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I If 4 I I 1 1 1 I I 1 The Daily i . i . i . i . t . i i t i . i The Pulling Power ' THE WEATHEfi: Shower tonight,clear ing tomorrow, f anadlnTm Fbes Fbkss la equal to six North Carolina mule. I I 1 1 I ! 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I I I -.1 I 1 ! Free PresSo RU EXCEPf SUNDHY, VOL. V. NO. 15. KINSTON, N.- O., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1002. - PRICE TWO CENTS. . . . ' ' 1 .... . I - OLD NORTH STATE HEWS AM) GOSSIP ODD AID INTERESTIHG HAPPEIIHGS. 1 : The North State Manufacturing com pany's cradle factory at Thomasvilte vu horned to the around early Satur day morning. Loss $8,500. The Charlotte Observer says that John Pope, a reckless youth of Llnwood, while beating a freight train from Lex logton to Salisbury, met a horrible death Sunday afternoon. Bewasridlngonabox mt and while oassliur other care on the aiding at Llnwood leaned out his head, which came in contact with the other can. Be was killed instantly. Elkln Times: On last Friday wild docks in hundreds passed here going up the river. Mr. C. H. Gwyn killed eleven daring the day and a number more were killed by other partiee. ine aucxs teemed to have lost their bearings In their migratory flight and were follow fug the large streams. , , Saturday morning about 3 o'clock the colored srraded school building at Jxx fngton was discovered to be on fire. It . i !i j:.. . ' nA taram ainn was a irame uuuuuig " " totally consumed, fixtures and alL The total loss is about $1,3W, wiw.fiw Insurance on building- The fixtures were not insured. Everything indicates that the fire was of incendiary . origin, but there Is no clue as to who fired the building.;. .. :- Tarboro Southerner: ; Jim ! Higgine, at the Shlloh Oil Mills Saturday met with a most distressing and painful ac cident. He was in the act of puttlnga band on when hie right arm was caught in the belting and almost torn off at the elbow. The lower part of the arm was only hanging by a few tendons He was taken to the hospital where It was amputated, and the wound dressed. -'A rjtifft. N- Y-t dispatch annonnces the election of officers of a bleaching and finishing company, organised with a cap- u.i f lOKnn.ooo to o Derate m m outh, the first plant to be located In Fayetteville. There Is North Carolina capital in this as B. N. Duke to .vice pres ident and B. N. ; Duke ana j.m d. iuxe directors. How many plants they pro nose to establish Is not stated, but prob- ablv several, one In eacn oi une pnnra. pal cotton manufacturing centers. Cleveland Star: Mrs. Mary Poteat, of Mooresboro. had a stroke 'of. paralysis ? and fell in heryard last Wednesday after- fnoon and died at 8 o'clock, that night 'from "the effects of the stroke. At 'o'clock next morning her husband, Mr. Francis M. Poteat, died from an attack tinnrt failure, brought on by his in- 4nM crrinf over the death "of his wife. COTTON STATISTICS. Preliminary Report om the Crop of ISOl by the Census Report. . The census bureau has issued a prelimi nary report on the cotton crop of 1901, in commercial bales gross weight, as re turned by the cotton gtnners, showing an aggregate crop of 9.953,982 bales. This is 533,116 bales less than the 1900 crop. The 1900 crop, expressed in 500 pound bales, was 10,123,027, or 363,121 less than the number of commercial bales, the gross average hale weight being 483 pounds. The office has not completed the com pilation of the number of pounds and the computation of the average bale weight for the crop of Wfl, but using 422 pounds, the following are the figures of the crop of 1901, together with those for 1900. respectively. In commercial bales by states and territories: Alabama, 1,162,789 and 1,061,678; Arkansas, 730,740 and 828,820; Florida, 57,199 and 55,698; Georgia, 1,401,815 and 1,270.597; Indian Territory, 280,175 and 288,114; Kansas, 170 and 151; Ken tucky, 140 and 183; Louisiana, 858,661 and 714,073; Mississippi, 1,055,968; Missouri, 27,987 and 27,980; North Carolina. 454.854 and 509,431: Okla homa. 149.415 and 116,875; South Carolina. 730.603 and 780,782: Ten nessee. 209.186 and 227.601: Texas 2.590.704 and 8,536,506;, Virginia, 13,- 809 and 11,833. . A Shrub That Carea Leprosy. Medical men all over tbe world are Interested In tbe reports from Honolulu and Tahiti of successful results obtain ed In tbe treatment of leprosy from tbe active principal of the tua-tua shrub. The tua-tua's scientific name Is Jatro pha gossipif olio, and It comes from Venezuela. ..-'.. -v:-' ; Both bodies were placed In the same i grave. , I Weldon special to Raleigh Post: ; Mil ton Belfield, the negro , who shot and 'killed Thomas Stephenson at Boxobel In Bertie county, was arrested here this 'morning When Officer Dickens ap proached Belfield he made a spring Into the air and ran. Dickens fired upon him, the ball taking effect In the back. Bel field fell and was then taken to the room used for ? such characters, where his wound was examined and . found to be serious and perhaps mortal i - . I Allen Cogsdell, an old farmer of means, of Rutherford county, wants to die. He has prepared to commit suicide in a spec tacular manner. He has issued Invita tions to friends to a dinner to be given on the 10th of June. At 11 o'clock that day Cogsdell will give his guests an op portunity of seeing him die. It Is under stood that he will shoot himself at the table and for this purpose he has turned over his old army pistol to ft gunsmith to have it- put in first class order. The postmaster at Four Uaxs was ;iven a preliminary hearing charged with being short in his money order ac count, in the sum of f 647, also with lm proper treatment of the mails, waived xamlnation, giving bond for bis appear ance at May term of Federal court at laleigh. About one-half of the shortage vas made good and the balance la pot. Ibly provided for. Miss Ella Parker is ow acting postmaster pending the de- artment's appointment. A few days ago Mr. W. M. Deloatch, ho keeps some canned fruit on the ' Ives in his butcher shop at .Scotland 'ck, discovered that they were leaking, " closer investigation he found that v ns had been cut into with a " 1 ! poison put Into them. Sus v rested on a colored man t work for Mr. Deloatch had some friction a TLe colored man was ' r bond of $100, Indlaa Ue For Plant. V. K. Chestnut in a recent bulletin of the division of botany of the United States department of agriculture tells of numerous uses to which the Indians of Mendocino county, Cal., pot various plants, The list Is so large and in cludes such a variety of plants that it suggests tbe possibility-that the white man might learn something of value in this regard from : the aborigines. More particularly is this the case with food plants, as they seem to use tuo seeds of a large number which we al low to go to waste for this purpose. One curious fact be refers to Is their practice of eating clover, not the flow er bead,9 as white children sometime! do, but the stems and leaves, chewing them like herbivorous animals. He says It la no uncommon sight to see a party of Indians In a clover field eat ing It by handfuls. : FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY EASTERN CAROLINA IS UNEXCELLED A Few Items Showing Diwerslty ud Size of Crops Two Contracting; Pictures lUmtratias; "ThU Little Vim Weat to Market, This Little PI Staid at Home "-Folly to Leare North Carolina Fortune Wait on Indaatry Here. In prepking for the magnificent Charles ton exposition edition of the Raleigh News and Observer the editor sent re quests to prominent business men and farmers all over eastern North Carolina for brief Items concerning notable crops and crop raisers. Many of tbe best of these were evidently received late and crowded out of that edition and appeared in the Sunday edition. In reading these Items the edito of The Fbek Piiess was struck first with the diversity of the crops and the immensity of some, but more forcibly by a remarkable contrast between the North Carolinian who stays at home and digs out of the ground the fortune that is there to reward intelligent industry on the part of any man, and the North Carolinian who becomes possessed with a desire to roam in search of something better. Some of. tbe crop items are here grouped and are followed by the con trasting picture which the News and Ob server reproduced from tbe Winston Journal If tbe reader has thought there is greater reward fofkhis labor In the far west than here at home let him carefully consider the two pictures here presented and think again. . First Look on This Picture. '' Prof. W. F. Massey : I know a man in North Carolina who has raised a family of nine; has educated his -children and lived comfortably on 36 acres of land. Is there any place north that can com pete with that? This gentleman told me that he had proved that it only takes 4 acres of North Carolina soil to raise and educate a boy, and his land was tar from being the best In the State natur ally. ' Wm. Dunn: Mr. A. Batler, fanning near here, has five acres under cloth, heated steam pipes through the beds, the pipes used when necessary for water oooooooooo4K)ooooo-ro-rOooo6oo I The Bargain Counter. f . . : .' . ' . SPRING HAS OOMH. . We mean, of course, our line of Bed Springs. Yon should Inspect them. Tou will find them all bargains. We.have a complete stock of Furniture and can supply any 01 your needs in tnat line. KsT-Uive us a tnaL - QCINN A MILLER. I 1 WD WANT TO SEE YOU at our store where we keep constantly on hand a choice line of Fancy Uroceriea We are striving to please. Prompt deliv ery to any part of town. ' J. H. ALEXANDER, ' ' General Store. North Street. ( HANDSOME BICYCLES, $15.00. Think of it! Only f 15 for a handsome wheel "bran new." Come and see them. Wheels of all kinds. Repairing a specialty. KINSTON CYCLE CO. BARGAINS IN PRINTING We have some more of those Letter Beads, Note Heads, Bill Heads and Statements In fine quality colored bond papers, pink and blue. They are good ratae tor price cuorgvu. 11 m nevu 01 some stationery examine tneee gooes before making your selection. Letter Heads 500 for L75, 1,000 for f 3.00. Note Heads 500 for fl.35, 1,000 for $2.25. Fine Old Hampshire Bond pink Note Heads 600 for f 1.65, 1,000 for 12.65. Fine bine or pink Bill Heads, 7x8'i Inches, 500 for $1.40, 1,000 for $2.40. Statements, elegant quality bond pe-pers tn bine, pink, lemon or salmon, 500 for $1.50, 1,000 for $2.50. ' WD LDXB TO BAT. So does every -healthy person, espe cially wnen tney nave sometmng nice. If yon buy your arrocerles from us you will have It and it won't cost you more than It's worth either. , Just stop our wagon or pnone your order, it will have prompt attention. : LaROQUE & ROUNTREE, . The Up-to-Date Grocers. , WANTED! WANTED I v We want to number yon among our customers. We keep on had a full line of Fancy Groceries. Get your "table comfjrts" fromns. Prompt delivery. W. at. UAKttUliLi B, Staple and Fancy Grocer. North Street. COMB UP. Yes, if you buy your Seed Oats from us they will beyond a doubt. We also haves large stock of Hay, Grain and Feed. We are headquarters for every thing In our line. Uome to see os. s NETJSE MILLING 00. W. A. LaRoque's late stand. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TREATED. SnortLocaI Stories, Editorial Notes. FIND THE TAVERN KEEPER. ARB YOU ONB , who is going to build or anticipates building? If so we wish to let it be known that we can furnish on receipt of order Framing and Box Boards, cut from Long Leaf Pines, also all kinds of Dressed Lumber. Come and examine our stock and set our prices before pur chasing. Thanking our customers for past patronage and Hoping to renew same, we remain, xours truly, THE GAY LUMBER CO. Prompt Delivery. Green or Dried Rough or Dressed We are better prepared than ever before to furnish you any lumber yon may need. We harul'e first-class Pine Lumber and can furnish it Green or Dried, Rough or Dressed. We can and will make prompt delivery of all orders iriven us. Prices to Compete With JInyonel. Hire us an order and you shall te tkased. Thanklcz you for past orders and hoping to eene you, we are. Your friends, D. EDInRDS oi CO. lug crop. He is now shipping a dn crop of lettuce which will in a few days be off to be followed by a crop of cucumbers. ready for market fully two weeks before the outdoor crop. I am told that it not unusual to realise $1,000 to $1,200 per acre from this method of farming, Washington special: Tbe largestcargo of lumber ever shipped from a southern city', left Charleston today on the steam ship Egda, consigned to Wood Barker Co., of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, L I. It contained two million feet of yellow pine to be used in the construe tlon of a bridge from Charlottetown to Hillsboro, P. E. I. Mr. M. R. McCullough was the buying representative of Wood Barker Co. 8. G. Worth, Edenton: Tbe North Car- olina Fisheries have been developed from the condition of a few large proprietors taking- immense 'and unweildly catches into a widely; divided industry which subdivides the catch, reduces the large lump incomes and distributes the earn ings among a vastly increased number of operatives. Mr. W. H. Hampton, of Plymouth, N. C , is an example of the old regime,, being still actively engaged in tbe operation of four seines, the products from which have made him a man of noted wealth. Catches of sbad recently made have reached 5,000, aver age weight i pounds each, at a single haul, and herring three to four hundred thousand," average weight 8 to 1 pound each. , v ' V. 0. Saunders, Beaufort: The water Industry In this county Is wonderful. Joe Lewis, on Cape Banks, has at least one to two thousand dollars on hand all the time catching mulleto, trout, blue fish and mackerel. He has caught In one haul, over $100 worth of fish. Alex. Lewis is another fisherman who has quite a little sum on hand' all the time. Nine- tenths of our fishermen own their own domicile, boats and nets. There has been, and frequently, four men in one boat which would catch one to two hun dred dollars worth of trout In one haul of three hours. Clams are a big industry in this county; 20 to SO thousand dol lars worth sold n year. Wm. Brogan & Co., Washington: Crop failures are unknown here. Mr. Jas. Ed. Clarke, Jr., Washington V. C, who is one of the State's best farmers, makes money every year growing cotton. He uses about 500 pounds of fertilizers per acre not because that quantity Is neces sary, but because it pays him to do so. He prefers a mixture of cotton meal, acid phosphate, kalnit and a complete fertiliser.; Even with a poor season like last year too much rain his profit was considerable, and he gathered nearly one bale per acre. He cultivates, all told, I about 500 acres, and cotton la not the only crop that pays him. This section offers every Inducement to capitalists and progressive farmers. Washington Gazette: Mr. M. F. Williamson,- ex-register of deeds, now of Smalls, sold 5,820 dozen . eggs from April 15th, 2900, to April 15th, 1901. This is one of the small Items of business carried on at Smalls. Mess. Lee & Pres cott did about the same amount of trade. - : This picture might be added to Indefi nitely there is plenty of material right here about Klnston. For instance, Mr. W. F. Stanley, of Graingers, last year netted over $2,500 on 20 acres of to bacco, and this year has 60 acres. Numerous other farmers have tor several yrars been netting from $50 to $200 per acre on tobacco und steadily increasing the average from year to year. - Money la being maie on other crops at the same time. Mr. J. TT. Grainger averaged $300 per acre on his truck farm last year. Items daL'y r - ar In our State news de partment concerning other crops that are raised hereabout at great profit, and there is no end to the evidence that no section of the country offers such a di versity for money making as eastern North Carolina: lumber, Bait and fresh water food, stock raising of all kinds and the greatest variety of small fruits. cereals and vegetablf s to be found any where. As to stock raising, note this from the Goldsboro Argus: "There is an old saying that after the 10th of April cattle can make their own living, as the grass in the fields is suffl clently large to feed the cattle. Now the winter we have just passed was a cold one, all the way through, and tbe spring thus far has been cold enough to kill and preserve pork up to this date.' Still the grass in fields and woods Is about on time, and the cattle can make a living as usual on the 10th nf April. Verily, have a wonderful climate. - Our possibili ties for development and growth are simply marvelous." Now if yon have digested all. the fore going morsels and become convinced that it pays to stay at home "on the old farm" ard "keep everlastingly at it" dig ing your material salvation from the ground, you will cinch the conviction by looking upon tbe other picture of tbe man who did not stay at home "by his bid fireside."''' :.;-..;V"V The Contrasting Picture. Winston Journal: A sad lesson Is to be learned from the fate of poor Adams, the Yadkin county man who . yielded to despondency and hanged himself on Sun day. Some months ago he converted his property into cash and moved to the "west." There he was handicapped by new and strange surroundings, by the hustle and the push with which he was unfamiliar, by methods and markets and climatic conditions that simply appalled and. bankrupt and dejected, he returned to the home of his father to begin again the struggle for existence. For a few weeks he meditated over his condition. brooding . over fate, and then sought surcease from sorrow In a suicide's grave. not many, pernaps, and very tew we hope, win have so disastrous an experi ence as led Mr. Adams to despondency: but the fact, neverthlees, is that the ' ex periment of going west is fraught with danger excepting to those who are well supplied with money. One who succeeds there nowadays must have ample re sources money, enterprise and untiring industry and we submit that these elements wui enaoie a man to prosper anywhere, and that the man who can prosper In tbe uncertain fluctuations of western life ought to amass a fortune in North Carolina. This State holds out alluring Inducements to the farmer who will adopt tbe up-to-date methods that be finds In the West, and offers equally as fertile a soil, better markets, a superior climate, and, something no part of ' the West can secure, good water and plenty of it. North Carolinians who are moving West are taking unnecessary' chances with their futures. Attacked' by Dogv Two weeks since, as Mr. William Pat terson, a farmer living two miles from Shelby, was returning home from town, he was attacked by a rabid dog, which bit him severely on the lower lip. Three days after this Mr. Patterson went to Charlotte and had the mad-stone ap plied. A few days after his return, be showed symptoms of hydrophobia, grow ing worse each day, and died Sunday morning In great agony. In his sane moments be would beg his friends to kill him and thus snd his suffering. Tes Fbxk Press Job Printing Depart ment has recently received over 100,000 BhippingTags. We furnish a good No. 5 tiir neatly printed in 10.000 lots at 60c per 1.000. Trying hard to clear off. Success to the effort. Now don't delay In getting your ad copy ready for the double Saturday edi tion. A local wit propounded this conun drum today at noon: "What is the most improbable thing on earth?" His own answer was: "A nigger going In the opposite direction from a brass band." There is great demand for rooms in Tbe Fbkb P&kbs building to be con. structed, more than can be accommodat ed, although the original plans have been greatly enlarged. There is a hint in this to men of capital. . Newborn's State league'base ball team has two well known names on it's ros ter, David Crockett and Jack Frost. When the club gets In a tight place David will coach tbe batters with bis old saw, "be sure you're right, then go ahead." Jack Frost's part is to freeze 'em out on second base. .' . "Lest we forget, lest we forget." , Tbe naval reserve boys have learned by ex perience how easy it is to make good res. olutlons when In peril and bow hard to keep them when one feels perfectly safe. And yet tbe veil that separates life from ; death is as thin on the calmest day at home as in the midst of a storm at sea, for "The town that stands on the solid rock May be swallowed up by tbe, earth , quake's shock." :y'-: V-: wj '-f -'V-v vv;; ;l A man at tbe depot yesterday cau tiously asked a reporter what he was "pitting people's name down fur." Be was gravely informed that some of the people would be detained here awhile. Then the reporter asked the man bis name, which was refused, tbe good feL. low adding: "Well, I'll tell you this, and I mean it, too, that I'm shore gwine to leave if the train do." He rolled his eyes and shook his head in a threatening manner, showing that he "wui gwine" or make trouble. ' , - Goldsboro Argus: A directory of Goldsboro bas just been issued by the Inter-State Directory Co., of Charlotte. It is neat in appearance and contains In formation that could not be obtained through any other source. It will prove Invaluable to business men generally. As was to be expected there are some few mistakes, which must occur with any thing of the kind, but on the whole It is tolerably fair, correct and will sive satis. faction..;: ':' ; Representatives of this concern have nearly completed a canvass of Kinston for a similar directory. A city directory is a positive necessity for a town of this size. Thk Fbex Pbess had been contem plating the publication of one in the near future, but when Mr. Griffith, of the Inter-State Co., called and announced that his canvass was already well ad vanced, we gladly welcomed the an nouncement and abandoned our own plan, for directory work is a specialty and we could not have hoped for better than to get out even. Tbe Inter-State people are experienced in the preliminary work and have aprintingplantespeclally fitted up for directory work, so they could make money where a local enter prise would lose. Hence we cordially welcome the Inter-State and hope its representative will be encouraged. In this connection we again refer to the. Inter-8tate's remarkably favorable offer to put street signs at all corners and number all houses. Unless this fs done a directory will be of little service, and It never will be done satisfactorily unless done officially. We trust that either the old or tbe new board of aldermen at their last or first meeting will take de cisive action on the matter and do the town a great and lasting favor. The street signs alone would ordinarily cost over four times as much as the Inter- State offers to do the whole business for. It is an opportunity .for saving on a necessary work wmch does not come often, and ft would be foolish to let it slip by. . ,v V- Mrs. Daraaat Cared. Dixr Sik I am a great sufferer from severe nervous headache, and find in Cap tmnra speedy relief. Also when feeling nervous and all broken up, a dose seta meallrltrht. I take pleasure In recom mending It as a thoroughly satisfactory emedy. Sincerely, AlES. UOLCKBrg LtEHJil
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