The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-20

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should this experiment indicate that
the control of these corporations can
be made profitable undeE government
management, it would go far to break
down the opposition sentiment in this
country. Hence the report from these
islands will be both interesting and
profitable.
HAVANA, Dec. lathe First North
Carolina Regiment. which arrived
here yesterday morning on the United
State transport R3umania, disembark
ed this morning and marched through
the city, with band and coiors, to camp
at Mariana. By the time the regi
ment had reached the suburb Of Cerro
many hundreds Of men, women and
children were following, all showing
deep emotion, the men embracing one
another, the women weeping from ex
cessive pleasure and the children
shouting endearing names as the North
CaroIinians marched along.
The troops were amazed at the in
tensity of feeling displayed. Several
hundred Cubans followed the regiment
ell the way to MarianaO, a distance Of
seven miles. The troops, in heavy
ma ching order, made a fine appear
ance, reaching the camp about II
O'Clock this morning, where they were
soon comfortably installed.
The Government at Washington has
issued a volume of statistics On bache
lors and spinsters in the United States.
Part are the following figures:
North Carolina, Sc. $50 bachelors,
70 642 spinsters. These figures show
that if every woman in the land bad a
husband there would still be 72l8
lonely old sticks in the State, standing
around utterly forlon and hopeless.
Nor is the surplus of men confined to
North Carolina alone. It is all over
the whole country. Not a State but lie
in a like condition, the smallest per
cent of spinisters and the largest of
bachelors being found always in newer
Western states. In New England,
though, where it is popularity sup
posed that it a bachelor appeared there
he would have to take a dog along to
keep tbs girls away, the excess of
bachelors is something enormous. Yer
mont for instance, has 80 per cent
more bachelors than spinsters. Be it
said to the credit of Rhode Island,
though, that her excee of men is only
2 per cent. the fmallest in the Union.
The figures quoted include only per
sons who never married and divorced
persons, widows and widowers are ex
cluded and only persons over 90 years
of age are on the list.-Ex.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. 10 - Gen.
Calixto Garcia is dead. Second in com
mand of the Cuban army Of liberation
and chairman of the commission ap-
pointed by the Cuban Asst mbly to
come to Washington, after devoting
his life to freeing the people of his
native island from Spanish oppression,
at the moment when he was about to
~rea,iz9 the fondest hopes of his life, he
passed away at his apartments in the
Hotel Raleigh, in this city Sunday
morning. He died es he had lived,
like a soldier.
His last words we're: The victory
is ours; there are only 400 of them
left" They were spoken in Spanish
and while he was in a delirium. He
had been talking at random and giving
orders to bis son, Col. Carlos Garcia,
who ia an officer of the Cuban Army,
and is now stationed at Santiago, under
Gen. Wood. The veteran imagined
that he was still in the saddle, upor
the field of battle facing the Spaniardl
and directing his Sol to pursue thC
enemy with his command, declaring
that there were not more than 400 q
the Spaniards left. He did rot speal
after this.
New York Press, 17Gh: A, B, Wild
ener, Thomas Dolan, and W. L. Elk
ms, of the Metropolitan Traction Com
pany, were informed last night that
heavy deal in tobacco, in which they
are interested, had been .coneumateC
at Philadelphia.
By this transaction the Union To
bacco Company has secured the entir
, capital stock of the Blackwell Durham
, Company for 50 5OO,O CO The none.
has been paid and the stock deposite'
with an express company in PhlIadel
phia for shipment to this city thi
morning. It will probably be depositeC
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