North Carolina Newspapers

2br Smitfjfirlil Rrralti. price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies three'(knts VOL. 20. SMITIIFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1001. NO. 7. WEEKLY CROP REPORT. Not More Than Ten Per Cent of the Cotton Crop Yet Planted. PROSPECT FOR TOBACCO GOOD The Cold Wet Weather is Doing Great Damage to All crops. The Colorada Beetle Has Made Its Appearance In Trucking Section ot This State. The Weekly Weather Crop Hal leton for North Carolina, issued by the Weather bureau at Ral eigh for the week ending Monday, April 22nd, says: Much improvement in crone and considerable progress in farm work occurred during the early portion of the week, a re sult of the dry, somewhat warm er-and more favorable weather conditions which prevailed from the 15th to 18th. During these tlays the sky was generally clear to partly cloudy, temperature slightly above normal, rising to 74 degrees at Raleigh on the 18, and the soil dried out nicely at least over the eastern part of the State where the rainfall had not been excessive. Hut the heavy rainfall on Friday and Saturday (19th and 20th) and the subse quent very cold weather has al most obliterated the favorable effect of the preceding few days stopped farm work for some time, and prevented much growth to young vegetation. Condi tions were better in the eastern half of the State where the cloudy weather on Saturday and Sun day prevented the threatened frost. In the mountain region the rain turned to snow Friday night and on Saturday a fall of from 2 to (5 inches of snow occurred over ten or twelve western counties, with temperatures considerably below freezing. The lowest tem perature reported was 2G de grees at Asheville. The heaviest snowfall occurred in Madison county and extended across the mue mage into Stokes county on the north and Rutherford on t he south. Sunday morning peach trees in full bloom in this section were covered with ice, and great damage to the entire fruit crop in the west is anticipated. The week on the whole was about 4 degrees below the daily normal in temperature, and was further rendered unfavorable by the heavy rainfall in the west, which has kept water courses full, and placed lowlands in very bad condition. In the south and east consider able progress was made in plant ing corn and cotton and in gard ening. Com is coming up poor ly, does not look thrifty, and a bad stand is feared. Not more than 10 per cent of the cotton crop has yet been put in the ground, and the bulk of the crop will be seeded late. ? Tobacco plants in beds grew fast during the few days of warm weather, and appear to be abund ant. Gardens are gradually getting into better condition; cabbage and tomatoes have been trans plan ted, and other vegetables are doing fairly well. Many Irish potatoes are up nicely, but the Colorado beetle has caused the rotting of potatoes and many seeds which can not ger minate in the chilled soil, so that considerable replanting will have to be done. Fruit is safe in the eastern and centeral portions; strawberry shipments began on a small scale, Friday, 19th. Wheat, rye, and oats are doing well. Rainfall for the week at select ed stations: Goldsboro 0.20 inch, Greensboro 1.12, Lumber ton 0.14, Newbern 0.50, Weldon 0.3(5, Raleigh 0.(>0, Charlotte 2.80, Marion 4.08. Those famous little pills, Re Witt's Little Early Risers will re move all impurities from your system, cleanse your bowels, make them regular. Hood Bros., Hare & Son, J. R. Ledbetter. GREAT DAMAGE DONE. . Rain and Snow Storms in Pennsyl vania and West Virginia Very Destructive. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., , of the 2lst, says: Pittsburg and Allegheny are p slowly emerging from the murky ? flood. At 8 p. m. the rivers were receding nearly a foot an hour. The highest point reached at Davis Island dam was 25.8 feet at 3 a. m., which means 28 feet at the juncton of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. The water remained stationary until ? about 3 p. m., when it began to I fall. Conservative estimates of the total damage in this district is between $200,000 and $3,000, 000. Fifty thousaud workers i are suffering from enforced idle i ness. While there have been i greater floods at this point, there was never one that caused so much financial loss and discom ? fort. This was to to the denser population caused by the recent rapid growth of the two cities and to the fact that all the nianufac i taring plants on the river banks were in active operation, most of them working night and day, until the rising water put out the fires and drove the workers to higher ground. Snow continued to fall all day Sunday throughout the greater part of eastern Tennessee. On the mountains, where it had not melted, the snow is reported to have reached a depth of nearly two feet. The rivers were out of bounds and the Tennessee at one point is 15 feet and rising rapid ly A dispatch from Erie, Pa., says: The snow storm of Friday night and Saturday, and the sleet storm of Saturday night, was the worst known here in GO years and surpasses the famous blizzard of March, 1888. There is 12 inches of snow on the level and during Saturday nearly every trolley car line in the city was knocked out. Huntington, W. Va., dispatch, 21st: At 6 o'clock this evening the rain and enow which had had been falling for 78 hours eeased. The Ohio has passed the i danger line of 50 feet, and still! ! slowly rising with the Guyan dotte, Rig Sandy, Tug and Twelve Pole also rising rapidly at all points. Fully ten feet i more wuter is expected here. The Kanawha river is still rising, j Great damage has resulted | throughout tne southern and i central portions of the State. There is much suffering among people compelled to seek quar I ters in the hills. The Flood Hollow Dam, in Middlefield, Mass., gave way: about 6 p. m. Sunday night, let ting loose the water In the big reservoir, which rushed with ter rific force into the west branch ; of the Westfield river, sweeping everything before it and sub merging the greater part of that city. No lives were lost as peo ple who were below the dam nad | been warned. To the Boys. Roys, don't start ont thinking thaty our first object in life should be to be an Alexander, a May nard, or a J. Gould, but be a man. First of all, make some thing of yourself and then you can more easily make something i of the things with which you have j to deal. If you are poor, don't I let your circumstances make you | but you make your circum stances. The world needs you, j not for the mere sake of having ! you, but it needs you as men, model men. A. R. Flowers. Minister Wu Ting Fang, Chi nese minister at Washington, is; preparing a memorial to his gov ernment, urgingthat his country fall in line with western progress and bring about reforms in eco nomics,finance and governmental control. Don't try to be exclusive. The most exclusive people in the world are in jail. I GENERAL NEWS. A Partial List of the Week's Hap penings Throughout the Country. Graduates of the Fpper San dusky, Ohio, High School have threatened to strike if they are required to prepare essays and orations. Western Reserve Academy stu dents at Hudson, Ohio, quaran tined on account of smallpox, have broken the cordon by terri fying the guards with guns, and departed for their homes. Dr. Gustave A. Taschereau and Miss M. M. o'Ryan, of Quebec, were united in marriage in a con I vent at Bedford Park, N. Y., last week, the first ceremony of its kind ever pel formed in the Fnited States. Figures received at the State Department in Washington com piled by J. W. Stevenson, director ot the C inese inland mission, show, il < ihe total number of foreigtiv cessionaries killed in China dthijig t he recent disturb ances. incluo. the children, was 18G. Of these 2, adults and eight childien were Ann " ana. Swollen rivers, wIk >< threat ened tremendous fiooa. in tli> Ohio Riyer Valley, are subs dine. In Pittsburg 60,000 men lu been made idle and property loss of| *.'{,000,000 inflicted by the water. Much damage is reported from Cleveland, Cincinnati and other Ohio points. New York, West Virginia and Kentucky. A party of herders reached Knoxville, Tenn., Monday, from the Smoky Mountains, having been driven out by the heavy snow. They report that 400 head of cattle were in danger of i freezing when they left. Accord ing to their story, the snow was from four to six feet deep when they started from the mountains. Nine members of Company I), Forty-seventh Infantry, which body is soon to be mustered out of the service at Manila, have organized a baseball team, and propose to tourtheUnitedStates immediately after their arrival at San Francisco. Sergeant C. F. Dunkle is the manager of the ( club, and Private Vallance is the caDtain. a ? " ?? [? State Railroad Commissioner ] Osborn, of Michigan, litis ordered ( the Grand Rapids & Indiana, and j the Muskegon, Grand Rapids & i Indiana roads to reduce their j passenger rates to 2% cents per j mile. The earnings of these roads < last year, amounted to $2,000 per mile, which, under the laws of Michigan, brings them under the 2% cent classification. Harry Cook, an insurance agent 1 at Baltimore, was granted an j absolute divorce last week. The! Cooks lived in New York, but Mr. i Cook got a better job in Pitts- i burg, Pa., and his wife left him, ; refusing to live in the latter city. 1 She would not live in Pittsburgh because the city was slow, smoky i and dirty. Now she is free to j i live where she pleases. It has been held by a jury in Iowa that under certain circum- j1 stances a bank cashier must make food money taken by robbers, n March, 15)00, a bank in North wood was entered by burglars * who rifled the safe. (). F.Ulland, owner of the bank, brought suit against Burr Payne, his cashier, i for $2,POO, aiming that Payne left tl. buiylar proof safe un- 1 locked and the he had kept more 1 money ti was sup- 1 rosed to. Th< ury uwurded Mr. i Hand $82, .">0. A memoria, fountain in honor 1 of Nathan Hah pm-ented to the city of Norwalh Co u., by the Norwalk Chapter ft 1 'nught ers of the Americai R - 'uii >n, was unveiled with tpb't p :ate 1 ceremonies on Friday - t ? >1 dresses were delivered bv ' Fd I ward Everett Hale, oi n>,j who is a grand-nephew o'. mn ? Hale; Rev. C. M. Sellecs l'arkes Cad man, past u he i Central Congregational t uurch, Brooklyn, and oth, H. The memorial fountain or $!)50.a part of which was contributed by the school childrer of Norwalk. I MOST REMARKABLE WEATHER That is the Way the Weather Mai Characterizes the Recent Storm. News and Observer, 34. Yesterday's weather condition! struck Forecaster von Herrmani all in a heap. Mr von Herrmann isthemai appointed by the government tc disuense weather in this part o the country, and Monday after noon lie printed 011 his bulletin it big black letters: KOK TUESDAY: FAIR WEATHER. Though there were no mdica tions of fair weather when th? bulletin was issued, every lovei of liaseball hoped the prediction would somehow turn out to b< true. But it didn't. The rain wat steadily peppering down when it was made, and never at any time, night or day, did the pros< pect brighten. Yesterday morn ing the whole atmosphere seemed to be saturated with water. The downpour was steady and dis heartening, even to the most optimistic of baseball "rooters.' Finally the News and Observei man reluctantly consenteel to be one of a hundred brave but out raged citizens to wait on Mr. von Herrmann and elemand an ex planation, and this is what he said: "In all my experience this ic most remarkable storm I have ever known. Certainly u .eg like it has occurred, dur ing t early fifteen years in whid ord of the weather here ha ' kept. "As eve . d knows, and all the weatht tin an records will show, every ' r. . that ever came from the a - soon as it struck the Atlan coast devel oped in violence d passed rapidly up the coast iv this one didn t do that a 1 right there's where it gottlie d> it only on me, but on the v ; weather service of this country. "Instead of going up the coa. it turned northward by way oi Cincinnati, as I stated yesterday. That was a surprise to us, but tt'O pnnntotl r\ n nn fimtbnt. ?? T? vx VV/UW vvv* Vil ?1U nil inn Hill" tastic tricks from it. Hut this morning we awoie to find the most remarkable thing of all had happened. The storm had curved back down the Mississippi valley through west Tennessee and north Alabama and was howling again almost at our loors. To be exact, the storm is now central at a point between Charlotte and Wilmington, where it is crossing the path by which it firet came here from the west. Po do this it had made a com plete circle passing through North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, North Alubama, Georgia, youth Caro lina and back into North Caro lina. "It is the most remarkable storm freak ever known. The storm started in southern Ari rona on April 15th; it was in Texas on the 16th and 17th, Alabama on the 18th, South Carolina 19th, North Carolina and Virginia 2<)th, Ohio and Tennessee 21st, back in Alabama 22nd and South and North Carolina 23rd. Surely today it will pass up the coast, and make way for the warm wave that is behind it is the western and central part of the country The weatner continues fair and warm in the Mississippi valley and over the plateau region. Maximum temperatures above 80 degrees were reported in Tex as Monday and the appearance of a low barometer over Montana indicates the approch of much warmer weather in the immedi ate future." Job Could' Hare Stood It. If he'd had Itching Piles. They're te'ribly annoying; but llucklen's .mica Salve will cure he worst case of piles on earth. It has cured t lousands. For In iries, Painsor Bodily Eruptions it sth "si salve in the world. l'i. a box. Cure guaran ty " Id by Hood Bros. d fnnual session of the aroiioa Conference of the \ .n M is-ionary Society will Mison May 10th to 15th. STATE NEWS. i snort Items of interest Culled From our State Exchanges. s The wheat crop of this State is i reported to lieexceptionably fine University of Virginia defeated 1 N. C. University playing baseball ? Saturday, f) to 2. A separate reading room for negroes bus been fitted up at the State Library in Raleigh. The Grand Lodge of Knights of l'ythias held its annual meet - ing in Greensboro this week. . I A very good site for the new j public library which Mr. Carnegie , gives Charlotte has been bought ( for $7,500. i The baby born at Raleigh, said ? to be the smallest ever born in the world, weighing 14% ounces, ? died Saturday. ' Thomas Dixon, .Jr., one of the ' country's greatest orators will deliver his lecture on " New ; America" at the Academy of .Music in Raleigh next Tuesday night. . The State commissioner of im , migration says that during the j . jrast four years 10,000 persons . from other States have settled in North Carolina, very few of these i being foreigners. Hon. Henry Watterson, the brilliant lecturer and great editor of Louisville, Ky., delivered his famous Lincoln lecture in the hall of the Olivia Kaney Library at Raleigh, Monday night. Gus. Reese was run over and ; killed by a passenger train near Fletcher, Henderson county, Sat urday afternoon. He was about 20 years old and it is thought that he was intoxicated when run over. Dr. Arnold Frank, a veterinary surgeon of Durham, has been en g >ged by agents of England to with a transport load of mules ] \ ew Orleans to South Africa, i ! return in about two 1 i monti |' The i rats of Goldsboro ( have nuii.. "d Mr. 1 rge K. j Hood toi r of I at city, j Mr. Hood is f tic- leading j young Democi Wayne and j ably represent* ounty in ( the recent l^egisla Richard H. Battle BaI t eigh, will deliver tl ual ad- t dress before the l" .v isity law ' school of Chapel il , Vlay 7th. t i His subject will 1 ' Lawyers 1 i ; Have Met and I* n s to be I)e- | rived from their I e? " 11 The bridge ovt tl e Catawba 1 river near Char' te was swept j away Saturday. The people in ;, charge of it per itn-d logs and . driftwood to e< ?? ' and break the steel piers. is recently 1 finished and v steel, the length being 3r j The debate en sjteakers ( from N. C. Un ? r "ity and Van- i i derbilt Univer its b riday night j. was won by tl '? C. University, j ; The subject < fit debate was, f "Resolved, T at < mibination of t capital, com y known as t trusts, are a <>cial and economic f advantage."' The University had i the affirmative side of the ques- t tion. r At the office of the Superinten dent of Public Instruction it is learned that during the past 20 years this State has expended $7,210,904 for white and $4,- ^ 091,139 for negro public schools.; ^ It also spent $3,823,504 for gen-. j eral expenses for both races, of which trie white got the benefit of 50 and the negroes of 44 percent. The total exjtended was $15, 225,000. The negroes pay 5 per ^ cent, of the taxes. f Mrs. Sarah Bean, who lives near \ Lenoir, will soon be 107 vears t old. She was never sick a day in her life until about two weeks j ago when she lost her eyesight, t She is cutting her third set of i teeth. She never wore spectacles. < She has living 78children, grand- 1 children, great grandchildren t and great great grandchildren, t Since her birth she nas lived where i she now is. She went away from 1 home once in her life, 75 years ago. 1 -?i Ihe Educational Conference at Winston. What iniH moot impressed me in thin Conference nre two facts: That tiie educational problem is in its essential elements the same m the North and the South, and that the earnestness of purpose to solve it, by providing ade quate, practical education for all the people, not greater in one section than in another. The problem is the same, whether it is presented by the deserted hill sides of New England, with pop ulations relapsing into some thing like barbarism, or by the mountain region of the South, where the railroad, the newspa per and the school house have never gone, or by the Canadian - French immigrants who crowd in New England factory towns, or by the Italians, Poles and Hungarians who swarm in the tenement house districts of the seaboard and lake cities, or by the negro population who gather in conditions which permit idle ness and vice 111 Southern towns and cities. And the remedy is everywhere the same?a true es timate of the value of man and therefore of the value of educa tion, and a true understanding of the meaning of education, in cluding not only the informiugof the intellect, but the training of the development of theconscience, that the law of life may be both intelligently understood and loy ally obeyed. In this lies the seed of the salvation of the country from the feuds which threaten it, and of its power to deal success fully with its problems both at home and abroad.?Lyman Abbott, in News and Observer. Railroad Wreck Near Shelby A terrible wreck occurred Sat urday morning at 8 o'clock, at Buffalo bridgt, ten miles from Shelby, this State, on the South Carolina and (ieorgia Railroad. The bridge gave way, plunging the engine and several box care to the strc . . ati before the tre' erupted to >ross the hi id;. agman Will Sullivan : tnat he would aot ri;-K hi- and walked oTer. Engineer u:alf pot down from i? enjrirv, wentunder thetrustle, .ned it and told his conduc es it was unsafe, that if they at empted to cross they would lose he train and possibly their lives, rhe conductor gave him orders o go ahead, which he did, ruli ng the throttle wide open. The mssenger car attached to the ?ear was cut loose by thec-oiuhir or just in time to save the ? es if the passengers. The trestle is 50 feet high and 400 feet I6ug. The passenger train from M a (ion. oaded with passengers, escaped :he wreck only twelve minutes. It was flagged by an old colored voman who had seen the wtfcck. Had the wreck not occurred here would have been a collision let ween the freight and p.iien cer trains. Metcalf was a frnr ?ied man, 32 years old, w?h a amily. The latest news from he wreck Saturday night was hat A. Rhynes' bocly had ^ ? ound a half mile down the ?ver n a mangled condition. The >ody of Metcalf has not been ?ecovered.?Kx. Priest insisting on Matrimony. Trenton, N. J., April 22 ?Rev. ThaddeuH Hogan, of St. John's L.tholic Church, is anxous to lave all memtiers of his church narried. At early mass yester lav he desired all young single nen to remain in their seats ifter mass. Then he insisted on hem marrying early in life. He taid that a man earning fit) a veek and upward could support t wife. A few weeks ago Father Hogan ?reached a similar sermon to the lingle women of his parish. He trged both sexes to promote the :ause of matrimony and said Jhat after a resonable time bad ?lapsed he would compel each ?ingle man and woman to rent a vhole pew in his church as a icense fee. A number of engagements have leen announcd.