Tho Progressive) Farmer, .April 8 1902.
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State News.
CTJBBITtfCS TO CHELOIXE.
I IaUrait GUaaod Trom our CorraV
poadffttiaadExeliaafftilnall
Part cf tie BUtt.
Senate has confirmed the
odiixatlon of Ada Hunter as post
Jter at Kinston.' '
jpector Boushee has favorably
reported on four rural delivery
routes In Johnston County.
Both Raleigh and Greensboro are
jaaking an effort to oapture.the Re
publican State Convention.
H. L. Fry of Greensboro, won the
appointment to Annapolis in a com
petitive examination recently held
Bjider the direotion of Congressman
tf W. Kitchin.
Congressman E. Spencer Black
turn has been elected the member
0f the National Republican Cam
paign Committee from North Caro
lina. The choioe was made by Sena
tor Pritohard and Congressman
Moody.
Statesville Landmark : A gentle
ni&n who looked over the tax book
In the sheriff's office last week found
that there were about 1,200 white
men in the county, most of them
Democrats, who have not paid their
poll tax.
At least a hundred delegates from
all parts of the country were pres
ent at the organization of the Cum
berland County An ti Saloon League.
Satire harmony prevailed, inspiring
ipeeches were made and the organi
zation "was perfected.
Col. Olds : Mr. Haokett, of Wilkes
boro, says the people- of that section
will build a very fine turnpike from
that town to Jefferson, Ashe County,
34 miles, and that 50 oonviots will be
employed on it, besides free labor.
He says it will be a model road and
that an automobile mall service will
be put in operation on it.
Pittsboro special to News and Ob
server : The coroner's jury in the
case of Lucian Tripp, returned a
verdict that Tripp was murdered.
Bruises were found on his head and
suspicion points to General Farrlng
ton, a negro who was with him a
short while before he was found
dead. No arrest has been made.
Some fields of wheat are beginning
to improve in appearance, but farm
ers tell us that the prospect of wheat
generally is verj glcomy. Nearly all
the wheat on some fields is frozen
out, and many fields are badly wash
ed. On a whole, it looks as if the
wheat crop of the county will be a
very small one this year. Newton
Enterprise.
Governor Ayoock and State Super
intendent Joyner have both accepted
invitations to attend the fifth annnal
conference of the Southern Educa
tion Association, at Athens, Ga ,
April 24-27. They were invited by
Robert C. Ogden, of New York, the
president. Last year's meeting was
at Winston-Salem, and was remark,
ably interesting and resultful. Ex
change. Raleigh Cor. Chp.rlotte Observer :
Commissioner of Agriculture Patter
ion fays that Dr. Salmon, of the
Bureau of Animal Industry of the
Pcited States Agricultural Depart
ment, tells him the disease among
horses known as "forage poisoning,"
which killed many horses in several
eastern counties in this State last
year, prevailed to an unusual and
fatal degree al-ng the Atlantic sea-'
board from Maryland to Mississippi.
Greenville Reflector: Mr. W. M
Smith, of Falkland, was here to-day
and told us he had been examining
bis tobacoo beds and found plants
very scarce. This led him to inquire
of his neighbors and also of people
along the road, and the same condi
tion was reported by them. He says
if this is general, the farmers will
not be able to have as large aoreage
in tobacco this year as intended.
How are the plants in other seo
tions?
The Cleveland Star notes a large
attendance at the Good Roads meet
ing in Shelby. "All the speakers
?reed that the time was ripe for the
movement and that people were ready
tr vote the tax in order to get
roads." A committee was appointed
to confer with the county commis
sioners on the first Monday in May
to "take definite steps to place this
movement in a practical form so
thut a tax may be voted or levied
f'r read purposes together with
Pirns for pursuing the road work in
the most successful way."
Asheville Cor. News and Observer:
News has been received here to the
effect that Robt. Ogden, the New
York millionaire, will stop at Ashe
ville next month during his trip
through the South, to see the meth
ods of education. The party which
includes eighty-three wealthy men,
will travel in a special train. Mr.
Ogden's idea is to show wealthy
friends what is being done in the
way of education in the South with
the hope that he may induoe them
I to contribute largely to the South's
educational interest and progress.
Raleigh Post: The farmers of
Rowan County are seriously ham
pered this year on account of - the
scarcity of labor. Nearly all the
negroes are leaving the farms and
settling in the cities. It is estimated
that within the past two years 500
negroes have left the farms in this
county. Mr.' J. C. Henley,' who has
one of the best farms in the county
is selling his farming implements
with the purpose of quitting farm
ing. Asked the reason for his leav
ing so valuable a farm he said that
he cannot get labor at any prioe.
Speaking of the Hanna boom for
President in 1904, Mr. Thomas J.
Pence, Washington correspondent of
the Raleigh Post writes : The army
of North Carolina Republicans here
who are linked to the Treasury are
Hannaites first, last and all the time.
They tell you that Hanna is a friend
of labor and the friend of capital,
and the one man who can continue
Republican supremacy. I asked one
of the oldest newspaper correspon
dents here why this sudden move
ment towards Hanna; "It is the
work of the politicians," he said.
"They will defeat Hoosevelt if they
cani"
Jim Wiloox.Vfate will be with
North Carolina's five Supreme Court
judges about August. The defense
lawyers will present an able plea to
save the young man.'s life. Aside
from exceptions taken during the
trial there will probably be presented
affidavits telling of the demonstra
tion on the part of citizens while
Lawyer Aydlett was making the
final speech. Though many persons
at a distance cannot understand how
oonviotion was had on the evidenoe
presented, most Elizabeth City citi
zens think it was a righteous ver
dict. Exchange.
President John C. Kilgo of Trinity
College arrived to-night. His mis
sion North is to make selections for
four newly created ohairs in Trinity's
faculty. These are the chairs of
Romance Languages, German, Ap
pliedMathematics, andPolitical Econ
omy, whioh are to.be established as
the result of Mr. B. N. Duke's splen
did liberality. This gift is six thou
sand a year to Trinity, whioh is
equivalent to a hundred thou
sand endowment. Dr. Kilgo is
looking for quality, and he will visit
Yale, Harvard, New York and Phila
delphia on his trip. Washington
Cor. Post.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth : 1
should be a matter of congratulation
to Tarboro and this entire region
that such fine work is done at the
Pittman Hospital there, whioh is un
der the care of Dr. Julian Baker.
He, with a number of other physi
clans a few days ago, performed a
most remarkable operation. It was
the removal of an enormous ovarian
tumor. The patient was a woman
from near Aulander. Before the re
moval she weighed 285 pounds and
afterwards 120 pounds, the tumor
itself weighing 165 pounds. It is.
said to be the largest of the kind on
record, Dr. Kerrer, of Johns Hop
kins having recorded one of 150
pcunds.
Washington Cor. Post: It is an
anomalous condition, but it is a fact
that farmers in Eastern North Caro
lina are asking' for the adoption
of protective duties. Congressman
Small has received petitions urging
that a tariff duty of one dollar a
barrel be levied on Irish potatoes im
ported to this country. The peti
tions come from Beaufort and
adjacent territory. These petitions
are prompted by the fact that al
though there was a short fall crop of
potatoes in this country the farmers
have failed to realize good prices.
Potatoes from abroad have been im
ported to such an extent that the mar
ket has been swamped and the home
farmers have failed to realize the
fancy prioes that they expected.
Durham Cor. Post: Rural libra
ries have been placed in thirty-one
of the thirty-three white schools in
Durham County. One was placed
to day, leaving but two schools in
the county without a library that
is, but two white sohools. Superin
tendent C, W. Massey told your cor
resDondent to-day that he expeoted
to send orders for the two remaining I
sohools before the end of the present
session. The move started by the
last legislature giving ten dollars
each to the first six sohools in each
county to ask for assistance in estab
lishing the libraries, spread until
praotioally all of the sohools have
asked for help along this line. Gen.
Carr has assisted twenty -five of the
thirty-one sohools by giving ten dol
lars to eaoh, in this way taking the
place of the State after the first
six.
Dr. Dred Peaoock has resigned the
presidency of Greensboro Female
College, the resignation to take effect
at the end of the present term. Mrs.
Lucy H. Robertson, who has been
lady principal of the college for some
time, has been elected to suooeed
him. Dr. Peaoock retiring on aooount
of a partial failure of health, will
not sever his connection with the
oollege, he having oonsented to re
main as treasurer and financial
manager of the institution. Dr.
Peacock has been president of the
oollege for eight years and has
brought it to the forefront of female
oolleges. The institution was never
so prosperous as at present. The new
president is a woman of Btrength and
culture. She has been in the educa
tional work for twenty-five years
and is well fitted for the duties of
of the new position to whioh she has
been called. Exohange.
inOIIAS EAELY CAPTURED, 8ETX1TCZD,
SHOT.
Hertford, N. C, April 3. Having
lived through a tempestuous night,
during parts of which his life seemed
to hang by a thread, Thomas Early,
the assailant of Miss Pearl Perry, 16
years- old, was guarded through a
hurried trial and. ordered from Eden
ton, N. C, to -a place of more secu
rity, only to be shot down on the
train when hardly beyond range of
the town ohuroh steeples. The trial
itself, according to official time, only
occupied seven minutes and twenty
seconds. Judge Jones, who lately
said the words whioh meant Jim
Wilcox's death, sentenced Early to
fifteen years, the maximum penalty
in North Carolina unless the object
be accomplished. Miss Perry was
one of the five witnesses before the
grand jury.
Realizing that citizens might seek
Early's death in Edenton, Judge
Jones ordered him taken to Hertford
jail. Walking between civil officers
and in the hollow square of a mili
tary company, Early reached the
station safe and was taken into the
forward smoking coach' to a seat.
Immediately behind him sat Deputy
Robinson, while 8heriff Baker was
standing in the aisle.
When the train had been moving
a short time, one Smith, a small,
middle aged man who was two seats
behind the prisoner, drew a pistol
and fired three times in quiok suc
cession at Early's head. The only
ball which took effect entered be
tween the ear and spinal column
and came out of the left temple.
Early will recover.
f FS0ST HUBTS TSUCK.
Cold Weather at Wilmington Seta the Seaion
Back.
Wilmington, April 3. Wilming
ton and this immediate seotion has
been visited by three frosts this
week and the truokers are beginning
to look the least bit gloomy over the
continued cold spell. For two morn
ings ice has appeared in exposed
plaoes. The truok farms are suffer
ing and it is feared that much dam
age has resulted, especially in delay
ing the season. Truckers in this
section must have early seasons for
marketing their strawberries and
vegetables, or else they m ill not be
able to get good prioes after the
truok from the Norfolk seotion be
gins to pour on the market. The
damage to the fruit orop is slight.
So far the cold's greatest injury to
the truck planters is in delaying the
season. Post.
BUT A TRUCK PAPER SAYS THE DAMAGE
IS SLIGHT.
Wilmington, N. C, April 5 Based
upon special reports frcm reliable
correspondents oonoerninsr the en
tire truoking belt from Norfolk to
Southern Pines and Florence to
Goldsboro and New Bern, the Caro
lina Truck and Fruit Growers' Jour
nal estimates the damage to all grow
ing crops by the recent oold snap at
not over 5 per cent of the estimated
output.
"It all eroes to show." says the
paper editorially,1 "that the territory
of the two uaronnas is we most ia
vored of all other sections for the
profitable growth of strawberries
and early vegetables, and that the
North, East and Middle West must
lnnk to this territory for their sup
plies in these lines. - I
; j - , , lissga
General News.
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TELL.
The Facte Soiled Down and Frtiented in
Conyenient Form for Buy
Eeaderi. j
Latest returns from the Arkansas
primary elections show that United
States Senator James K. Jones has
been defeated for re-election by
James P. Clarke.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Brigadier -General R. P. Hughes a
MajorGeneral. Colonels Isaac D.
De Russey, Andrew S. Burt and M.
V. Sheridan have been promoted to
the rank of Brigadier-General.
The will of the late Cecil Rhodes
directs the trustees to establish two
American scholarships in Oxford and
Cambridge Universities for each of
the present States and Territories of
the United States.
The national debt of Great Britain
was reduced during the reign of
Queen Viotoria by about $750,000,
000. The oost of fighting the Boers
has so far been about $800,000,000,
So that Great Britain has expended
in less than three years more money
than she saved during the entire
sixty-three years of the Victorian
period. Detroit Journal.
Efforts are being made by the
friends of Estes G. Rathbone to se
cure a pardon for him from the sen
tence of the Havana court. Senator
Hanna has requested the President
to issue-a pardon for Rathbone, but
this the latter has deolined to do.
The President, however, has prom
ised to send for the papers in the
case and have them thoroughly re
viewed. Floods have done great damage in
Middle Tennessee and parts of East
Tennessee, and, as the reports come
in, the injuries grow. Thirty out of
thirty-five iron bridges in Giles
County are gone. The trains on the
Chattanooga road have yet only
reached Murfreesboro'. The loss in
property is enormous. So far only
twenty-two lives are known to have
been lost, but this number will bd
increased when all parts of the coun
try are heard from. Much damage
has been done further South, but the
worst is thought to be over there.
Exohange.
A VICTORY FOB DAIBYHEN AND FOB
HOTTEST DEALING.
9
The Oleomargarine Bill Fa seed by a Vote of
39 to 31 It Had Previously Faited the
Senate.
Washington, April 3. The Oleo
margarine Bill passed the Senate
to day by the following vote :
Yeas Allison, Burnham, Burrows,
Burton, Clapp, Cockrell, Cullom,
Deboe, Dietrich, Dillingham, Fair
banks, Foraker, Foster (Wash.),
Frye, Gallinger, Gamble, Hale,
Hanna, Hansbrough, Hawley, Kean,
Kearns, Kitridge, Lodge, MoComa
MoCumber, McMillan, Mason, Mil
lard, Mitchell, Nelson, Penrose, Per
kins, Piatt (Conn.), Pritchard, Proo
tor, Quarles and Spooner 39.
Nays Aldrich, Baoon, Bailey,
Bates, Berry, Blaokburn, Carmaok,
Clark (Mont.), Clark (Wyo.), Cul
berson, Dryden, Dubois, Foster (La.),
Gibson, Heitfield, MoEnery, MoLau-
rin (Miss.), MoLaurin (8. C), Mal
lory, Martin, Patterson, Pettus, Raw
lins, Scott, Simmons, Stewart, Talia
ferro, Teller, Vest, Wellington and
Wetmore 31.
The measure as passed by the Sen
ate differs in some respeots from that
passed by the House of Represents
tives. It provides that oleomargar
ine and kindred produots shall be
subject to all the laws and regula
tions of any State or Ter ritory or the
District of Columbia, into whioh
they are transported, whether in
original packages or otherwise ; that
any person who sells oleomargarine
and furnishes it for the use of oth
ers, exoept to his own lamily, who
shall mix with it any artificial col
oration that causes it to look like
butter shall be held to be a manu
facturer and shall be subject to the
tax provided by existing law; that
upon oleomargarine o61ored so as to
resemble butter a tax of ten cents a
pound shall be levied but upon oleo
margarine not colored the tax shall
be one fourth of one cent per pound ;
that upon adulterated butter a tax
of ten cents a pound shall be levied,
and upon all process or renovated
butter the tax shall be one fourth
of one cent per pound. The manu
faoturers o process or renovated or
adulterated butter shall pay an an
nual tax of $600, the wholesale deal
ers shall pay a tax of $48 per annum.
The measure provides regulations
for the collection of the tax and pre
scribes, minutely how the various
produots are to be prepared for
market.
CONSOLIDATION OF BAILED AD 3.
The Plant System Will be, Abaorfced by tlie
Atlantic CoattLlne.
New York, April 4. Warren G.
Elliott, President , of the Atlantic
Coast .Line Railroad Company, and
R. G. Erwill, President of the Savan
nah, Florida & Western Railway
Company, authorize the following
statement:
"Negotiations have been oompleted
under whioh it is arranged that the
Savannah, Florida & Western Rail
i
way Company will, on or before July
1, 1902, be consolidated and win be
come the property of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Company. The
negotiations also contemplate that
the other railway properties Of the
Plant system will pass under the
control of the Atlantio Coast Line at
the same time.
"It has also been agreed that
when the consolidation takes plaoe
the Southern Railway Company will
have trackage rights through there
after for all its trains, both passenger
and freight, over the line between
Savannah and Jacksonville, thus
making Jacksonville the southern
terminus of the Southern Railway
for its Florida service to and from
the East."
UEU0BIAL FTTNO COMPLETE.
Lexington, Va., April 4. Presi
dent George H. Denny, of Washing
ton and Lee University, telegraphed
from New York to-day that the
memorial fund of $100,000 to found a
chair of economics at the University
in memory of the late . President
William Lynn ; Wilson was formally
oompleted. Ex President Cleveland
is chairman of the committee. There
is muoh ifejoioing at the university.
THE AHGL0-JAPAJTE3E ALLIAD7C2.
At last, under the administration
of Britain's foreign interests of Lord
Lansdowne, the Japanese have been
rewarded with the partnership of
Great Britain in an effort to right
the gravest wrong that Europe has
done in China. The two powers will
insist that the Powers keep their
promise not to seize Chinese territory
or extort concessions giving any
Power or Powers an unfair oommer
oial advantage over the others. The
polioy of Japan in whioh she seeks
the support of England is laid bare
in her demand that China promote to
a place in the Peking Foreign Office
the notorious Boxer Na Tung who
went to Tokio to apoligize for Chi
na's misdeeds. From this hour on
we may count upon Japan as the
hearty friend of China and we may
be certain that her hatred of Russia
no longer slumbers. Julian Ralph,
in the World's Work.
The recent Tennessee floods have
caused $5,000,000 property loss and
25 persons are reported drowned.
GENERAL MILES AND THE PBESIDENT.
After persistent effort General
Miles has suooeed ed in having off!
cially published the correspondence
between himself and the War Depart
ment relative to the conduct of mili
tary affairs in the Philippines . Some
time agoi we gather from the offioial
letters, General Miles requested to
be sent to the Philippines to take
oharge of military operations. In
this letter he spoke of the ill success
of present efforts and suggested that
he could effeot peace by personal
conferences with native chiefs, etc.,
and also by. bringing some of the
prominent Philippinos to our coun
try. In another letter he had advis
ed that, our army in the Philippines
be reduced by 10,000, and that this
number be sent to China. He also
desired to be sent to China and to be
made Commander-in Chief of the Al
lied Armies of the Powers ' All these
requests have been denied, mainly on
the ground that they are unwise. In
the letters of Secretary Root General
Miles is told that quite satisfactory
progress has been made toward paci
fication of Filipinos, and .that his
reflections upon the oonduos of the
army there are altogether unworthy
and undeserved. The President ap
proves the Secretary 8 position. From
a reading of the correspondence, to
gether with consideration of other
recent episodes in which General
Miles has figured, we gather that in
his old age the besetting weakness of
his life vanity has " gotten the bet
ter of him. He should have retired
when he reaohed the age of retire
ment. Biblioal Reoorder.
James R. Garfield, a son of the
late President Garfield, has occepted
the p6sition of civil service commis
sioner tendered him by President
Roosevelt.
THE XIID-ROAD POPULISTS ADOPT A NET7
NAXXE.
A ?ew Organization Competed of All Far
tie Ezcept tho Democratic and til HtpubU
ean. .
Louisville, Ky., April 3. For two
days there have been here 250 dele
gates, representing the Populists,
Socialists, Union Labor, Union Re
formers, of Ohio ; the Public Own
ership Party, of St. Louis ; the Lib
eral Party, recently formed in Ohio ;
the United Christian Party, and in
faot all elements not associated with
the Republicans or Democrats. The
object of the meeting being the for
mation of a third party oompcscdc2
all reform forces, independent cf . old
parties.
As a result, to-day, under the
name of the Allied People's Partyof
the United States a new political
organization was formed here one
composed of reform elements opposed
to the Democratic and , Republican
parties. The platform of the new
organization embodies the platform
adopted at the conference held in
Kansas City last September, when a
call for a convention was, issued "to
unite reform forces against plutoc
racy." It reaffirms the spirit of the
declaration of principles adopted a)
the national conventions of the Peo
ple's.Party in St. Louis, Omaha and
Cincinnati, and the demand for
the initiative and referendum and
the Government ownership of all
public utilities are its principal
planks
A TABS 07 HC2CDLZ3.
The New York1 Commercial 4a
thority for the statement that Rus
sia is contemplating building a canal,
by the side of which project her-ber-oulean
task of constructing -.. the
Trans-Siberian Railroad, or ours of
digging the American isthmian-canal,
or China's long-ago-accomplished
work of building the Great Wall,
or Egypt's achievement in piling up
the pyramids, pale into insignificance.
It is proposed to connect the Baltic
and the Black Seas with a canal, mak
ing use of the rivers Dnieper, Reri
sina and Didina, the channels of
whioh would have to be deepened.
It seems impossible that it could ever
be done. Russia is powerful by rea
son of the oompaotness of her enorm
ous reaches of territory but suffers
inconceivable annoyance in the una
voidable wide separation of her fleets
and the impossibility of concentrat
ing them speedily, having to main
tain three naval divisions one in
the Baltio, one in the Black and one
in the far Eastern waters. Of course
suoh a canal's trading advantages
would be great. Says the Commer
cial: "For ooming generations of
Russians the proposed canal would
be an unmixed blessing ; but f of the
present generation, whioh is to be
forced to construct it, it will be as.
genuine a ourse as were the pyramids
to the wretched Egyptians who wore
out their lives in laying the heavy
stones that oompose them." Char
lotte Observer.
THE EXTENT OF OUTt BAILEOADS.
From a little wooden track' line
along the Lackawaxen Creek, where
the first looomotive in the country
had its trial in 1829,, the railroad
systems of the United States have
grown in seventy-three years to a
network of rails whioh, straightened
out, would make a single track ex
tending eight times around" the
world. Visualize this eight-fold
girdle. Beside it a new track is pro
gressing twelve miles a day on the
ninth oirouit. On every fivemile
stretch is a locomotive with a: train
of eight cars. There are five men at
work for every mile and two -hundred
and forty new men coming to
work every day. The road carries
more tonnage than all the ships' on all
the seas together with the railroads
of the busiest half Europe. From
the lines that make up the imaginary
manifold belt one wage earner out
of every fifteen in the country, di
rectly or indirectly, secures a living
for himself and his dependents, if
not as a fireman or a conductor or a
superintendent, then as a locomotive
builder or a steel worfcer, of even
one of the lumbermen engaged in
hewing down the three thousand
square miles or timoer employed
every year for ties. M. G. Cunniff,
in the World's Work.
I like The Progressive Farmer
for its faithfulness to the farmers'
interests and its advooacy of prin
ciples for the improvement and up
building of the farming class of peo
ple. It was the first paper in North
Carolina to advocate the rural free
delivery of mails. F. II. Adoock,
Granville Co., N. C.
y':. . . .