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VOL. 2<>. SMITIIFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1001. NO. If!.
WEEKLY CROP REPORT.
Excessive Rains in One Section Make
Outlook Baa While in the Other
Where Less Rain Fell Condi
tions are Diversified
The Weekly Crop Bulletin issued
by the North Carolina Section of
the Climate aud Crop Service by
the Weather Bureau for the week
pastsays:
Frequent showers with cloudy
cool weather prevailed during
the week just passed. Rains oc
cuired at some place or other in
the State on every day of the
week and were quite heavy on the
21st and night of the 24th, caus
ing freshets in the smaller
streams; but generally the rains
were local in character, aud over
many counties there were favor
able opportunities for farm work
The temperature averaged o de
grees below the daily normal, but i
was not sufficiently low to be in
jurious or to check growth. .Maxi
mum temperatures exceeding!)()
degrees occurred on Sunday and
Monday with increased sunshine
and really summer-like weather.
The condition of crops has be
come very diversified; generally
in the northeastern section and i
along the northern border of the
State where less rain fell cultiva
tion has progressed rapidly and
crops have made fairly good
growth, though thev are still
lfatttr ? in + Via tirintli
?C1J UtttR VV Ctl U , 111 l/lic ouutll
central and west portion rain has
been continuous, cultivation
almost impossible, and all crops
are in very bad condition in con
seouence of grass and weed.
Wheat harvest is nearing com
pletion in the central east sec
tion, but has been delayed by wet
weather in the west; lack of well
tilled heads indicate a shorter
yield than expected, though the
crop will be a good one; there is
much complaint of molding in
shock, and even some sp; outing
of ripe grain in the fields. Corn
where well cultivated, especially
on uplands, is the only crop that,
looks well. In the east good
progress in hilling has been made,
and some farmers have begun to
lay by early corn; elsewhere!
growth has been slow; most
fields are still grassy; lowlands
usually planted to corn have not
been plowed and will be aban
doned. Cotton is making very
slow growth, but looks fairly well
in cultivated fields; grass con
t.inuestobetroublesome; in some
counties licp have appeared 011
cotton. Some early planted cot
ton is beginning to form squares.
Tobacco is doing well where clear,
and generally has good stand;
many correspondents now report
condition of tobacco also poor.
Peanuts look fairly well. Spring
oats are very fine and harvesting
them is underway. Peaches are
getting ripe, but many are rot
ting; apple trees are suffering
from blight and the fruit con
tinues to fall. Meadows are very
fine and a large crop of hay will
be obtained.
Cleveland's Summer Home.
The house which former Presi
dent Cleveland and family are to
occupy in Tvringham, Mass .this
summer is a farmhouse, built in
17<?7. Although it has been re
modeled in recent years to suit
the convenience of summer guests,
it retains much of its quaint, an
cient charm. It is pleasantly
situated and has a fine view of
the valley to the south, as well as
excellent views of I^enox and
Stockbridtre. Many notable per
sons were its patrons while it was
conducted as a summer boarding
house.
The trout fishing is an attrac
tive feature of the locality, and
Mr. Cleveland will lie made wel
come to even the "posted"
brooks.
Tryingliatn is about 10 miles
from Lenox, and the cottagers
will be able to drive over to call
upon Mrs. Cleveland, who is very
Popular among them.?New York
Herald.
Warranty Deed. Mortgage
Deed, Mortgagee's Deed, Quit
claim Deed and Commissioners'
Deed blanks for sale at The
Herald Office.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Partial List of the Week's Hap
penings "Throughout the
Country.
Spain is making vigorousefforts
to repair her depletion of arma
ment.
The total population of Paris
is placed at 2,714,BON by the
census just completed.
There have been loo new cases
and l."2 deaths from plague at
Hongkong the past week.
The Tennessee Supreme Court
has decided that a woman can
not practice law in Tennessee.
A resolution inviting William
?I. Bryan to speak liefoijp the
Virginia Constitutional Conven
tion was tabled Saturday
Prince Chun, brother of the
Emperor of China, sails for Ger
many July 20 to apologize for
the murder of Baron von Kette
ler.
The Government of Brazil has
accepted an invitation to partici
pate in the Pan-Auierican Con
gress to be held in the City of
Mexico in < >ctober.
Seventeen people lost their
lives, nine were seriously injured
and a dozen more received minor
injuries at an explosion at Pat
terson, N. .J., Friday.
Dr. Franklin H. Kerfoot, Cor
responding Secretary of the Home
Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, died in At
lanta Saturday night.
Civil government will be estab
lished in the Philippines on July
J. Judge Taft, the President of
the Philippine Commission, will
be appointed Civil Governor of
the islands.
Count von Buelow, the German
Minister for Foreign Affairs, is
reported to have said reeently to
.South American diplomats in
Berlin that the German Govern
ment recognizes the existence of
the Monroe doctrine and will not
hinder the construction of the
Isthmian Canal by the United
States.
Early Sunday morning strik
ing machinists assaulted non
union men who had taken their
places in the Southern Railway
shops at Columbia, S. C. The
non-union men were driven from
the car in which they slept and
persons on both sides were
injured. No arrests had been
made at last account.
The South African war was the
subject of innumerable questions
in the British Houseof Commons
Tuesday. Information was elicit
ed that, the war eorttinues toeost
$6,250,000 weekly; that the au
thorities estimate that the inva
ders of Cape Colony number
from 1,000 to 2,000 men, and
that there were 1,484- cases of
typhoid fever among the troops ,
during the month of April, of
which number 187 proved fatal.
My direction of the I'resident
an order has been issued bv the
Secretary of War appointing
Maj.-Gen. Vdna Ft. ( 'haffee, United
States Army, to the command of
the army in the Philippines, re
lieving Major-General Arthur
MacArthur. In addition to his
duties as commander, Mai.-Gen.
Chaffee will exercise the authority
of military governor of the arch
ipelago. The order will take
effect on July 4. General Mac
Arthur will return to the United
States
Sunday morning at 2:30 o'clock
Adalbert S. Ha v. son of Secretary
of State John Hav, fell r.O feet
from a window of the New Haven
House at New Haven, Conn..and
was instantly killed. What
caused his death is a mvsterv.
He was a graduate of Yale of
the cla?s of 1898 and had
gone to New Haven to attend
the commencement this week.
Though only 2." years old he had
served as American Consul at
Pretoria during the ltoer war.
He was to have been appointed
assistant Secretary to President
McKinley this week. Young Hay's
death was a terrible shock to his
father who is almost prostrated
with grief.
REGIMENTAL HISTORY.
Volumne One. Tellinjj oi Sixteen N.
C. Regiments is Now
on Sale.
Volutins 1 of "Ivefriini'iitiil His
tories 011 North Carolina" is now
on sale, it can be bad at si. 00,
the expressage is 22 cents addi
tional, to be paid by purchaser.
This volumne contains portraits
of Governor Ellis and Clark and
nine brigadier Generals, Govern
,or Vance and all other generals
will appear in succeeding vol
umes. There will be foijr vol
umes, all of which will be issued
this year.
.Volumne 1, is now on sale.eon
tains 800 pages, admirably
printed, with over 200 illustra
tions and five maps, including a
map of North Carolina during
the war. It contains the story
of sixteen regiments. It is hand
somely bound and has the State
and Confederate flags in colors
and gdt. in putting tiie volumes
at #1.00 the State is merely sel
ling at cost, which is thus small
only because there was no ex
pense for writers or editing the
work. Those who wish to buy
should send their orders at once
to Capt. Jl. C. Sherrill, State Li
brarian, as the edition may be
exahusted.
Schley Criticises Medals.
New York, June 25.?Rear
Admiral Schley, in thanking the
Gloucester Naval 'command of
Brooklyn for electing hi,a an
honorary member of the orga
nization, says in his letter in
reference to war medals:
Touching the matter of your
refrence to a medal I have always
believed that nations ought of
right to perpetuate the great
events of their history rather
than those of the lives of partici
pants, and leave to the judicial
calm of historic judgment to
perpetuate in bronze those who
may have honored themselves
by deeds of honor wrought for
home, for flag, for country.
No, my maxim has been stead
fastly, through nearly a half
century of service: "My country
first, last and all the time, after
my love of God."
Blessing The crops.
A curious old custom has been
revived at the village of Castle
acre, in Norfolk?that of blessing
the crops. The parishioners
gathered at the church and
formed in procession, headed by
the vicar and choir. After par
ading the village they proceeded
to visit thefieldsof growingcorn,
at one of which a service was
held, hymns sung, and a blessing
pronounced by the vicar on the
crops of the parish. The proces
sion then returned to the church,
singing recessional hymns by the
way, and dispersed after receiv
ing benediction.?London Globe.
Jlluefield, \V. Va., .June 20.?
A nother dest ruct i ve storm v isi t ed
the storm swept district tonight
and while no loss of life is yet re
ported from the second visita
tion. yet thedamture to property
has been {treat. The work done
by the large force of men, repnir
ingthedamageof last Saturday's
Hood has been destroyed in many
places. Details arenard to gath
er for the communication de
stroyed by Saturday's Hood has
not yet been established.
Papers were Hied at Trenton,
N. J., Monday, incorporating the
United Cotton Oil Company with
a capital stock of $12,000,000.
This is a new organization in the
cotton oil business and is be
lieved to be a consolidation of
the Southern Cotton Oil Comna
nany with a number of otfier
smaller concerns, chieHy smaller
mills in the cotton belt. The
new company will not be affilia
ted with the American Cotton Oil
Company, and will be operated
in opposition to that company.
The Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany when formed had an au
thorized capital of $5.000,000,
which was subsequently scaled
to $2,000,000.
FINANCIAL LOSS IS HEAVY.
Suspended Trattic and Destruction
Considered, It May Aifgre
trate Nearly $5,000,000.
Rluefield, \V. Va., June 2-~>.?
When night fell today on the Klk
horn Valley the mystery of 00
miles length which has been as a
sealed book since the cloudburst
of Saturday, wa-stili unrevealed.
From Vivian to wheivthe I'oe i
hontis Inane a leaves the Kik
horn at \\ illiamsou the repor
has iieen received. All that is
known is that there has been a
flood To miles long, and that in
a spare of 2.~i of these To miles
.s2,000 000 worth of property
and at least 20 liv< s were wiped
out. Hut nothing came from the
remainder of the valley.
Train dispatchers who disap
peared down the valley in the
track of the flood to get informa
tion reported today that the
tracks and bridges of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad are gone
the entire length of the Klkhorn
Valley. In the stretch of country
which they covered with great
difficulty there are only two or
three coal operations, but a num
ber of extensive lumbering plants.
The houses in the path of the
flood were all washed away and
the sawmills and cut timber were
carried off. The heaviest sufferer
waa VV. M. Hitter, of Ohio. Mr.
Hitter's company store, with
140,000 worth of goods, went
down with the cloudburst, and
40 miles of substantially built
narrow-gauge railroad was
washed out, while the rolling
Stock was greatly damaged.
FATALITIES MAY KF.ACH 24.
The exploring party report dis
covering about five unburied
bodies along the stream. It is
probable that not more than 24
persons lost their lives. The Po
cahontas branch, made clear by
today's report, is more than half
wiped off the map for a distance
of 75 miles. Wit h this trackage
have gone the numerous sidings
to the collieries and lumber oper
ations. While some progress [
was made in restoring the tracks
today, it was insignificant com
pared with what is yet to be
done. General Agent Johnson
has only 1,000 men working to-"
day and in four days has succeed
ed in establishing connection
only for light trafic from May
berry to Norfolk, a distance of
six miles. The Pocahontas re
gion supplied GO per cent, of the
freight that originated on the
Norfolk and Western system.
A Billion and a Hair of Exports.
Our total exports for the fiscal
year of 1901, which closes this
week, says the New York World,1
will exceed $ 1,500,000,000 in
value. This will beat the export
record of the last preceding fiscal
year (1900) by about $110,000,
000.
Well worth noting is the distri
bution of this unexampled in
crease in oursalesof merchandise
to foreign countries. Europe
and North America( which means
Canada) take almost the entire
increase of the fiscal year just
ending. Europe alon^ nas taken
$ 115,000,000 worth more of our
exports than she did in the pre
vious vear.
To Asia?the much-talkfd-ol
Orient, with its 'magnificent
markets' and its enchanting
'ope* doors'?is the only serious
decrease in our exports recorded.
Asia bought #15,000,000 worth
less of us last year than the year
iiefore.
Is not the lesson of these figures
so plain that he who runs may
read? Reciprocity treaties with
European Countries, already our
best customers, will evidently pay
us better than a policy of ad vent
ure in Asia.
Country Board.
Summer Hoarder?Rut your
advertisement said there were
plenty of cows. I haven't tasted i
any fresh milk here.
f'armer?I didn't mean they
were milch cows, Sir. I meant
they were fine cows for yeou city
chaps to sketch an' photograph.
Chicago News.
STATE NEWS.
S&ort Items of interest Culled
From our State Exchanges.
buncombe county is to have
a new court house to cost
$.->0,000.
The State has chartered the
Hamlet building ami Isian .V
socia'ion with authorized capi
tal of sill.-,000.
A mass meeting of ladies was
held in Littleton Tuesday after
noon and an organization effect
ed to tight the open saloons.
There was a big hail storm in
the Italeigh section Sunday
night, some of the hail being as
large as hen eggs, li.image was
done to crops.
Lucretia Chewiiiiig, a 7-year
old Oxford girl, died Sunday of
hydrophobia. The child was
bitten by a pet dog about a
month ago.
The Tupp-Long Company of
Charlotte, has been incorporated
with a capital of $10(1,OIK). The
company will buy, sell and man
ufacture merchandise.
The vote for .">0,000 bonds for
road improvement in New Hano
ver county carried by OiSo for to
07 against. This was 36 majori- j
tv of the registered vote
?j ?* o~~ ? .
The investigating committee
appointed to look into the steal
ing of the State funds by Maj.j
W. H. Martin has completed its
report. The committee finds
that the total amount of Maj.
Martin's steal is $1(5,550.52.
At KernersvilleSaturday night'
a big crowd of negroes who were |
drinking, became involved in a
quarrel with a negro named John
if arris, who pulled his pistol and
fired four shots, killing one and
fatally wounding two others.
At llaleigh Saturday thecom
mitttee on public school libraries
made out a list of 250 books and
appointed Gritnsley, Hill, Moses,
Toon, Forest and Sledd to meet
at Chapel IlillnextSaturday and
revise the list, reducing it to 200.
The citizens of High Point
have held a meeting in which
they condemned in strong terms
the healing institution known as
"Hamner College." This is the
same college that was recently !
denied a charter by the Secretary
of State.
A four-story bnck building was
burned at Greensboro Saturday
morning. The building was form
erly occupied by King's tobacco
factory, but when burned wasun-;
occupied except by a quantity of
hay and rubbish stored on the
different floors.
Prof. Jerome Dowd, one of the
professors in Trinity College, has
resigned his chair in that institu
tion and has accepted the posi
tion of resident lecturer in Sociol
ogy in the University of Wis
consin. He will spend the sum
mer in Europe.
In New Hope township, Wayne
county, the barn of W. H. Davis
was struck by lightning Sunday
night, and, with its contents of
feed stuff, was burned. Wagons,
carts, and farm implements were
also destroyed, the total loss
being about $+00.
liulletin No. 05, recently issued
by the Census Bureau, places the
number of incorporated towns in
North Carolina at 3+7, with
a population of 338,277, which
is 17.1) per ceift. of the total pop
ulation of the State. The census
of 1800 gave North Carolina 210
incorporated towns with a pop
ulation of 212, 288, only 13.1
j>er cent, ot the whole.
The expectation is that the
three regiments of the State
Guard will go to camp with pret
ty full ranks. Governor Aycock
and several other State officials
will go to the first encampment
almost at the end, so that lie can
see the regiment s work and ap
jiearance, and then by remaining
a few days see the regiment which
succeeds it. He will go to the
last of the regiments tinder can
vass. Thus only two trips will
| lie necessary.
COUNTY TE VCHE tS INS i 1 UT
AH Who Expict to Teach P
Schools This Summer or Next
Winter Must Attend.
Tothk I't'bi.k' Schooi T'i acii
ok Johnston County:
I hereby notify you that the
annual Teachers' Institute ' '
begin its next sesMOUin thecoma
lion-ear, 11 a in , Mon i yv, .Tlliv
''4Th, and continue livedays.
tier the new school lnwitbecon
your duty to iittt ml i wn <iu
this session. I quote tin wot
of the law: "All Um bers of <.
county in which such institute is
held are required to a: tend
same continuously durin itlies
sion thereof; and. upon iailua >
do so, unless provid ,tiail> 1"
tiered, shall lie debarred from
teaching in any of the pubiii
schools of this Stale for I he t? . i ?
of one year, or until such tea ...
er shall have uttemled souu
county institute in st?ute o" .
county." /
This is strong language, lan
guage that cannot be misunder
stood. If yon do not attend the
institute theCount^ Superintend
ent litis no authority to excuse
you. TheSnperintendeiit can sign
no order for teaching unless the
teacher shall have attended the
Teachers' lnstitutein thisor.-B me
othercountv of the State. Corn
rnitteeinen cannot employ teach
ers who have not attended the
institute. Notice that the law
says continuously. If you do not
come the first day and remain till
the close vou have not complied
with the law. If- your school is
going, it must stop for the insti
tute.
If you would like for ine to t>e
cure board foryou, drop me a ford
and I will get you a boarding
place.
l'rof. J. I Foust of the Golds
bo ro Schools will coi duct the
institute.
Now. besuretocoine. Comt to
learn something. Come t? be
benefited. Come for the sake of
the cause of education. Come not
simply because the law forces all
teachers to come, but coins be
cause you are a teacher and want
to be a better one.
Yours trulv.
I HA T. lTRLINGTON.
Co. Sunt. Schools.
lhe Bigger Halt ana the Better
Halt.
Mankind includes man and
woman. There is a question in
some minds as to the equality or
inequality of the sexes: but i: i?
practically admitted that each
sex is a half of mankind, although
there mar be a doubt as to tin
relative value of the two halves
A generous woman admits that
man is the bigger half, while a
sensible man is sure that woman
is "the better half." A woman
essavist in a mvirt meeting of
Professional Woman's League
of New York made a good point
when she said: "I believe that
men alwayshave, are,andalwnys
will be. what women > ake them
Men make the laws winch g< vei n
the nation, but women make the
laws which govern ti t home ami
society, and bv which both s? \e*
must abi le. The best in+er?st ot
the sexes are mutual, and should
be recognized." It was in tin
same line of thought that the
greedy boy whose father called
him "a pig." suggested that a
oig was "an old bog' -01 \
it is not easy to show that eitla-i
sex is Inferior to the other with
out reflecting on the otlid" sex
which has had such a part in it.?
influencing and training.?Ex.
The current issue of the New
York "Lit rarv Life" says: Mar
shall de Lancey Haywood, of
Italeigh, N. C., now temporarily
residing in Baltimore, ha- in
preparation a volume covering
the life of William Tryoa. Trvon
was successively royal govern.a
of North Carolina and Nov York
He was a major-general of tie
loyalists in the war of tlmrevolu
tion and became lieuten* nt-gen
eral in the arniyof tlreat Britain
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