The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-01

Wake, Vance, Surry, Mitchell, Hay
wood, Harnett, Greene, and Gran
vile.
Raleigh dispatch: Raleigh has
been dissatisfied with the census
figures. 1t therefore took a census
itself. 1t is now satisfied with the
governments figures. The latter
showed 1858 people. The census
completed shows 1854 or only 81
more. But it shows some interest
ing things. One is that there are al
most 5000 more whites than blacks.
In one ward the negroes have de-
creased 500 since the police census of
1896. This shows the extent of the
negro exodus. The estimate is gen
orally made that there is one voter
to five inhabitants. In only one
ward here is this found to be the
use There are 1927 whites and
5,447 negroes in the city. Raleigh
contains exactly $40 acres. The
pressure for an increase of it's area
will be greater than ever before.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer :
The Baptist Century Committee met
here today, Rev. DR.. Charles E. Tay-
Tor, presiding, the other members be-
ing Rev. DR.. R. 7. Vann, Prof.
Walter E. Skies and N. B. BrOugh-
ton. The committee perfected ar
engagements for collecting 500, 900
next year for higher Baptist educa-
ton. Chairman Taylor says that of
this sum $50, 900 goes to the Baptist
Female University here, $50, 1000 to
Wake Forest College, $4,000 to
ChOwan Baptist Female Institute,
and the remaining SIC, 900 will be
divided among perhaps a dozen
academies or high schools in the
State. He says it is the purpose of
the BaptiSts of North Carolina to
establish such academies in every
one of the 60 Associations in the
State. The Baptists, it appears, do
not like the name of the Baptist
Female University" and will ask
the Legislature to allow the name to
be changed to ''WOman's College,"
They say it is not Il university at all.
Raleigh Post: The annual report
of DR.. George L. Kirby, Superin-
tendent of the Central Hospital for
the Insane, to the President and
Board of Directors of the Institution,
is a very interesting document, and
contains information that will come
prominently before the General
Assembly when it meets here this
month. The percentage of discharges
on admissions at t~he'hOspital for the
year past. has been sc. The Legisla-
ture is asked for a more liberal APP
preparation for the institution. Three
additional wards TO the female de-
partment are asked by the Superin-
tendent. Another artesian we'll is
included in the recommendations of
the head of the institution, as we'll
as a number of improvements in the
building. The most significant para
graph in the report of the Superin-
tendent is as follows: with an in
crease of insanity that seems to
exceed its proportionate ratio to the
increase of population, and hospital
accommodations largely limited in
the growth and extension, it would
seem to be d matter of most profound
thankfulness to all classes of our
citizens that, in this district, where
population and wealth are plainly
marked on the increase, that no
worthy case has knocked at our
doors for admission in vain"
Charlotte Observer letter: The
new census is of interest to some of
the counties in the matter of determ-
lining their representation in the
next House of Representatives. The
constitution requires that of the one
hundred and twenty members Of the
lower house of the General Assembly
each county shall have n repre-
sentative regardless of its pOpula-
ton. This takes out 81 members.
Then the remaining members shall
be assigned to the counties in pro-
portion to their population, based
upon the requisite number for the
election of a member, to be ascer-
tanned by a division Of the entire
population of the State by 120, the
whole number of members in the
House. By this process it is found
that IS 1872 is the constitutional