’t heal up. The sores may come and go. Parents may not know what’s the matter nor what to do. scrofula j s the trouble and Scott’s Emulsion is the medicine. Scott’s Emulsion heals the sores. But that is not all. Scrofula leads to consumption. This is the real danger. Scott’s Emulsion is the “ounce of prevention’’ that keeps off consumption. We'll send you a little to try, if you like. SCOTT & 150WNE, 409 Pearl ettcet, New York, I’HE NEWS AND OBSEVEK. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JAN. 1. 1902. How’s ieyV' Your *jL J STOMACH? Does it properly Digest wholesome and nvitritiovis food? Good Digestion necessary to j 1 1 perfect health. Perfect health is essential to happi ness. If Dyspepsia has a hold upon you, you are unfit for life’s work. Cast off this dread disease. Coleman's Gua.rari\tee will positively cure all forms of in digestion and dyspepsia. Hundreds of users attest its curative powers. It will do for you what it has done for others. One dose gives relief. PRICE 50c. A BOTTLE. If your druggist doesn’t sell it get another druggist. COLEMAN REMEDY CO., Danville, Va., U. S. A. Cultivation of Cotton. **Cotton is a semi-tropical plant and should not be planted unti the soil be comes sufficiently warm; the time for planting varies. In southern Texas planting usually commences about the first of March; in the extreme northern belt about the 10th of May; a line drawn from Old Point Comfort, Va., to Cairo, 111., may be regarded as the northern limit for cotton. The land should be well prepared, then lay off into drills about four feet apart, preferably north and south, or better sill, in line with the sun at two o’clock. It has been found that cotton in such rows is less subject to rust, than in rows run ning east and west. It will be well to run a coulter, or other suitable plow, several times in the bottoms of the drills, thus forming loose beds eight to twelve inches deep and about a foot broad; care should be taken not to expose the sub soil to the sun, especially if the plowing be done late in the season near plant ing time. Said loose beds will exert an immense, influence "in resisting the ef fects of .drouth. A fertilizer containing the following ingredients may be used: Nitrogen-3 per cent; Available Phosphoric Acu. J l nt rml Fotao. AppTyon tho loose beds at tnFTTTP 1 to 600 pounds per acre and, thoroughly J | mix with the soil to the depth of a few | 1 inches by. shallow plowing, preferably a few weeks before seeding. Then con struct low' ridges on the drills, open and plant cotton seed in the usual way. Fer tilizer applied a:; above is much more economical than broadcasting, only about half the quantity being required. With proper preparation, tho loose beds will furnish on ample supply of plant food. In lieu of the above fertilizer the fol lowing materials; may be mixed and used: For Nitrogen use: Nitrate of Soda 330 pounds, or Sulphate of Ammonia 270 pounds, or Dried Blood. 540 pounds. For Phosphoric; Acid: Acid Phosphate. 1230 pounds, or Dissolved Bone. 1060 pounds, or Dissolved Bone Meal 1525 pounds. For Potash US'?: Muriate of Potash 110 pounds, or Sulphate of Potash 110 pounds, cr Kainit 440 pounds. Kainit is preferable to either Muriate or Sulphate of Potash, being almost a complete remedy against rust. Tho above quantities of Nitrate of Soda. Acid Phos phate and Kainit will make a ton of 2.000 pounds, but any other desired quantity can be prepared, using the same propor tions. Distance: —Single stalks may be left in 1 the drills front 12 to 24ginches apart, ac cording to the ferlilitypof tho soil; ricli soils require a greater distance than poor or medium soils. If the distance be greater than 21 inches it will afford ex cellent facilities for the cotton to open, but it will oil most lands be attended with loss. On very rich land the rows should be wider apart than 4 feet and the distance in the drills more than 21 iuehes. To be short, the greatest distance that will not result in loss, should be given, thus affording proper facilities for the cotton to open. Distance is especially needed for wet seasons; otherwise the ex cessive weed that will bo produced will * prove detrimental to opening. Cotton is frequently left, too thick by half, thus causing a large portion of the crop to bo caught and ruined by frost. Humus:. —Humus is imperatively needed as a basis for the profitable employment of all commercial fertilizers. Therefore, an additional dose of from two to three tons of stable manure per acre can be advantageously used on the drills before the ridges are constructed. In order to correct the excess of Nitrogen in the stable manure 50 pounds of Acid Phos phate and 120 pounds of Kainit should be added to each ton of manure used. Soon after the maturity and removal of the cotton sriv about the first of No vember, the cotton stalks should be bro ken into short pieces (this car be done by machinery) and turned down, thus ma terially contributing to the supply of humus. To maintain a fair price for cotton: In 1340 cotton sold at 16 cents a pound. By 1850 tho crop of 1840 was doubled, but the price of cotton in the meantime fell to 8 cents. Consequently tho full cron of 1850 yielded only the same amount of money that the half crop of 1840 had dune. This fact furnished an overwhelm ing argument in favor of reducing the quantity of cotton grown. The United States produce about. 85 per cent of the cotton of the world, and can easily con trol tho price of cotton if tho people were properly organized. We here see the ne cessity for centralized government with power conferred on Congress to pass uni form laws for all the States. If the acre age of cotton were thus reduced to about four acres, nr other proper quantity, for each horse or mule it would largely pro mote th* best interests of the people en gaged in the cultivation of same. BRYAN TYSON. Carthage, N. C. CULTIVATION OF SWEET POTATOES CUTTINGS vs. DRAWS. Recently cleared sandy loams are usually most suitable for sweet potatoes. Old lands can be made productive as foi -1) >wh : \ Construct with a plow trenches of proper width and depth from 3 1 /t> to 1 feet apart, then fill well with cow pea j vines, corn stalks, cotton stalks or corn ‘ cobs, whichever is most convenient, and cover lightly with soil; this should be done soon after the maturity of said crops, but if deferred until spring good result will still follow. Corn cobs, treat ed as above, will doubtless pay ten times better than burning them in the usual way for cooking purposes. While said materials are rotting im portant chemical changes take place that ' will much increase the productiveness of the soil. Said beneficial results are prin cipally effected by means of carbonic acid gas. which is produced while the ma terials are lotting. This gas is heavier than common air and if the land is even slightly rolling it is liable to follow the materials placed in the trenches, after j ihe manner of a blind ditch, until the lowest point is reached, where it will es- , cape unsqen into the air. In order to prevent this waste, dams should bo con structed across the trenches, before they arc filled with corn stalks, etc., after the matter of dams for holding water. Commencing in early spring the spaces between the trenches should be kept clean of grass and weeds by means of proper cultivation. When the time for setting the plants ar rive from 700 to 800 pounds per acre of a fertilizer containing Nitrogen, 2 per cent; Phosphoric Acid, 6 per cent, and Potash. 0 per pent, may be applied on the trenches and chopped with a hoe. In lieu of the above, the following materials mav be mixed and used: For Nitrogen use: Nitrate of Soda, 85 to 100 pounds, or Sulphate of Ammonia, 70 to 80 pounds, or Dried Blood, 140 to 180 pounds. For Phosphoric Acid use: Acid Phos phate from 305 to 350 pouuds, or Dissolved Bene from 260 to 300 pounds, or Bone Meal from 375 to 425 pounds. For Potash use: Muriate of Potash from 120 to 140 pounds, or Sulphate of Potash from 120 to 140 pounds, or Kainit from 485 to 550 pounds. An additional moderate dose of stable manure can he advantageously used. Ridges of medium size should then be constructed on the trenches and the plants set about 18 inches apart: in some cases they do better 24 inches apart, but 18 generally answers well. Draws vs. Cuttings:—The following ex periment will show the comparative value of draws, or sprouts, and vines cut into lengths of three leaves each. 1. Four short rows planted with draws from Perhatis potatoes, after the upper halves had been removed, yielded pota toes, 54% pounds. 2. Four short rows planted with the bud ends of (1) yielded 108% pounds. 3. Four short rows planted with draws or y }elded pounds. **rne aTio'V? shoes that lants some what over grown be two parts and the stubs be set and the bud ends be first rooukd and then set tho latter will beat the\stubs nearly 2 to 1, and will also beat dime's of proper size over 33 1-3 per cent. Another experiment:—Plants from, the Pierson (New Jersey) potato were here used—a stronger growth and much more productive than the Perbatis. In this experiment the vines ran about three feet before they were cut, leav ing usutlly one or two leaves on the stubs. The vines werp then cut into lengths of three leaves each: if the leaves are far apart two will answer. The cut tings were then set close in a trench, but not touching, one leaf above ground, and well watered to settle the soil. Loose soil was then drawn around the plants and a covering for a few days provided to protect from the sun. Roots soon started, when the plants were dug up (not pulled up) and transplanted. The stubs remained on the bed until they succored weli, when they were drawn and transplanted. The following is the result: 1. One shoit row planted with stubs yielded potatoes 5 pounds. 2. Tv.o short, rows, bud end of vines, yielded 30 3-4 pounds. 3. Two short rows, miscellaneous cut tings, (no bud ends), yielded 27 1-4 pounds. !1) and (2) had a slight advantage over U3),’ not being shaded by an adja cent bouse to so great an extent. The rows of the above two experi ments were respectively equal in length and received t.lie same treatment. (1) had abundant roots when trans planted, but the plants started slowly and finally yielded but little except strings, (2) and (?) lived better and grew off much more readily than (1). It is evident that cuttings will yield • metre potatoes, and better potatoes than either draws or stubs, and it is generally conceded that they keep much better. Why then should not the draw system be generally abandoned, except a few for early use? Some important details relative to growing vines for cutting purposes are reserved for a future article. If the trenches be well supplied with cow pea vines the Nitrogen may be omit ted from the fertilizer or reduced half. BRYAN TYSON. Carthage, N. C. AS TO RICE CULTURE. An Offer b the Carolina Rice Mill, of Goldsboro, That Should Set Our Farmers to Thinking. Editor Argus:—Your editorial of yester day, giving the statistics of rice culture in this State, and how far short, it lulls of the milling demand of the State alone, r.ot to speak of the commercial demand, should, indeed, set every farmer in Eas tern North Carolina to thinking and stim ulate them to devote, at least, a portion of their acreage to rice the coming year. Your reference, too, to the protection afforded American rice by the govern ment duty on imported rice, is timely, and should encourage the increase of rice culture wherever suitable land •is available. In order to further stimulate the farm ers of this State to venture on a mere extensive scale in the planting of rice, the Carolina Rice Mills of Goldsboro will make contracts at this time —before the planting season opens—with every farmer who may wish to plant rice to take his entire crop of I!>f>2 at a stipulated price —and a liberal price, at that. By this offer all element of doubt as to price is removed, and there are so many, many acres of land throughout Eastern North Carolina that could be planted profitably in rice, that it seems to us the farmers of this section should give weighty thought and favorable ac tion upon this proposition. Very truly, HENRY WEIL. (’resident. Carolina Rice Mills. Upkisboro, N. C., Dec. 4, 1901. DeWITT’S Wiicii Hazel SALVE A woil known euro for Piles This salve cannot be equalled whf rever asoothingand healing antiseptic appli cation is needed. It quickly cures sores, cuts, burns and scalds without leaving a scar. For piles, eczema and 'ill skill diseases it is considered infallible. Be war® of CSoicntepfeits Unscrupulous persons may oiler yon worthless imitations. Take only the or« iginal DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salvia Prepared by E. C. DeWITf & CO„ Chicago. Dr. George A. Renn Here. Dr. George Renn arrived in the city Sunday on his return from the Philip pines, and he was given the glad hand by his host of friends here. Dr. Renn, who is here on furlough, is surgeon in the United States Army and has been in active service in the Far East for two years. He was on the transport McClellan and encountered two rough storms. He speaks highly of the future of the Philippines under American control. Dr. Renn is now spending a few days with relatives in Durham. A Popular Educator. Prof. R. L. Madison, the efficient prin cipal of the Cullowhee Normal School, the Secretary of the North Carolina Associa tion of Academies, who has been in the city this week at the meeting of the asso ciation left this morning for his home in Jackson. Prof. Madison is a successful educator, and an all round good man. Ho is deservedly popular with all who know him, and his many friends in Raleigh were glad to see him in the city. DIVERSIFIED FARMING. (Charity and Children.) Until we were brought into close con tact with the conditions which prevail in this highly favored Piedmont region, we were disposed to laugh to soefn the advice so often given by editors and others to their readers of the necessity to diversify their crops and no< depend on one or two things for a living. But we arc face to face with a condition this year which, as Hon. Peter Sterling says, is not a theory. In the East, with which we are quite familiar, the cry of dis tress comes from all classes. The farm ers have made a well nigh total fail ure, and the merchants are equally hard run, of course, as they depend on the cot ton crop to meet their obligations. Here in this section, at least, there is no distress and but little complaint. The wheat crop of last spring was excel lent, and will help greatly to tide over the lightness of the corn crop of the fall; and by next June wheat harvest farmers will get solidly on their feet. Then we have the other crops, such as hay, peas and vegetables, common to a grain country, to rely upon. It is hard to go into cotton-raising at all without stak ing too much upon it. It is a seductive business and lures into danger. Wo have tried it to our sorrow. We do not know whether our eastern friends can diversify or not &s they do here, though we are sure they can raise other crops besides cotton and corn, and we are not. disposed lo lecture them, but we do know that the farmers of this section of the State ate a great deal better off than those where cotton is king, and we honestly believe the old monarch should be dethroned, for he is a remorseless ty lant. Our people in this section make money oh wheat, and we doubt that the crop will average ten bushels to the aero at that. If we were in a cotton coun try we would certainly try this year for a big crop of wheat and oats. RICE CULTURE IN NORTH CAROLINA. Some days ago we made a local notice uiging the farmers of this section to give more acreage to rice in the casting of their crops for the coining year, and we again urge them to give more than a passing thought to this important crop. While the culture of lice in North Carolina has increased to a considerable extent within the last five years, yet it has not kept pace with the increased demand, The import duty which was increased about four years ago from three-quarters to two cent per pound, has proved a strong stimulant and made rice growing verv profitable. Before this increased duty was imposed probably three-fourths of the rice consumed in the United Slates was imported from foreign coun tries, while now. barely one-half out supply is imported, and it will be many a vear before the United States will be abie to raise their entire requirements at home. In addition to our domestic demand, we have to furnish Porto Rico, which in it self is a heavv drain on our stock. Tin Porto Rican trade is secured to the Uni ted States on account of the discrimi nating duty of two cents per pound against countries, whereas we pay no duty for our exports to Porto Rico. The rice mills in North Carolina have been unable to buy sufficient rice In this State to run their mills, and have to look for a good part of their milling sup plies from neighboring States, even so far as Louisiana, on which the freight, charges have been considerable. Why is it that our farmers don’t: take advantage of this situation and plant j all their available land suitable for rice culture in this cereal? We feel confident it. would prove the most profitable crop they could raise. We know of a number of planters on the Cape Fear whose rice crops yield them from five thousand to fifteen thousand dollars each. The following figures arc based on a very conservative estimate: Say one acre of.average rice land yields Ift bushels at 75c., $30.00; one an'd a half tons rice straw per acre ?S.oo. to $12.00; 1 a total per acre of $42.00; and so a one horse crop of thirty acres is equal to SL -260. The <ost of cultivating and har vesting a one-horse crop should not ex ceed $360, which would leave a net profit to each one-horse crop of SOOO. There are lands which yield as high as sixty bushels per acre, and some choice varieties of low land rice has sold this season as high as sl.lO per bushel. How ever, it. is not well to figure on the high est attainable results. , Atlantic Coast line CD Condensed Schedule. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. da!ted - » rt £ Jail. 11, 17901 „ us gs.h . « m™ j? >? S® ’•H} -"I (Corrected ) 6ao '3 m <5 "3 o * £Q £ Q Bi£ Q£ Q Lv. Weldon ..|ll 601 8 58|.....| I Ar. Rocky Mt..| 1 00| 9 62| |P.M.| | 11 Lv. Tarboro ..|l2 21| | 6 00) i Mt..| 1 05|10 02| 6 37| 6 16111 61 Lv. Wilson ..| -1 59J10 40| 7 10| 6 s<| 2 40 Lv. Selma ....| 2 55|11 18| | I Lv Fayetteville) 4 30)12 35} | [..... Ar. Florence..j 7 35| 2 40| | }••••• jP.M.|A. M.| | Ar. Goldsboro. | | I 7 *[**** * Lv. Goldsboro. | | 1 1 J JJO Lv. Magnolia ..| | I i7JJ JJ* Ar. Wilmington) | I-••;•! » *JI * j | |P. M.)A.M.)P.M. TRAINS GOING NORTH. I I S*,sl “i Is list i&M Ji? a.m.l |P- m.| | Lv. Florence 9 60| | 7 35| |..... 1 Lv Fayetteville 12 15| | 9 41| I Ar. Wilson .. 2 35) |l2 13| | fl 1 11 1 ! 1 |A.M.| |P. m.ia.m. 1 Lv. Wilmlngtonl | | 1 1 PO j 9 Lv. Magnolia.. | | 11 8 30 11 10 Lv. Goldsboro .j j 4 Bo| ) 9 37)12 28 )P. M.| |A.M.[P. M.jP.M. Lv. Wilson . J 2 35! 6 33j12 13|10 46 |1 13 Ar. Rocky Mt..| 3 30| 6 10)12 45)11 23) 1 63 —h-rrr Ar. Tarboro ..j | I 46) Lv. Tarboro ..) * 31| I I ilj | l I j Lv. Rocky Mt..| 3 SO) )12 45| ••••’ Ar. Weldon ..| 4 32| j 1 *9) |P.M.| | A. M.JP. M.| Yadkin Dlvsion Main Line—Train leaves Wilmington, 9.00 a. m.. arrives Fayette ville 12.05 p. m.. leaves Fayetteville 12-26 p. m., arrives Sanford 1.43 p. m. Return ing leave' Sanford 3.05 p. m., arrive Fay etteville 4.30 p. m.. arrives Wilmington 9.26 p. m., Bennettsville Branch—Train leaves Ben ncttsville 8.06 a m.. Maxton tf.os a. m.. Red Springs 9.51 a. tn.. -Parkton 10.41 a. m.. Hope Mills 10.55 a. m.. arrive Fayette ville 11.10. Returning leaves Fayetteville 4.45 p. m., Hope Mills s.oft a. m.. Red Springs 5.43 p. m., Maxton 6.16 P- »*•. arrives Bennettsvllle 7.16 o. m. Connectiens at Fayetteville with train No. 78, at Maxton with the Carolina Cen tral Railroad, at Red Springs with the Red Springs and Bowmore railroad, at Sanford with the Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway, at Gulf with the Dur ham and Charlotte Railroad. Train on the Scotland Neck Branch Road leaves Weldon 3.55 p. m., Halifax 4.17 p. m., arrives Scotland Neck at 5.08 p. r». f Greenville 6.57 p. m-# Kinston 7.66 p m. Returning leaves Kinston 7.50 a. m Greenville 8.52 a. m., arriving Halifax at 11.18 a. m., Weldon 11.33 a. m., daily except Sunday. Trains on Washington Branch leave Washington B.IC a. m. and 2.30 p. m., ar zlve Parmele 9.10 a. m.. and 4.00 p. m., returning leave Parmele 9.35 a. m. and 6.30 p. m., arrive Washington 11 00 a. nx. and 7.30 p. m., dally except Sunday. Train leaves Tarboro, N- C., dally ex cept Sunday 5.30 p. Sunday, 4.15 p. m., arrives Plymouth 7.40 p. m.. 4.10 p. m. Returning, leaves Plymouth daily except Sundar 7.60 am., and Sunday ».00 a. m., arrives Tarboro 10.10 a. m., 11.00 a. m. Train on Midland N. C. Branch leave* Goldsboro daily, except Sunday, 6.00 a. tn arriving Smithfleld 6.10 a. m. Returning leaves Smithfleld 8.00 a. m., arrives at Goldsboro 8.25 a. m. Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky Mount at 9.30 a. m.. 3.4 ft P. I*., arrives Nashville 10.20 a. m., 4.03 p. m. r Spring Hope 11.00 a. m., 4.25 p. m. Re tuiriiing leave Spring Hope 11-20 a. m., 4.55 p. m., Nashville 11.45 a. m., 5.25 p. m., orfive at Rocky Mount 12.10 p. m., 6.00 p. m., daily except Sunday. Train on Clinton Branch leaver War saw tor Clinton dally, except Sunday. 11.40 a. m. and 4.25 p. m. Returning leaves Clinton at 6.45 a. m., and 2.50 p. m. Train No. 78 makes close connection at Weldon for all points North daily, all rail via Richmond. H. M. EMERSON, General Passenger Ago»t J. R. KENLTT. Gen. Managor. T. M EMERSON. Traffic Man****- ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. R CONDENSED SCHEDULE. Dated January 13th, 1901. ~ No. 1 No. | I No * I N ' w JlO3 I -49 I I * 4B l »*« I j STATIONS. | H P.!_ U.M.I j p - M | A - M 2 2o| 9 Lv.Norfolk Ar.j 6 55| 10 21 f 40j 9 22) Pinners Point j 6 30| 10 03 ft 03) 9 511 ...Drivers... j 605 954 3 17) 10 05| ....Suffolk.... | 450 919 3 60) 10 35) ....Gates ....) 420 841 4 151 10 501 ....Tuals.... | 400 823 4 36] 11 OR) ...Ahoskey... | 341 80b 4 53{ 11 21| ...Aulander... j 327 750 5 35) 12 00) ...Hobgood... j 253 708 6 00| 12 21 j Ar.Tarboro Lv. !» 31 641 1 j ~1 \ | |Ar. Lv.| J 6 351 12 50) Rocky Mount | 1 6i>| t U P. M. jP. M. | IP- M. | A. U •Daily. ! Daily except Sunday. Trains No. 49 and 48 solid trains be tween Pinner’s Point and Wilmington. Train No. 49 connects at Rocky Mount with train 33 for all points South *- a< NC. 78 train lor all points North. J. R. KENLy, General Manager. T. M. EMERSON. Traffic Manage.. S W. ML BIIMRtfn'X. Gen oral Passenger Ap*Etu
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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