Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-10
Farmers Preparing to increase
Acreage in Planting Next Crop.
SALE OF FERTILIZERS
Fifty Thousand Tons of Guano Sold
siuco january 1 Changes in rev
cnuo sorvioo-Company Charteroa
TO Manufacture Telephones :
sbcriT. slow In settling win state
Treasnrcr-Now Steamboat Limo
other News.

Raleigh, n. c.. Feb. 9.-Notwith-
standing the fact that cotton is bring
ing better price than 1t has for years
and that there is more or less talk of
fighting the fertilizer trust, farmers are
making unusually heavy purchases of
fertilizers In anticipation Of planting
heavy crops.
North Carolina Department or Agrl-
culture since January l. 1900, shows
that the demand for fertilizers placed
on the market this year is from nine to
ten per cent greater than 1t was last
year. The Department of Agriculture
has sold since January 1, 1900, tags re-
presenting 49.452 tons Of guano.
These figures are not very encourag
ing for the farmer. The cotton crop
this year would have been an unusual
~ large one had it not been Tor the
mid-season storms.
REVENUE SERVICE CHANGES.
Several changes in the Internal Rev
enue Department take place today.
Collector Ducan yesterday appointed
Mr.. John D. Grimsley OF Snow Hill
stamp clerk, succeeding the late Capt.
Roberts. Mr.. Grimsley Is u deputy
collector in the service. He will move
here at once.
MIR. j. e. Cameron of Lenoir, who
has been in the Office here, will succeed
Mr.. Grimsley, promoted.
Mr.. Iack Jong of Richmond Is the
new man in the service. He will sue
coed Mir. Cameron in the Raleigh Of
flee and Will enter upon his services
at once.
MAKERS OF TELEPHONES.
Julian S. Carr Geo. w. Watts and
L. ~. Carr, all of Durham, applied to
the Secretary of State to be incorporat-
cd under the style and title of the
Durham Telephone Manufacturing
Company. The business to be carried
on Is the manufacture and sale of tele-
phones. switch-boards, electrical and
mechanical appliances and ,"all kinds
of electrical supplies generally" The
company also has the power to buy,
sell. lease and convey lands, to hold
and use patents and patent rights and
TO enter into contracts with inventors
or owners for the purchase OF such
rights The principal offices will be To-
Gated at Durham. The capital stock
is $4,000 and n charter OF fifty years
is asked for.
THEY TAKE THEIR TIME.
Treasurer Worth says that the
shcriffs are settling their 1899 taxes
very slowly and he thinks the law
giving sheriffs until May the first TO
settle is not Il good one. He declared
yesterday that some sheriffs who have
collected the State taxes do not turn
them into the treasury because The law
gives them several months yet I'm
which to settle.
NEW STEAMBOAT LINE.
The independent Steamboat Line
files articles of incorporation with the
secretary of State and asks that a
charter De granted 1t with permission
to construct steamboats, and navipa re-
the waters of Neuse and Trent rivers
and the waters of Eastern North Caro-
ma, TO carry passengers and freight
Tor hlre, at Nscale of tariffs to he
liked by the officers of the companv
The PRINCIPAL Offices will be at New
Bern. N. c., and the charter will rnn
90 years. The incorporators are Jesse
J. Lassiter, Ellen Lasster, Nicholas
". Jones, and Emma Jones, all OF
New Bern. The capital stock is s5 nm
with privilege of increase to s25.00O'
ACQUITTED OF COMPLETELY
A special from Clinton says: Judge
Brown is holding court here this week.
The case of William Fortner former
Jailer of Sampson county Jail, charged
with aiding Archibald Kinsauls to
escape from Jail was finished yester
day. The jury brought in verdict of
not guilty" KinsauIs Is the man who
murdered a. man by the name of Her
ring more than a year ago. The night
following his arrest a posse Of his
friends went to the jailer's house and
forced him to go with them to the Jail
ana release the prisoner. Since then
l>insauls has been recaptured, tried,
and sentenced to hang. The murderer
was brought this week from Whining
ton jail where he was sent for safe
Keeping to testify against the jailer's
story but refused to tell who his friends
We're. Fortner was tried at a former
term for this offence but the jury fail
cd to agree
PROMINENT REPUBLICAN DEAD.
Winfall, N. c., Feb. e.-EIishu A.
white died near midnight last night.
MI. White was for many years n
leader of the Republican party in East
ern North Carolina, and under Har-
rfson's administration was Collector of
Internal Revenue with Headquarters
In Raleigh. He made many friends
here in all parties. He was an honest
unaffected, straightforward nan. and
deserved the confidence that was re-
posed in him. He was a member of
: the Society of Friends. and was free
from all partisan bitterness and rancor
living in peace with all men.
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