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The Progressive Farmer, November 12, 1901.
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State News.
SOU CURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
taof Interest Gleaned From our Corres
pondents and Exchangee in all
Parte of the State.-
Rnral freo delivery postal routes
have been established from Frank
Untn, Franklin county, to serve a
population of 2,580. The carriers
appointed are Willi P. EdwaTd and
q T "ictiolsm. The post offices at;
Jell'reTS and Zechs are to be supplied
by rural carriers.
Washnton Cor. Post: Former
Congressman Pearson, of the Ashe
viLle ditrict was to day promised
bv President Rn sevelt an appoint
ment in the diplomatic service
abrontl. This promise was brought
abon by Senator Piitchard and Con
gressman Moody presenting MrC
Pearson to the Prf sirient.
Shelbv Star : The Lura Knitting:
Mill in Sh lby was destroyed by fire
Wedi ejday morning at 1 o'clock.
The fire is supposed to have caught
from tbe heating pipes. It was a
two story wooden structure, well
equipped with the latest machinery.
It was owne I by Messrs. G. Mills
Latt'more and Orlando Elam and
cost ab mt $9,000 or $10,000. It was
insured for $6,500.
Wilson Times: We are glad to
know Miss Sallie Btockard is pre
paring a history of North Carolina,
taking the counties in detail. It
promises to bo a most valuable ac
quisition to the literature . of the
State. The treatise on Wilson coun
ty is very thorough embracing its
educational, religious, industrial and
political development. The work
will be issued about January 1st and
should hava a large sale:
News and Observer : The United
State v irouit Court of Appeals yes
terdav affirmed Judge Purnell's de
cision rd ring a sale of something
like 150,000 acres of land in Dare
county. This case has been in the
courts for so-ne time and has at
tracted much attention becfiuse of
the faH tin. it involved practically
an entire county. The land in ques
tion has been a subject of litigation
)ecau?e of it timbered value.
Statesville Landmark: The Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Company,
alias the cotton seed oil trust, is
gradually absorbing all of the cotton
seed oil mills. The latest to go is
the one at Davidson. These mills
are being sold to the trut, we are
told, at a good profit and the stock
holders are selling because they fear
that the trust, h ..ving secured the
great majority of the mills, will
freeze out those who refuse to sell,
as it undoubtedly will.
News and Observer : Up to this
time la-t year there had been paid
out in Raleigh $290,000 for cotton
sold on the streets. Up to this time
this year there has been paid out in
Raleigh 190,000 for -cotton sold on
the strepfs. Raleigh is therefore
short $200,000 from the ootton sales
This oceans, of course, a lack of
Tnnnv in nirrmlati on among farmers.
merchants and all others, and telta
the storvof the severe loss that is
involved bv the very short cotton
crop.
Wo aro impressed that our people
are fast recovering from the blight
ing influence of politics which has so
afil cted us f r the past five or six
years. It would be a blistering
shame if we permitted political dif-
farences to divide us as a people ;
et we did 11 jw these alien in
u iances to enter in and make our
hearts bitter toward each other. Let
lis learn a lesson from the past and
ttand shoulder to shoulder in Chris
tUn activity no matter how we may
differ
on governmental matters.
Parity and Children.
'-'ol. Olds: The number of con
ts now in the penitentiary is only
, which is by far the smallest
e wiihin a few weeks after its
rs were first opened to thepublio,
i' 170 There are only 17 female
c mots there. Thirty of thepublio
) ' jners are on the Tillery. farm,
p iiing cotton. Thirteen male con
'.:ts weresent to the Tillery farm
: terday. Fifty are grading a rail
r d trom Dover. There are in all
.y bo0 convicts. The decrease of
1 number is steady. High-water
irk as to numbers was reached 14
rs ago.
Ma j Joe Morehead exhibited in
''ir sanctum this morning a smooth-!-re,
flint and steel buok gun, five
eet eleven inches in length and
whole stocked thatN is, tho stook
runs to the muzzle. This was the
property of Caleb Crews, of Gran
ville oounty, and used by hirf Uhe
1 ill- ... .
j to work, arrived here to-day and
wants large numbers of negroes to
go tvi Kansas, Tennessee, and other
States. When last in North Caro
lina he had several narrow escapes
from mobs, as then there was violent
opposition to the . exudus he was
promoting. His license as labor
agent was made $1,000 for each
county. The Legislature three years
ago repealed this law and "Peg Leg"
is now weloome.
Goldsboro Cor. Post : The election
to day on the bond question for pub
lic improvements has shaken the old
town from center to ciroumference.
The total sum of bonds voted upon
was $110,000, divided as follows:
Fifty thousand dollars to buy water
works, $25,000 to buy eleotrio light
plant, $20,0. 0 for street improve
ments and $15,000 to build city hall.
Each proposition was voted upon
separately and all were carried by a
handsome majority, thus attesting
the public spirit, patriotic sentiment
and city pride which pervade the
hearts of Goldsboro people.
Biblical Recorder: The trouble
about the book business in North
Carolina since Charity and Children
asks the question is this : A num
ber of good and true and competent
' vith the emphasis on the compe
tent men were appointed to select
books. After they had worked and
warrtd and suffered for sixty days,
resisting all influences, their selec
tions were largely overruled by the
officers ot State, who were neither
so competent as these educators nor
so immune to book-house influences.
TiiU is the trouble, Bro. Johnson;
and it wdl not down simply -because
you stop your ears.
State Commissioner of Labor H. B.
Vamer, is reported in the Raleigh
Times that new factories are spring
ing bo last you can scarcely keep up
vsith them. Furniture factories leau
at the present: "Ihere are said to
be 3iJ wood-working lactones at High
Point alone, and at Lexington ana
Tuoinasvi.le there are 18 more New
ones are being built at almost every
point in that section, and the indus
try is assuming large proportions
One tiling 1 am glad to report, said
Air. Varner, "and that is that the
cotton mills are endeavoring to live
up to their agreement regarding
cnild labor." Exchange.
Kinston Free Press : A night
school has been established at the
Etird ootton mill at Albemarle for
the benefit ot young men who want
to obtain the rudiments of an educa
tion. The Free Press thinks it prob
able that such a school might succeed
at the Kinston Cotton Mills. We
ask some of our eduators to consider
the matter and see if there is a prob
ability of success for such a school
in East Kinston. It might be) that a
night school for all the youths and
young men engaged in the various
manufacturing industries of Kinston
oould be established and do great
good.
The editor of the Marshville Home
duns delinquents gently. Hear him :
Hnrft in an incident which is more
conclusive evidence that editors are
not able to keep up appearanoes.
This time it caused us to be "left at
our own game." Recently we ap
proached a well dressed citizen who
had just oomo out in a new suit. We
were dressed, as usual, in our un
attractive attire. "Those who didn't
know you would take you for a gen
tleman," we remarked to the newly
dressed citizen. He replied promptly :
"Well, I am sorry to say that I have
never seen you when anybody would
take you for one." We didn't ex
tend the conversation any further.
The Charlotte Observer says : The
Supreme Court campaign seems to
have opened. For Chief Justice,
Judge Clark appears to have it all to
himself. In the east the friends ot
Judge Brown and Judge Connor, are
at work, and the names' of A. C.
Zollicoffer, Esq., of Henderson, and
other gentlemen are mentioned. In
ubio oi wuiirora uourt Mouse in
1781. There was also shown a pow
der horn of that period and a buck
skin shot bag also used in the battle,
all now the property of the Guilford
Battle Ground Museum, a presenta
tion of patriotic descendants. The
major is having pictures of these
taken to aid Mr. Mullins, of Ohio, in
the manufacture of a statue true to
life of a North Carolina militiaman
of 1771 the pioneer of American
liberty who at that date set the
Revolutionary ball in motion.
Greensboro Reoord.
Raleigh Cor. Messenger: "Peg
Leg" Williams, who twelve years
ago induced 30,000 negroes to leave
North Carolina to go further South
the west the friends of Messrs. Piatt
D. Walker, of Charlotte; Chas. H
Armfield, of States ulle, and Jas. A
Lockhart, of .Wadesboro, are urging
them, while in the last two days
circular letters in behalf of Judge
Chas. A. Moore, of Asheville, have
been sent out, and the names of F.
A. Sondley, of Asheville, and Judge
W J Montgomery, of Concord, ap
pear in the papers the latter's name
on Saturday for the 'first time. The
situation is ah interesting one and
the contest promises to be spirited.
Chief Clerk Moody, of the State
Treasurer's office said to-day that
there will be but little inorease in
the State's income this year from
the new tax on corporations, from
which so much was expected. In
other words, the tax fails to materi
alize "It will not bring in over
$7,500," he said, after looking over
his books. Assistant State Libra
rian Marshall DeLancey Haywood
is nearly ready to issue a life of
Governor William Trvon. The
aldermen last night adopted an or
dinance imposing $10 fine on men
and boys who ogle and annoy sohool
girls on the street and the college
grounds. The behavior of some has
been outrageous. Col. Olds.
Asheville Cor. Charlotte Obser
ver. 7th : Houston Merrimon, the
son of Judge James H. Merrimon,
and an official of the Blue Ridge
National Bank, was shot this morn
ing by Mary Slagle, a 15 year old
girl. She shot four times, two 38-
calibre bullets striking Merrimon,
one in the elbow, the other near the
spine. The shot in the elbow wil
make the arm stiff. The wound
near the spine may prove fatal
Chief of Police Fullam rushed
through the crowd, and was astonish
ed b yond expression when the girl,
a mere ohild, said in a clear voice :
"I shot him. He ruined me, and
wanted to ruin him. God told me
last night to do it." Even then
Chief Fullam would have turned
away, but in her hand was a 38 cali
bro blue steel revolver which bore
evidence that she spoke the truth
With a steady step and dry eyes she
walked to the police station with the
chief, not once losing her nerve
She will not be 15 until next month,
and in a few weeks she will become
a mother, but not once has she shown
a trace of nervousness. Sympathy
is usually with tbe girl in such cases,
but in this instance the sympathy
has been more pronounced, partly
because of the tender age of the girl,
and partly because the opinion, pre
vails that she has been very much
wronged bv Merrimon. Later. Mer-
' as
rimon is said to have told the phy
sioians just after he was shot, that
he guessed the girl, Mary Slagle, did
right in shootiog him, and that he
did not blame her much. She sa s she
will vet kill the young man, should
he reoover from his present wounds
WAKE FOREST-TRINITY DEBATE.
The fifth annual debate between
representatives of Wake Forest and
Trinity Colleges will be held at the
Academy of Musio in Raleigh on
Thanksgiving evening. The query
for discussion is :
"Resolved, That North Carolina
should have compulsory education
Trinity will contend for the affir
mative and Wake Forest will insist
on the negative side of the question.
The speakers selected for this occa
sion are : Messrs. C. C. Hornaday,
W. H. Brown and L P. Howard for
Trinity ; and Messrs. J. C Little, W
A Dunn and O. P. Diokinson for
Wake Forest.
THE METHODIST ORPHANAGE.
In my last letter I promised the
latest news from our Methodist
Orphanage at Raleigh. Rev. J. B.
Hurley, Agent, was with my con
gregations recently. He preached t o
our edification and delight. Our
offering to the cause was limited by
the crop conditions. He gives an ex
cellent report. Beginning the work
a little over a year ago, we have now
in Raleigh a property valuation of
over $25,000. We have in cash and
good subscriptions over $15,000 for
our new building, which is to be the
main or administration building,
and is to cost $25,000. Fifty or sixty
individuals and Sunday schools have
agreed to support an orphan each,
at the cost of $60 a year. One build
ing, which ooat $5,000, and is a large,
two-story brick cottage, is complete
and occupied. There are at present
about thirty ohildren in the Home
The institution appeals strongly to
the Church, and will never call in
vain for needed funds. Rev. N. H.
D. Wilson, in Nashville Christian
Advocate. 1
i General News,
LI HUNG CHANG HAS PASSED AWAY.
Peaceful End of a long and Honored Career
. as China's leading Statesman. ,
London, Nov. 9 Dispatches re
ceived here say that Li Hung Chang
died at 11 a. m November 7.
Li Hung first rose to prominence
as the leader who suppressed the
Taiping rebellion, although it is pret
ty generally understood that the
achievements of the American Ward
and the Englishman "Camese" Gor
don in this war. were really what
turned the.tide. He was thirty -one
years old when the Taiping rebellion
broke out in 1853.
As a reward for his services Li
Hung Chang was made governor of
the provinces of Fuhkien and Kiang
su. In 1867 the Shantung rebellion
broke out and Li again took the field
and again defeated the rebels. In
1870 he was elevated to the viceroy
ship of Chili, the most important
viceroyalty in China.
He, in 1876, again distinguished
himself by his efforts to cope with
the great famine, and four years
later he was made grand secretary
of that state and became the virtual
head of the Chinese empire.
Li Hung Chang's firm grip on pow
er early in his career was due to his
army, which was the best equipped
and best drilled that could be gotten
together in China.
At the time of the outbreak of the
war with Japan Li Hung Chang was
at the height of his powder, and, al
though the Chinese disasters resul
ted in some outward signs of dis
grace visited by the court upon him,
it nevertheless was Li Hung Chang
who negotiated the terms of peace
In 1896 Li Hung Chang made a
tour around the world, visiting the
United States and the principrl capi
tals of Europe, where he was received
with great honors, notably in Rus
sia
For the recent peace negotiations
between China and the powers Li
Hung Chang was summoned to Pekin
from the southern provinces to which
he had been sent as governor after
his tjartial restoration to favor. He
m
was one of the plenipotentiaries,
though second in all things to Prince
Ching.
TURPENTINE TRUST.
The Concern Enlarging Its Sphere of Opera
tions.
- New Orleans, Nov. 9. The tur
pontine manufacturers of Louisiana,
Alabama and Mississippi have bten
organized as a branch of the Tur
pentine Operators' Association
formed at Jacksonville, Fla , in
August, which proposed to take in
all manufacturers in the United
States. The association decided to
form associations in all parts of the
turpentine field to co operate so as
to regu'ate the wages paid and the
labor, mainly negroes employed in
the turpentine orchards, to curtail
production so as to prevent the over
production which is he'd respor sible
for the present low prices, and to
regulate as far as possible the price
of turpentine, rosin and other naval
store products.
OIL TRUST PAIS GREAT DIVIDENDS.
New York, Nov. 7 December 16
next will be better than Christmas
for the stockholders of the Standard
Oil Company, for they will then re
ceive. a present of an 8 per cent quar
terly dividend on their holdings.
The grand total to be disbursed is
$8,000,000, of which John D. Rock
feller receives one-third, or $2,666,
666. This brings the total dividends for
1901 up to 48 percent, or $48,000,000,
which just equals the record-break
ing year of 1900. In two years the
oompany has paid out in dividends
nearly the full amount of its capital
stock. There is no such reoord as
this in the world's history. The
Standard Oil Company pays more
on its $100,000,000 capitalization than
the steel trust does with a capital
more than ten times as great.
THE TOP CROP CUT OFF.
Dalas, Tex., Nov. 5. Reports
from points in Texas shows that
there was frost last night. This prac
tically ends the top crop of cotton in
Northern and Central Texas.
The Sohley Court of Inquiry has
oonoluded the taking of testimony
and is now at work on its report, j
Admiral Sampson is experiencing
the same difficulty of getting into
the fracas that he did at Santiago.
Tee Salt Lake Herald.
i .
BOTHA'S BOLD NOTE OF DEFIANCE TO
KITCHENER.
Englishmen in Arms to Be Regarded as Out
Laws and Shot on Sight.
Parts, N rv. 4 The text of Gen
eral Botha's counter proclamation to
Lord Kitchener's recent proclama
tion has reached here. It was issued
September 15. It declares :
"Whereas, no official of Orange
Free State or the Transvaal Repub
lio aDd no general ' commandant of
burgher intends to obey Lord Kitch
ener's proclamation or to trouble
with it : :
"And whereas, the proclamation
contains falsehoods habitual to the
Eoglish:
"And whereas, Lord Kitchener's
proclamation has strengthened the
Determination of all burghers to re
sist to the end ; now,
"Therefore, I, Louis Botha, com
mandant general of the republican
forces, with the oonsent of the gov
ernments, officers and burghers of
both republics, proclaim Lord Kitch
ener, his staff and the officers and
soldiers serving under his orders
fighting us now, to be outlaws in Smth.
Africa, and all forces and burghers
in the two republics and in Cape Col
ony are ordered to shoot every armed
Englishman whom they meet."
A PLOT TO MURDER AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Manila, Nov 5. A plot to massa
ore the American garrison at Mon
cada, Provinoe of Tarlao, Island of
Luzon, has been revealed by the
wife of one of the conspirators.
Several of the town official are im
plicated in the murderous soheme.
The woman who revealed the plot
had a detective beneath a house in
whioh the leaders of the conspiracy
were meeting. Arrests followed
and many incriminating papers were
seized.
The plan was to fire a house close
to the barracks after dark, and when
the soldiers came out to assist in ex
tinguishing the flames, 150 conspira
tors, armed with bolos, were to rusi'
on tbe guard, oapture their arms and
proceed to massacre the garrison.
NEEDS MORE MONEY TO FIGHT BOERS
London, Nov. 6 What is regarded
as an important announcement pre
paring the people of Great Britain
for new taxes and fresh loans was
made to night by the Chancellor ot
the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks
Beaoh, in a speeoh at Bristol. After
alluding to the enormous increase in
the ordinary expenditures of the gov
ernment he reviewed the war taxes,
and said that the ever-increasing de
mand of the National Exchequer
gave reasons for careful thought
and even anxiety for the future.
"The cost of the war in South
Africa is enormous," said Sir Mi
chael. "It still drags on. It may
be when next year comes that 1 may
have to ask the people of this coun
try to bear even greater burdens
and to make even greater sacrifices."
CULTIVATION OF THE FILLER TOBACCO.
Secretary Wilson Wants This Country to
Produce All lhat It Needs.
Washington, Nov. 9. Secretary
Wils.n announces that experts'of the
Agricultural Department will hunt
all over the United States and its
new possessions for conditions favor
able to the cultivation of the filler
tobacco, such as is now raised in
Cuba, so that if possible all the filler
tobacco used in this country eventu
ally may be raised withm the bounds
of the United States.
"The United States," he said, "is
now paying $8,000,000 for filler to
bacco, which comes mostly from
Cuba, and $5,000,000 for wrapper to
bacco. We have succeeded in find
ing in this oountry the conditions
under which all the wrapper tobao
oo we need can be raised here, and
experts of the Department of Agri
oulture for the first time are seeking
soils adapted to the cultivation of
the fine filler produot. We have
parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Texas selected for the investigations
of our experts and land for similar
purposes will be selected in all our
new island possessions, with a view
to ascertaining how and under what
conditions the filler product can be
built up here."
The PhiliDDine Commission has
rmblished a blanket bill Drescribiner
punishment for treason, insurreo
. - iii.: ii . a.i
lion, seuibiuua uiberauues, iu.ts xor
mation of political societies, and
violations of oaths. The bill is de
signed generally to reach all rebel
sympathizers, whether active or pas-
81 V6. .mere aro uiwjou (aiarapufi,
whirh cover all Dossible offences.
Some people citicise the measure as
Tnaaionidnty PhilinninftS- hnt nn
xnuc:3.MUAuf rr t "
usual conditions there, it is claimed,
demand, extreme measures.
WASHINGTON NEW 8 NOTES.
Matters of Interest Reported by The Progres
sive Farmer's Special Correspondent
All official documents in the Phil
ippines must hereafter nse the terms,
"Mr.", "Mrs.", and "Miss", instead
of Senor, Senora, Senorita or Don.
Incidentally no Spanish titles or
terms are to be used which have an
English equivalent.
A table prepared by the director of
the mint shows that the ooinage of
gold for the world during the last
calendar year was $334,936,497 a de
crease from $444,110,614 for the pre
ceding year. The coinage of silver
was $117,011902, an increase e ver
the preoeding year of $10 884,938. v
Secretary R ot has defided to send
sme 15,000 men to the Philippines
to take the placs of the 2o,000
whose terms of enlistment will soon
end, thus workiog a reduction of
about 5,000 in the next few months.
This action is taken on reoommenda
tion of General Corb'n and with the
oonsent of General Chaffee.
Young though President Roose
velt may be, he having celebrated
his 43d birthday on fast Sunday, he
is not io young as the Kaiser, who
is not yet quite 43 nor as the
Czar, who is only 33. The Emperor
of Austria had been ruling for twen
ty years before the Czar was, born
and for thirty years before .Presi
dent Roosevelt appeared, in the
world.
According to the estimates of . Di
rector Merriam of the Census, .-the
United States will have a total popu
lation of 100,000,00 ? in 1910. This
includes, of course, the people of
the Philippines, and other outlying
possessions. The population of the
United States proper is put at nearly
90,000,000. The per centage of in
crease will probably not be so large
as it has been in the past but the nu
merical increase will be greater.
The diplomats of Washington
nearly all ride in automobiles, a
method of progress made especially
pleasant by the asphalt streets of
the Capital. The members of the
Cabinet, however, and otber high,
officials, stick pretty generally to
their horses and carriages. Various
explanations of this have been giv
en, but the real reason is that Unole
Sam provides for free horses and
carriages for many of his servants
but does not as yet allow automo
biles to anybody.
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
Chairman of the powerful Committee
on Finance of the Senate, has told
President Roosevelt frankly that he
js opposed to any change whatever in
the tariff laws, whether brought about
by the Babcock bill or by reciprocity
treaties. Mr. Aldrich was strong
enough to prevent the reciprocity
treaties from ever being reported to
the Senate last session and will prob
ably be powerful enough to with
hold them this year also, in the
opinion of many.
The selection of Captaia Crownin
shield to command the European
station is accepted here as a reward
for that officer, despite his record in
the Sohley case and despite the efforts
of Seoreary Long, to, miinimize. the
importance of the ass gnrpent. If.
not the most important from a mili
tary point of view, the European
station has always been regarded as
the most spectacular and the most
pleasant. Moreover, it is the only
squadron command which will be
come vacant at any time in the near
future.
While President Roosevelt will not
make any public statement in regard
to his reasons for inviting Booker
Washington to dinner,he has Confided
to friends that he had no ulterior
motive whatever in his action. He
wanted to talk to Professor Wash
ington, and invited bim as the easiest
way of securing the chance. It never
occurred to to him that anyone
would object or even think of the
subject a second time. He adds, how
ever, that he should have done just
the same if he had known of the
coming storm of criticism. '
Negroes are better housed and bet
ter fed in the District of Columbia
than in any other section of the
United States, yet the inherent
weakness of the race keeps them
down. . Vital statistics of the Dis
trict just made public show that the
death rate among negroes in Wash
ington is 31 per thousand against 18
per thousand among the whites.
More startling still is the infant
mortality among the blacks ;. 457
negro infants out of every thousand
dying before they are one year old.
Similar mortality among whites is
only 183 per thousand.
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