The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-03
INCREASED ACREAGE.
The Tobacco Crop viii De About Doubled
In Eastern Counties.
TEMPORARY COMMISSIONS ISSUED
10 tho Fold Force of Deputy sCoIIcc-
t"rs-Rcpnbiicans VIII Not Fuse
With PopulisIs for Com-rcssnen-
Dispute Over mn old Hnt,IciiaG-
Railroads Filing Exceptions,
TEMPORARY COMMISSIONS ISSUED

Raleigh, n. c., March 2.-(SpeciaD-
Reports which come in here show that
there will be Il very decided increase
In the tobacco acreage In middle North
Carolina. Fertilizer inspectors who
came in to-day from the eastern coun-
ties say they new: saw much fertilizer
and that the sales will be double those
last season. ana that the acreage in
tobacco will be doubled. They ray that
in the middle section tna is.;il.acr sale3
VIII be less than they were last year
The State has icra ISed its supply Of
ball cartridges 10 100000. News come S
In from all sides Of rapid recruiting
of companies
To-day Revenue Collector Duncan re-.
turned from Washington. whelc he
went to see the commissioner of in
ternal revenue. He Il once issued tenn
po:ary commissions TO all the Held force
OF deputy collectors, for % days from
March 3. The first commissions were
for 20 days from January 4.
u. l.. Wood, Of BERTHE. was in the
Office OF the collector this morning
Nading civil service literature. He
said: You can say that if the Demo-
cratic party adheres sincerely to its
anti-civil service policy 1t will swamp
the country"
Mr. Chaplin, a member Of the lcgisla-
ture from Chathlm, was also in the
collectors office. He declares that the
people Of his section are curslnr civil
service. BY this he means Republicans
and Populi:ts who can't get Offices
Republicans say that there will be no
fusion on Congressman; that the Re
puhlicans will elect their three as they
did two years ago. and will also again
help the Populists elect five. They say
they prefer Populists 10 Democrats in
Congress. They add that there will be
absolute fusion of Populists and Re-
nuolicanS on legislative and county
tickets. a....
1t is learned that the Dukes of Dur
ham will build large cotton mill in
the suburbs Of Burlington.
There is some dispute IS 10 the flag
sent here from New Hampshire. EN-
broheiNd on 1t are these words
Fourth Regiment, North Carolina
Volunteers" In the reorganiza ion this
became the Fourteenth regiment The
survivors do not like the bad taste
shown In placing the Nag on view in a
store window
The railway from this city to the
Cape Fear River viii have its terni-
nus at the river. this side OF Littleton.
where there is a free ferry
1t appears that the lopul!sts who so
hate Senator Butler are Slow in NOV
inS against him.
1t is alleged that Bob Newton, the
man who blew IN II house at Queens
bolo with dynamite. has N arrested
at Roanoke, Va.
The railways are fling very strong
exceptions to ihe order Of the railway
commission reducing fares 1t is said
that at the next meeting Of the COM
mission great pressure will be brought
TO bear 10 induce il to revoke ills order
In the monthly bulletin Of the A@ri-
cultural Department The new commits
sioner John II. Smith has never writ
ten line. He is an absolute figure
head.
The publication of the analysis of
the fertilizers IS now made directly by
the Agricultural Department ana not
by the State experiment station.
The Agricultural Department is dis
tr:hutinS free SEQ pounds of the Vii
lowsam sugar beet
Prof. w. It. Massey fears that he has
discovered the san Jose fruit scale at
Raleigh.
EN-congressman Fred Woodland, of
Wilmington wns married on the 9th
instant to Mrs. L. L. Haleman, Of
Raleigh.
There are now ovc~ one thousand
Northern and Western vs.ters TO