State News.
SAT TAB AZ DOIHO.
. r h State Press-f-Dror of Turpentine
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L i rf Him Kmm Ihft Kast Clusters
ad U"""a
rimDes and Tobacco Stems From the
yortta talks of Corn and Grains
of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
rrhe State Agricultural Society
State Fair) elected. Gen. W. R. Cox,
picieni; o.ju. jtuuc, wcwciaij ,
, g. Denson, Treasurer,
panbury Reporter: We are told
11 A ? At 1 ' T
vnt up to tnis ume inert? uas ueen
gjore wheat sown in Stokes county
than ever before m any one year.
jonesboro Progress: Mr. J. H.
McVeill tells the Progress of aro-
niarkably large sweet potato which
ffas raised in .Harnett. Mr. Sandy
ilcNeill dug it out of -his patch one
. i ti : i i - t-
jdy last, weeit. it Nuigueu io
pounds.
Newton Enterprise : The most of
A At J. 1 1
the wheat in tne county naa Deen
sown, and farmers are well along
tethering corn. There is a good
deal of cotton yet in the fields in this
county, and difficulty is experienced
in getting hands to pick it.
In 1896 Bryan had a majority of
iq "66 in North Carolina, xms year
hi majority is almost exactly 10,000
neater, or 29,126. A large number
of persons originally Populists bolted
both the Bryan and Barker tiefcets
md supported McKinley, Chatham
and Sampson both going Republican.
It is said that the primary cost
. m A we y r"v " -v
Gen. Carr sometning liKe ou,uuu.
That looks like a large ligure, out
his liberality is well known. One of
his frieods told me he believed his
campaign in Wake cost him as much
as i 1,600, while some persons put the
sum as high as $2,500, says Col. Olds.
Fayetteville Observer : There are
rumors that the Ashley Bailey Com
pany are to erect another larger silk
mill in this city adjoining the one
already in operation. Though the
company's manager here would not
admit this fact when asked this
morning, he stated that it was
talked of.
Cliadbourn Messenger : That beans
can bo successfully grown here for
fall market has been proven by our
pro5jH?rons truckers. Mr. M. P.
Casey informs us that he has shipped
119 baskets, and unless nipped by
Jack Frost in a few days, can ship as
many more. He has realized nearly
a dollar per basket for all he has
shipped.
A Buncombe county correspondent
of The Progressive Farmer writes :
This is the 5th of November and
frost this morning was the first this
autumn to kill tender herbage in the
vicinity of Biltmore. Recent heavy
rains have filled the swamps and the
rivers were high but have now re
ceded within their banks and are at
about the normal pitch.
Dr. Thomas D. Martin died in Ral
eigh last week, aged 85. He was a
native of Elizabeth City and by pro
fession a physician. He was highly
educated and deeply read ; and dur
ing the civil war was for two years
r more a Confederate surgeon. He
w as a man of large means and it is
asserted that he made bequests both
to the University of North Carolina
and to Trinity College. .
Col. Olds reports a gentleman as
saying that if the primary scheme
had been voted on last April by the
full Democratic convention he very
greatly doubted that it would have
been adopted ; that as a matter of
fact it was adopted at the last hour
and when there were perhaps not
over 50 delegates in the hall. The
primary just held was an expensive
luxury to the gentlemen who took
thi? leading parts in it
Durham dispatch: Hon. F. M.
Simmons, who was nominated for
United States Senator in the recent
primary, is a graduate of Trinity,
f!i:ss of '73. He has been for several
yt ars an honored member of the
board of trustees, and has also been
a patron of the institution. Hon. J.
11. iSmall, who was re-elected to Con
gress, is also an alumnus of the col
He. Trinity has a pardonable pride
when her alumni are called to fill
positions of honor and trust.
Charlotte Observer, 6th: North
Carolina will have an opportunity to
vote today for either a grandson or
a son of the State for Vice-President.
Adlai E." Stevenson, of Illinois, the
democratic vice-presidential candi
date, is the grandson, and Samuel T.
Nicholson, of Washington City, the
CTnion Reform candidate for Vice
president, is the son. He was born
in Halifax county in 1852, graduated
with first honors at Horner's School,
and took a course at the University
of Virginia. A sketch of him in The
National New Era, of Springfield, O.,
furnishes these facts and informs us
further that "on his mother's side
he is descended from the Cornells
and Van Wycks, of New York."
Quality, then.
Rocky Mount Argonaut : The to
bacco crop, although far from being
a first-class one, is showing up bet
ter than expected a month or so ago,
and prices are much better than last
year. The farmers are rushing in
their tobacco at a famous rate. Up
to this time the week's offerings
have averaged 100,000 pounds per
day, and this week will show at
least 500,000 pounds sold on the
floors of our tobacco sales ware
houses since last Monday morning.
Fayetteville dispatch, 6 th : Hon.
R. P. Buxton died today after a brief
attack, -while sitting in a chair. He
was a prominent Republican, a mem
ber of the Constitutional convention,
candidate for Governor against Jar
vis, and was for years judge of the
Superior court. He was highly es
teemed in the community, a mem
ber and vestryman of St. John's
Episcopal church. He married Miss
Rebecca Bledsoe, of Raleigh, -who
survives him. He leaves no chil
dren. One of the most interesting ex
hibits of the recent State Fair was
that of Cole combination planter, in
vented by Mr. E. M. Cole, of Carth-
ajro. This exhibit will also bo at the
Nowbern Fair this week. Instead of
making three separate planters for
the three staple crops, corn, cotton
and peas, Mr. Cole has made a re
markable combination which can be
produced at the average cost of a
single planter and is very simple and
easily operated. The Cole Manufac
turing Company, of Charlotte, will
utilize this very valuable invention.
Raleigh News and Observer : Ray
mond Hunt, supposed murderer of
Ellis Cline, was captured near Mor
gantown Saturday morning. The
murder was committed last Christ
mas at a quilting near Hickory. Hunt
fled to Tennessee, but returned re
cently and was captured while sleep
ing at his father's sawmill. Par
ties coming from Candor, in Mont
gomery county tell of a rich gold
mine discovered near that ilace. Ex
perts and miners who have been
there pronounce it the richest find
in this State in many years.
The Synod of the Presbyterian
church of North Carolina will meet
on Tuesday, November 13th, in the
First Presbyterian church, Raleigh.
It will probably continue until the
following Friday night. It is ex
pected that quite a number of the
visiting ministers will remain over
Sunday in Raleigh. About 250 or
300 members are expected to be pres
ent at this Synod. The moderator
will be elected on the night of the
first meeting, and, according to the
usual custom, will remain in the
city and preach on the following
Sabbath in the church where the
meeting takes place.
Durham Herald : The divine healer
continues to drawT the crowd and oc
casionally a few shekels trom the
pockets of the people who attend the
meetings. At the meeting yester
day afternoon it was stated that the
collections since the two, Dr. Gilbert
and Rev. Mr. Sutton, came to Dur
ham, had not paid more than one
third of the expense. At each ser
vice great crowds of people flocked
to the front to be healed of their in
firmities and from the number it
seems that all who go to hear those
men are more or less afflicted and
want to be healed. Some say they
are benefitted, others say they are
not.
That is a pathetic story copied in
another column from The Greens
boro Telegram about the appearance
of Joo Turner in that city Wednes
day and his rambling talk to a hand
ful of idle hearers that night. And
yet this poor old man, now in 4 'the
lean and slippered pantaloon," was
once the greatest force in North
Carolina. In the State's dark days,
when its vitals were being torn by
aliens and renegade natives, this now
old man, then editor of The Raleigh
Sentinel, with masterful ability, with
superb nerve, the object of frequent
personal attack, carrying his life al
ways in his hand, stood forth and
with unshaken courage gave battle
to the enemies of his people until he
routed them, driving them from
place and power. His victory made
him the idol of the State as his fight
with the horde which confronted
him had made him its admiration.
The Progress! vq Farmer
Butperhaps the acclaim of the
people turned his head a little. At
all events, he had grown too great
he was in the way. It may be just
as well to draw the curtain here.
His power - declined and he passed
into obscurity. And now we have
the pitiful picture from Greensboro.
Charlotte Observer : '
Baltimore dispatch, 5th: Mrs.
Mary Ann Jackson, widow of the
Confederate General "Stonewall"
Jackson, who has been at the Church
Home and Infirmary, on North Broad
way and Fairmount avenue, or
more than a month, left for her
home in Charlotte, N. C, in company
with a friend. Mrs. Jackson came
to Baltimore for treatmeat for
neuralgia, from which 6he had suf
fered greatly. She consulted Dr.
Louis D, Tiffany, who advised a sur
gical operation. The operation was
performed by Dr. Tiffany three
weeks ago today, with success, and
Mrs. Jackson has not suffered a
moment's pain since. She is now
entirely restored to health.
Maxwell Gorman, Raleigh news
paper" corresponded, writes his
papers as follows : Good bye to the
"primary system !" It appears to be
pretty certain that the Democrats of
North Carolina are thoroughly dis
gusted with the "primary" that
South Carolina . importation, which
has grown to be such a disgraceful
affair in its native State that gentle
men of sensibility and refined feel
ings can rarely be persuaded to offer
themselves for office. The experience
which our people have had during
the last few weeks has been more
than enough to satisfy the great
majority of us that we want no
more of it in ours. Awav with it !
Let us bid a long and final farewell
to the State primary experiment.
May its mean, lying face never show
itself again among the Democrats of
North Carolina! "Legalize" it?
Never ! I don't believe one Demo
cratic legislator in ten will entertain
the suggestion next January.
Here are a few political notes from
the Charlotte Observer's Raleigh
correspondent : It would be inter
esting to know how many Democrats
in this city voted for McKinley. The
roll would be quite a long one.
After this there will be no August
election. Months ago Chairman
Simmons assured me that the Legis
lature would provide for the old
plan all in November. J. A.
Giles, of Chatham, who was the
Republican candidate for Congress
in this district, came in this morning.
He says Jenkins, Populist, carried
Chatham by 300. Giles says his own
majority over Pou there is 300 to
500, while McKinley gets 800 major
ity. He says the Populists all voted
for McKinley and that Barker and
Donnelly, the midroad ticket, didn't
get 50 votes in the county. Chat
ham is a Populist stronghold. Your
correspondent was hunting there last
Thanksgiving Day and was freely
told by Populists that they proposed
to vote for McKinley. Sampson
county is another Populist strong
hold. It, too, went for McKinley,
while four years ago it gave Bryan
2,000, Chatham county 1,200. Prac
tically every Populist in the State is
to-day exulting at Bryan's "Water
loo." Giles said Pou had of
course swept the district by a great
majority and that as a matter of
fact he always expected Pou to beat
him by 5,000 or 6,000. There
was quite a lot of talk in the morn
ing hours about the third district.
It is said by one editor that Thomas
was, at latest advices, only 300 ahead
of John E. Fowler, with some doubt
ful territory yet to be heard from.
A. H. Slocum threw cold water on
Fowler after the latter had refused
to withdraw in his favor, yet it
seems a lot of the Republicans voted
for Fowler, since their motto is "any
thing to beat a Democrat."
OUB CONGRESSMEN.
Seven Democrats and two Republi
cans will represent North Carolina
in the next House of Representatives
as follows :
First District John H. Small
(Democrat).
Second District Claude Kitchin
(Democrat). Majority, 7,000.
Third District C. R. Thomas
(Democrat). Majority, 1,500.
Fourth District E. W. Pou (Demo
crat). Majority, 5,000.
Fifth District W. W. Kitchin
(Democrat). Majority, 1,500.
Sixth District J. D. Bellamy
(Democrat). Majority, 10,000.
Seventh District Theo F, Kluttz
(Democrat). Majority, 2,000.
Eighth District E. Spencer Black
burn (Republican). Majority, 2,400.
Ninth DistrictJames M. Moody
(Republican). Majority, 2,000.
number 13, 1000
General News.
ELECTION NOTES.
Bryan sent a telegram of congratu
lation to McKinley. "
The Georgia Legislature has re
elected Senator Bacon, Democrat.
The estimated majority for Kitch
enor, Democrat, in the fifth district,
is 1,500.
" It is generally believed that Secre-i
tary Hay will retire from the Presi
dent's cabinet soon. ' '
Mr '. Bryan declares that he will not
seek a seat in the Senate if the Ne
braska Legislature is controlled by
Democrats.
The . Washington Times figures'
that McKinley has 500,000 plurality
of the popular vote cast, for, Presi
dent ; in 1896 he had 598,000 over
Bryan. , ...
Grover Cleveland, William C.
Whitney, Abram S, Hewitt and
other prominent gold Democrats
will make an attempt to reorganize
the party on the old Cleveland prin
ciples. .. ;. v ;
The figures show that the plurality
for McKinley in the State of New
York is 152,386, and that for Odell
93,000, a difference of 59,386 in
Stanchfield'sfavor, as compared with
Bryan.
McKinley carried his own county
by an increased majority. Bryan's
own precinct and home went Repub
lican by an increased majority and
Stevenson's home precinct went Re
publican. ; More than 3,000 Wall Street brok
ers, members of the Stock, Produce
and Maritime and Cotton exchanges,
paraded Wednesday afternoon in
celebration of the election of William
McKinley.
The women voters of Wyoming
bad more than a passing interest in
the contest November 6tb, and it is
believed their vote was responsible
to a great extent for the State going
Republican.
Ohio gave an increased Republi
can majority of about 22,000, and
yet there were Democrats who be
lieved, or professed to believe, that
the Democrats stood some show of
carrying that State.
John G. Woolley, candidate for1
President on the Prohibition ticket,
estimates that 500,000 votes were
cast for him Tuesday throughout
the country, as. against 130,000 for
Levering, candidate for the same
party in 1896.
Returns from 87 of the 90 counties
in Nebraska give McKinley a ma
jority of almost 7,500. The counties
to hear from are small and will not
much change the figure given. The
legislature and governorship are
claimed by both sides.
A. fusion ticket (composed of Dem
ocrats, Populists and Silver Repub
licans) was elected in Colorado and
the fusionists carried the Legisla
ture, which insures the retirement
of Senator Wolcott, Republican, and
the election of a fusionist in his
stead.
The Courier-Journal puts Bryan's
Kentucky majority at 8,000 and Beck
ham's at 5,000! The missing pre
cints have been taken into account
in this result. The Republicans still
claim that majorities will be shown
for McKinley and Yerkes when the
returning board canvasses the vote
at Frankfort.
The Democrats carried Montana
and the Legislature, which will elect
two United States Senators. It is
said that Senator Clark, who was
practically turned out at the last
session of Congress because he had
bought his election, will be re-elected
and some other Democrat or Popu
list elected to succeed Carter, Repub
lican. The State, wrhich Mr. Bryan car
ried in '96 and which he lost this
time are Kansas, Nebraska (if he has
lost the latter), South Dakota, Utah,
Washington and Wyoming. He only
carried one State this year Ken
tucky which he did not carry in
1896, and that year he got one elec
toral vote from Kentucky and one
from California.
A Chicago special, from a corres
pondent who has been around Dem
ocratic headquarters there since the
election, says that the concensus of
opinion as to the causes of the defeat
of Tuesday is : 16 to 1 ; the promi
nence in the campaign of Croker and
Altgeld ; the North Carolina disfran
chisement movement; the impru
dent speeches of Senator Tillman in
the West.
Speaker Henderson said a few days
ago that Senator Hanna's campaign
tour of the Northwest had so stirred
up that section of the country that
the Senator was being talked about
there as a Presidential possibility
four years hence. Senator Hanna
was asked later whether he had'
heard of any such sentiment in the
Northwest. "Yes," he' answered,
"I have heard rumors'to that effects
At some of the meetings' I addressed
in the Northwest cries were raised;
about the next Presidency, which I
could not help hearing. There had'
been some talk of the character you
mention. But I don'i want to be the
next President after Mr. McKinley.
won't have anything to do with it.
I have had enough of politics and
political life to suit any one."
SPABKS FBOM THE WIRES.
The October reports regarding the
Egyptian cotton crop are unsatisfac
tory, both as to yield and quality.
The. Swiss referendum on the pro
posals to elect the Standerath, or
State council by popular suffrage and
the Nationalrath, or national coun
cil, by. proportional representation,
has resulted in the rejection of both
by large majorities. ;
The new warship Maine, now
building at Cram's shipyard, Phil
adelphia; is more than one third com
pleted and it is said she will surely be
launched February 15 next, the third
anniversary of the destruction of the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor.
General Mac Arthur is expected'
to renew at once the campaign
against the rebellious Fillipinos with
the greatest energy. Administra
tion officials assert that as soon as
the result of the election becomes!
known throughout the Philippines;
the resistance to the authority of the
United States will be overcome.
William L. Strong, whose death
was recently chronicled, was the last
mayor of the old New York. At his
retirement, after three years' ser
vice, December 17, 1897, New York
city became Manhattan borough of
Greater Ne w York . Ex- Mayor
Strong was a farmer's boy. He was
born at Mansfield, O., March 22, 1827.
He made millions in the dry goods
trade in New York.
The annual report of the Second
Assistant Postmaster General , says
that the experiment of box delivery
on star routes, whereby persons
along the line have mail , brought
from tho next office by the star route
carrier and lest in a box prepared by
such persons, has worked satisfac
torily in South Carolina and the
next star route contracts will pro
vide for such service, increasing
mail facilities in rural districts.
The Nashville Banner says : The
City Council of Chattanooga has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
sale of cocaine, or opium, morphine
or other poisonous drugs except upon
the prescription of some reputable
physician. A similar bill will be in
troduced in the Memphis City Coun
cil. The use of these noxious drugs
has become appalling in Nashville.
It is said that the cocaine habit is
prevalent to an alarming extent and
that the drug in some of its forms is
easily secured by the increasing
number of persons who are becom
ing addicted to the destructive habit.
OXJT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS.
The National Irrigation Associa
tion is circulating a very interesting
map of the United States, to which
we take much pleasure in directing
attention. This precious body was
organized, it seems to cajole Congress
into irrigating, and then throwing
ujon our already over-supplied mar
ket for agricultural land, about a
hundred millions of acres now arid,
to the enormous injury of every man
who now owns a farm, and therefore,
since agriculture is the basis of all
our American industries, to the
enormous injury of the people of the
country, save and except those who
are directly interested in the "devel
opmenV1 of the arid region. Well,
their map makes the meridian of 98
the dividing: line between "Humid
America" and "Arid America," and
gives the population east of that line
as 58,218,000; west of it, 4,404,000.
That is to sav. according to their
own showing, considerably more
than five sixths of the owners
of the arid land with individ
ual exceptions, of course, about
in the proportion, probably, of the
proverbial drop in the bucket are
directly interested in keeping it arid.
All the same, the one-sixth who live
around and about it and want to
"develop" their new rigions, are
ceaselessly plotting to get it into
market, while the rest of us pay the
expense. Country Gentleman.
HILL KEJTPOBH A
BINE.
C02I-
Rock Hill, S. C, Nov. 5. Some
of the cotton seed mills of North
and South Carolina have formed a
combination whereby they "will be
able to control, or direct, the sale of
a greater part of the seed in thera
States. The plan seemed to be some
thing on the following line: The
territory, is divided, and one buytr
for the several miles is placed in this
territory, and the mill nearest the
buyer has the refusal of the seed.
It is thus argued that freight will e
saved. Whereas a mill buying setd
some distance from its plant inust
pay more freight than a mill near
the buying point, it is clear that it
will be economy to ship seed to the
nearest mill. However, this com
bination may seriously affect the
price of seed.
WHAT THE CENSUS SHOWS.
One of the results of the new cen
sus having important bearing upon
political affairs will be the reappor
tionment of Congress. Congress has
absolute power in this matter, but
will be compelled by the necessities
of the case to reapportion. The first
apportionment under the constitu
tion was one member of Congress to
each 30,000 of population, but the re
sult of the first census, taken in 1793
four years later, raised the number
to 33,000. Since that time each de
cennial census (save the second) has
resulted in largely increasing the
apportionment number. The tenth
census (1880) led to the adoption in
1882 of 151,911 as the ratio of repre
sentation ; in 1893 the ratio was
raised to 173,901. It, is now likely
that the reapportionment to go into
effect in 1903 will . fix the ratio at
200,000. This will increase the num
ber of members of the House from
356 the present number, to 375.
Should; the present. Congress in .re
apportioning the Congressional rep-,
resentation allow a member for each
major fraction and adopt a ratio of
200,000 the States of Arkansas, Colo
rado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisi
ana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mis
sissippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North
Dakota, Washington and West Vir:
ginia will each gain one Representa
tive, while Illinois, New York, Penn
sylvania and Texas, will each gain
two. The States that are likely to
lose representation in Congress, and
consequently in the electoral college,
are Kansas, Maine, Nebraska and
Virginia, one each.
In the grand total are included 74,
627,907 persons residing in the forty
five States of the Union, the terri
tories, the District of Columbia, Ha
waii and the men engaged in the
military service of the United States
abroad. There are found to be in
the country 131,158 untaxed Indians.
The rank of the first five States re
mains the same as in 1890 New
York with its 7,268,009, leading them
all and preserving still its right to bo
called the "Empire State," followed
in the order of their size by Pennsyl
vania, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri ;
Only four States bordering on the
great lakes show an increase greater
than the national ratio of 21 per
cent Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and New York the last named pass
ing by a scratch. Indiana, Ohio,
Michigan and Pennsylvania fall
below the average rate of increase.
Encouragingjto thehopes of the South
is the fact that Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas all rise to or above that ratio,
Texas and Florida showing the ex
traordinary increase respectively of
37 and 35 per cent. North Carolina!
South Carolina and Tennessee fall
below the average. In ew England;
Connecticut, Massachusetts and
Rhode Islands being above mormal
Massachusetts with 27 per cent . gain.
Maine, New Hampshire and Ver'
mont, however, show but 5, 9 and 3
per cent, advance, respectively. Of
the Atlantic cost middle States Dehu
wrare, Virginia and Maryland fall far
below the average rate ; New Jersey
and West Virginia rise above it.
Among Western States Idaho lead.v
them all in rapid growth, scoring
90 per cent, for the decade. Mon
tana comes next with 84, followed by
North Dakota with 76, Wyoming
with 53, and Washington with 48,
while California, Colorado, Oregon
and Utah are well above the average
figure. Iowa's advance has not kept
np to the pace set in the former de
cade, being but 18 per cent., and
South Dakota, Kansas and Nebras-'
ka indicate a gain in population of
but 11,3 and 1 per cent., respectively.
Nevada records an actual decrease..
Among the territories Oklahoma
leads with a gain little short of 550
per cent., almost her entire devel
opment having taken place during
the past ten years. Farmers Voice.
COTTON SEED