The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-27
AMONG THE EXCHANGES.


paper it's written on. chants the oxford
Public Ledger.
The farmers of Northampton countE
find labor scarce and higher, says the
Times 1t adds that farmers are using
more labor saving machinery than ever.
Hon. Ped Thomas, Republican leader
in Davidson county, has discovered two
more sulphur springs on his land, MAX
ing seven in all, says the Thomasvilie
News. Is there anything significant in
a Republicans discovering sulphur
springs?
In connection with the backward
ness of this spring" says the Sampson
Democrat, "our attention has been
called to the fact that it is very like
the spring of 1865. which is best re-
membered as the spring of the surren-
der but which turned out a fine crop
year after all.
The Hendersonville Hustler gives
this good advice: Our farmer friends
should remember that half a crop of
cabbage brings them about the same
crop brings low prices always. Better
to sell thousand cabbages for sc. per
head than two thousand at 212c per
head"
The Roanoke Chowan Times says that
j. 7. Elliott has had hand picked pea
nuts to sell in Norfolk at ga cents
and j. j. Conner has sold machine picked
. re
cotton at present prices. says the Times,
but merchants are afraid TO touch
them and Rich Square needs a peanut
factory in order to secure a local mar
ket.
There seems to be a strange var
mint" in Stokes county, for the Dan
bury reporter says Or. John Will
Baker, the sage of Sauratown Mountain.
reports disturbance of his researches
nightly by the wall of some strange
varmnt. and appeals to Danbury for
aid. We respectfully refer DR.. Baker
to the Blue River bear hunters Ian
gushing in our community for enter
tainment."
Is there any connection between
these two paragraphs that appear in
the Purnell letter in the oxford Public
Ledger:
I'VE learn that our young fellow
with the biting mule visited the five
sisters again last Sunday. We wish hin.
good luck. a long life and bright. hap
by future.
Master cupid must be asleep, for
pretty weather and the spring together
have put a stop to his reign"
Brother Britt, who has just got out OF
the clutches Of Col Gripp, is liable -
get in trouble again from this para
graph in the Public Ledger: Mrs. Ell
sic Roberts went fishing one day last
week in Knapp of Reeds creek and
caught a Jack twenty one inches long.
OF course the old lady was happy over
her big catch. "
Speaking of the prosperous condition
of farmers in the Pendleton and Severn
sections, the Roanoke Chowan Times
says:
Our Pendleton correspondent this
week states that Mr.. T. B Stephenson,
farmer of that section, shipped last
week $500 pounds of bacon to mar
ket. We would be pleased to receive
such reports from other correspond
ents.'
Here is some expert information from
the Newbern Journal: "A big box Of
turtles was shipped North yesterday
by dealer at Market dock most of thu
turtles We're 'sliders' which are not
oIYyo 10
some 'snappers' in the lot These lat
ter bring a good price and are expected
to appear on hotel bills of fare as green
or mock turtle soup. The terrapin sea
son is over and now everything goes.
A Red Oak correspondent of the
Nashville Graphic seems to be onto"
the amat0ry correspondents in that
section as will be seen from the follow
ing: ASK Sweet VIM if he has got
ten an answer to that thirty-two page
letter yet? Perhaps the postoffice de-
partment is holding same to collect
postage due. Now, Billie, such pack
ages should go by express, and not
through the mail"
Did you ever hear of a chicken dying
from nervous prostration? The Dan
bury News thus makes a heavy strain
upon credulity: The Danbury poul-
try crank reports great mortality among
his fowls the damp atmosphere Great
ing among them many malignant and
fatal diseases. Some of them, however,
that died We're only succombng to ner-
yous prostration induced by hawks
swoops last week